Author: Chris_Docker from Scotland, United Kingdom ( Read more... )

Zhang Yimou is desperate. Desperate for that elusive Oscar. In his third attempt to lift that statuette, he has stuck to the martial arts genre, still deciding to go headlong since Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon's (CTHD) win. For his previous attempts, he has utilized CTHD star Ziyi Zhang in both Hero and House of Flying Daggers (HFD), and had ( Read more... )

If I could vote -10 for it, I wouldn't hesitate to because of its impact. The critical thing I'd like to remind you is that: this movie cost ridiculously over 360M Chinese currency. That's heck of money, which is likely equivalent to an equal amount of dough in United States. Maybe some of Chinese people believe their booming economy can decently ( Read more... )

If you go to the official website and look at "Behind the Scenes Pt1", Zhang said it himself: "Gold and jade on the outside rot and decay on the inside ( Read more... )

You know the cliché about eating Chinese food: You get full fast but feel empty an hour later? Well, I felt empty about 20 minutes into this awful movie. Truly, this is the worst film I've seen by a so-called fifth-generation Chinese director, let alone someone of Zhang Yimou's stature ( Read more... )

台灣導演朱延平說：「我非常喜歡他拍的《菊豆》和《活著》。我相信如此好的藝術片沒有第二個導演可以拍得出來，對他早期的作品我可以用崇拜來形容。藝術路線中，他是當之無愧的第一名。」但他對後來的作品提出嚴厲的批判：「《英雄》和《十面埋伏》走的都是豪華路線，就是純粹的商業片。儘管炒作和拍攝非常成功，畫面精美、製作精良，但已經不能夠代表張藝謀本身了。這樣的片子只要有錢，任何一個導演拍出來都不會輸給他，只能算是一部不錯的商業片。」

金鐘：張藝謀的道路 ( Read more... )