Besides the seriously warped storyline, most of the action on the battlefield were a blur, with more images of galloping horses and people falling off them, rather than accurate and exciting action choreography of moves. I am more impressed with the individual fights (especially the one between Zhao Zilong and Zhang Fei and the one between Zhao Zilong and Cao Ying) but there could have been more slow-motion moves as most of the action are still too fast to be captured even for me.
Andy Lau looked charismatic enough but he was rendered little use in the movie because it did not cover the major exploits properly. The Changban Po battle was not exciting as the original plotline and the ending of the movie was way off too - overly-heroic in the wrong perspective. Accordingly to the story, Zhao Zilong was far more intelligent than wiser.
Cao Ying, acted by Maggie Q, took me by surprise though. It is because although her looks were more Caucasian than Chinese, it brought a breath of fresh air with her cold and yet shrewd looks. She worked hard during the fight scenes and actually had the charisma of a commander general if you look beyond her previous character castings in other movies.
Overall, I would give only a pathetic 1.5 stars out of 5 for the whole movie because my expectations of it were much higher than what the director had demonstrated - and a terrible waste of a good stellar cast of actors and actresses. I would prefer Andy's Lau's "A Battle of Wits" and "The Warlords" much more than this movie.
Another Romance of The Three Kingdoms movie is upcoming "Battle of The Red Cliffs". Hope that one would be much better than this.
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