Customer Ratings & Reviews

Have always loved this movie. It is so very well made. And definitely worth owning.

The third and final cinematic masterpiece of one of the best trilogies

It was easy to order and delivered in time. Movie was band new and as beautiful as I remembered.

Great Movie to have in your collection. The graphics are awesome.

I had been looking for this DVD for the longest time and I was excited to find it with Best Buy. It's a great movie

China came first son! This film is epic by all accounts!

This is a great classic wuxia story with great scripting, directing, acting, and spectacular costumes and sets. For those of you expecting martial arts, wuxia always has a martial element, but it is a dramatic form, often tragic. For Chow Yun-Fat action fans, here's an opportunity to see his great dramatic acting skills, not often seen or well appreciated in the US market. The story is a well woven tale of court isolation from the common world, intrigue and treachery bordering on sociopathic and the heroic pathos of ideals and honor of some in the midst of it all. It is the kind of story Shakespeare would have loved for one of his plays. Although, from the outset, it is a predicably tragic tale, the plot is not formulaic and predictable. It twists and turns in some very unexpected and caqptivating ways. The telling of these stories in China has its roots embedded in Chinese opera and it shows here. The villiany is truly evil, the heroics genuinely selfless, honorable and endowed with great pathos. It all plays well into the viewers emotions, all without becoming overtly melodramatic. The ability to get the viewer to naturally identify with the intended emitional drama is what makes this a great dramatic presentation. One of my all time favorite wuxia productions.

An excellent movie with great visuals of the forbidden city and its' deffence. There are few action sequences so I would classify this as more of a drama martial arts movie, doused in the traditions of the royal family, and their bloody ambitions. I'm glad I own it, but not my favorite martial arts movie right now.

This was an awesome movie at a great price. I had seen parts of the movie on television, but wanted to watch the whole movie.

A good movie if you are into beautiful scenery and drama. Fabulous epic style scenery. The story is engaging, but not totally. The director could have cut out about 30 minutes of over acting and the movie would have been the same.

A great movie about the highs and lows of a royal family and how standing for what is right can cost you everything!!!!