Jing Ke ci Qin Wang

Everything about its scale is epic.

A stirring, thought-provoking feat of filmmaking, accomplished in every facet.

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.

For those with a taste for epics that integrate the historical and the intimate.

Quite long and violent enough to have made several critics squirm in their seats during a recent press screening.

Solid middlebrow entertainment, a vast period epic with an almost DeMillean taste for excess.

A quagmire that reportedly has undergone multiple edits to reach its current incomprehensible state.