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January 30, 2006
FEARLESS REVIEWS
In the US it was BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE 2 that rocked the weekend, but across Asia it was FEARLESS, Jet Li and Ronny Yu's farewell to wu shu (but not to action movies). The reviews are in and you can read them here, here and here but the general tone is: great action (brutal, not beautiful, however), weak drama, but overall a good movie and nothing to be embarrassed by.
In Singapore there's some consternation because FEARLESS was hit with an NC-16 rating due to its violence. This is one of Singapore's mature ratings and is what THE WEDDING CRASHERS, which features nudity, was given. This means viewers under 16 cannot watch the film, which is a bummer for Li and Yu since they designed FEARLESS to speak directly to Asian teenagers whom they felt were suffering from spiritual hopelessness.
January 30, 2006 at 09:33 AM in News | Permalink
Comments
Interesting snippet from The Star here on Ronny Yu's editing of "Fearless"...might explain why some reviewers have found the pacing rather episodic?
Yu:- "The challenge we faced was to edit the film so that everyone else outside of China would understand the message..To achieve that result, the director hired two film editors from the United States to do the job -one to edit the fight scenes, and the other to work on the rest of it - on the basis that if they could understand the film then the majority of the audience would."
Er, OK then. Why not hire 3000 monkeys to edit it? Then everyone in the animal kingdom can come and see it too. Yay!
Posted by: Richard | Jan 31, 2006 4:47:00 AM
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