The film charges out of the gate with a hurried opener and subsequent immediate development stage, so much so that the film actually does something of a pet peeve of mine and sums up multiple battles via montage, and when you have John Woo action, you should know better than to just sum it up montage style, even if it would have made this film, like, an extra hour or two if we were to cover the early stages of the final days of the Han Dynasty. Part one clocks in at just under two-and-a-half hours, which is dandy and all when we're talking about an epic that, when accompanied by a second part, clocks in at a total of a bit over three-and-a-half, if not four hours, yet part two is a whole second half, which leaves both films to clock in at a total of just under five hours, which is about the time you start to outstay your welcome, and this couldn't have been done without both films going padded by their own rights, which isn't to say that things don't get a bit too tight to a fault.
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Okay, maybe the John part is going a touch too far, because you'd be surprised how many Asian-borns are named John it's this film's lead whose name is throwing me off, because his middle and last name is Leung Chiu-Wai, and his first name is Tony, and really, how many Hong Kong men do you know are named Tony? Well, maybe you should keep that name in mind a bit more, because he knows how to pick good films, as this film shows, though perhaps not quite as much as it should, going a touch held back by quite a few factors. So yeah, this is essentially the Chinese "Lord of the Rings", only not nearly as good, yet over here in the states, good luck finding someone who's not a film buff who's heard of it, which is a smidge surprising, considering all the years John Woo was over here spreading his name, unless of course people just figured that he wasn't really from Asia, looking at the very American type of action sensibilities he fell into over here, as well as the fact that his name is John. From the sounds of it, John Woo has once again accomplished an "impossible mission".
Asia isn't especially notorious for terribly short ancient action films, yet even they had to step back and split this puppy into two parts, which, I must say, is a dangerous move, because "how could they have possibly known that the first part, alone, was going to do well?" Sarcasm aside, even if this film was just one big film, heaven forbid (Over four-and-a-half hours believe it or not, I have to get back to a life eventually), I'd imagine they'd still come back for a sequel just for good measure, because this was reportedly the most expensive Asian-financed film ever, and yet, it still made leaps and bounds past its budget with this first part, alone. And thus, John Woo makes his big comeback to Asian cinema, and woah boy, is it big.
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