BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

blueye77 This movie was the most disappointing among those based on The Journey to the West. Even worse, the leading actress, Bai Ling's (or Ling Bai, whatever)performance is more disgusting with her "sexiness". Her character Guan Ying ( or Kwan Ying) is supposed to look beautiful and holy because of her place. But look what Bai Ling did to her! And also about Confucious, his words are quoted again and again but only to make him sarcastic. Every part of the movie shows that it only makes use of the story but never pays respect to the Chinese culture. Even though it tries to give people some flavor of scientific-fiction or even post-modernism, it proves nothing but failure. In a word, this movie spoils China's classic and also distorts /desecrates Chinese culture. Too awful!!!!!!!!!!

avt2 This mini-series is a humorous parable about the evolution of Chinese culture into the modern age. It uses the classic Chinese tale "Journey to the West" and shows its relevance in the modern age; the allegory here is that losing this book literally results in the loss of all the advances of modern civilization. It is retelling of the classic story, but in a Buddhist context of reliving the events in another cycle to make it relevant to the modern day. The story uses humor to make it accessible to the audience, and also to make the point that wrapping up tradition with too much seriousness causes some of the meaning and lesson of tradition to be lost. Some of the acting is pretty good, with Ric Young embracing contradiction portraying Confucius as a conniving villain and Ling Bai portraying Kuan Ying operating on many different levels. The Wizard-of-Oz ending was a little simplistic but it underlined how the story worked as allegory and parable. This is a light fluffy action story with a subtly complex political undertone, and an interesting interpretation of a classic tale.

Sentinel-15 This is like a post-modern take on the legend of the Monkey King, where a modern human gets involved with saving the book that contains the original story. First of all, it is FUN!There are lots of interesting characters, lots of action, heroic characters fighting the Good Fight... what more do you want?Just keep in mind that this is NOT the original legend(s) - whatever those were about - and it doesn't even try to be, so don't criticize it for that.This is good old-fashioned entertainment, with lots of imagination and heroics. Enjoy!

mscorrinet The Lost Empire is a excellent updating and play off a an ancient Chinese novel entitled "Journey to the West".For viewers who have some knowledge of Chinese myths and stories this movie is a real treat. It brings back all the wonderful characters of one of the most beloved novels of childhood.On the other hand if you don't have a clue who the Monkey King was, let alone the celestial Kingdom and the Jade Emperor, than you might not get the underlying story elements, but the movie should still be a great deal of fun simply as a great adventure story with wonderful special effects and some very amusing characters.This movie can be enjoyed by young and old. Think of it as an Asian version of Wizard of Oz, Ben Hur and Indiana Jones all rolled into one.