a surprisingly disappointing project, indeed. What a waste.indeed !!! I am a big fan of Three kingdoms and Any Lau, so i will always love any project that has anything to do with those 2 elements, but this one. "brave heart" type of epic story and heart wrenching human drama and understood appreciatively even if the movie went more than 2 hours. Besides I bet that anyone who came to see the movie must have expected something more of a. But Why? Why no Drama? Why could't the director decide to use another 30 more minutes to supplement the sheer absence of story-telling and the sufficient characterization of each of the major characters ? It would only have made the film 120 minutes, which is still within the main stream block buster length range. The action sequences, camera works, set designs, costumes, and props, and even the score, you name it, they were all top notch. Jhon Woo wanted to give the project a proper attention, so in his upcoming three kingdoms project,'the red cliff' he is devoting 4 hours to tell the story. Why Why Why did the director and its team decide to cut out anything that resembled a real drama? Who knows. The movie deserved more than only a 90 min. The famous Chinese classic- the three kingdoms - is an epic war story that one could not find its proper match in its scale in any part of the world. With almost unlimited amount of funding and the pool of world-class production talents in Asia, I cannot help but wonder how an opportunity like this could have gone this wrong. A first time joint venture- a major motion picture project put together by the Chinese and the Korean production teams, the Chinese took part in pre-production from writing up the screen play to directing (a Chinese guy who made Jet Li's "Black Mask), acting & filming while the Korean team took care of most of the post production (& funding), the CGI, and scoring. It seems as though it is only a half finished project.
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