Shadow

A martial-arts movie landmark, as strong in its performances as it is spectacularly novel in its violence.

Every supremely controlled stylistic element of Zhang Yimou’s breathtakingly beautiful Shadow is an echo of another, a motif repeated, a pattern recurring in a fractionally different way each time.

Shadow shows a master at the top of his game, and if you have any love at all for the movies and the places they can take you, catch this one on the biggest screen possible.

Drawing from the style of Chinese ink brush paintings, and aided by the rain that pours constantly, the film has a watery, fluid look and texture, each exquisite frame a moving painting.

After the disappointing martial-monster mash-up of The Great Wall, this represents a return to the majesty and emotional finesse of Hero and House of Flying Daggers.

The scales ultimately tip slightly in favor of style, but when that style is this gorgeous, remembering a movie for the way it looks rather than its plot isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Shadow isn’t a bad epic so much as a banal one.

This movie was actually kind of awesome! This is a Chinese film, released last year in its home country but released in 2019 in North America. In ancient China, an army commander’s decoy, or shadow, trains for a one-on-one battle to the death with the commander of the enemy army to determine who wins a captured city, and it just gets crazier from there. While this movie was kind of slow for the first half hour or so, it really picks up after that! This movie is absolutely beautiful. It has a colour scheme of mostly black and white. It is always cloudy and it is always raining. It looks like a painting, it’s just a feast for the eyes. The performances were really good. A lot of the acting in this movie is very subtle and you need to pay close attention to their facial expressions and body language. The fight choreography is also brilliant. It’s super bloody and brutal, and also very creative! The main character fights with one of the coolest weapons I’ve ever seen in a movie, an umbrella made out of blades! The music was also pretty fantastic. Overall, I highly recommend this movie! It’s beautiful, unique and awesome! Check it out!

Zhang Yimou movies are all very similar to me (Except the fantastic House of Flying Daggers) in that they are all pretty to look at but have very little substance, no character development and overall neither bore nor interest me. They put me in an entertainment limbo zone, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I almost feel a sort of meditation looking at beautiful images and hearing sounds but not feeling anything what so ever. Here the color is drained to a monochrome except for flesh tones. Hero was the same way, colors represented the acts but nothing meant anything. It ends when the credits roll, other wise I would not know it's over.

Esta muy bien hecha, tiene buenos efectos, la historia es interesante, el problema que no es peli para cualquiera

I loved his previous movie... But this one bored the bejesus out of me... Visual pretty nice... Choreography meh... Story even more meh.... Just really mediocre... Or maybe i expected way more...

One of the worst games I’ve ever played in my life. Thank God it was included with PlayStation Plus, because if I had paid money for it, I would’ve seriously regretted **** game barely has a story, the boss fights are weird and frustrating, and there are so many annoying **** let’s not forget the thing I hated the most: the damn horse. I swear walking on foot is better than using that stupid horse.Also, one of the bosses can jump on you, and when he does, your character gets knocked down for ages and refuses to get up. Why? Because the boss keeps spamming attacks over and over again while you’re stuck on the ground.I genuinely hate this game. I will never play it again in my life.