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In year 689 of the Tang Dynasty, China's future empress (Carina Lau) frees an imprisoned detective (Andy Lau) to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
If you're looking for a popcorn movie, producer-director Tsui has crafted an absurdist fantasy that might cure -- or spontaneously combust -- the summertime blues. But even escapist entertainment can have interesting angles.
October 10, 2015
Seattle Times
By the end, with the running time pushing past the two-hour mark, it's reasonable to ask: Just who are these people?
September 26, 2011
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
There is nothing wrong with its reach, but its grasp of genre elements is random.
"Dee" doesn't shoot for the gravitas of Zhang Yimou's "Hero." It doesn't approach that film's magnificent sensory impact, either, or the artistic romanticism that made "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" such a success here.
Three decades into his career, Tsui Hark stands as one of the movies' great entertainers, displaying a dancer's sense of rhythm and movement and manipulating physical space with an abandon worthy of Chuck Jones.