The Guillotines

Name: The Guillotines
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: June 14, 2013
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 35

2013

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Well Go | Release Date: June 14, 2013 | R

Summary: A secret brotherhood of assassins – The Guillotines – once favored by the Emperor, are now a force of terror and oppression under a new regime. Exiled to a remote village and hunted by a squad of fighters with firearms that challenge their cold steel, The Guillotines must now outwit and outfight enemies from both sides. [Well Go USA]

Director: Wai-keung Lau

Genre(s): Action, Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 112 min

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V.A. Musetto

Jun 13, 2013

It’s doubtful that Scorsese will redo this new Lau thriller, which is OK because the Chinese original is all fans need. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jun 12, 2013

The Guillotines expends most of its energy in its first 30 minutes, leaving the audience with roughly 90 minutes of soapy Qing Dynasty fan fiction. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jun 13, 2013

The incrementally served up pieces never satisfactorily cohere. The blades fly as do the heads, but the movie remains disappointingly aground. Read full review

Rob Humanick

Jun 13, 2013

Despite the multitude of cinematic tricks the prolific Andrew Lau has up his sleeve, the film is a disappointingly rote entry in the wuxia pantheon. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jun 12, 2013

An action fan could be forgiven for the medicinal taste that this slick but dissipating exercise leaves behind. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jun 11, 2013

A corny saga of social and generational conflict, it's ultimately yet another Chinese period epic that functions as a thinly veiled treatise on the nobility of socialist equality. Read full review

Joshua Rothkopf

Jun 11, 2013

All the solemnity is deadly: Not one of these superhuman gang members registers in memory, and you feel stiffed on gory giggles. Talk about having your chain yanked. Read full review

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