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First let me start by saying crouching tiger hidden dragon is a terrible movie with terrible acting with one or 2 decent fight scenes the only good in the movie is the cinematography and barely even that, hero was an incredibly slow paced boreing movie that could easily put you to sleep even dureing its fight scenes which were very few and far between with an even dumber premise behind the story, the only good was the cinematography and scenery, house of daggers was the best of the three in terms of story and paceing cinema and though again there were few fight scenes they were done with better style though not as well choreographed as the other movies. Now if you agree with what i said of these movies than read on for my review of seven swords. I never liked tsui hark films i always thought they were poorly written with long drawn out scenes that reward you with quick 5 second mediocre fights filled with gore example of that would be the remake he made of the one armed swordsman an absolutely terrible movie called the blade. So naturally i bought the seven swords with much doubt that i would get anything even remotely satisfying from the man who started it all, my only reason for buying it was to see donnie yeng in action. Sadly we dont see much of donnie doing what he does best in this movie only at the end and by than you are a bit tired from all the plot twist and scenes which are supposed to be moving that turn out to be rather empty and silly like the scene with the stubborn horse "joy lucky".

The fights again are few and far between and again they are not done very well and seem a bit disjointed the fight choreography is not great but not terrible neither its just that they dont have the same energy or intensity that you would find in say a woo ping movie. As you sit there watching it you will be interested as the chracters are introduced and the villian will keep you further interested, and the various plots as well. The story is well written and of course there will be 2 other parts but from what i hear without a decent budget it may not happen this film did not recieve good criticsm when it launched and i can see many reasons why. For one thing tsui should have employed another fight choreographer even ang lee has the ability to make the fights more interesting than tsui, about the only thing tsui is good at is gore all his movies have body dismemberment and this one is no different, and he should probably think about just producing movies like he did for iron monkey which was an exenllent movie until the end of it anyway. So in closeing expect a long story driven movie with plot holes supposedly to be fleshed out with 2 other sequels that may or may not be made, fight scenes that although decent you would have definitely scene better in other movies and donnie yeng unfortunately not being used well,and with little screen time, cool villains that turn out to be cannon fodder for the swordsman, and some very interesting swords. Considering there is little to no great wuxia films as of late house of daggers remains the best one made and seven swords follows close behind.