Fresh
A dazzler -- and almost as exciting as its title promises.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
House of Flying Daggers
2004 · 1h 59m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Drama
Directed by
Zhang Yimou
Overview
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One of the most visually astonishing martial-arts fantasies ever made.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
About as viscerally and visually exciting as film can get, and yet it is also fully, ripely romantic in a way that few modern films would dare.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
Zhang proves that Hero was no accident with House of Flying Daggers, another Chinese period piece resplendent with a dazzling palette and soaring, ambitious fight sequences.
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
Fresh
An intoxicating cocktail of splendid visuals, spectacular action, state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery and some old-fashioned swashbuckling worthy of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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