walken_on_sunshine Zu Warriors most definitely should've been an animated series because as a movie it's like watching an old anime on acid.The movie just starts out of nowhere and people just fly around fighting with metal wings and other stupid weapons until this princess sacrifices herself for her lover on a cloud or something.Whether this princess is a god or an angel is beyond me but soon enough this flying wind bad guy comes in and kills her while the guy with the razor wings fights some other mystical God /Demon/Wizard thing.The plot line is either not there or extremely hard to follow you need to be insanely intelligent to get this movie.The plot soon follows this Chinese mortal who is called upon by this god to fight the evil flying,princess killing bad guy and soon we have a very badly choreographed Uwe Boll like fight scene complete with terrible martial arts on a mountain or something.Even the visuals are weird some might say they are stunning and colorful but i'm going to say they are blurry and acid trip like (yes that's a word!).I watched it both dubbed and with subtitles and both were equally bad and hard to understand....who am i kidding i didn't understand it at all.It felt like i was watching episode 30 of some 1980's anime and completely missed how the story began or like i started reading a comic series of 5 at number 4 because i had no clue how this thing started where it was going or how it would end i was lost the entire time.I can honestly say this was one of the worst film experiences ever it was like watching Inu-Yasha at episode 134 drunk...yeah that's right you don't know what the hell is going on.Don't waste your brain trying to figure this out.

yuval bursztien This movie is really bad, trust me and don't waste your time or money on this, it not good even to just pass time because it takes a large amount of brain cells to remember all the ridicules plot.I very like the far-east cinema, i like Ang Lee, Takashi Miike, Takashi Kitano, Wong Kar-Wai, Kim Ki-Duk, etc., but this movie was just plain bad.Bad acting, ridicules plot, and a substantial amount of cheap effects. The plot of the movie is taking place in a fiction place called Zu mountain, which is like the Olympus but its for Japanese gods, one of the gods live on this mountain wants to kill all the others and take control over the world (aint it sound like power rangers or something like that), few of the gods resist and fighting him, and that is about what you can say about the plot all the rest is just cheap philosophy which doesn't make sense.

Dangerous_Lee_Handsome When I heard a couple of years back that Tsui Hark would be doing a "remake" of his own FX laden 80's classic "Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain", I jumped up with joy! I was even happier to hear that the fight choreographer would be none other than the master himself, Yuen Wo-Ping. That was in 2001. Fast forward to 2005: The film had yet to be released. Tired of waiting I resort to ordering an imported Hong Kong DVD, which was very good quality. I had really high expectations for this film considering that the trailer looked so bad-ass. Sometimes you see a trailer for a movie but the movie fails to deliver what the trailer sold you. This movie is the ultimate example of that. It was a mess! Right from the get-go, I was lost. The plot (if there was one) is never made clear. None of the characters get a chance to develop and some have no place in the story. Usually, special effects are used to help tell the story. But that couldn't be further from the truth, at least not in this film. The FX here only obscure the already complicated, sometimes incoherent plot making it impossible to follow. It's definitely a feast for the eyes, but one might go blind after sitting through this movie. Further fueling my disappointment is the fact that there is only one (1) measly fight scene throughout the entire 104 minutes (or 77 min. if you're watching the Miramax cut). It's really a shame considering the original 1983 film was made for around US$30,000, (compared to US$20 million) yet it offers everything this film lacked: story, characters, action and loads of fun. For the way they've mistreated Asian films in the past, I was pretty hostile towards Miramax for shelving this film. But now when I look back, they might have actually done the right thing.

the_negotiator-1 This Tsui Hark film also seems to get a verbal beating...naturally we can all waste our time banging on about opinions etc...but I was truly astounded after seeing this film...perhaps it is because I'm a Tsui Hark mentalist but this film was nuts on so many levels, so much visual stuff was happening all the time that it really makes you wonder just how someone directs a film like this...I mean compare this to The Phantom Menace which I believe came out about the same time and Legend of Zu beats it hands down...perhaps it is too much for most viewers which is perhaps why Miramax(?) did not give it a general release in the states which I think would have then given it the chance to at least show in SOME cinemas here in the UK...in any case, I liked it and if you have been hearing / reading negative reviews and have not seen it - give it a chance!