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Andrew LauCâmara:
Edmond FungMúsica:
Kwong-Wing ChanElenco:
Xiaoming Huang, Shawn Yue, Yu-Chun Li, Vivien Li, Jimmy Wang Yu, Wen Zhang, Andrew Lau, Boran Jing, Ethan Juan, Denise Ho, Shih-Chieh Chin, Gabrielle Guang (mais)Sinopses(1)
During the Manchurian-ruled Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yong Zheng established a secret assassination squad known as the Guillotines to eliminate all who opposed him. Once heavily favored by the Emperor, the Guillotines are deemed expendable once Emperor Qian Long ascends to the throne and adopts Western ideas and technology. To consolidate his power under a new regime, the Emperor continues to use the Guillotines to persecute the conquered Han Chinese in a reign of terror and oppression.
Led by master fighter Leng, the top ranked guillotine squad consists of five young warriors: Mu, San, Tai, Hutu, Buka. Serving the Qing Court unquestioningly, they have never failed in 348 missions to eliminate their targets. But their success has made them arrogant and complacent.
Their next mission is to eliminate Wolf and his Shepherd gang. During the operation, the squad manages to trap Wolf. Just as they are about to execute him, the squad commander orders that he be captured alive. He secretly plans to use Wolf as a pawn in his bid for power. Wolf's gang of rebels ambushes the Guillotines in their moment of hesitation. Wolf escapes, taking Mu hostage.
With reports that Wolf has fled to the outer frontiers, the squad tracks him to a remote village outpost. On the other hand, the Emperor has sent his most trusted agent Du for the same mission and most importantly, to end the era of the Guillotines by replacing cold weapons with firearms. If only they make one false move, they will become the hunted. Facing annihilation, Leng and his Guillotines must outfight and outwit enemies from both sides.
(Well Go USA Entertainment)
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A Chinese Jesus and his disciples versus a hypocritical emperor and his rapid response unit with flying guillotines, which is to say that everything is wrong with this. The makers of this hopeless would-be epic perhaps wanted to create a lavish clone of Jason Bourne and Zhang Yimou’s Hero, but not even the film’s extravagant budget can cover up the imbecility and misguidedness of the project. What most hinders The Guillotines is how the film’s comic-bookishly exaggerated premise develops into an absurdly overwrought and overly serious narrative that says nothing and only attacks viewers with feverish pathos and faltering fatefulness. Though all of the conflicts and twists are transparent from the beginning of the film, the narrative tries to disguise them with an incredibly complicated exposition. On top of that, the film lacks any spatial or logical causality, instead giving priority to superficial spectacle. The climax is a matter of phantasmagorically unhinged internal anti-logic, which comes across as almost caustic (at least from a European perspective that gives preference to individuality). Let’s just say that thousands of people die in the film only so that a handful of tough guys can realise that they are on the wrong side, after which thousands more people, including those tough guys, die so that someone else can realise their error. And while all of this is going on, the killing of one character by another is postponed only so the target in question voluntarily gets killed simply as a gesture of pathos after the mounds of corpses have been levelled. And that’s not to mention the absolutely needless 3D, which doesn’t come through in the film at all and is thus just an artificial means of attracting viewers to the cinema and forcing them to pay more. In the film’s extremely short and usually close-up shots with the camera movement, there is no space left to accentuate the 3D effect.
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