Jade Dynasty (2019) Sean Xiao, Meng Meiqi, Li Qin - Directed by Ching Siu-Tung

[DragonClaws]

 

 

[reason108]

The poster looks nice! Now we need the trailer. This could go either way.

[DrNgor]

Does anyone here know why Ching has been away from the big screen for so long?

[LoBo]

No idea. He made one of Steven Seagal better movies in 2003. 

[rdenn]

On ‎2‎/‎6‎/‎2019 at 2:31 PM, DrNgor said:

Does anyone here know why Ching has been away from the big screen for so long?

at his q&a in London a few months back he said he has been doing work on Bollywood films

[DragonClaws]

 

 

[Drunken Monk]

Oh look, a CGI filled fantasy film. **GASP**

[whitesnake]

https://www.avirtualvoyage.net/2019/07/jade-dynasty-with-xiao-zhan-li-qin-meng-mei-qi-and-tang-yi-xin.html#more-25062  - "Jade Dynasty is the movie version of the novel we have seen adapted into the small screen before.  Remember... The Legend of Chusen with Li Yi Feng, Zhao Li Ying, and Yang Zi?  Well. Here ya go, the condensed version.  Lo! It stars some popular and pretty faces with the current Xiao Zhan from the drama Untamed, Li Qin as Lu Xue Qi, singer Meng Mei Qi as Bi Yao, and Tang Yi Xin replaying her role from the drama version as the first love."  TV series The Legend of Chusen (July to November 2016) and Jade Dynasty are based on Xian Ding's best-seller novel Zhu Xian (which can be translated as Jade Dynasty or The Attack of Heaven).  "The novel keeps looking for the answer to a question "What is true righteousness?" but concludes that "Heartless World, treat everything as straw dogs!", which perhaps is the main theme of the novel."  (from Wikipedia)    A different poster for the movie from the www.avirtualvoyage.net website - 

Edited July 28, 2019 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

Posted on August 19, 2019 at  

 

[whitesnake]

Posted at https://twitter.com/AsianFilmStrike on August 23, 2019 - 

[DragonClaws]

 

 

[rdenn]

just looks like any other tv series coming out of china with dodgy cgi long slo mo shots and stray dragons.

[Qing Long]

A review: https://asianfilmstrike.com/2020/04/09/jade-dynasty-2019-review/

[Iron_Leopard]

I'll give it a try just because of the old school cast. 

But I just cant do CGI anymore.

[DrNgor]

I watched this tonight (and yesterday) on Youtube. It's very much Swordsman/Butterfly and Sword lite. 75% of the film is devoted to frivolous stuff, including a martial arts tournament played mainly for laughs, complicated love stories between our hero and three different women that feel underdeveloped, and some slapstick involving a monkey. Then, in the last 25 minutes, the hero's tragic past finally steps up to the plate and villains reveal themselves. We have some borderline-frightning scenes of the Demon Cult henchmen killing regular swordsmen: there's a sword-slinging man-boar; a guy with spinning blades that he can hook to his legs and slice people apart with his kicks; a guy who can break himself into pieces and absorb his victims into his body; and a killer ventriloquist who has a kung fu Chucky doll and magic threads that he can control people with (like Yen Shi-Kwan in Royal Tramp II). We go into CGI overdrive at the climax, a bunch of tragic stuff happens, more magic stuff happens, and the movie ends with several plot threads unresolved, including the main external conflict. There's little actual martial arts and it was more interesting in the 90s when Ching Siu-Tung was doing Qi blasts and crazy violence (which this film doesn't have) with practical effects. There are a lot of pretty people in lead roles and grizzled veterans (David Chiang, Norman Tsui, Xiong Xin Xin and Leung Kar-Yan) in old master roles. But all the purty people and digital effects amount to little with an uncompelling story that spends too much time on unimportant stuff than it does on developing the central conflict and its own internal mythology.

[One Armed Boxer]

I got through watching this one recently, and have been holding off on reading the good @DrNgor's comments until I completed my own review. We're pretty much in agreement on this one, a lot of gloss, and little else.  Siu-Tung should have quit after 'Naked Weapon' (a guilty pleasure of mine). Full review over at COF - 

https://cityonfire.com/jade-dynasty-2019-review-ching-siu-tung-movie/