Warriors Of Heaven And Earth 2003

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Remarkable for its stimulating, metaphor-rich setting. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: Monotonous. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Warriors ransacks enough of the dust-swept battle genre (start with Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, and John Ford) to have no rousing or opulent B-movie personality of its own. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: He Ping brings to his tale characters who are more dimensional than the usual symbolic figures of traditional Chinese period epics. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: For eyes that have overindulged in the stylized razzle-dazzle of Hero, the grit, dust, and occasional cheese of Warriors of Heaven and Earth come as a corrective slap. Read more

David Chute, L.A. Weekly: It's well worth seeing just for the embellishments. Read more

Ned Martel, New York Times: The best case for Warriors ... is its cinematic time travels and its peek into the natural wildness of a long-closed countryside. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: There's no denying its visual appeal. Read more

Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Unfortunately, the two main protagonists, Lieutenant Li and Lai Xi, are too much the strong, silent type to engage us as heroes, or even characters. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: A handsome although dramatically muddled Noodle Western. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: A fitfully rousing but too derivative mishmash of genre tropes. Read more