投名狀 - The WarLords

17th Dec 07, 1845hrs

Today after work, 6pm. Off my PC, walked towards Toa Payoh Entertainment Centre to purchase ticket for 投名狀. From the trailer I feels it a real good movie not to be miss, so I really don't wanna watch it any later.

Brought my pop-corn + coke, sit down there. Alone.. Started munching my pop-corn, caught trailer of Stephen Chow's 2008 CNY movie, "Chang Jiang No.7". Another lame show, but hope it is better then 'Kung Fu". Also managed to see the 'Rambo 4" trailer. Can't understand why they still wanna force this old fella to flex his sloppy abs, killing like mad? Alright, back to 投名狀.

I feel this movie focus alot about feeling of individual main casts. All of them were reveal to have very true human instints. They cried, bled, screamed and kill.

Jet Li is indeed very different role as compared to "Once upon a time in China", "Hou Yuan Jia" etc. A very grey person, he tried to outwit, tried to conquer. But the environment really force him to result in wrongdoings. Which is very much true to what one's will do in real life.

Andy Lau is always the best. The pair of talking eyes, captured clearly what he wants to express. The sorrow, the bravery, he acted out was mavellous. It is a pity ending for this ill-fated hero.

Takeshi Kaneshiro, I feel he acted quite well. Lots of tears, very pitiful too. His best was the last part of the movie, his anger and rage was shown / filmed beautifully. One thing is that, I don't understand why the director placed a few silly statements for him during some parts.

The director, Peter Chan really craved out the every characters well. He make audiences feel that those killing, those sacrifices made were needed in order to achieve big things. Unlike the past, heroes just kill all enemies single-handed, leaving a field of dead men, achieving the main goal, "Conquer the World". And that's it. Whereas this movie, look into explaining why killings were done, promises were broken for the main characters to reach their goal.

Fighting scenes were great. Only pity is, can't hear Andy Lau's real voice. I feel this movie is on par with "Infernal Affairs", if not better. Probably take a look at this long trailer and the MV by Andy Lau before booking the tickets.