Synopsis
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
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Cast
- Gong LiLady Zhao
- Zhang FengyiJing Ke
- Li XuejianYing Zheng
- Zhiwen WangMarquis Changxin
- Sun ZhouPrince Yan Dan
- Chen KaigeLu Buwei
- Pan ChangjiangPrison Official
- Zhao BenshanGao Jianli
- Ding HaifengQin Wuyang
- Zhou XunBlind Girl
Recommendations
- 90
Washington Post
A stunner -- as big and messy as a war, as small and perfect as a diamond. - 88
New York Daily News
Based on the true story of the first emperor of unified China, could be downsized and told as an American Western. - 88
Christian Science Monitor
Has a mixture of strengths and limitations often found in historical epics: lots of eye-filling action and spectacle, little in the way of psychology or human interest. - 80
Dallas Observer
For those with a taste for epics that integrate the historical and the intimate. - 70
The New York Times
Crammed with enough melodrama to fill several soap operas. - 67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Quite long and violent enough to have made several critics squirm in their seats during a recent press screening. - 63
New York Post
Meanders along in a confused, confusing way for what feels like hours. - 60
Village Voice
Solid middlebrow entertainment, a vast period epic with an almost DeMillean taste for excess.
