Visually unspectacular and emotionally stillborn, The Sorcerer and the White Snake fails as both a fantasy and a romance.
The Sorcerer and the White Snake(白蛇传说)
China, Hong Kong · 2011
Rated PG-13 · 1h 40m
Director Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Starring Jet Li, Eva Huang, Raymond Lam, Wen Zhang
Genre Action, Fantasy
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The Sorcerer and the White Snake is an ancient Chinese fable about a woman demon who falls in love with a mortal is brought to life through the latest advances in CGI and action techniques.
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Overblown saga of shape-shifting demons, butt-kicking clerics and the perils of interspecies romance occasionally dazzles but finally frazzles with its relentless visual assault, embedding Jet Li and his capable castmates in one screensaver-ready fantasy backdrop after another.
This China/Hong Kong co-production flips the formula: The fantastic images are solid, but the action is less substantial.
The Playlist by Oliver Lyttelton
Perhaps hardcore Jet Li fans will be able to get some joy out of it, but we'd suspect that even they will struggle with this one.
McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
A mad, laugh-out-loud mashup of “The Little Mermaid,” “Harry Potter,” assorted vampire tales, “Pan’s Labyrinth,” the disaster epic “2012” and oh – “Pokemon” – just to impose the cinematic precedents on display here, Sorcerer is a Chinese twist on the reliable sword and sorcery genre which caused Hollywood to impose “Clash of the Titans” and “Immortals” on the undeserving.
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