Curse of the Golden Flower

Pros: jaw-dropping battle scenes; casting; acting; costumes
Cons: unintentionally hilarious at times; gaudy interior sets; cleavage meter completely out of control

Director Zhang Yimou's latest oeuvre, a period melodrama based on Cao Yu's 1934 drama Thunderstorm and set in the imperial court of the late Tang Dynasty, during the turbulent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Curse of the Golden ...

Pros: Gorgeous photography, performances, epic
Cons: None

Curse of the Golden Flower follows Zhang Yimou's big budget film offerings like Hero and House of Flying Daggers. It's photographed similarly, has a wide color scheme, and is more action packed than all of his previous films from the ...

Pros: Beautifully filmed
Cons: subtitles occasionally distracting;could have better pacing.

Curse Of The Golden Flower is the latest Chinese epic to hit these shores. Stars Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li will most likely be the only ones American audiences are familiar with, although Chow Yun Fat is almost unrecognizable with long hair and a ...

Pros: Impressive scenes, customs and good actors.
Cons: Don't expect it is another Kung Fu movie. Repackage of an old novel/movie.

It is more a drama than a martial arts flicks. Believe it or not, it is a remake of a late 50’s movie “Thunder Rain”. Starring a teenage Bruce Lee. Yep, THE Bruce Lee. Whom played the character of the youngest son. The movie was based on a famous pre-war novel “Family Spring and Autumn (Means ‘The rise and fall of a family’ or ‘History of a family’)” about a moral decaying promenade family. Which the eldest son had an affair with the step mom (Yikes!), and later fell in love with a chamber maid, whom turned out to be his long lost half sister by his supposingly dead mom. Which the long lost mom co-incidentally reappeared after she learned that her daughter got pregnanted by the eldest son…Director Zhang Yimou has added a lots of Blinks and extras in the movies and turned the story’s time line back a thousand year, but the story hasn’t been changed much. All in all, it’s a good movie for entertainment, but I won’t hold my breath for an academy award nomination.