The Legend of the Swordsman (1992)

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent but underrated film

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The first must-see film of the year.

Statement： 1，All of Chinese to English---there can't preview Chinese(Stupid Web！！！) 2，I use translation software to translate into English as much as possible, but due to cultural and language habits are different, you might not understand the meaning of themA Laughter From The Seas （The song）The seas laugh, lashing on both shores Carried in the waves, we have only the here and now The heavens laugh at the troubled world Only they know, who is to win and lose The mountains laugh, the rain is afar When the waves grow old, the world still goes on The clear winds laugh, such a feeling of solitude Bygone camaraderie leaving behind a tinge of melancholy The earth laughs, solitude no more My sentiments laughing stillThis is a group of old text wrapped into a mess, can sing, sing, don't try to understand. To solution can also, risked to Move a stone to drop your foot it. Vaguely feel, this song speaks to disregard the changing of the hero, talked about a wait every day under the tree, in the hope that a hare would kill itself by crashing into a tree trunk's paladin, talked about the hero to Sitting in the well and think it's all of the world, told plug one's ears while stealing a bell of the sages, talked about life in a fit of pique today, talked about the universal nobody in the sunset. Said is a laughter, in fact, laughter is more than the sea.Sea laughter, boat sank.Heavens laugh, as lightning.Rivers and mountains laugh, rock are falling. Breeze smile, flowers are falling.People laugh, even no anger no hate no cause.The film, about is how valuable a free and had free access to how difficult it is, even if is a Kong fu master, invincible, but always involuntarily. What a funny thing to an outsider is, it is people's principles, beliefs, and self.what the hell! English is really unable to accurately express the meaning of, Chinese a lot of very essence of culture is completely unable to express, and some of the highlights cannot translation, to blame blame your ancestors culture too backward!

People seem to be divided into two groups about this movie. Those who think it's amazing and groundbreaking, and those who think it's vastly overrated. I fall somewhere in between, tending towards the "overrated". I have watched a lot of kung fu movies lately, and this one, from 1991, is nowhere near groundbreaking. No one who's watched the good stuff from the '60s and '70s can claim that there is much originality in Swordsman II.This movie disappointed me because it was too ridiculous. Admittedly, it was also quite funny, and I don't mind supernatural kung fu. But the story and the effects never really worked that well, and as someone else has pointed out, the English subtitles are really, really terrible.So on a scale from one to ten, I can only give this movie a 5, but I will raise that to 6 because of the attractive women in it. Not only Brigitte Lin, but Rosamund Kwan and especially Michelle Reis (who's got some great fight scenes here, unlike in Fong Sai Yuk, where she was just helpless) are a big bonus for this movie, and makes it well worth watching.Thus: 6 out of 10.

Asia the invincible? what the hell's that? the guy's surname is Dong Fang, which is a normal chinese surname, means "the east", he call himeself Bu Bai, coz he has not, did not, and thinks would not be defeated, so it means The Undefeated.I know translation is a tough job, no matter how good you think you did, you still cannot transform all the meanings, undertones, indications in a culture sense. But not like this one! This is a very beautiful movie, all the lines, the scenes, the costumes, all very authenticly chinese, and stunning. And the poems recited in the movie, and the haunting song...hate to see all of these been ruined by the rediculous translantion.You know, many things are just not meant to be translated, many words in chinese, they just can't be properly translated, such as "tian xia","qian kun", they are somewhat close to the meaning of "the world", but never is in the same sense of it.So, for those who deminished the plot of the movie, I just wana tell you, it was based on one of the best selling Wuxia books in China, and the lines, they are very beautiful, in chinese. And for those who talked about the wire works, hello, this is a fantasy movie, and even with the wiring, have you ever seen body movements as beautiful as this in other movies, say the matrix? Wiring doesn't neccesarily mean it's not googd KongFu, This movie has some of the best fight scenes I have ever seen, wiring is only a basic requirement for action fantasies, but the thing they did with the fight scene, that's art, man. You have to be a KongFu master and an artist at the same time to be able to design, to creat such beautiful things.In short, advice for people from America, Europe, Africa...no-china£¬If you wana have a better understanding of the movie, READ THE BOOK FIRST, and before that, LEARN SOME CHINESE! :)

(in full disclosure, I wrote this when I was a dumb 17 year old, I remember enjoying the movie and recommend it, so that's all that counts): Tonight I saw this movie, a unusual Chinese action movie with a plot about a guy who has a sister and brothers and they get entangled up with fighting people who want to take over China. That is pretty much the basic plot that I could follow. The rest of the movie consists of action scenes that may or may not have been sliced off of the deleted footage of The Kentucky Fried Movie and the sound effects sound like bites from he Crippled Masters. Still, it is consistently entertaining in parts, even if it is unintentionally funny in a lot of parts (the fighters say they're move before they do it in street fighter Super Nintendo style, and the brothers have nicknames like scumbag and smart ass). Li is also pretty good, even if the whole sum of the movie might be a tad lowered. Biggest flaw though, at least for myself, was that not only was there no dubbing, but the Chinese sometimes didn't match the mouths! Oh well, it's worth it. B