Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Inspired by the mysterious killing that stand in her way to power, Wu Zietan, the first empress of China, who faces many opponents who commit horrible crimes to prevent her coming to power, the thing that leads her to ask for help from her best friend, who asks for help from an old wise detective Dee, who sets him free from prison for that purpose.
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8 December 1964, Suzhou, China
27 September 1961, Tai Po, Hong Kong
17 December 1939, Guangdong, China
8 February 1979, Jiangxi, China
9 July 1976, Xiantao, Hubei, China
October 10, 2015
If you're looking for a popcorn movie, producer-director Tsui has crafted an absurdist fantasy that might cure -- or spontaneously combust -- the summertime blues. But even escapist entertainment can have interesting angles.
November 17, 2011
The game's afoot, and the foot knows kung fu.
September 23, 2011
Detective Dee is the action flick of the year, a two-hour epic that blows the Pirates of the Caribbean to the Bermuda Triangle.
October 13, 2011
In their best moments, Hark's action movies have a what-did-I-just-see giddiness, as if their choreography were springing straight from a cartoon id.
September 22, 2011
Three decades into his career, Tsui Hark stands as one of the movies' great entertainers, displaying a dancer's sense of rhythm and movement and manipulating physical space with an abandon worthy of Chuck Jones.
September 26, 2011
By the end, with the running time pushing past the two-hour mark, it's reasonable to ask: Just who are these people?
September 22, 2011
A colourful carnival of relentless action and artful images.
September 23, 2011
"Dee" doesn't shoot for the gravitas of Zhang Yimou's "Hero." It doesn't approach that film's magnificent sensory impact, either, or the artistic romanticism that made "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" such a success here.
October 07, 2015
What's tragic about "Detective Dee" is the fact that it rapes a chapter of Chinese history beyond any semblance of reality.
October 09, 2011
The film's visual style is at times so dense it simply overwhelms (ditto the plot).
September 29, 2011
It is a peculiar conflation of history -- there really was an Empress Wu -- and pure cinematic fantasy.
October 20, 2011
There is nothing wrong with its reach, but its grasp of genre elements is random.
