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Seven Swordsmen: The Complete Uncut Series
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List Price: $59.95
Our Price: $49.99
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Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Starring: Seven Swordsment
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0312717371015
Format: Color
Label: Tai Seng
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tai Seng
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-07-25
Running Time: 1755
Studio: Tai Seng
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Summary: beware of english subtitles
Comment: Poor translation into english. Too often I had to pause the dvd to make sense of the subtitles.
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Summary: No Ending
Comment: No ending! A decent example of its genre, up to the end of episode 39 which ends in a cliffhanger. Then, no episode 40! The last few episodes were stuck repeating the same themes, as though the screenwriters were trying to stretch out the series. The movie version is nearly as satisfying and has an ending, if not a final conclusion.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Noooo!!! This series is NOT complete!
Comment: I persistantly watched 39 episodes of chinese drama (over 30 hours) and felt very disappointed and frustrated... NOoooo!!!! Where is the ending to the series!! (Arrrrr!!! after all that time I spent watching all the dragging episodes!)
Btw...
The action and the plot of the story is quite interesting. I must agree with the other reviewers that the story sometimes really drag. In addition, the maudlin and sentimental melodrama can be a bit tooo much.
Definitely worth watching once, but beware.... The series is not complete yet. You will probably wait (I don't know how long) for a part 2 for the series.
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Summary: 'Seven Bores of Mt. Tien'
Comment: As a fan of wuxia and martial arts films, I was completely disappointed by this sophomoric adaptation of the Yusheng Liang novel. Despite its attempts to be a grandiose, momentuous saga, 'Seven Swordsmen' is dull, drawn-out, and full of contrived subplots and romances.
The main storyline is decent but takes too long to accumulate much interest or excitement. None of the characters are particularly likeable or charismatic, and most of the women are downright pathetic. Yufang and Green Pearl, for example, constantly have to be rescued by men, and Yufang spends at least 3 episodes fainting and crying over the man she's in love with. On a related note, Green Pearl has reddish-brown hair and looks more like Tila Tequila than a woman from 17th-century China. Way to be authentic there, casting department.
Finally, the fighting. A tv series based on seven swordsmen should have decent, if not slick and impressive, fighting scenes. Instead, we get the typical dizzying camera work accompanied by dated, super-cheesy special effects like flying and glowing swords. Acceptable in the 80's but not so much in a 2005 epic about 'masterful swordplay.'
Overall, 'Seven Swordsmen' suffers from lousy execution, and the few redeeming factors (it has a good premise and some interesting moments, plus the casting of Ray Lui and Ada Choi) aren't quite redeeming enough.
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Summary: Great series, amazing song!
Comment: I watched the series on TV, Zhao and Ada Choi are great here....
For Amber below, what do you mean there's no ending? is the LAST EPISODE missing?! Can other people here confirm this?? it should be vol. 1-39.
Amber, would you like me to tell you the ending? :)
Also the language better be MANDARIN, it says Cantonese here!
Part 2 of the series is another 35 episodes I believe.
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