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Judge Archer 2012
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I’m not going to pretend like I totally understood all the plot details, but it hardly matters when the visuals are this poetic. A tragic backstory unfolds during a rough wind, a close-up duel leaves an ancestral shrine knocked over, the death of a commander causes his accordion to let out a dying breath; Haofeng’s imagination is running wild, resulting in the one of the most beautiful martial arts movies I’ve ever seen. And all of this is without even mentioning the excellent fight choreography, which turns everything from a string to a hat into a viable weapon. Xu Haofeng is something else.
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