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Action icon Donnie Yen returns in this sweeping martial arts epic as a legendary royal guard framed for treason. With nothing to lose, he must join forces with a gang of outlaws to save an empire.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
64%- Reviews Counted: 11
- Fresh: 7
- Rotten: 4
- Average Rating: 4.1/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: While "14 Blades" grinds on perhaps a half-hour too long, its ambitions and energies show that for a fresh take on the western, go east.
Fresh: Stylish package has thesps hitting their marks (and each other), but also keeps the human drama from being swamped by wirework and CGI effects.
Fresh: Director, co-writer and production designer Daniel Lee keeps things moving so quickly, there's little time to worry about such basics as where we are or what's actually going on.
Rotten: An immensely gifted physical performer, Donnie Yen isn't strong enough an actor to suggest an authentic inner life to his character beyond a vague sense of stone-faced dissatisfaction.
Customer Reviews
Fusion
Diverse elements (wuxu, spaghetti Westerns, "Crouching Tiger”, Wong Kar Wai) combined and co-exist well enough. The problem I think is a seemingly unlimited budget. Too much money gave the filmmakers the illusion they could throw everything into their movie and it would come out a masterpiece. It would have been better with judicious editing.
Good but old.
Why are they just now releasing this movie it's over 2 years old? Besides that Donnie Yen is always fun to watch.
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