Movie Review: The Warlords (2007) 《投名状》 This movie was watched last night together with The Changed Man and The Married Soldier and it was a very impressionable movie because the story tells of how three people formed a brotherhood of blood and went on for a series of successful military conquests but ended up in a bloody conflict between all three of them.
The film is set in the 1860s, during the Taiping Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty in China. The story, based on an unresolved crime, tells of three sworn brothers (played by Andy Lau, Jet Li and Takeshi Kaneshiro) who turn on one another over a beautiful woman (Xu Jinglei).
However, everything was not as smooth as it seemed. The eldest brother (Jet Li) was in a secret love affair with the wife of the second brother (Andy Lau). All three men have very different ideals about how they wanted their lives to be. The youngest brother, Takeshi Kaneshiro, only wanted unity within the brotherhood. The second brother wanted his home village to be protected and well-fed from the ravages of the warlords during the Taiping Rebellion. The eldest brother wanted peace for the entire country and was prepared to shed as much blood as necessary to achieve his personal goal.
Everything set for the explosive end when the secret love affair was brought into light and the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty began to exert all sorts of pressure to destroy the brotherhood, which was becoming a very dangerously powerful military force when it successfully quelled two major cities supporting the Taiping Rebellion.
Memorable scenes included how the initial small army of eight hundred men from the Brotherhood engaged an enemy army of five thousand, the bloody decision to annihilate four thosand unarmed Taiping soldiers and the eventual showdown between the three warlord brothers.
Story: ***
Acting: ****
Acting: ****
Direction: ****
Visuals: ***1/2
Overall: ****
More Beautiful People From Human Pets:
Recently, I have the good luck to induct more attractive-looking people into my Human Pets collection on Facebook. I choose them and bidded quite a lot of points to get some of them because I think they have that attractive smile, good facial features and of course a nice radiance of health and vibrance.
Now, now, don't get any ideas to steal them from me can? I wouldn't dare to display them on my blog if I have not prepared a decent budget to protect them from other Human Pets poachers. Haha. Just look and enjoy their beautiful profile pictures la.
Battlestations! Victories:
I am also active in another Facebook application game known as Battlestations! and in the game, I am commandeering an airship which can be outfitted with many different weapons and parts for aerial combat or exploration against all sorts of NPC airships and monsters.
It looks easy on the eye but you will need a little bit of planning because the costs of those equipment (in terms of gold, wood, ores and plasma rocks) can be very demanding and many players are outfitted with their individualized combinations of weaponry, making the game fun to play but not stressful to maintain whenever I log on to blow some airships to pieces..haha
The following are some of my recent defensive victories to share with my readers. Click the links to view the combat scenes.
Home Performance Video (2 takes): 《旋律》by 林宇中
真好玩，我又来折磨大家了。这回得用上两轮的录象因为这首歌不容易唱，假音多，变音也多。还是觉得可以唱得再好一些，可是又要赶出门了。不管了啦，你们就勉强听听了啦。哈哈！
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