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Re: Curse of the Golden Flower - Review
My 1-word review: Bosomy.
Okay, got that out of the way...
I thought the first half of the film took far too long to set up the situations while not really developing the characters enough to elicit sympathy or scorn, thus squandering a lot of the running time in the first half.
Things pick up in a short second act with some neat sequences of fight scenes, but by then, it's a tragi-comedy for me, with many of the revelations telegraphed far too early, with no emotional consequence for most of the cast of characters for this viewer, and it was almost like watching a Chinese version of a Jerry Springer episode set hundreds of years ago, it's that "funny" and that tragic.
The last act is visually interesting, but yet straddles a line between reality and fantasy in some spots, to its detriment.
I give it 2.5 stars, or a grade of C+.
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