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| ACTORS: | Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Woo-ping Yuen |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1993 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Dimension Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 717951005557 |
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Customer Reviews of Twin Warriors
Li + Yeun + Yeoh = Triplet Warriors Like great Kung Fu? This is it! If you prefer oringinal language with subtitles, then hunt down Tai Chi Master--but prepare to dig much deeper into your wallet. However, here is a nicely dubbed version with (as far as I can tell) all the action and most (if not all) the soundtrack is intact. If you're like me, most dubbed films (see any US release of Bruce Lee other than Enter the Dragon; or the English tracks on Once Upon A Time in China I-III), are unlistenable. And, most subtitles on Asian releases are laughable (albeit quite entertaining). So, if you are looking for a GREAT martial art film that your friends won't scoff at because they have to "read it", one filled with excellent directing, acting (even the extras are great), fighting and a fairly decent plot--get it, own it, and love it. The best of both worlds would be a DVD with an option for Cantonese / English with lots of extras, which would then rate 5 stars above.
Butchered Movie
If you want to see this movie, find the original version under Tai Chi Master, rather then this English dubbed version by Dimension/Disney. A regionless DVD of the original Tai Chi Master can easily be found on the Internet. The fight scenes are some of Jet Li and Yuen Woo Ping's best, and it has a strong story line unlike some other Jet movies. The only other Jet Li movies that have comparably good fight scenes are Once Upon A Time In China 2 and Fist of Legend. However, I am only giving this movie two stars because of what Disney has done to this movie in the US DVD.
Having seen the original movie on video, I saw this DVD at Blockbuster and decided to rent it, thinking that a US DVD would be much higher quality than what I originally saw. Well, I was pretty wrong, I cannot even begin to imagine what they were thinking. Buying this version of the movie is equivalent to getting an incomplete movie. One of the worst changes comes in the music. Or should I say what music? The original movie had a very beautiful score, in fact it was so good that I bought the soundtrack for it and still regularly listen to it. In Disney's version, all the original music is removed, and scenes where there was music, there is either complete silence, or a very downplayed stereotypical sounding westernized version of oriental music. The is quite sad since the original music was very moving and accentuated the rhythm of the fight sequences perfectly.
The original movie also had a strong storyline centered around the origin of Tai Chi, but Disney perhaps thinking that an American audience wouldn't understand this, decided to just capitalize off of Jet Li's name being attached to the movie. Much of the background and scenes relating to Tai Chi and its invention now have completely different dialogue. The changed emphasis in the storyline just makes Twin Warriors into a stereotypical plotless chop-socky movie.
One of the biggest ways they reinforced the cheap Asian movie stereotype was through horrible dubbing. Some of the humor in the movie is more due to poor quality dubbing than the actual jokes. I'm sure some people prefer to watch dubbing in English, so that's usually fine by me as long as it's done decently or if there's a way to switch to the original language. And good voice dubbing can be done, this is Disney after all, known for its cartoons with great voice acting and musical talent. Unfortunately, this movie only has one audio track, the dubbed one. It's a DVD; there's no excuse to remove the original audio track, especially when you remove plot and story in a poor dub. This is what DVDs are for, the ability to choose between the original language and the dubbed language.
Disney get only one think right, the picture quality. This version looks much sharper and cleaner than the original, although there are areas where a weird green lighting is noticeable due to whatever remastering that Disney did.
The Tai Chi Master was one of Jet Li's best martial arts films, but Disney's rendition is plotless and empty. Twin Warriors simply keeps promoting the cheap, low budget, senseless, martial arts movie stereotype, throuh cheap, low budget, senseless editing. I highly encourage seeing the original movie, it is one Jet Li's best works, but stay away from this bastardized and incomplete version.
good movie
this movie is very good but like most of Jet Li's flicks the plot and continuity are strange. Worth owning if you are a die hard martial arts fan but, if you are selective, you might want to pass on it. And, Michelle's performance is nothing compared to what she did in Crouching Tiger.