Product Description

An action-filled epic starring Ziyi Zhang (House of Flying Daggers Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Hero upcoming Memoirs of a Geisha) The Warrior recounts the tale of a group of Korean envoys who entered China on a mission and were never heard from again. Captured and accused of espionage by Ming warriors the Korean delegation is exiled by their captors to a remote desert. On their journey back to Korea they rescue a kidnapped Ming princess (Zhang). In their effort to take the princess to safety the group encounters rival Mongol warriors whom they face in a breathtaking battle scene.System Requirements:Run Time: 154 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 043396134904 Manufacturer No: 13490

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14632 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2006-03-07
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Korean
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 133 minutes

Amazon.com
The Warrior combines gorgeous cinematography, complex historical politics, and joltingly bloody action sequences to create a sweeping historical spectacular. A squadron of Korean soldiers, sent to protect a diplomatic envoy to China, find themselves unmoored when the envoys are killed in clashes with Chinese and Mongol soldiers. Struggling to return home, they rescue a high-handed Chinese princess (Ziyi Zhang, House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and decide that protecting her is their best chance to survive, and possibly improve Korean-Chinese relations as well. Unfortunately, the Mongols want her back, and the squadron find their numbers slowly diminishing as they fight their way to an isolated military outpost. Though there's a more realistic context for the action--The Warrior is based on a historical event and the characters are well-developed--the battle scenes deliver some visceral thrills; the violence is graphic (beheadings, arrows plunging into necks, limbs sliced off) but grippingly choreographed. An above-average action movie; however, it is highly recommended that viewers watch it with subtitles, as the dubbing is typically wretched. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

great film with one of the worst DVD covers ever
I love this movie. Korea has a great sense of dramatic action. They can be serious with beautiful style in their action sequences. This is a fictional story inspired by a historical setting. If you were moved by LOTR: The Two Towers with the story of warriors leading people away from the enemy to a place of safety where the stand for all you believe in will take place...then this is a good story for you. If you are not familiar with Cowboy/Western flms or Eastern Warrior stories then this may feel unfamiliar or slow.

The cover is angering me because it is very missleading because they want someone passing by the "Martial Arts" DVD section to pick it up. Miss Ziyi is not a warrior in this film. Her being the popular Chinese actress for American audiences associated her with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Rush Hour 2 or House Of Flying Daggers expect her to be fighting always. NOPE. So her holding a sword so bravely on a DVD cover is false to her character. (especially with the movie being called The Warrior) She plays a bratty yet beautiful princess who has never stepped out into the real world in her life. Woo-Sung Jung's character does not use a sword. He fights with a spear throughout the film. If anything else he uses against an enemy was a horse whip. The importance of swords I guess comes from a history of cool characters of fantasy or period films using swords. Bad guys or second characters use the axe and that is rare. Everything else would suck I guess. Now the picture of these two actors are from posters & photos used in promotion for the film...but those hands were photoshoped poorly into the cover. Woo-Sung looks like he is leaning over a sink ready to brush his teeth with that thing.

In conclusion, type in Musa for a dvd search of this film and you may be lucky to find on sale the Tai Seng release of this film titled Musa (translates to Warrior). The quality is equal to this release. I was lucky to get the Tai Seng release but then this one came out and for some reason the Tai Seng release is hard to find. I guess its not in print. So if you can't find the tai Seng release then buy this one because the movie is good even though the DVD cover is lame. Its just a lame cover like the domestic release of infernal affairs with some random Chinese woman dressed up like a Bond chick with a gun...whaaat? One day we wont need lame DVD covers for our domestic releases of great films.

Very long and pointless movie
I'm a huge fan of such movies as crouching tiger, iron monkey, house of daggars, hero, fearless, etc. However, this movie is not on that level. In general it was a waste of my time and money.

Good action flick
I liked this movie and the mongol/ancient chinese/korean costume and ambiance. Decent plot carries the viewer through several well staged if small battles.