Tony Ching’s An Empress And The Warriors promises so much but delivers little. While its art direction looks great, it suffers from a weak story with improbable moments and forced emotions.
Maybe we’ve been spoilt lately by so many lavish period costume dramas/war epics. But with each period epic that comes along, expectation goes a notch higher naturally. Peter Chan’s The Warlords was a very watchable affair. An Empress seems to throw every idea out there into the mix, so we have the ambitious kin of the king, the unwilling heroine, the loyal leading warrior, the forest dweller with a heart of gold, and every other thing that we’ve seen in every other movie.
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