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Director:
Writer:
John Chong (writer)
Release Date:
16 January 1993 (Hong Kong) more
Plot:
Dynamo Michelle Khan stars as a loyalist who attempts to keep the King's empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group. Top fight action. more | add synopsis
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Deceptively deep, disappointingly developed more (17 total)

Cast

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Michelle Yeoh ... Sister Ko
Jimmy Lin ... Prince Cha

Tony Leung Chiu Wai ... Meng Sing Wan
Joey Wang ... Butterfly

Donnie Yen ... Yip Cheung
Chung Hua Tou ... Lui
Elvis Tsui ... Master Suen
Chuan Chen Yeh ... Ho Ching
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Also Known As:
Butterfly & Sword (Hong Kong: English title)
Butterfly Sword
Comet, Butterfly and Sword
Xin liu xing hu die jian (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
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Hong Kong:88 min
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5 out of 8 people found the following review useful.
Deceptively deep, disappointingly developed, 23 January 2005
4/10
Author: brainfertilizer from United States

I found this movie slightly disappointing.

It seems there are several different strains of HK Action Flicks. Jackie Chan does pure fist/leg martial arts with no wires. Jet Li tends to use more wires, but "Once Upon a Time in China" seemed to be more dependent on the action than the wires. This move depends so much on wires and magic powers that you really don't get very much in the way of good swordplay and kung-fu. It seemed pretty cheesy from the beginning, and I left it on only because I had nothing better to do. Then it started getting good. The plot gets pretty complicated, as you see hidden motivations and conflicting desires causing problems for the characters. Unfortunately, the movie never really capitalizes on some of the things the characters discover, and the ending reveals a mystery they really hadn't set up well, forcing the characters to reveal too much in their dialogue, as in, "You see, this was my plan all along! Now I shall kill you!" Not dull, exactly, but it never fulfills the potential of the plot developments to overcome a cheesy approach to martial arts.

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