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Better Late Then Never

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Musa a.k.a The Warrior is a real-life epic that featured by Jung Woo- sung, Joo Jin-mo, Ahn Sung-ki and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi.It was written and directed by Kim Sung-su.The film is set in 1375 when the Yuan dynasty collapses after a 100-year reign against the insurgent Ming. As the Ming dynasty solidifies power pushing the remaining Yuan armies to the north and west, Koryo sends a delegation of diplomats to shore up their strained relations with the new government. Upon arrival the lead diplomat is thrown in jail and the rest are exiled to the dusty hinterland for spying. There, the party is ambushed by Yuan soldiers. The survivors are led by General Choi Jung and a bodyguard slave of another fallen general, Yeo-sol. After facing all sorts of adversities, the group make it to a remote country inn where they learn that the beautiful Ming princess Furong has been kidnapped. When Yeo-sol gets abducted by the same band of Yuan thugs, Choi Jung resolves to free them both. Fleeing from the same Yuan army, the Koryo warriors with Furong in tow learn that the Yuan has burned all ferryboats in the Yellow River valley. When they happen upon a group of Ming refugees, Furong promises them supplies and safe passage home if they escort the refugees to the Mud Castle upriver. The castle, however, proves to be in ruins and the Yuan are closing in.This is an excellent movie as it combines gorgeous cinematography, complex historical politics, and joltingly bloody action sequences to create a sweeping historical spectacular.The battle scenes deliver some visceral thrills.While the violence is graphic but grippingly choreographed. It is a good Korean-Chinese action movie but not great. Nevertheless,it greatly entertains that is why it is highly recommended.

1375. Nine Koryo knights are stranded in the middle of nowhere after a disastrous diplomatic mission. They have dozens of regular people along with them, and they need to get back home, through an andless desert. Peril and strife follow them all along the way, as they get to know each other. Then a woman appears.Aesthetically the movie is superb. All of the sets are created perfectly, the costumes are exquisite and the camera-work spot on. As is to be expected of modern korean drama, the actors portray heavy emotion and the plot is often melodramatic. Each one of the many characters is a metaphor representing something much larger than itself, often in satire of contemporary society. The storyline as a whole is an adaptation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, with many parallels between personae between the two. See for yourself to decide who you think is who. Can you guess Teiresias?

Epic battle scenes, remarkable backdrops and scenery, excellent cinematography and photography. This movie is beautiful to look at. Even the gruesome battle scenes are poetry in motion. Whomever is in charge of filming this deserves attention.The acting is pretty good by the principals. Sung-Kee Ahn was very good at his portrayal of the Sergeant who takes on a more prominent role as the movie progresses. The movie seems to shift is focus from the general, to the slave, to the sergeant. Zhang Ziyi plays the princess but her range seems more limited here (in one of her early roles) compared to now. It's actually quite surprising because I thought she did an excellent job in "The Road Home" which was her first major film. Perhaps here she didn't have as much to work with?9/10Story wasn't too complicated but the character development is interesting. The battles were amazing. And the scenery, choice of camera angles, and lighting were all impressive.

Big budget Asian films are becoming synonymous with tragedy. I've seen Crouching Tiger, Hero, Fearless, Shinobi (actually Japanese), and now Musa the Warrior, and they all have one thing in common: the hero dies. These movies are very much contrary to the American ideology that has been propagated in the cinemas for years; that of the hero saving the day, getting the girl, and oh yeah... living. Don't get me wrong, I admired the non-Kung Fu Chinese movies, and Musa the Warrior can be added to my list of likables.The movie had a good story, but even more so it had some very interesting characters. When I say interesting, they were characters that you could form a concrete opinion about. Either you loved them or you hated them. And yet again Ziyi Zhang (Crouching Tiger, Rush Hour 2, Hero, & Memoirs of a Geisha) is in another movie. She plays a princess in this movie, and if being a princess means being pampered, bratty and annoying, then she hit the nail on the head.Along with the story, the movie featured some good, if not gory battle scenes. There was plenty of blood shed, loss of limbs, and otherwise less than sexy means of being killed. But it portrayed one thing well: war isn't pretty. I took exception to the length of the battle scenes though. Even if battles do take that long, they should have adapted them for theater. At times it was also difficult to keep up with who was who in those battle scenes. Besides being a little lost during some of the early battle scenes, I was a bit lost during their journey. I'm not familiar with China at all, so it would have been much more helpful if there was a caption to tell the audience where they were a different times.The negatives still were not nearly as bad as the positives of this movie were good. I hate to say that I somewhat expected many people to die, and even though I wasn't quite sure if Yeo sol would be killed, I wasn't the least bit surprised. His death was a noble one and that was to be expected. One of these days a Chinese movie is going to have to end with someone dying of old age.