Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Anssi Vartiainen The biggest problem with Zu Warriors is its inability to tell a coherent story and to keep its audience captivated. The actual setting and story are both interesting enough, if you're into the fantasy martial arts genre. It has relatively few original ideas, but the basic setting of supernatural mountain clans defending their realms against an evil entity has its merits and could make for some awesome visuals and fight scenes.The problem is, half of the time I had no idea what was happening on the screen. Either this movie pulls heavily from Oriental mythology and I would have to know a lot more about the myths and legends to get the plot, or alternatively it just makes stuff up and even Asian viewers are confused. Some scenes lean more towards the former, some towards the latter. The basic problem remains that it's very confusing movie to watch. This leads the viewer to not care what's happening or to whom its happening.The special effects are also awful. And there are a lot of them. I have read that they were fairly good for their time, but they have not aged well at all.Zu Warriors has its upsides. The fight scenes, while nothing groundbreaking, are fun to follow and some of the visuals are genuinely nice. If only the plot had been a bit more coherent, or the characters more interesting, this could have been a lot better.

mitchincoo I thought I would open with the spoiler in case you were wondering which why this ultimate good vs. ultimate evil thing works out. Good wins. Now that we have that out of the way, people, get a grip. This is not the greatest fantasy martial arts movie ever made, nor is it DBZ writ large. It is a very enjoyable, typically confusing, battle of the gods. We are mortals trying to explain thunder and lighting. It's the gods battling on Zu Mountains. Get it? You want plot? Go watch Crouching Tiger. You want to understand the development of the characters or what motivates them? Don't watch kung fu movies. You want to watch a bunch of cool weapons with immortals going at it to the bitter the end and beyond? Invest and hour and a half and check it out. Oh yeah, there's a moment when it looks like evil will win but don't worry. Harmony will be restored to the universe.

maureen-is OK first of all the video looks like it was filmed in the 80s I was shocked to find out it was released in 2001. Secondly the plot was all over the place, right off the bat the story is confusing. Had there been some brief prologue or introduction the story would've been better. Also I appreciate fantasy but this film was too much. It was bizarre and badly filmed. The scenes did not flow smoothly and the characters were odd. It was hard to follow and maybe it was the translation but it was even hard to understand. I love Chinese epic films but if you're looking for a Chinese epic fantasy film i would recommend the Promise (visually stunning, the plot is interesting and good character development) not this film. Beware you will be disappointed.

MooovieFan Tsui Hark's visual artistry is at its peek in this movie. Unfortunately the terrible acting by Ekin Cheng and especially Cecilia Cheung (I felt the urge to strangle her while watching this, it's that bad :) made it difficult to watch at times.This movie is a real breakthrough in the visual department. When I first saw this, my jaw dropped repeatedly and I thought to myself that I've never seen anything remotely like it but this is how it should be done in order to do full justice to the mythical world of Chinese historical kung-fu novels! Without a doubt this is one of the best-looking Chinese historical kung-fu epic ever made.But alas, Tsui Hark hasn't improved much in the writing department, and the story and dialog are rather juvenile (his apparent obsession with the silly and overly-long depiction of the evil guys didn't help either). To make it worse, this movie is very badly cast. They decided to use the "hot" popular Hong Kong idols as lead characters, but unfortunately both Ekin Cheng and especially Cecilia Cheung are totally unsuited for historical kung-fu dramas because they lack the nobility and mystique that such characters are supposed to embody. Adam Cheng Siu-Chow and Brigitte Lin in the 1983 version are infinitely better.I wish that someday Zhang Yi-Mou and Tsui Hark can join forces and produce a movie that has the visual artistry of Tsui but with the maturity and story-telling poetry of Zhang...