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Name: The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman
Released: 2011-3-18
Cast: Masanobu Ando, Kitty Zhang, You Benchang, Liu Xiaoye, Ashton Xu

The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman

PG-13
1h 32m
2011

46%

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In this fast-paced, “cutting-edge” action-comedy, a mystical blade transforms the lives of three ambitious men. This trilogy of intertwined stories based on desire, vengeance and greed proves that the power of the blade is matched only by the trouble it brings to its owners.

Director:

Wuershan

Producer:

Daniel Yu, Tang Xiru

Writer:

Wuershan, Tang Que, Zhang Jiajia, Ma Luoshan

Cast:

Masanobu Ando, Kitty Zhang, You Benchang, Liu Xiaoye, Ashton Xu, Ning Hao, Xiong Xin Xin, LIu Hua

© 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, First Cuts Features, Inc., Union Voole Technology Co. Ltd., Zixuxuanyang Cultural Development Co., Ltd. and Bolong Investment Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

46%

Reviews

TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

The film is chaotic, but it's also a tremendous amount of fun for those able to simply abandon their expectations.

This film breaks almost every filmic rule regarding amount of content, pacing and editing speed, but somehow the combination flies through the air as swiftly and smoothly as the magical cleaver, slicing all that oppose it.

It is hard to say how much influence (Doug) Liman had over the finished product, but the already jittery directorial eye of Wuershan may have been better served by a collaborator who favours a less-is-more approach.

Wuershang is too busy mixing up a slurry of postmodern techniques, abortive fight scenes, and noisy set pieces to spend any time on fundamentals.

About the only thing this cinematic whirligig skimps on is coherence, both narrative and aesthetic.

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