![]() The two female characters are so selfish and so absorbed in their own sense of righteousness that they forgot to take a step back and look what they've done themselves. I was slapping myself in disbelief at the lengths the screenplay went. The "twist" which sets up the final action just reveals to us how nuts these two main characters are. It's hard to root for the two female leads when they are well below their usual performance with characters who I assume are half-insane. The plot wants Lee's character be the villain of the piece, but the actor's charisma and the story itself makes him look like the hero. Sounds fun right? Only Byung Hun Lee seems to have his character in control and other actors are merely copying superior Chinese actors in this genre. Years later, the dead partner's surviving daughter vows revenge against the other two. Plot: Three master swordsmen (and woman) attempts a coup but fails due to one of the three's betrayal. In this brand new Korean FLOP, Characters spend way too much time explaining everything they've done and will do but the story is still riddled with holes. Overall, just watch "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" again. Except near the end it's when it became bearable to watch. It's a headache to watch, even when it came to the action sequences it's a mess. The action in this is mashed with choppy, close up, constant in and out mixed with slow-motion. As a matter of fact the fight sequences in "The Sword With No Name" which came out in 2009 was done much better. I could tell this was suppose to be some Shakespearian stuff, but it fails. That basically sums up this mess of a film. The plot is basically crying, sobbing, getting over melodramatic and between fighting. The acting is good but nothing special that makes it stand out or anything like that. This movie is a poor man's effort at emulating films like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". I was actually impressed with her in "Coin Locker Girl". But because of the actress Kim Go-eun who seems to get better with each film. To be honest I wanted to check this movie, not because of the Korean super star two timing manipulative jerk Lee Byung-hun. The plot is jumbled and it didn't seem to know what direction it wanted to go. ![]() However that wasn't the case for this flick, it was super mediocre at best. Sometimes, the movies that I have no interest in ends up surprising me in a good way. However when it finally arrived in theaters I decided to give it a try. I wasn't really looking forward to this movie or anything. Overall it was not a bad movie to sit through. ![]() Which the movie does not have a lot of, but the little it does I was very impress with. It's a little misleading for those of us expecting more battle scenes from him, instead he plays more of a dramatic role that evolves romance, which I rarely see in Asian films cause I mostly deal in marshal arts action. It's the first time I did not see him in an action film with his shirt off holding a sword. He's somewhat a thing in the states, so I assumed that made him a huge star in his native land. I don't think I've ever seen Lee Byung-hun, who I know to be a actor from Korea, in a Korean film. ![]() The scope of Memories of the Sword was big and long (at two hours and sixteen minutes), and covered a lot of drama. The two movies are similar in their epicness, as they both had great cinematography that made it feel like a painting come to life and they seem to be working a very large story with lots of elements but is not too hard to follow, which is good for me cause subtitles can be too much to read sometimes. I just saw another Korean epic called Assassination last week at my local theater so I thought I give this one a shot.
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