Title: Great quality video, just a mediocre movie
Product review: Visually, this is a beautiful movie, and the musical score is wonderful, but overall I was disappointed. It would have been much better in Chinese with subtitles. The English dialogue sounds so phony much of the time, and the characters seem so plastic. This is an epic story, but it lacks real human emotion, perhaps because there was just too much of a story to fit into even a LONG movie. It probably should have been a trilogy, so that the characters and their experiences could have been explored in more depth. The scenes of the Forbidden City were very interesting, especially since I just got back from seeing the real thing, but otherwise I can't recommend it.
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