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Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

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Dee Renjie enlists in the imperial police force and investigates a mysterious sea monster while weaving through imperial intrigue.
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Ard Vijn ScreenAnarchy 01/11/2020
This is silly entertainment on the grandest of scales, a Chinese counterpart to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 06/23/2014
B
A lively and lushly filmed action-packed adventure film. Go to Full Review
Simon Foster Screen-Space (Substack) 10/15/2013
Easily on par with any of the effects-laden tentpoles from the LA industry of late, Tsui Hark's finely attuned vision of epic fantasy consistently bewilders the senses. Go to Full Review
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01/20/2019 I do not understand why it has only 51% as of January 19th, 2019. I think this is a pretty cool movie. it is setup to be a mystery with Dee being a Sherlock Holmes like savant. He has the deducting abilities much like Holmes. This movie also has so great over-the-top martial arts action. A tremendous amount of fantasy elements. The story is very thin, in spite the effort to have a mystery, but it still is a very cool and fun movie. See more 10/06/2016 The best part was when all the nobles drank bowls of piss and not the giant Manta Ray. See more 10/10/2015 On a par with the film it is a prequel to. Looks good with a nice fantasy storyline. See more 10/08/2015 This film is as nuts as it sounds, it's the prequel to Detective Dee and Mystery of the Phantom Flame(you know that film)..it is ridiculous fun though especially if you like Chinese fantasy detective films with CGI Wire Fu(better than normal wire fu) and has Sea monsters in it(better than regular monsters).So if you are into Chinese fantasy detective films with CGI Wire Fu(better than normal wire fu) and has Sea monsters in it(better than regular monsters) like me, then this is for you. See more 09/27/2015 While it was better than everyone expected it to be, young detective Dee suffers from subpar acting, unrelatable characters and an overdose of terrible cgi! See more 07/26/2015 The idea of a who-done-it set in a fantasy version of historical China sounds intriguing, but I kind of hate this film. It's long, needlessly convoluted and has some of the worst CGI I have ever seen. Large sections of the film look like bad video game cut scenes. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Dee Renjie enlists in the imperial police force and investigates a mysterious sea monster while weaving through imperial intrigue.
Director
Hark Tsui
Producer
Kuo-fu Chen, Nansun Shi, Hark Tsui
Screenwriter
Kuo-fu Chen, Hark Tsui, Chia-lu Chang
Production Co
Film Workshop Ltd., Huayi Brothers Media Group
Genre
Adventure, Action, Fantasy
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 3, 2014
Runtime
2h 13m
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