I went and saw Curse of the Golden Flower last night - I wasn’t too impressed.

It did have some nice cinematics, grand sets and beautiful costume. Given this style of Chinese film, I could forgive a degree of over-the-top theatrics and unrealistic action sequences - it’s to be expected. I thought that there was a good degree of drama.. conflict and unexpected twists.

But there were just some points in the film.. that I found really annoying. Take the final battle sequence - I won’t mention details - but there was just some ridiculous one word subtitles that didn’t need to be there.

If I had read a review like this yesterday.. I probably would have gone to see the movie anyway. This movie wasn’t a waste of time.. but it could have been so much better!