Quickie Review: Based on the real-life exploits of China's version of Sherlock Holmes, Di Renjie, a law officer of the Tang Dynasty. Detective Dee is highly-critical of the new Empress and is put in prison where he stays for eight years. When the Empress' important court officials die one by one by way of spontaneous human combustion, people begin to think that the gods are angry at having a female ascend to the throne. To get to the heart of this mysterious matter, the Empress releases Detective Dee to solve it before her official coronation takes place, putting his life on the line.
I liked it, somewhat. I don't know what the other four or five people in the audience thought about it.
Here are the things that I didn't like about the movie: I don't like to see wire-work in martial arts movies anymore. They are stupid and they lessen the "Believability Factor" of a movie. And what was with that "Robot-like weapon fitted with circular-saw appendages"? A human-propelled log will not travel a straight horizontal line, it will arc--she should have been squashed by it since all she did was bend back which would have placed her in the path of the short-arcing log! So a ventriloquist can manipulate a deer's mouth from afar--yeah, right .... Those don't look like the Fire Beetles that I know are native to Central and South America.
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