Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018)

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

 

 

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[reason108]

Interesting. Might look forward to that one. Liked the last 2 films.

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

On 3/26/2017 at 9:15 PM, reason108 said:

Interesting. Might look forward to that one. Liked the last 2 films.

Me too!

 

GD Y-Y

[whitesnake]

New poster and teaser for Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings are posted on https://twitter.com/AsianFilmStrike    

The Chinese theatrical release date is July 27, 2018.  Well Go USA has picked up rights to this title and may have a simultaneous limited theatrical release in North America.    

The poster image

and a new image - 

The teaser is at - 

 

Edited April 7, 2018 by whitesnake

[Drunken Monk]

New trailer...

http://video.mtime.com/70328/?mid=232758

I'm sure a YouTube link will be available soon.

[HyperDrive]

That looked weird enough for me to want to see in a theater.

[thekfc]

1 hour ago, HyperDrive said:

That looked weird enough for me to want to see in a theater.

Yep, this looks like a "see on the big screen lot of fun summer movie".

Just waiting on a theater date from Well Go USA.

 

[lilmanjs]

Gotta see! One of the few film series in this day and age that work well!

[whitesnake]

Well Go USA theatrical release date for Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings is July 27, 2018 - date and theater list from its website -   http://www.wellgousa.com/films/detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings   

The Vimeo trailer, with English subtitles on Youtube - this is the official Well Go USA trailer - 

And the latest trailer with more reveals but no English subs - 

 

 

[reason108]

I’ve liked the series so far with the 2nd one being my favorite so far. I just wish these were more ZU: Warriors from the Magic Mountain than The Legend of ZU. Not that I mind digital effects but we don’t need effects that look like they were from the 1990’s. 😀😀

[D1 Ma]

Loved the first one, but thought the second one was horrible. I could only sit through half of the movie and then turned it off. The new one looks a lot like the second one

[Ronin]

Loved both previous films in this series, have seen them multiple times. Tsui Hark is one of my favorite directors. I am all in for this one.

[HyperDrive]

Just a reminder that this movie opens in major cities across the US and Canada this Friday.

On 6/22/2018 at 9:37 AM, whitesnake said:

Well Go USA theatrical release date for Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings is July 27, 2018 - date and theater list from its website -   http://www.wellgousa.com/films/detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings   

 

[whitesnake]

Here are a few movie reviews from the past few days - 

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/07/24/who-needs-drugs-when-youve-got-detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings/  - "The equally thrilling and exhausting Hong Kong martial arts fantasy Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings I boasts more inventive weapons, monsters, and plot twists than most Western audiences will know what to do with.  Like the popular Chinese gong'an courtroom mystery series that it's very loosely inspired by, Detective Dee has a convoluted, episodic narrative that primarily serves as a showcase for the various tools in the crime-solving kit of seventh-century sleuth Renjie Dee (Mark Chao), a kit that this time includes a Buddhist sutra and a dragon-taming mace."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-detective-dee-four-heavenly-kings-review-20180726-story.html - "At their dazzling but infrequent best, the Detective Dee movies give preposterousness a good name.   Busy, extravagant and deliriously overwrought, they mix the dynastic power struggles of 7th century China with the puzzles of mid-tier Sherlock Holmes, padded out with sorcery, swordplay, gravity-defying acrobatics and wildly undisciplined CGI... That pretty much sums up the movie and its eye-tickling surface-level pleasures."  

http://kungfukingdom.com/detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings-movie-review/ - "With the previous Detective Dee movies, Tsui Hark managed to pump up the 'substance' part of the movies to run parallel with the impressive visual style.  The stories make for intriguing and often witty entertainment.    For this third entry into the series, the plot strands are much more 'by-the-numbers', taking us from one colourful festival of special effects to the next... For martial arts fans there is less recognisable action than in the previous episodes... Be sure to watch the end credits for a couple of bonus scenes and an extra twist in the tale!"  

https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings-review-1202886903/   - "On the level of pure popcorn entertainment, there's not a thing one can fault the 3D megabuster for, and it should steamroll other domestic competition in the summer domestic market while satisfying Tsui's longtime followers."  

https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings-is-not-quite-a-royal-treat - "The good news is Taiwanese - Canadian heart-throb Chao has lost the smugness in his second outing as the titular sleuth, after Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013).  The bad news is the franchise - which started with Andy Lau in the title role in Detective Dee and The Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) - feels like it's getting to be more and more about less and less."

 

[One Armed Boxer]

This is a no-show on hkmdb....a cause for concern?

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

Concern? They are just notoriously slow updating new movies, not that I search those out. I just treat HKMDB more like an archive site.

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

Has anyone seen this on the big screen.......your thoughts please?

A must see for me.

Regardless of the reviews.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings-review-tsui-hark

 

GD Y-Y

Edited August 7, 2018 by GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG

[One Armed Boxer]

On 8/8/2018 at 9:51 AM, GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG said:

Has anyone seen this on the big screen.......your thoughts please?

Yes to the first part, and my thoughts below cover the second! - 

http://cityonfire.com/detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings-2018-review/

[DrNgor]

Quote

Before you express concern, don’t panic, the latest entry in the Detective Dee series has nothing to do with the wily sleuth investigating a crime spree instigated by Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Jacky Cheung, and Leon Lai.

*Drum riff*

I still haven't watched the second one, so I'm very much behind. But good review nonetheless.

[whitesnake]

Well Go USA gives this a North American Blu-ray and DVD release on November 13, 2018.  News from http://cityonfire.com/7-blockbuster-movies-headed-to-chinese-cinemas-in-2012/

Edited September 24, 2018 by whitesnake

[Drunken Monk]

Did anyone pick this up? It seems as though its release got no fanfare whatsoever. Right now it has two reviews on Amazon. Both one star.

[Ronin]

Watched it the other night, loved it (I loved the first two as well).

[whitesnake]

On 11/20/2018 at 11:25 AM, Drunken Monk said:

Right now it has two reviews on Amazon. Both one star.

Statistically, you have to wait long enough for the average of the Amazon star reviews to approach what most of the Amazon reviewers really think of the movie.  It won't be just one star, because those two negative reviews have already been balanced by two 5-star reviews.  Give the reviewers another couple of months for sufficient additional input.   

[Chu Liu Hsiang]

Watched it just recently and was surprised how much I liked it, have to rewatch the first two now. Wonder if they plan more Dee movies?