Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: September 3, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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7
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8
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
The Hollywood ReporterAndrew Sun
A not particularly satisfying ending that involves silly CG effects. On the other hand, the acting is uniformly compelling, the fight sequences are energetic, and, as character drama, the material is especially enthralling. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
May be a period piece but there's nothing antiquated about it except an overly populated, initially hard-to-follow plot. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The film plays like a Hollywood-influenced Japanese samurai movie, though nothing as subtle as Kurosawa's best, and with white subtitles that often are hard to read against the white of the Gobi. Read full review
63
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Falters when it gets involved with supernatural gobbledygook. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
A magnificent looking and occasionally very silly Chinese Western. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
More of a sand-and-noodles western set in the Far East. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
The spaghetti western may be dead, but the noodle eastern looks to be alive and well. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNed Martel
The best case for Warriors is its cinematic time travels and its peek into the natural wildness of a long-closed countryside. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Thoroughly old-fashioned entertainment. Read full review
50
VarietyDerek Elley
A handsome although dramatically muddled Noodle Western. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Comfortably familiar. It lacks the tension between grandeur and intimacy that characterizes the films it apes. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyDavid Chute
The buildup is so compelling in this "Chinese Western" by He Ping (Swordsman in Double Flag Town) that its thunderous anticlimax of an ending can almost be forgiven. Almost. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Impressively filmed but not dramatic enough to justify its length. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
Eminently watchable, with enough majestic vistas and heroic derring-do to get by. It could have been so much more. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
In spite of the unavoidable disappointment that comes from raised expectations (and lowered elevations), it's clumsy storytelling that ultimately keeps Warriors grounded. Read full review
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