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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
The movie follows a Ming Dynasty freedom fighter, a female warrior and a corrupt eunuch as they unearth the fabled lost city buried in the desert in which a treasure that spans dynasties hidden deep.
19 June 1973, Hong Kong, China
1 February 1973, Taiwan
25 December 1983, Taiwan
22 August 1951, Guangdong, China
26 April 1963, Beijing, China
27 February 1977, Taipei, Taiwan
October 21, 2012
The movie is beautifully designed and the action sequences are violent and truly spectacular in a hallucinatory way.
October 07, 2012
Although there is some enjoyment to be found in Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, it's a wuxia film that is mostly very messy in every sense of the word.
October 10, 2012
Despite the movie's excessive length and incomprehensible plot, Tsui is still one of the world's absolute best at action and fight sequences; they move fast, but they're dazzlingly fluid and smooth.
March 30, 2016
Visually inventive yet dramatically lacking.
October 18, 2012
It's nonsense, but somehow irresistible.
August 30, 2012
"Flying Swords" is a chunky spectacle, to be sure - overstuffed with plot and characters - but at times, it's an insanely entertaining one.
October 24, 2012
It's fun in the moment, but hardly one for the ages.
October 16, 2012
Amounts to a lavishly mounted series of airborne sword fights - each one more spectacular (and silly) than the last ...
August 30, 2012
While the attractive performers and the action set pieces, including fights inside a sand tornado and around a spider's web of razor wire, are enough to carry you through the film, "Flying Swords" is a bit of a letdown ...
August 30, 2012
IMAX 3D turns a slightly above-average "wuxia" ("martial hero" action thriller) into an epic extravaganza.
August 31, 2012
The plot is secondary. "Flying Swords" is to be seen for its eye-popping action.
September 03, 2012
For followers of wuxia films, the epic Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is a godsend...But the convoluted storyline...blunts the appeal for anyone who's not a fan.
