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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 28 Dec 2006

Director Zhang Yimou is aiming for glorious visual, kinetic and emotional overload, and he delivers the goods…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Maxim (189) on 22 Dec 2006

Eye-popping. One of the year's most spectacularly visual treats. It has wide-screen images that are beyond astounding…

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By Jim Hemphill (63) for Reel.com (1,232) on 22 Dec 2006

The sheer technical brilliance of the battle sequences and martial arts showdowns is mind-blowing -- this is the kind of movie that's so visually…

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By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 22 Dec 2006

A dramatic crisis erupts in bloodbaths that are filled with flash but little meaning. As armies clash, the cast also yields to histronic extremes…

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By Eric Lurio (584) for Greenwich Village Gazette (481) on 22 Dec 2006

If you like action films, this is worth the slog though the chick flick stuff…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 22 Dec 2006

I may not know any more about the time, the place or the people by the time it comes to its exuberantly tragic conclusion, but when the whole…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 22 Dec 2006

Not even Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li, two of the world's most impressive actors, can inject any dazzle into this dud…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Dec 2006

Zhang Yimou is back with the latest Chinese competitor in the Opulence Olympics, and not a moment too soon…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 21 Dec 2006

It's not as good as Zhang's masterpiece, Hero, but it's in that neighborhood…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 21 Dec 2006

Its natural impulse towards regal spectacle overwhelms practically every other element of the story…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 21 Dec 2006

It's not as good as Zhang's masterpiece, Hero, but it's in that neighborhood…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 21 Dec 2006

If the overwrought dramatics are like an opera drained of its music, that's a price you may be willing to pay for the purely sensual pleasure…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 21 Dec 2006

Another glorious spectacle where Mr. Zhang finds new ways to leave you stunned and amazed with every passing frame…

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By Donald J. Levit (489) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 21 Dec 2006

The physical battles are stirring here, but the heart really beats in décor and costuming and in serpentine plotting out of Renaissance 'Blood…

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By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 21 Dec 2006

[F]or sheer visual beauty and epic sweep, you can't do better; fans of Zhang's other big productions may wish there were more one-on-one fights here…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 20 Dec 2006

Demonstrates unflinchingly that, when it comes to a proud, powerful government, what's beautiful on the outside is squirmingly ugly within…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 17 Dec 2006

Yet another of Zhang's gorgeous, expensive, costumed periodepics…

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By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 06 Dec 2006

The push-and-pull between the rote royal-family intrigue and the feverish visual design is almost too much, nearly drowning the picture in…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Lessons of Darkness (465) on 01 Dec 2006

Li...prov[es] so over-the-top imperial that she almost singlehandedly elevates the film's heightened drama into something epic…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Dec 2006

Zhang Yimou moves ever closer to grand opera with Curse of the Golden Flower, though this garish familial melodrama-cum-action extravaganza…

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