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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Chen's masterful, deeply perceptive direction of his superb cast is equaled by the film's luminous cinematography, rich yet spare and stylized production and costume design, and rousing score. Read full review
While it aspires to draw the same audiences who admired "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero," The Promise is but a pale imitation of those landmark films. Read full review
The Promise occupies a curious landscape somewhere between opera and cartoon. Read full review
A mixed bag of near-risible storylines, second-rate CG effects, some fabulous set pieces, somewhat cartoonish martial arts fighting and difficult international casting. Read full review
Has a daft sweep, and if you're in the mood for empty swordplay in baroque settings, purple dialogue delivered with straight faces, and romantic yearnings that never, ever resolve, The Promise may be your cup of oolong. Read full review
So absurdly overproduced that there's even a surfeit of cherry blossoms. By the end they look like litter. Read full review
There's a nice Road Runner-cartoon moment when the slave runs really, really fast, carrying the wounded general on his back while dodging an attack of CG bulls. I can't imagine Road Runner was what Chen had in mind for the most expensive movie ever made in China, but then, I was born too late for the time of the snowy eagle. Read full review
The movie is full of invasions, assassination attempts, chases and escapes in seemingly random order, the result being completely chaotic. Read full review
Pretty much a mess of a movie; the acting is overwrought, the plot is too tangled to play like anything BUT a plot, and although I know you can create terrific special effects at home in the basement on your computer, the CGI work in this movie looks like it was done with a dial-up connection. Read full review
The prologue sets a simpleton tone that, distressingly, continues throughout. Read full review
1.5
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more flying around and … I … uh … Read full review