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I loved it! Yo need to know a bit about Finnish Mythology first.
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01/12/23
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I watched this on Netflix streaming, and I have to express my great appreciation for Netflix here for enabling me to view a Finnish movie and moreover one that combines Finnish myth and Chinese martial arts. While not a great movie, I thought it was entertaining and, considering its tiny budget, three and a half million dollars, a rather amazing one with a decent story and good acting. If, like me, you're a fan of martial arts movies, believe a country's cinema reflects its popular psyche and are curious about the worldviews of others, you might want to give this one a viewing.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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I love Sci-Fi foreign films. I couldn't wait to see this...and this is how I rate a movie if it is good.. I was on Netflix. I turned on the movie 15 times, and I fell asleep 14 times. Frustrated, I turned it on the 15th time after reviewing the non-incredible action, the non-exciting plot, and the non-existing adventure of this film, and I realized...maybe it's the perfect kind of movie to watch when I need to sleep. Its a sleeper. Ugh.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/16/23
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Jade Warrior plays on many a mans fantasy of finding and falling in love with a beautiful Asian woman(Jingchu Zhang looks AMAZING in this film) who happens to be a Kung Fu master. That concept was diluted by bringing in a parallel story, from the present time period, that was hard to connect with. The fight scenes looked excellent considering this movie was supposedly made with only 3.5 million. But they were not enough to save Jade Warrior from it's bland characters.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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Antti-Jussi Annila es un joven director finlandés, frikón de los buenos según parece: con decir que su trabajo de fin de carrera en la Escuela de Cine versaba sobre el cine de acción de Hong Kong... La incógnita, pues, sería la siguiente: ¿qué clase de película puede hacer un director finlandés aficionado a John Woo y al [i]wuxia[/i]? Pues está claro que sólo había tres posibilidades: o una comedia autóctona protagonizada por [i]frikis [/i]como él (al estilo del gran Álex de la Iglesia); o una película de acción con palomas, ensaladas de tiros y melancolía nórdica; o bien una película de artes marciales con protagonista rubio. El caso ha resultado ser este último, como ya se habrán supuesto los lectores avispados al ver el título. [i]Jade Warrior[/i] supone el primer caso de coproducción chino-finlandesa de la historia, y también es la primera película del país escandinavo en estrenarse en China. El susodicho guerrero de jade es un joven de la Finlandia actual que se ve metido en un embrollo con artefactos milenarios de por medio, maldiciones intemporales y antepasados que pegaban patadas de órdago.
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[i]Finland, Finland, Finland[/i]
[i]The country where I want to be[/i]
LADO BUENO: Merece la pena ver [i]Jade Warrior [/i]por el mero hecho de tratarse de una película de artes marciales finlandesa. Una frikada de ese calibre no puede quedarse en el tintero. Además, los actores son apañados, en particular un inquietante Markku Peltola (el hombre sin pasado de aquella película de Kaurismäki), que experimenta un cambio decisivo a mitad de metraje y lo resuelve con oficio. Las escenas de acción, aunque no aportan gran cosa al repertorio clásico del [i]wuxia[/i], incluyen algún que otro plano destacable, y no se eternizan.
LADO MALO: Ya sé que se trata de una simple fantasía y tal, pero lo siento, la coherencia narrativa también es requisito necesario de las películas fantásticas. Si acaso más en este caso, de hecho, porque la fantasía requiere unas reglas internas férreas que construyan un mundo independiente de la realidad pero que no repugne a nuestro entendimiento básico. [i]Jade Warrior[/i] tiene tanta paja que se vuelve abstrusa y difícil de seguir; pecado mortal para el cine de acción, como ya demostraron los hermanos Wachowski.
EN TRES (3) PALABRAS: Pasable [i]wuxia[/i] europeo.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/12/23
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[center][size=4][b]Jade Warrior[/b][/size] a.k.a.
[size=4][b]Jadesoturi (2006)
[/b][/size][left][img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/tomatoes/fresh.gif[/img] "Jadesoturi" is a mixture of the Finnish saga, called Kalavala and Chinese kung fu mythology. Here we have two films with parallel plots and casts, one set in ancient China and one in a sort of modern Finland, where most of the action is divided between a junk shop, a museum and a subterranean forge. Only Tommi Eronen, who plays both protagonists, Kai and Sintai, appears in both parts.
However, the structure of the film is quite annoying. The interleaving of the past and present scenes might seem attractive artistically, but really confusing for movie watchers. Such a way of rolling out the whole story makes it hard to understand the causal relations between some of the story elements.
Zhang Jingchu's and Markku Peltola's performances were good, and the acting from the rest of the cast was let's say...decent.
As for the cinematography, I would say it's just OK. It was neither impressive, nor bad. The fight scenes were somewhat of a disappointment; They were beautifully-shot, but also they looked rather like a dancing moves, than an actual fights.
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02/06/23
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