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Overall Rank: 17121
Average Rating: 2.5/4
# of Ratings: 4
Theatrical Release Date: 05/26/2007
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 09/08/2009
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action, War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung
Actors: Andy Lau, Sung-kee Ahn, Zhiwen Wang, Bingbing Fan, Si Won Choi, Siu-hou Chin
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"Battle Of Wits" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 11/01/2012
When a city state comes under siege by a conquering army commanded by a celebrated strategist, they meet their match in the form of a pacifist warrior dispatched by a friendly nation to aid their allies. With Andy Lau as its star and Jacob Cheung, the action director of Hero, at the helm you expect something pretty spectacular from Battle Of Wits, but despite its epic scale and inventive battle sequences it seems more interested in lecturing the viewer on the dubious morality of warfare than anything else. This means that Cheung spends at least as much time and energy on pseudo-intellectual and rather naive waffle as he does playing to his strengths so that even when visual spectacle and action comes to the fore it's not long before it's interrupted for yet another ham-fisted speech to …
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