A Writer's Odyssey

It was a lot of fun, watching this movie!

I can recommand it!

Visuals are crazy! Liked it very much, also the music, the acting and the general story.

What was not so good?

A little bit illogical and seemed a bit flat in the end, but that's okay!

General recommandation!

I like the overall setting of the story very much, which mixes the imaginary world of the book and the real world of the writer pretty well. In several flashes of moments, the scene switches between these two worlds, and I could not even tell which one is real, which one is imaginary. The cinematography of the city of Chongqing also helped a lot on developing this blurriness of the two worlds.

What I felt a bit unsatisfied is the lack of surprises in the development of the plot and the characters: the only twist occurs on the heroin, a non-essential character of the film. The two heros are just consistent and flat from the beginning to the end. In this regard, it has wasted the good setting of the story.

Overall, it is an easy-to-watch movie with plenty of astonishing visual effects.

My score would be 7.8 but it would get 8 easily if the plot was a bit better. The fantassy part is the interesting part in this movie.

Acting overall is good and CGI is the best thing. Story is decent.

This is definetely not less than 7.5 score movie.

Must be honest, the CGI in this movie is awesome, the effect looks natural, sometimes overused but in general it's still very well-made.

The story seems interesting but still has many illogical moments, the acting is good. Overall this movie deserves more points than it's currently is. Quality product.

Watched it based on the trailer which looked interesting. The subtitles made for a few head scratching moments, and the first 20-30 minutes you may not be able to figure out what's happening but eventually the movie settles in and its a very good movie. I took 5 friends who never watch foreign movies and they really enjoyed themselves. All of them said they would have never picked the movie on their own but were glad they saw it. The theater was empty except for us, we go see at least one movie a week and this was a unique experience that is very different than most Hollywood stuff. Think if it as Pan's Labyrinth meets Lord of the Rings meets John Wick.

Recommended.