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A Writer's Odyssey

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A man embarks on a violent quest to find his missing daughter.
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Richard Kuipers Variety 02/12/2021
From around the halfway point... a hollowness creeps in, with each new plot development promising insight and discovery but delivering little more than visual stimulation. Go to Full Review
Alex Saveliev Film Threat 03/28/2022
6/10
Yang seems to have embarked on his own writer’s odyssey, going for broke, with a substantial studio budget to help visualize his dreams. Go to Full Review
Kevin Carr Fat Guys at the Movies 03/12/2022
2.5/4
It isn't perfect, but it's still an interesting movie. Go to Full Review
Andrew Benjamin Battleship Pretension 03/16/2021
Kongwen has clear motivations that we see and can relate to. His is a classic hero vs villain story that is fun to watch. It's also visually just more exciting to watch. Go to Full Review
Sean Gilman The Chinese Cinema 03/03/2021
A solid action movie (with) an ingenious set-up rife with allegorical potential and the kind of sneaky politics one hopes to find as a sign of life in a mass-market product. Go to Full Review
Hasitha Fernando Flickering Myth 03/01/2021
A Writer's Odyssey has its faults, but don't let that deter you from seeing this emotionally engaging, visually ambitious epic. It's one hell of a wild ride, that's unlike anything you've seen before. Go to Full Review
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Avindu G 12/22/2023 Writer's odyssey fails to take shape with a definite theme due to the excessive details that are packed into the two hours span. Two parallel stories are stiched together with force yet neither of them produce a proper story. Visuals are magical yet wasted on the confusing nature of the stories. Plot is understandable but the delivery is blunt. It's light hearted and proves that any idea when supplemented with right amount of technology could makeup to a good story. Performances doesn't look to be natural rather seemed as a struggle with the ever changing directions. Audio effects were fine but a bit too excessive. It's a fun watch but confusing. See more simon j 03/15/2022 Effects and conceptual art are great, but the storyline is confusing and too infantile. See more 01/10/2022 very nice visuals and I liked the simple story myself See more 10/29/2021 One of the very few Chinese movie that I went to cinema to watch. Amazing soundtrack; nice SFX. Story is refreshing and graphics is stunning. See more 06/13/2021 I absolutely loved this movie! It was so fun, emotional, and breathtaking in many sequences. I loved the way it played with story and parallels. I'm a sucker for xianxia and wuxia fantasy, but I wasn't sure about how the story would play out, divided between two worlds: the modern and fantasy. But it did so very well, and I had a blast! See more 05/05/2021 A boring garbage. This is a copy from other Hollywood movies with minimum creativity. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A man embarks on a violent quest to find his missing daughter.
Director
Yang Lu
Screenwriter
Yang Lu
Distributor
CMC Pictures
Production Co
United Entertainment Partners
Genre
Action, Fantasy, Drama, Adventure
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 12, 2021, Limited
Runtime
2h 10m
Sound Mix
DTS, Dolby Atmos
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