cmovie: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

[meganbmoore]

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a 2010 wuxia/mystery movie from Tsui Hark starring Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Li Bing Bing and…uhm…other people. Set in the days leading up to the coronation of Empress Wu, a conspiracy that involves people spontaneously combusting is hatched against the empress, forcing her to turn to a former

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[bookelfe]

You have reminded me that I need to write this movie up! (I also enjoyed that it had pretty much the only albino character I've ever seen in a film whose role did not center on being a.) albino and/or b.) evil.)

[meganbmoore]

Yes! I think the only actual reference to his being an albino was that he had to have an umbrella when he was out in the sun.

The only real problem that I had with it was that dee was a good character to center the plot around, but he wasn't compelling enough to carry the plot, and his sidekicks were more interesting characters, so when they were gone, it was still good, just not AS good.