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House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray]
House of Flying Daggers [Blu-ray]
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4.0 (326 reviews)
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2Caution: Beware of the Bluray version - poor video transfer
21%Bad Transfer to Blu Ray
5house of flying dagger's review
4A must to have on Blu-ray
30%House of the funny monkeys
21%Flying Daggers - Really, REALLY Bad Bluray Xfer!
31%Sony fails to deliver on Blu-Ray promise
5A Sound Effect Gem
5Phenomenal Story, Beautifully Told
5Gorgeous, Wild, Hot Chicks.
40%Exquisite cinematic beauty, outstanding directing!!!
50%A Beautiful Film
50%House of Flying Daggers
31%The film is enjoyable, but the Blu-Ray transfer is worthless
50%great
50%the film is Excellent!!
41%Classic!
51%Beautiful and Moving
51%Love Never Was Easy to Hold...
11%Horrible picture quality for a Blu-ray
11%Do Not Buy the Current Blu-ray !!!
41%This movie is worth it for the Dance Scene
51%WOW!!!
11%Poor HD transfer
11%Sony needs to remaster
11%DVD or blu ray?
5excellent movie
5House of flying daggers
5Beautiful Cinematography, Choreography, and a great story!
51%What is the depth of beauty?
3Visually Stunning
5Very sharp
51%Breathtaking!
5This is a well made movie recommended for mature audiences
31%A bit disappointing, but good action
41%Laws were meant to be broken (including the laws of physics)
51%Gorgeous cast, beautiful production
11%If you have the DVD, don't buy the Blue-ray: Terrible image quality!!!!
20%The House of Flying Chaos.......
31%Beautifully styled film that makes up for what it lacks in breathtaking visuals...
51%Misleading criticism...
41%Excellent story, stunning visuals, powerful and engaging
21%Poor Blu-Ray Transfer
20%Beautifully composed trifle
11%Terrible image transfer quality. Don't purchase.
51%The Best Films Being Made Today
30%Mixed
21%This HD sux
51%Incredible
51%Chinese art
51%Emotional, Powerful and absolutely Stunning
40%A work of art
51%If You Liked Crouching Tiger and/or Hero...
41%An unexpected love story
30%Vividly Colored Drama
31%Good movie, but bad quality transfer
51%Masterwork
41%House of Flying Daggers
41%Loved the landscape, not the story
51%Beautiful Film
51%EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS!
51%Great picture quality
51%Amazing Blu-ray
51%incredible
41%House of Flying Daggers...
41%A Martial Arts Love Story: And A Beautiful Visual Feast!
11%Very unpleasant to watch...
11%If you have the DVD, don't bother with the Blu-Ray
20%Lovely film undone by an overwrought ending
11%I was very disappointed
31%This is HD (720P) not Full HD (1080P)
51%super
51%I'm hard pressed to find things about this film I didnt like....
41%Visual splendour highlights martial arts-lovetriangle plot
4The First Time This Was 5 Stars
41%Excellent job from Zhang Yimou.
50%great quality
51%Colorful
2Too much greenery. Not enough story.
51%Intriguing Beautiful Love Amidst Clandestine Operations/War
51%Blu-ray disc rich in color and clarity
51%Epic
30%Could Of Been Sharper
41%Emotion!
51%Be sure to see the great supplemental features on the DVD version!
51%A classic in its own right
51%Beautiful!
20%Not pure enough.
30%Lower Caliber Asian Martial Arts Movie
41%Beautiful.
41%Much better the 2nd time around
51%I think this is the BEST movie ever.
51%Great! Better than CTHD
20%Very beautiful and well produced, but that's it
20%visually stunning but seriously flawed
51%Like Crouching dragon this movie is another Greek tragedy
21%Martial "Arts" are now better known as Martial "Effects"
51%Awesome cinematography!
41%Another spectacular period Chinese film
30%mediocre movie
51%tragic and sad
50%One of my favorite movies of all time
5Visually Stunning..
4a beautiful movie that is high on drama and even higher on action
51%Fantastic Movie
51%House of Flying Daggers-A wonder mythical love story
51%Awesome Movie!
20%Major disappointment after "Hero"
51%Sacrifice and bliss!
50%A notch bellow Crouching Tiger
51%A Beautiful Cinematic Film
41%Beautiful special effects and a great story....
41%Good movie
10%Another flashy but dreary downer of a martial arts movie
51%one of the most visually rich/amazing/beautiful films ever made
4Kinda feels like Hero part 2 sometimes
41%Overall Not as good as Hero but..
41%If nothing else, watch this movie for the 'Echo Game' scene...
51%Better than Crouching Tiger!
21%From another Chinese viewer...
4An Asian love story
21%Actually, quite a let-down
41%Way Underrated
51%Breathtaking and Quite Deadly Beauty
50%This is trash
30%Flawed - sadly, less than the sum of its parts.
51%"Do not fall in love with her..."
51%A Mythic Tragedy
10%disappointing
51%Double pleasure
51%"To Be Free Like the Wind"
20%Just so-so
41%Gorgeous, romantic, tragic
20%Quality belows average
41%Wildly Entertaining!
41%Making the world a smaller place
21%pretty and vapid
5A Good Mix of Martial Arts and Love
10%One of the worst ever
41%Worth the purchase
51%Poetry in motion...
31%A Disappointment
51%I have no words (ok, maybe a few!)
51%A Must Own Epoch Love Story
51%A pagementary of color, skill and story
51%Trapped in the Perpetual Wars, some want out
51%Fantastic.....
51%House of Flying Daggers
51%House of Flying Daggers does not dissapoint.
40%Don't take it seriously
40%HISTORIA DE AMOR
4Very good
10%Melodramatic and animal cruelty.
51%BEAUTIFUL Fights (?), Scenery, Costumes! Likeable Acting! Plot Twists!
51%Zhang YImou evolving the art of cinema
51%house of amazing daggers
51%Absolutely gorgeous!
41%Something missing
20%Overcooked and burning
41%beautiful
41%Great, but not as epic as 'Hero'
31%More "Feelings" than "Kung Fu Fighting"
41%first the color then the plot
51%Hopeless Romantic
41%Another great Chinese fairy tale for the Western viewer
50%Iluvatar01's review contradicts itself.
31%House Falls Short of Hero's Grandeur
10%Horrid, Absolutely Horrid
51%Amazing scenery and great acting
31%Very sophisticated acting, gorgeous movie, really lame soap opera plots
51%Majestic
10%Beautiful But Stupid
50%Beautiful but Frustrating
51%"I warn you, don't fall for her"
41%House of Flying Daggers
41%Better than most of what comes from Hollywood!
50%GREAT MOVIE
51%Absolutely the Best Martial Arts Film I have Seen!
41%a solid martial arts film
51%A Breathtaking Knockout of a Movie
4House of Flying Daggers
51%House of Flying Colors
51%Fantastic action scenes and beautiful colors and scenery
10%DO NOT buy this crap!
41%Technically breathtaking, but left this viewer a little cold
50%Super Cool Movie!!!
41%Great cinematography, weak story
50%stunning
20%This is no Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
41%In this director's hands, martial arts seem like a dance
41%Colorful, artsy and good twists
51%WOW!!!
31%What a waste of potential
51%It's a great movie, forget about the "purists"
10%Dissapointing
41%entertaining. however, not the best
50%Absolutely gorgeous!
10%One of the dumbest movies of all time
41%More art house fare than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
51%Visual Treat
31%Not a 'Hero' quality story but worth a watch
41%Beautiful and well acted with un-needed plot twists
30%"Romeo & Juliet" meets "Kung Fu Theatre"?
41%A martial arts flick with heart
20%The "Sound of Music" With Swords
30%Good, but:
51%Another Fantastic Martial Arts Film by Yimou Zhang
41%House of Flying Daggers
40%Much better than "Hero"
41%The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
5House of Flying Daggers soars over your highest expectations
21%A feast for the eyes but.....
41%Nice DVD but movie was edited
51%A Good Home Theater Test Disc
41%Most fantastic of all
51%awesome movie
51%Outstanding in every respect
51%Rousing Entertainment
40%Good movie
40%Moderately impressive...
51%Yimou Zhang makes a film even more beautiful than "Hero"
30%Beautiful but inconsistent and illogical
51%True Classic to Buy and Treasure
21%Not as grand as you might think
51%Love or Loyalty
51%Zhang Yimou's 2nd Stunning Foray into Martial Arts Cinema.
40%Better then HERO!!
51%Visual Splendor for a Touching Romance
30%Martial arts should enhance story not otherwise!
41%"I want to be like the wind"
51%It's a great film.....stop crying, you purists!
20%Disappointing
51%great movie!
31%Romeo and Juliet with Kung Fu
51%"House Of Flying Daggers" is brilliant!
51%Gorgeous film
20%a joke?
41%Very entertaining
41%Stunning and Melodramatic
20%What?!! Not DEAD yet?!
41%Sharp images
41%artistic
41%understand the genre
20%Disappointing and lacking soul
51%Bought the Import DVD last year....
51%BRILLIANT, EYE-POPPING EPIC
41%Colorful "Daggers"
51%Sumptuous thrills
20%Wow!
20%Dissapointing
51%A Flying Masterpiece, A Beautiful Love Story.
41%House of crouching heroes.....
51%Holy crap!
51%The best film seen
51%Beautifully acted, filmed martial arts epic
20%House of Flying Baloney
51%GREAT MOVIE,JUST LIKE THE "HERO"
51%WOW
10%Nice scenery, silly story
41%Immaculate Conception
51%House of flying daggers soars
51%must see!
51%Flying deep into my heart.
51%Give Me More
51%Incredibly amazing
41%House Of Flying Daggers is an amazing piece of work
51%THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE
51%A director's perspective
5"To be free ... like the wind."
10%utterly disappointing...Zhang Yi Mo what were you thinking?
4Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee
30%Communism in disguise
40%Great....but not as good as Hero
40%good until the last five minutes
30%Visually fantastic...but....
51%WOW
51%My 2 cents
40%not bad but still got some fatal shortcomings
41%Being torn two ways...
51%Best Movie of 2004
41%House of Flying Daggers: A Kung Fu Date Movie?!?
51%A necessary supplement to Hero
40%Glad to see Takeshi Kaneshiro again
30%House of Exhausted Ideas
41%A visual feast like LOTR and "Hero" but a personal melodrama
30%Not bad, but also not sincerely made
41%Exciting and visually appealing
20%Disappointing
51%Everything to look for in a great movie.
51%What an amazing movie! Absolutely breathtaking.
10%Another nail in the coffin of true kung fu films............
51%Ziyi Zhang...not your ordinary actress
41%visually stunning and tragedy on a shakespearean level
40%There is a beauty in the north
41%Enthralling, absolutely beautiful
51%Splendid Chinese romance one of year's best films
41%actually 3.5 stars because of holes
51%and the Best Picture Oscar should go here
20%Beautiful and Glorious Mess for Yimou
4A Stab Short of Perfection
40%Decent film, but not outstanding.
31%Daggers flying at the wrong direction.
51%HOFD - Visually Stunning!
51%beautiful-
31%Good Film, But Disappointing...
51%Be Still My Beating Heart
51%Artistic & breathtaking
20%hmm. really now.
41%Visual eye candy
30%Ooooh--wow! Look at all them flying objects!!
31%Opinion of a Chinese Viewer.....
31%A Stylish Bodice-Ripper, but a Thin Story Line
30%A fine film with a few flaws
41%Star-crossed lovers dodge sharp, pointy objects
51%Great filmmaking on an epic scale
30%Beautifully made, yet such a letdown
51%A Kaleidoscope of Colors in Wonderful Love Story...
30%Definitely go see it, but don't expect much
50%Poor story, but beautifully made
31%CLASSY VISUALS & FABULOUS COMBAT FRITTERED ON DRAB SCRIPT
20%Overly Melodramatic
30%Good Fight scenes
51%More Romance Than 'Hero' and More Beauty of Zhang Ziyi
41%Ambush from ten directions
50%the best action movie
41%Visually Stunning Candy for the Eyes
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