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Savior
Of The Soul
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Country
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Hong
Kong |
| Year: |
1991 |
| Genre: |
Swordplay
/ Fantasy |
| Format: |
DVD |
| Running
Time: |
1H38 |
| Distributor: |
Universe
Laser & Video CO. |
| Date
reviewed: |
03/25/2000 |
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| Producer: |
David
Lai, Chan Pui Wah |
| Director: |
David
Lai, Corey Yen |
Cast: Anita Mui, Andy Lau, Aaron
Kwok, Carina Lau, Josephine Siao, Kenny Bee, Corey Yen,
Gloria Yip |
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Story:
A villain called Silver Fox must hunt down a lady called
May, she caused his master to go blind and it was his
last wish to finally have revenge. May is a city soldier
along with Ching and Yin Sheng, Ching is in love with
her. While waiting for Yin Sheng's sister Silver Fox
makes his attack, they manage to make him flee but Yin
Sheng looses his life in the process. May goes into
hiding and to make sure Ching does not follow her, she
says she was going to marry Yin Sheng. A years passes
till Ching finds out where May is but Silver Fox finds
out too, now they must defeat him or be destroyed.
Review: This is a fantasy swordplay movie
based in modern times which sets it aside from most
other swordplay movies. Along with swords and special
powers you have guns adding a different feel. It is
hard to situate the time or location where the movie
is taking place. There are many situations where there
is information lacking in the film and for that reason
we believe this film might be based on a comic book,
manga or something like that. Because if the audience
who are familiar of where it is coming from would
know the answer missing info in the film. The story
is very strangely put together, there is large gaps
between scenes that makes you wonder but near the
end it all makes sense. In essence it is a tale of
revenge and lost love.
There characters were without personality, some
of them were just plain annoying like May's sister.
The only interesting looking character is Silver Fox
as he is a powerful villain. Ching reminded us of
City Hunter as for Yin Sheng well he gets wasted right
in the beginning. They weren't bad actors or anything
but did not have any special or interesting about
them.
Action is the only thing going for this movie. The
fight are decent and keep on getting better till the
middle of the film (the big fight between Silver Fox
and Ching) after that it goes downwards as cheesy
effects become more dominant. The best fight in the
movie was the one in the middle, the swordplay was
very nice. Traditionally in Kung Fu and Swordplay
movies the best fight is always saved for last, that
was not the case in this movie. At the end of the
movie we were disappointed by the ending, but there
is a sequel so the story might continue there but
we don't know.
The subtitles were excellent, but what else can you
expect with a DVD. This movie could have been done
much better, maybe it had a low budget and was not
able to fulfill its potential. Its a decent action
movie but don't expect anything special. Its not a
movie you'll watch several times but you never know,
this movie might appeal to certain people but not
to us.
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DVD
[ NTSC, All Region
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The widescreen image quality was excellent, and the
Dolby Digital Mono sound was not that bad too. For
the extra you have a filmographies and 3 trailers
(A Moment of Romance II, Wonder Seven and The Last
Blood).
Reviewed
by Peter Zsurka
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Cast |
Entertainment |
Subtitles |
Overall |
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2.5 |
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