House of Flying Daggers

Well what can I say I've developed a blogging bug, probably cos I can forget the details of life outside office hours so easily. Continuing on my last post we saw House of Flying Daggers afterwards. I was a bit disappointed, people had been saying it had no plot and it was superbly shot. Well it was superbly shot but it didn't have enough fisticuffs for my liking and the plot just seemed to have been dragged out too much.

A couple of twists and turns is nice but a whole lot in one scene is just too much. Reminds of some other Chinese/Hong Kong flicks and shows, where everything changes in an instant beyond credibility. I was hanging out to see that big battle they were all alluding to but no I had to witness a Chinese version of a fight on Jerry Springer. The forests scenes, which were shot in the Ukraine, just didn't evoke the visions of China that usually comes to mind but I'm just being picky now.

Still it was a gorgeous film which didn't quite stand up to the torch of anticipation I had put it to. Despite all my misgivings I do hope there are more films like this being released into mainstream cinema. Let's just hope they don't become the cinematic equivalent of mainstream sweet chilli sauce: overly sweet and generally not enjoyed by those where it originated from but still marketed as authentic stuff.