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Seven Swords | 
 enlarge | Director: Hark Tsui
Actors: Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Liwu Dai, Chia-liang Liu
Studio: Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 11819
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Cantonese (Original Language), English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 153 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: GEPD79758D
UPC: 796019797580
EAN: 0796019797580
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: January 16, 2007
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Product Description
Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 05/08/2007
Amazon.com
As the title indicates, Seven Swords is in the epic spirit of The Seven Samurai and its American cousin, The Magnificent Seven. A grittier enterprise, it may not surpass Tsui Hark's 1990s classics like Once Upon a Time in China, but offers its own unique pleasures--like non-stop action (for which it received a coveted Golden Horse Award). Based on the book Seven Swordsmen from Mountain Tian, the action begins in rural China in the 1600s. The Ching Dynasty has just banned martial arts, and in response seven dissidents band together to fight against Fire-Wind (Honglei Sun) and his minions. The septet includes Hong Kong superstars Charlie Young (Wu Yuan Yin), Leon Lai (Yang Yun Chong), and Hero's Donnie Yen (Chu Zhao Nan). One of the mountain villagers they save is pretty Korean refugee Green Pearl (So-yeon Kim), who falls for the moody Chu. Filmed on location in scenic Xinjiang, Seven Swords is a feast for the eyes. Though some critics have taken Hark to task for the army's anachronistic goth-punk garb, it sure looks menacing. Originally four and a half hours long, this version clocks in at 153 minutes. Hark's soft-spoken commentary, along with Hong Kong cinema expert Bey Logan, is on the first disc. Deleted scenes and other extras are on the second. Because of the cuts, the complex narrative isn't always easy to follow--and the film still feels long--but the gold-tinged visuals and fight choreography by Kar-Leung Lau (The Legend of Drunken Master) helps to compensate. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Suspensefful + Splendid scenery + Spectacular fighting + Non-stop action + No time for love and character development. November 10, 2008
Cestmoi
This movie shows it has a big budget. It contains splendid scenery. The giant mountains with snow look beautiful and scary. The fighting scenes are fast, bloody and furious with strange weapons. Sometimes it's hard to see what's going on. The action is non-stop. It has quite a few suspenseful scenes.
My only complaint is it gives no time to love and character develpment. They exist in the movie but for a very short time. As a result, they can't make me feel anything.
It's worth renting but not buying.
An Ambitious Story. Maybe Too Ambitious. May 30, 2008
Ahmad Jordan (Bufalo, NY United States)
This was a movie I wanted to like more than I actually did. The production quality, and the cinematography grabs the hand of this movie and leads it down the road of masterpiece. But it's either the story or the editing that walks with the two left feet along the way. This movie probably needed another hour in order to pull off what it wanted to accomplish -- which is be an Action Story, and not just an Action Movie. The Director had the admirable goal of making us an emotional spectator, but because he's burdened with placing Seven Protagonists behind the Seven Swords, he has only a handful of minutues to offer any kind of substantial backstory to each character. There were times when the subtext of some character seemed to have just emerged out of nowhere. I'd give examples, but to be honest, I can't identify any of the multi-characters by name. so I'll just say, as an example, that "some guy" whose backstory was that of a farmer (I think) seemed to be pretty broken up when it was decided that he had to set his horses free. Especially, the Horse JoyLuck, whose name I can remember. By the way, I'm *not* being sarcastic here. That was really how I approached that scene, since prior to it, I can't recall any build up. Maybe I missed it.
Amazingly, despite the cloudiness of the JoyLuck scene, I was still somewhat moved by it, a sure credit to the cinematography and the heart breaking score by Kenji Kawai. Both do an amazing job of compensating for what I just couldn't gather from the story. I have to believe that juggling seven characters in the writers/directors world is as dangerous as juggling seven swords. And despite my clueless detachment from the motivation of the characters, I enjoyed watching them when they went into battle. My conclusion is that the Writers (Three of them) and the Director knew what they were doing, they just didn't have enough screen-time to pull it off.
 Pleasant May 18, 2008
Daniel G. Strohofer (Germany)
it's not exactly great, it definatly didn't look too fake as, crouching tiger hidden dragon. i first watched this movie while i was in afghanistan, so i recommended it to my cousin. we now both enjoy this movie, because of the fact that they tried to keep away from making people fly.
Not impressed April 11, 2008
Bo Ostergaard Jepsen (Beijing, China)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Seven Swords" is a bit bland, to be honest. Great director, nice sound and look, Donnie Yen, the magnificent Lau Kar Leung. It has the right ingredients, but simply fails to make an impression. Not enough character development, silly fighting and less than amazing dialogue. There is perhaps too much fiddling around with the look of the 'baddies', who look sort of ridiculous.
I wouldn't see it again and wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is not absolute genre- or Yen-fans. 2,5 stars.
 Not what you expect from Donnie Yen March 29, 2008
Robert D. Miller
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I heard so many good things about this movie. I was disapointed. If your looking for good Kung Fu action from Donnie Yen you might want to check out Kung Fu Master, & Return of Kung Fu Master. circleoflifekungfu.com
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