Its not bad, but it seems out of place in an epic like this and somehow makes the characters less then the epic size the need to be to inhabit this story. Unfortunately when the spectacle subsides the plot takes over and while its not bad it is rather talky and soapy. As an epic spectacle this film is one of the best. This is a movie where every person on the screen is a person and you can feel the realness. The battle scenes are wonderful and on a scale that few films have ever matched. The sense of scale and place has been rarely matched. As a epic films go this is one of the most beautiful. This a film on a scale that they simply don't do any more. Its a huge epic production thats been compared to western films like Ten Commandments, Lawrence of Arabia, and Ben Hur. This is essentially the story of Qin from the founding of "China" by his unifying the various provinces, through the building of the great wall on to close to his death. Shintaro Katsu, best known for playing Zatoichi, plays the first Chinese Emperor, Qin.
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