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Seven Swords [Blu-ray]

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Seven Swords, brings to the screen the story of seven warriors as they try to save the people of a village from the new emperor's mercenary assassins/head-hunters. One thing is for sure; there is more to 17th Century China than meets the eye...
The film combines romance, drama, action and adventure making it one of the best of its kind!
Moreover, the fascinating culture and traditions of China are presented very well in the film.
The plot is excellent and opens a window into the mysterious Orient.
Furthermore, shot on location it provides for some amazing scenery.
Needless to say, the cast have truly outdone themselves with their performances, which are outstanding to say the least! All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100%! Their great talent and chemistry clearly shows, thus providing an entertaining film that can be watched over and over again.
The setting, the dialogues, the music, the battle sequences, and the costumes are all wonderful!
Very well written and very well presented, it is a movie definitely worth owning, let alone watching, especially for those with a soft spot for History, and especially for Eastern/Oriental enthusiasts.
Strongly recommended along with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The House of Flying Daggers, and Hero, to those with a soft spot for all things Chinese.

This great film was very entertaining and had amazing fight sequences that almost makes this film a masterpiece. What makes this film even better was Donnie who was unbelievably fast but not to fast to make it seem like a mess it had a lot of fantastic sword fights, the film takes place in ancient times in the early 1600 and no it doesn't use any high wires where the characters start flying all over the place like they did in Crouching Tiger. Seven strangers in China during the Ching Dynasty band together in order to protect a village from a bunch of tyrrants who have allready massecered a previous village however there is one warrior who has managed to escape from there capture Fu Zingzhu who assembles a team to defeat these bad guys before its too late, each character in the film was unique and had different personalities, weaknesses and strengths and the villians were quite interesting as well especialy that very weird female vilian who had a very funny 80's punk new wave haircut you'll know when she arrives trust me you can't miss it. The film had a bit of blood and violence and one character uses a flying guilotine that is used to decapitate his enemys very nice. Director Tsui Hark shows how good he is and why hes the best asian director by providing alot of action, drama and romance and its deffinently not like Crouching tiger or Hero, this is Hong Kong cinema at its best which I highly recomend you can get this at Amazon.co.uk since the regular Amazon hasn't got a proper release date yet.

For this review, I'll address on what most people will probably be asking about this Dragon Dynasty blu-ray release, "how is the Picture and Sound quality?"

Picture quality: Very good. The details are exquisite, you can see what type of fabrics that were used for the clothes. When the camera zoom-in, you can even see the fine details and design of each costume. It is quite mesmerizing. I'm very impressed with the image quality on this release, as the color is quite natural to give an extra boost. Do be adviced though, while the image is clean, color is great, don't expect any 3D pop or insane sharpness like most recent blu-ray release. From a scale of 1(trash)-10(best), the image quality easily fit in 8/10. No edge-enhancement was found.

Audio quality: This release ONLY came with Dolby Digital 5.1 Mandarin and English. YES! ONLY DD5.1!!! This is where I'm most disappointed. I mean, Blu-ray have been around quite long already, I just can't see why Dragon Dynasty only released this action pack movie in DD5.1, especially the Hong Kong Blu-ray Edition of this movie have DTS-HD Master 7.1 / PCM7.1, and that release was many years ago. To add more disappointment to Dragon Dynasty release, the DD5.1 mixed is very uneven and scattered. Many sound effect were lost as the result of compressed audio DD5.1. It can really be irritating, especially, when the DD5.1 bass simply can't reach low enough to match the director's vision. Also, the beautiful soundtrack is completely drowned by it ugly compression of DD5.1. Which to me, is serious disappointment. From the scale of 1(trash)-10(best), I'll give the audio of this release a (4/10). Just because Mandarin track is included. A very disappointment release.

After my experience with Dragon Dynasty of "Seven Swords", I will no longer pre-order anything from this company again. "Seven Swords" from Dragon Dynasty is a disappointment. You have been warned!

Note: I wish Amazon.com would revise they spec listing for Blu-ray. Hello? there is such thing called "DTS-HD MASTER" and "Dolby TruHD" on Format? Plus, it is not "DVD Release Date", it is "BLU-RAY" release date. Time to upgrade the list?

I hate giving bad reviews to a good film.

I have the dvd and really enjoyed the movie, and went ahead with the purchase of this blu-ray edition. However, there is NO Cantonese spoken even thought it's labeled "Cantonese/Mandarin". Very disappointed.

Im a fan of Martial Arts fliks and love Japanese martial arts, so when I saw the reviews for this film I was curious (and you know what they say about being curios)! At a glance, in comparison to "Iron Monkey", "Fearless", and "Fist of Legend" to name a few, this film does'nt even come close to their calibur! It's o.k., dont get me wrong I just dont see how it received 5 stars from most people. If you are familiar with the previously mentioned movies, you'll understand my argument and respect that I am a true fan of Martial Arts and been so from the days of watching them on Saturday afternoons practicing on my brothers, LOL!

Always have loved classical kung fu movies. This one is very strange it has a very different twist to it. It has messages and beautifull sceneries more then just figthing scene it is very focus on friends ship love and human relation and betrayal. Just loved it not your ordinary martial art movie and has something very special a real piece of art. The costumes are outrages its like a science fiction mediaval classic kung fu movie. Must see.

If you love Hong Kong sword fantasy film, you should consider this. It has Donnie Yen and Leon Lai, and the action is decent enough.
But if you had to just choose 5 sword fantasy movies, I'd go with "Hero," the first "Stormriders," "The Duel," "Red Cliff" (get the Blu ray version as it contains both parts 1 and 2) and of course "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon."
If you just know Donnie Yen and want to check out his best movies, you can check out this article:

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This film is phenomenal! Huge epic scale and fantastic choreography, with a great story line and an amazing blu ray transfer into HD!
Works on european players also, which is a huge bonus!
Recommend to all martial arts film enthusiasts worlwide!

I would've gave it a 5 star but because it was in Mandarin I gave it a 4 star especially when under the product description it clearly stated it was in "Cantonese". False advertisement....

There's more Korean spoken in this movie than Cantonese (and no Cantonese was ever spoken). Dragon Dynasty detailed that the language in the movie was Cantonese/Mandarin. What a blunder! They must be the dumbest people in the DVD business. I've heard too many bad things about Dragon Dynasty, and this is just another example.