Anssi Vartiainen
The biggest problem with Zu Warriors is its inability to tell a coherent story and to keep its audience captivated. The actual setting and story are both interesting enough, if you're into the fantasy martial arts genre. It has relatively few original ideas, but the basic setting of supernatural mountain clans defending their realms against an evil entity has its merits and could make for some awesome visuals and fight scenes.The problem is, half of the time I had no idea what was happening on the screen. Either this movie pulls heavily from Oriental mythology and I would have to know a lot more about the myths and legends to get the plot, or alternatively it just makes stuff up and even Asian viewers are confused. Some scenes lean more towards the former, some towards the latter. The basic problem remains that it's very confusing movie to watch. This leads the viewer to not care what's happening or to whom its happening.The special effects are also awful. And there are a lot of them. I have read that they were fairly good for their time, but they have not aged well at all.Zu Warriors has its upsides. The fight scenes, while nothing groundbreaking, are fun to follow and some of the visuals are genuinely nice. If only the plot had been a bit more coherent, or the characters more interesting, this could have been a lot better.
editajan
The first thing I thought when I saw this films was: It is not really a film, at least it is not what we imagine spontaneously when we hear the word "film". it is entirely symbolic, everything in it has a figurative meaning. So if you are not used to express thing in a symbolic way, you will find it strange, if you are not acquainted with philosophy, religion, spiritual life, you will think it's just a fairy-tale... and even a weird one, chaotic. For me "The legend of Zu" is perfectly transparent. And I do like it. It tells us in images the story about the fight between light and darkness, the fight that is as old as humanity, and every one who is in search of the sens in this life is confronted with it. The film is obviously made by Buddhists. I am not a Buddhist. My religion and the vision of the world and human is different. But as far as we are all humans and have the same human nature we necessarily have common experiences and can understand each other. It is a really beautiful film! And I which we had more films like this - films that have a meaning. There are too many empty stories which are good only to make time pass more quickly.
JohnBowling62
I used to think Gojoe reisenki was the worst movie ever made. This movie is much much worse. I would rather watch Gojoe everyday for the rest of my life than see this movie twice.This is what happens when you give a 12 year old a half-way decent CGI machine for an hour. The story is simply childish. It's almost as if they created the CGI scenes before deciding what the plot would be.This movie is an embarrassment to China. Their economy has been doing pretty good supposedly... if they keep producing movies like this they will be sunk. I can only think that those who gave this movie more than 1 star are joking.
cschema
This movie gets filed in the 'silly movie' category.Honestly? What was this... Flying ninjas with super powers? I don't care if you call them immortals but really... enough is enough... there is NO story to follow or if you cant follow it pretend you are watching mortal kombat it is the same basic recycled garbage that we have seen 1000 times in just about 1 out of every 10 movies out there. Cons: Flying ninjas LOL Too many explosions <--HAHAHA YES EXPLOSIONS!!! BOOM! Cheesy special effects! Go watch the original godzilla Please!You would like it if you are a huge DragonBallZ fan... and thats about it!
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