Fun alternative take
On rewatch I was surprised by how quickly the story moves - but that makes sense in the space of a single movie.
It might be a good introduction to the Daomu series for some people, because it gets into the tomb raiding almost immediately and ends on (admittedly bad CGI) a bunch of (absurd) fun spectacle.
It also has a very different Zhang Qiling, which I appreciate, he's one of my favourite. Quite emotional and he talks!
I guess fans of the books are annoyed by how different and changed up the story is, but I think that's just something you gotta accept with movie adaptations. The shows tend to drag instead, it's a tradeoff.
I'd say it's worth watching once.
It might be a good introduction to the Daomu series for some people, because it gets into the tomb raiding almost immediately and ends on (admittedly bad CGI) a bunch of (absurd) fun spectacle.
It also has a very different Zhang Qiling, which I appreciate, he's one of my favourite. Quite emotional and he talks!
I guess fans of the books are annoyed by how different and changed up the story is, but I think that's just something you gotta accept with movie adaptations. The shows tend to drag instead, it's a tradeoff.
I'd say it's worth watching once.
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