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To me, this movie is perfection.

Admirable film.

Absolutely Fantastic

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Although Jet Li is essentially the main actor, Raymond Lam steals the show (in my opinion) as herb picker Xu Xian. The beautiful Shengyi Huang is well cast as White Snake and the chemistry between Raymond and Shengyi is wonderful. This is a love story set against a fantasy action adventure backdrop, and the genres blend beautifully. The action is just as amazing as the love story. I did find some scenes to be a bit slapstick silly, but in general this CGI-heavy film was quite fascinating. The flood scene in the final act was truly awesome. I did find the ending a bit overuse of CGI to a point where I almost lost what was actually happening, but the love story portrayed by Raymond and Shengyi swiftly pulled me back to their reality and it was simply spectacular. This is a very imaginative film.

This is a touching story of the 'Romeo and Juliet' kind...albeit with a major fantasy twist and an ending that is bittersweet. Strongly recommended for anyone who loves love stories, plus a heady combination of martial arts, magical powers, fairies, vampires and beautiful cinematography. Award-winning movie superstar Jet Li plays the role of a stern but compassionate master monk battling to save humans from being devoured by demons. The master monk tries to protect a naive TCM physician (played by Hong Kong's hunky star Raymond Lam) from a thousand-year-old White Snake (Eva Huang) who had transformed herself into a beautiful woman, and mayhem ensues.Speaking of which, the CGI and other special effects utilized in the movie are simply gorgeous. The sense of realism derived from this ancient fairytale is enlivened by the use of modern cinematic tools. Too bad there isn't a 3D stereoscopic version...sniff! Apart from the super dooper Kungfu moves (of course), the massive scenes involving tsunami, storms and other super forces of nature conjured up during battles between the master monk and the various demons (including vampires) are show-stoppers in themselves already. And, we have not even included the stellar cast of actors and actresses, ranging from Eva Huang (Stephen Chow's Kungfu Hustle), Wen Zhang (Stephen Chow's record-breaking box office hit Journey to the West - Conquering the Demons), Charlene Choi (Hong Kong's highly popular pop duo Twins) to Vivian Hsu (Taiwan's well-known singer, model and actress).For fans of The Forbidden Kingdom (Jackie Chan and Jet Li), Reign of Assassins (directed by John Woo, title song by BBC World Music award winner Sa Ding Ding, and starring Michelle Yeoh) and Storm Warriors (directed by Pang Brothers and starring Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng), you shall be delighted by this fantastic fantasy movie...pardon the pun.See the extended trailer (over 6 mins) on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNxI0IqAfM

Okay, so the main reason I decided to see this movie is because it has Jet Li in it and it's suppose to be a action fantasy. But it turns out to be more of a love story between a demon snake woman that can transform herself into human form falling for a male human herbalist. The thing is if it got the romance part at least right I might be more lenient on this movie. But it was so darn cheesy with nothing original to it. And there isn't much development of romance between the two lovers either. Old fashion romance is alright if there is some good development but there isn't any here. This is romance as corny as it can get. They just get together and conflict hits that spreads them apart and more CGI action. Because monks don't allow relationships between a human and a demon. The male lover is played by Raymond Lam and he sort of looks like a younger version of Jackie Chan with the voice and mannerism kinda. Jet Li is the sorcerer but he isn't even the main character in this movie. If your a audience member that wants to see some kung-fu action might be disappointed. Cause all Jet Li does is use hand motion to cast CGI spells while fighting demons. And the CGI in this isn't horrendous but it's far from being legit. And he catches only female demons into a rock tablet while killing off the male demons. So in another words he is kinda like a Pokemon master. You gotta catch them all. I just couldn't care much about the two main lover in this cause of the way it's developed. The sister of the female demon snake falls for Jet Li's sidekick after something happens to him and I had more sympathy for that guy. Overall this is a movie with a dull story with romance that is far from being original with CGI spell fighting that isn't all that entertaining to watch. I give this movie a 3.8 cause I had fun roasting this movie with my cousin.3.8/10

I'm a big Jet Li fan and I have to say that this is just very disappointing on all fronts. Giving this 4/10 is being generous.This is a very childish fantasy story with poor plot and dialogue and vulgar CGI effects. I'm not against fantasy in martial arts but this should probably have been a PG rating. At least this would have given some indication of the level we're aiming at here. A randomly picked episode of Monkey would contain a better execution of fantasy, martial arts, character development and (for my money) special effects... and that was made in the late 70's.The love story was probably the most successful part of this movie. You have been warned - Here be CGI Snakes!