It’s a funny toy, one of those films you know, that are just big toys, if you’re in the mood they can be fun to watch, at least once, but it’s not something you want to keep or are eager to rewatch.
It has a lot of effects, a lot of action, and some funny moments, sometimes intentionally sometimes maybe not, but still. This is the third of the Detective Dee that I know of.
Plot: Di Renjie has been given the Dragon Taming Mace and the Empress starts saying that it was a bad move to give it to him because if he were to rebel nobody would be able to stop him... so she hires a bunch of shady figures to take it back. They also try to kill Dee, and Yuchi is not too happy with this: he wants to follow the imperial orders but not to kill his friend.
Actually, she doesn’t know but she’s being manipulated, she’s only a distraction; a rancorous tribe wants to kill the emperor and destroy his dynasty because their people had been almost annihilated and he has a lot of hate.
The bunch of shady figures: a guy whose talent seems to disappear by taking off a layer of clothes, an illusionist (and you can clearly see that there’s someone hidden behind who provides the third and fourth arms :lol: ), a little old sorceress , and a young female assassin, 水 月 ， (the best part of the movie :D )
The mace can dissolve any illusion, (so it’s not clear why he doesn’t use it more often against them, he seems to think that it’s dangerous but it seems more dangerous not to use it sometimes... ). He asks the help of the only disciple of a great master now dead, but he can only arrive for the final battle. The assassin is badly injured by the villainous tribe (why do they want to kill her? It’s not like at this point she’s on the emperor/Dee side, so why? ) but Dee’s second saves her (what’s his name again? I guess someone said it but I don’t remember.. but judging by the pictures on IMDB I’d say Shatuo Zhong, or most probably the other way around, anyway, him), so later on she repays the debt helping them.
Personally, she’s what I liked the most of this film; she was nice and her scenes were good. I liked the scenes where she cries, once alone after he saved her, and I laughed out loud when she was sort of recruited but they pretended to arrest her first, maybe to test if they could trust her or not, and when she realised the truth, she jumped on Shatuo and started beating him up :lol: funny scene :lol: it was very nice when Dee and the whole department bowed to her, very well done man, and so funny when she got angry :p
Anyway, she travels in search of the Master and brings him to help them. Luckily for all, since it was going rather badly :p The villain was defeating them with his illusions, the master came on his giant white ape and defeated him. After it’s all finished, the ape roars and everyone outside understands the battle is over (how? who told them that was the meaning of it?) and the emperor says to his wife that they can ‘go home’, and it’s the end.
The Dee character is a little plain for my taste. Yuchi was played by Feng Shaofeng, the same one that played KaSuo in Ice Fantasy; he is very handsome, can’t say he isn’t, he is indeed, and at least in this film his face has no less than two expressions, so I’d call that an improvement.
The assassin ShuiYue was played by Ma Sichun, I don’t know her but I liked her enough.
The empress’s actress was not bad at all, I think she’s called Lau Carina.
ITA Detective Dee e i quattro re celesti
ITA Detective Dee e i quattro re celesti
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