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If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Excellent but underrated film

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

As the film started I thought that it was going to be really good. The opening scene was great and the characters looked like we were in for something good.Then the movie began and sadly all the usual silly wire work and magic started and the film changed from a Martial arts movie to an action fantasy movie (and not a good one at that) Yifei Liu held her own in her scenes but couldn't change the awful plot, screenplay, direction and basic premise of the film.It degenerated into more and more silly nonsense as the movie progressed through it's overly long 1hr 58mins, it seemed to drag on and on and some scenes were ridiculously over long.

I was genuinely surprised with the movie and I hadn't expected it to turn out to be such an entertaining movie. If you try to imagine mixing movies such as "X-Men" and "Hero" together, then the end result come out to be "The Four" (aka "Si da ming bu"). This is a historical Kung Fu drama spiced up with mystical powers.The storyline is interesting from the very beginning and just starts to work up in intensity and depth from the very beginning.To shortly summarize the story; counterfeit bills appear in the capitol and two special government departments work hard to unravel the criminal activities.This movie makes heavy use of wires, so if you dislike the Wire Fu genre, then chances are that you want to skip on the movie. However, if you enjoy this particular genre, then there is a lot of great wire action to see.The fighting and action sequences are well-choreographed and equally well executed.As a story-based movie, it is important to have outstanding and memorable characters. And "The Four" has that. Lots of layers to the characters, and the cast was well picked for the roles and characters. I will say that the cast in the movie was nothing short of impressive. I was particularly impressed with Anthony Chau-Sang Wong and Yifei Liu."The Four" is definitely a movie to watch if you enjoy Asian cinema.

I enjoy these sorts of exaggerated wuxia (superhuman/magic martial arts) movies, so anyone not into this genre might give it a significantly lower rating.The primary problem with this movie is, due to the writing, directing, or editing I don't know, its nonsensically fast-paced timing; like it's in some kind of race to finish within its roughly two hour length. Without exaggeration, the pacing of the combat scenes in Michael Bay's first Transformers movie seem relaxed in comparison. A previous reviewer points out that after the first fight scene the action slows down, which is true, but only so much that you can at least make out who's fighting whom and what kind of attack they're using, but not so much that you ever get to really enjoy the combat until the final showdown at the end of the movie.Like a bad Hollywood action flick, the story gets the same herky-jerky treatment; spending as little time as possible dealing with major plot elements or simply skipping ahead to the next scene altogether and leaving it up to the viewer to figure out in hindsight what must have transpired between scenes. For example, there's a love triangle which has to be pointed out in exposition by other characters because there is literally no time is allotted to developing any kind of relationship between these characters who are supposedly attracted to each other. Even the looks and comments of the trio can only be interpreted as attraction due to the observational comments others make.Granted, this is a problem which seems to be increasingly creeping into many Chinese films in recent years, with romantic comedies devoid of romance and detective movies that gloss over the detective work, but whether that's a cultural change or if Chinese cinema is adopting the worst of Hollywood's bad habits in an unfortunate attempt to become more commercially viable, the end result is a movie with great promise that falls well short of the mark and ends up being just barely entertaining.

there's no way to describe this god-awful crap originated from another pure junk of the original novel. so pretentious and so shamelessly shallow. there's no word to describe this childish and brainless adaptation from a bloody awful cow dung. why this film would have turned out so horrible? do you know how people describe 'junk food' and how it affects your digestion and your whole body system? 'garbage in, garbage out' that's what i find quite appropriate for this horrible movie. those guys who could jump so high and run so fast, yet when they ran on the roof, all the tiles were cracked by their nimble feet, when they jumped up by the help of cables, then jumped down to the ground with loud thumps, ran so heavily with thumping sound....what the $^@#?! then we got psychic, inhuman zombies, fiery kung fu, icing kung fu, werewolf....whatever you could throw into the pit, you got it. the absurdity has reached another new level. i am speechless, because i have turned into a huge jumbo couch potato after watched this amazing product of Chinese civilization.