Directed By:Kaige Chen
Written By:Kaige Chen, Tan Cheung
The Promise
Metascore
Mixed or Average
53
User score
Mixed or Average
5.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
53
38% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
50% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
12% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
100
For Kaige, The Promise can't exactly be called a return to form--it's more a return to "Hero" and "House Of Flying Daggers" director Zhang Yimou's form. Either way, it's still glorious.
75
Whether or not the story makes any sense, The Promise promises to transport - and does.
63
The mixture of action, drama and romance isn’t as potent, and Kaige’s reliance on subpar special effects hurts the movie. Wu xia fans will still find things to like, but the uninitiated will probably find this slow going.
58
Sumptuous and beautiful and as silly as a sack of nose glasses.
50
Like its images, The Promise billows through the imagination as it unfolds but it leaves little lasting impression once its last feather has fluttered.
42
It aims for outlandish and athletic love lyrics and instead achieves all the potency of a makeshift nonsense song banged out on a toy lyre.
12
The Promise employs laughable computer effects and second-rate martial-arts fighting to tell the hard-to-figure story of a princess and her three lovers.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.7
43% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
29% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
29% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Apr 7, 2013
8
Very nice movie, by standarts of asian martial arts-fantasy movie. The plot is not so strong, but it is not the main thing. This movie is about bright fights, gods and legends. Light smooth moves, water and wind. Worth watching, if you like fights as in Crounching Tiger film.
Production Company:
- 21 Century Shengkai Film
- Bandai Namco Pictures Entertainment (BNPE)
- Capgen Investment Group
- China Film Group Corporation (CFGC)
- Moonstone Entertainment
- Show East
- Vistec Entertainment (Korea Vistec)
- Vistec Entertainment
Release Date:Dec 30, 2005
Duration:2 h 1 m
Rating:PG-13
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Hong Kong Film Awards
• 5 Nominations
Golden Bauhinia Awards
• 3 Nominations
