a5c7b9f00b In 689 A.D., the Empress Wu Zetian is building a 66 m high statue of Buddha for her inaugurationthe first empress of China under the objections and conspiracy of the other clans. When the engineer responsible for the construction mysteriously dies by spontaneous combustion, the superstitious workers are afraid since the man removed the good luck charms from the main pillar. There is an investigation of Pei Donglai and another investigator that also dies after withdrawing the amulets. Empress Wu assigns her loyal assistant Shangguan Jing'er to release the exiled Detective Dee from his imprisonment to investigate with Donglai and Jing'er the mystery of the deaths. They ride in a mystic and epic adventure to unravel the mystery.
An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
I'm sorry, but I really don't get on with the films of Tsui Hark. I see theman example of style over substance, and tryI might to enjoy them, it rarely happens. Hark's style is something I'm not a fan of: he makes superficial, speedy-paced movies that look great but lack depth and substance. DETECTIVE DEE, a film about a detective investigating bizarre cases of spontaneous human combustion in ancient China, is a case in point.<br/><br/>The film does have some good points. A Chinese murder mystery/action adventure is a new one on me, and there's a kind of fresh and inventive spin to it that keeps you watching. The visuals, despite being created by some sometimes cheesy CGI, are admittedly impressive, with the Buddhist version of the Statue of Liberty looming large in the story. The cast is also strong.<br/><br/>But something's missing, and that's the viewer's involvement in the storyline. I never felt engaged or caught up in what was going on, and the eventual solving of the mystery was nothing but a silly disappointment. Indeed, the film descends into silliness on more than one occasion; don't go looking for realism, whatever you do. Watching this, I'm reminded of why I don't get on with Hong Kong's lavish, wirework-infused costume fantasies of the 1990s. Give me down-to-earth realism any day.<br/><br/>Despite headlining the cast, Andy Lau feels missing in action for much of this film. Viewers are led through the mystery by his detective, but we never learn much about him and characterisation is nil. The albino warrior, played by Chao Deng, is a much more interesting character,is Tony Leung Ka Fei's master builder. The female roles also feel a bit underwritten to me. Sammo's listedaction director, but the action is brief and doesn't make any impact whatsoever. It's certainly not the finest hour for anyone involved.
Hark Hsui is one of the most prestigious living HK director, his unconstrained imagination and the possess of a virtual martial world establishes his world-famously unique style in the world. <br/><br/>Detective Dee is his newest opus which is also a genuinely ambitious one, the big budget and costly cast seem to manifest that it is a venturous gamble,his several previous films MISSING (2008), ALL ABOUT WOMEN (2008) and THE SEVEN SWORDS (2005)) all failed severely in the domestic box office.<br/><br/>As an admirer of his oeuvre, it's a great relief and I'm even somewhat surprised to find out that the film excels itself in the visual concussion, the cloud-kissing Empress statue and phantom bazaar are the steady proof of the top-notch mastery of CGI in a Chinese film.<br/><br/>By the contrast the script cannot be complacent, the well-drafted manoeuvre fail to convey certain convincing narrative, the dialogues are bland and the emotional link is sometimes even out of context. Anyway,a detective story, the twist-and-turn is moderately predictable but a safe playwell, which I could appreciate it for a no-pee-moment 120 minutes. <br/><br/>In view of a crowded market of period films aiming at ancient China, the status quo is a bit disappointing because aesthetic fatigue makes audience pickier and pickier, plus a heavier budget could really hurt the investors, the current trend is unhealthy for the booming market, I am looking forward to expecting a more kaleidoscopic hotchpotch in Chinese cinematic region.
As the Sherlock Holmes of the second Zhou Dynasty, Lau is so effortlessly appealing that he manages to anchor the fatigue-heavy proceedings, even when his character has to outrun both the rays of the sun - don't ask - and a collapsing statue while crawling over and under a pack of stampeding horses. Now that's star power.

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