An Empress And The Warriors (Original name: Jiang shan mei ren)

Director	Siu-Tung Ching
Release year	2008
Genre	Action / Drama / History
My watch history	2023-09-13
Actors	Kelly Chen, Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Xiaodong Guo, Zhenhai Kou, Weihua Liu, Shan Zhang, Zhihui Chen, Jie Yan, Bo Zhou
IMDB	IMDB

Review

Emperor gets injuried on a war and he gives the command of his army to another man. Some does not like the choice emperor made and soon the emperor is killed. The daughter of the emperor takes the rule, but group of people want to get rid of her as well. She gets injuried but she is saved by the ex warrior who does not recognize that she is the princess. Their emotions grow but the princess needs to go back to help her kingdom.

This was enjoyable movie even it is quite shallow in its story and the depth of emotions is not translated that well since the characters and their dynamics are not built deeply enough to make them matter. Still it have good moments and from time to time there is visually beautiful scenes that I like. Love story could have been built better since it gave more balance to other parts of movie and it could have been bigger element.

All in all I liked this movie even with it flaws.

Review written: 2023-09-13