Fresh
A dazzler -- and almost as exciting as its title promises.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
House of Flying Daggers
2004 · 1h 59m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Drama
Directed by
Zhang Yimou
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House of Flying Daggers
Overview
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One of the most visually astonishing martial-arts fantasies ever made.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
About as viscerally and visually exciting as film can get, and yet it is also fully, ripely romantic in a way that few modern films would dare.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
Zhang proves that Hero was no accident with House of Flying Daggers, another Chinese period piece resplendent with a dazzling palette and soaring, ambitious fight sequences.
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
Fresh
An intoxicating cocktail of splendid visuals, spectacular action, state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery and some old-fashioned swashbuckling worthy of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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