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      Brotherhood of Blades

      2014 1h 51m Action History Drama List
      Reviews 60% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Three sworn brothers are tasked with annihilating a corrupt fugitive and his followers, but a mistake reveals the brothers are being used as pawns in a deadly game filled with secrets, conspiracies and lethal consequences. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Aug 15 Buy Now

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      Philippa Hawker The Age (Australia) Brotherhood Of Blades is a gripping, entertaining martial arts drama in which the cut-and-thrust of the narrative is as important as the swordplay action. Rated: 3.5/5 Nov 6, 2014 Full Review Yip Wai Yee The Straits Times (Singapore) Drama aside, the wuxia action sequences - choreographed by Lin Sang (Red Cliff, 2009) - are truly satisfying to watch, crucially without the aid of lavish visual effects or fanciful weaponry. Rated: 4/5 Aug 24, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member The Action & Scenary Are On Par With Other Epic Fantasy-Adventure Blockbusters; It Is Just The Dialogue-Politics & Story Is Unfortunately At Times Hard To Follow. They All Talk So Quickly & The Twists Or Double-Crosses Come All Too Thick & Fast It Is Also Ultra Violent, So If That's Not Your Thing, Is Avoid. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Brotherhood of Blades is a labor to finish. It tells the story of a trio of badass Imperial Assassins, and one of them becomes corrupt and lets an Imperial enemy go in exchange for gold. It solves all their subplot problems, such as yearning for a promotion, being indebted to a blackmailer, and freeing a prostitute from eternal servitude. But the first two action sequences are full of shlocky CGI blood, so the movie's immaculate set and costume design are lessened. The movie uses less of these bad visual effects by the film's end, but by the end the movie falls into hardcore melodrama and ridiculousness. There are no real stakes, as you feel none of these characters will make it out alive, regardless of their skill level. There's one decent action scene at the end that uses good fake blood (Lian vs 4 shield users), but every other scene is bland. If you take it for just an action movie its barely satisfying, but it won't be remembered down the line at all. (PS. Chen Chang looks like an Asian Joel Kinnaman) Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Good gripping period piece story that tells the tale of how the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions especially when the individual thinks their actions won't really hurt anyone. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Westerners have a hard time dealing with the differences in the use and style of special effects in Asia, and they also tend to be less receptive towards unhappy and ambiguous endings, but Brotherhood of Blades was well directed, choreographed, paced, and acted, and that usually equals a solid film regardless of culture in my book. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review born k Nie adventure / drama story in the Imperial China of 17th century - a nice written an concise plot, actings, photography and fight scenes, without the non-sense, humor or innuman action scenes of many other chinese action movies. If you want a more serious and realist movie, this is the one. 7 /10 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member It is good: action and plot. It is a martial art movie. Who the hell care about excessive special effect blood spill? Chris Sawin from the Examiner probably does not know about it. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Three sworn brothers are tasked with annihilating a corrupt fugitive and his followers, but a mistake reveals the brothers are being used as pawns in a deadly game filled with secrets, conspiracies and lethal consequences.
      Director
      Yang Lu
      Producer
      Terence Chang, Xiaoli Han, Zhang Shusheng
      Screenwriter
      Yang Lu, Shu Chen
      Production Co
      Combo Drive Pictures Co., Beijing Dachu Changge Film And TV Culture Co., China Film, Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio
      Genre
      Action, History, Drama
      Original Language
      Chinese
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 12, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 51m
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