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I know it can be long but it's exactly, in a movie, what you are exploring with the book: this story is belonging to the precious and psychological style, wwhdn you focus only on the feelings and how they intricate themselves; it's a good reflexion in this renaissance time. The battles are also good because it was not epic in this long civil war. Everyone is apparently and frontly nice to each other ( welcome to the court) but everything is about politic and treason. So, Tavernier made a great job, with movies that are not made like this anymore and we can trust that, what he made, was the Fidel 16th century novel adaptation.

If you choose to look at this movie, it might certainly be for it cast: many of the actors doesn't need, in fact, an introduction! They play their part great despite the evidently stereotypes.

This movie is certainly not the first presenting the manicheism mob/cop; that's why the pitch looks like the Chinese "Infernal Affairs". Furthermore, the Americans and Japanese already made a remake, so why not the Korean? But finally, if half of the movie looks quite like a remake, the second parts is the twisted one and the most interesting: on the technical part, you will love the use of the zoom, the great sound especially in the fights, the use of exterior, rain and lights... ANd, on the scenarist part, you will grow attach to charisma not of one but all characters.

So love it/ hate it but give a chance to this movie because it's worth your time!

Oh yes that movie, as its youngest predecessors such as Oblivion, After Earth... , has some great visuals. But where is, as usual in Science Fiction/ Anticipation movies, the plot, the story good enough just to try to be new and imaginative? This movie is just using the same old plots, schemes and stereotypes, good versus villains, twisted evil, too good altruism or morality... and the same optimist and expired message.

I like the actors but, at some point, can't they just stopped playing the good American heroes to just be regular humans: that would level up the content of most American movies these days...

Well, you have to see it to make yourself an opinion but do not expect something new and a valuable contribution to the 7th art; it's exactly what was prised : a solid entertainment with a huge budget.