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Hindi Detective Dee: Mystery Of The Phantom Flame
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An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
In 689 A.D., the Empress Wu Zetian is building a 66 m high statue of Buddha for her inauguration as the first empress of China under the objections and conspiracy of the other clans. When the engineer responsible for the construction mysteriously dies by spontaneous combustion, the superstitious workers are afraid since the man removed the good luck charms from the main pillar. There is an investigation of Pei Donglai and another investigator that also dies after withdrawing the amulets. Empress Wu assigns her loyal assistant Shangguan Jing'er to release the exiled Detective Dee from his imprisonment to investigate with Donglai and Jing'er the mystery of the deaths. They ride in a mystic and epic adventure to unravel the mystery.
It's 689 A.D. China. Wu Zetian is set to be crowned as the first female empress. She faces great opposition ready to overthrow her. A towering Buddha is under construction for her inauguration. During a tour with a foreign ambassador, an official spontaneously combust. Officer Pei Donglai goes to investigate and his superior is killed. Shangguan Jing'er is the Empress' attendant. Dee is released from prison and reinstated as the Imperial Commissioner to solve Phantom Flame Case.
I started out much more invested in the mystery. The movie sets up a great Sherlock mystery to solve. Then it overflows with wild fight spectacular. It's imaginative fun but the mystery gets muddled. It does some bizarre acupuncture plastic surgery and hallucinatory bucks. It's so wild that the movie loses its meaning for me. I just lose my way in this funhouse martial arts movie.
Andy Lau stars as Detective Dee, a disgraced detective who was against the dowager Empress taking the throne. Thrown into jail for 8 years for his disapproval, he is called back to the capital on the eve of the the Empress taking official power because it seems that people are suddenly bursting into flames.
Grand spectacle of the sort that is only possible with computer generated imagery this is a film that works for most of its running time. Sure it's big and clunky like a grand summer epic here in America, but the plot is such that you get pulled into it, the action is simply amazing to the point you can't stop watching, and the characters are intriguing enough that you can't stop caring. Its a grand epic that Hollywood should be ashamed they didn't produce.
Mark this as two in a row for the up and down Tsui Hark. Certainly this is a radical departure from his last film, the romantic comedy All About Women. It's also a departure from his recent blockbusters like The Blade (which some people love and I file dull, to the point a Korean spy spoof that sent it up crashed in burned for me) Seven Swords (a three hour epic snooze fest based on the Seven Samurai that was cut down from an even longer cut) or even his semi-recent Zu sequel (which was incoherent). Where his recent epics crashed and burned for this was simply a story that took me to another time and place. Certainly the world it creates is full of computer generated imagery, but it really doesn't matter since it's so high in the gee whiz factor.
While I wouldn't put this on my list of the best films of the year, the film kind of disappoints in the final half hour (it's a bit too much like a typical mystery and a tad too clear cut) it is one that was totally enjoyable and one I can recommend pretty much without reservation. Its also a film that I will happily see on a big screen if this gets some US screenings.
This is one to watch for.
A historical epic with elements of wu xia, supernatural thrillers, and drawing-room murder mysteries.
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