Seven Swords
General Fire-Wind, after massacring countless innocent people, targets Martial Village.
Posted by: Task, September 12, 2005 04:26 AM
Sunday, September 11 3:00 PM RYERSON
This movie start out by showing you the bad guys in action, and wow are they ever a large and varied lot! Each of them specializes in a different weapon and is quite distinctive. They've each got a couple hundred soldiers under their command as well, we are talking "army" here.
So the emperor had declared that all practitioners of martial arts are to be killed for bounty. He's afraid that they'll try and kill him, so he's attacking pre-emptively. Like all dumb Chinese leaders, he fails to realize that the best warriors are meditating on their mountains and will happily leave you alone as long as you don't go around poking them with a stick.
A fantastic swordplay epic does of course happen. Which is interesting, because none of the "bad guys" use a sword!
All the best swords are made by Master Shadow-Glow on Mount Heaven, so our heroes travel there for help and the real story begins.
This movie shares one awesome feature with Excalibur: The movie isn't about the people as much as it's about the sword. Or, swords in this case. Each one is unique, and the camera loves the sword.
I've seen better epic movies, but this one definitely does bring something different to the table. Well worth watching, fans will not be disappointed.