Three Kingdoms 2010 (Chinese Historical Drama with English Subtitle)

Great movie. Lots of plot and sacrifices to obtain more war.

I loved this one. This one has some great action scene as well as get you to feel connected to the actors in their roles. A little bit slow about 3/4 in but it was more of story telling than action, which was good. I recommend watching if you love the Lore of the Three Kingdoms, as a reader or if you play the games based on this period events.

While I haven't watched the whole movies yet (there are 18 DVD's with five 45 minute shows) I really enjoy what I've seen so far. The overall production of the movie and the acting is excellent. My only complaint (hence the four stars) is that the English subtitles randomly have capital "N"'s in the dialogue. For example, "Nit might read like Nthis" instead of "it might read like this". This can be confusing when the "N" shows up before a Chinese name you are not familiar with or any English word starting with a vowel.If you've read the Moss Roberts unabridged translation of Three Kingdoms ([...] you'll enjoy this movie. If you haven't read the book then you should because you'll enjoy the movie even more.

It's in English. It's a good movie not super amazing... But definitely a Good movie. It's worth watching. Definitely.

I'm getting hooked on the fine movies coming out of Asia the last few years. Very engaging and fast moving. I'm a midwesterner that really appreciates the alternative view of history and the culture these new movies provide.I also appreciate that the characters are not just 2 dimensional, but are reasonably well developed - whether they're the "good guys" or the "bad guys" - and you are able to understand their motivations.Just 2 minor criticisms. 1. It takes a little while to figure out the characters initially. 2. Some of the subtitles flash by awfully quick so the pause button gets a little more use, Generally the subtitles are very well done however.

This movie just doesn't hang together. Andy Lau is solid as Zhao Zilong, and American Maggie Q actually does a really good job as a dark warrior-general. Her Wuxia vibe felt legit to me. As far as the acting itself, the whole cast was solid.The problem is with the story that's supposed to be driving the characters. It covers the span of the protagonist's life in a few disjointed chunks. We're never with the characters long enough in one time and place to truly connect. As a result, it's hard to feel the nostalgia that gets poured on thick in the next scene from a decade (or 2) down the road. And not just nostalgia - the film repeatedly prompts us to experience heavy emotions, but it hasn't done the developmental legwork, so it all falls flat and feels melodramatic.There's lots of martial action, but like the rest of the film, though competent it fails to inspire. There was potential here, but it amounts mostly to a clunky, spiritless movie.

Just finished my review for The Legend of the Shadowless Sword" which disappointed nut I recommended it for teanager, 13-17yrs....."Three Kindoms" came in the same mail and what a difference,,,glorious vistas, superb acting, and a logical story. .. the historical period in China well done ...this an "adult" video, can't go wrong showing it with friends....excellent action, respected honor between enemies and a too brief philosophical discussion of what years of constant war accomplished, these are ambitious men but they are not stupid which is the large plus for this dvd. if you already have or are just starting this is a MUST fr your Asian collection.

More & more we see great movies coming from overseas. Hollywood no longer holds sway over movie making great films are coming out of the U.K., China, Japan & other country's. Many don't even bother dubbing the movie for the benefit of English speaking audiences. This one does & it doesn't loose a lot through the dubbing process as some foreign films do. It has a lot of good action & is very entertaining. If you like sword play, martial arts & action you might want to ad this to your collection.

Fast shipper, great movie! Thanks

Compre esta pelicula esperando un resumen de la novela de Los Tres Reinos, la verdad no cubre casi nada de la novela, solamente es la historia mucho muy resumida de Zhao Yun, uno de los cinco generales Tigre de Liu Bei. La historia solo se centra en este personaje pero usa el nombre de la novela que cubre la historia de cientos de personajes, en fin, la accion es muy buena, muchos efectos y se aprecia realmente como una gran produccion por la cantidad de construcciones y extras uniformados. Vale la pena ver a Maggie Q como villana en una pelicula de accion. TIENE SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL Y AUDIO EN CHINO E INGLES.

Well, maybe not, but most of the main charactors, Liu Bei the man of virtue, Guan Yu and Zheng Fei his blood brothers, Zhuge Liang the ultimate strategist, 4 of his 5 "Tiger Generals" (Oddly, Andy Lai's character Zilong is the one who doesn't appear in the games [it's more understandable that Sammo Hung's character doesn't appear in the games, but he has a function in the film]), the villainous Cao Cao and Cao Ying (an underused Maggie Q) are all recognisably the same people as in the game series.The film concentrates on the Shu and Wei kingdoms, and ignores Wu completely. This is probably a good thing since the film covers 32 years of life in a 98 minute running time. Of course, in real life a lot of those 32 years were spent raising armies and training, rather than doing things that would film well.It does manage to convey the scope of the battles and the size of the nation, without going to the occasionally over-stylised (for my tastes) multiple angles of the same shot of Wixua offerings.If you like historic Chinese cinema, recommended.

Recommend.

its a decent film based on the 3 kingdoms era of china (yes, im gonna assume you played dynasty warriors! lol)the film is based on a guy named zilong of the shu kingdom (Zhao Yun for dynasty warriors players! lol)to be perfectly honest, it starts of great at the start bit were our main man Zhao yun actually historically did something, the bit he saved lui beis child, but the film kinda goes into fast forward mode after that, missing out all your favourite historical battles to skip to Zhao yuns main moments..... basically just the saving luis child and then skip to zhaos death! lolaside from that, it still is a decent film to watch though if your interested in Chinese movies, which is why I rated it highly for what it was at a 4, purely on the biased fact I like Chinese martial arts films...... but if you don't like Chinese martial arts films just consider this rating a 2 star :)