The Sorcerer and the White Snake

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  • Opened February 8, 2013 
  • 1 hr 40 min
  • PG-13 | for sequences of fantasy action violence, some frightening images and sensuality
  • Action director Ching Siu-Tung helms this fantasy film based on an old Chinese legend about an herbalist who falls in love with a thousand-year-old White Snake disguised as a woman. Jet Li stars as a sorcerer who discovers her true identity and battles to save the man's soul. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Jet Li, Eva Huang, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi, Zhang Wen, Vivian Hsu
  • Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
  • Genres: Period Film, Historical Epic, Action

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The Hollywood Reporter
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A visually lavish epic fantasy that happily marries the latest advances in CGI and action techniques with ancient Chinese fable and a Buddhist atmosphere. Read full review

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NPR
| Mark Jenkins

This China/Hong Kong co-production flips the formula: The fantastic images are solid, but the action is less substantial. Read full review

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Slant Magazine
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The film looks so glossy, plasticized, and unreal that all you end up thinking about is special effects. Read full review

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Movie Nation
| Roger Moore

A mad, laugh-out-loud mashup of “The Little Mermaid,” “Harry Potter,” assorted vampire tales, “Pan’s Labyrinth,” the disaster epic “2012” and oh – “Pokemon” – just to impose the cinematic precedents on display here, Sorcerer is a Chinese twist on the reliable sword and sorcery genre which caused Hollywood to impose “Clash of the Titans” and “Immortals” on the undeserving. Read full review

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Jet Li in "The Sorcerer and the White Snake."