IFF Rotterdam 2011: Reign of Assassins, Su Chao Bin, 2010 Rotterdam IFF
two separate parts of a rotting corpse hidden must unite again, who wants to be ruler of the Martial World. The glossy black body must be owned at the shiny black upper body, this idea is primarily a eunuch and clan chief. The entire body would also be his body (including Mustache) again complete. At twelve he was sent to the convent and emasculated since bow he lives a double life as a low-ranking monk, he must be in front of small boys, as the clan chief, he wears a mask and hystericalises the Martial World and its transcendental body modification induced normal. Barbie Hsu makes him additionally as a feisty love interest vapor. Zeng Jing
other hand, wants to get out of the Martial World, the only work by means of body transformation. Insects eat her face (which by Kelly Lin) from the inside out, they get a new one, a few years older (the Michelle Yeoh). The body memory has been preserved, no one cuts faster radishes and more accurate than the former assassin. But it is not the only one that has transformed her body. The Martial World and the two parts of the rotten corpse they can not escape for long. In Hong Kong, not just psycho-sexual action films shot; the request must also directly accessible and visible on the physical, react upon the construction of the world, it must attract not only effects, but after the physical correlates.
Reign of Assassins , a rather medium-sized fantasy action movie without all the biggest stars and the very worst budget has, in some respects like the first real John Woo film since Mission Impossible 2 , despite the fact that the master Credited only as a producer and co-director appears. The man who wrote the movie and staged all responsibility was to me until now completely unknown. No matter how you want to determine the author instance, it has its film fully under control. Something I got from Hong Kong not seen in a long time: a thoroughly experienced, certainly in the genre traditions enshrined production (traditional in such good shape that some almost a little dated, because seems to care) - while an inspired, beautifully free storytelling essay on body politics and the constant reinvention of the self that continued writing his own biography.
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