The Warlords | Blu-ray (Magnolia)
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for The Warlords, an action thriller directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan (Wuxia) and starring Jet Li (League of Gods), Takeshi Kaneshiro (Sleepless Town) and Andy Lau (Chasing the Dragon).
Set in the midst of the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, The Warlords stars Jet Li as General Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and then joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu (Lau) and Wu Yang (Kaneshiro). After fighting back attackers for a defenseless village, the three men take an oath to become “blood brothers,” pledging loyalty to one another until death. However, their lives quickly derail as they become embroiled in a web of political deceit and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan (Xu Jinglei).
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This movie should have been promoted in the US as heavily as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was. It could have been an Oscar winner. Especially Best Actor for Jet Li who legitimately gave his best dramatic performance here.