14 Blades 2010 123movies

Watch: 錦衣衛 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – A kung fu thriller set during the Ming Dynasty and centered on a secret service agent (Donnie Yen) in the emperor’s court who is betrayed and then hunted by his colleagues..
Plot: Trained in clandestine combat from childhood, the Jinyiwei were masters of the 14 Blades; eight being for torture, five for killing, and the last blade reserved for suicide when a mission failed. An elite force of secret agents with a license to kill, the Jinyiwei devoted their lives and lethal prowess to the service of the Emperor alone. When the Imperial Court is taken over by evil eunuch Jia, the best of the Jinyiwei, Qinglong is assigned to steal a list identifying those still loyal to the Emperor. However unbeknownst to Qinglong, the Jinyiwei have fallen under the control of Jia, and during the mission Qinglong is betrayed and barely escapes with his life. Now as the most wanted man in the land, Qinglong must seek out and rally the loyalists to rise against Jia and restore the Emperor to power. In his way are the deadliest assassins in the land, his former brethren, the Jinyiwei.
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Ratings:

	6.3/10 Votes: 8,157
	69% | RottenTomatoes
	50/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 160 Popularity: 10.657 | TMDB

Reviews:

Not quite there because of the flat and unoriginal storyline, but still a martial arts movie that might be worth watching maybe once
This is another martial arts flick with weapons and it’s a pretty good one at that, just isn’t great. Mainly it’s because the story is sort of flat although all over the place at times. But I liked the comic book style of this movie and since it works sometimes. The title of this movie is the weapons that Donnie Yen’s character carries around with him in a wooden box, but they mostly all look generic. Although each weapon has it’s purpose, but you can’t tell which weapon is which while watching for the most part. Also the 14 blades isn’t even used in a special manner, it just seemed like regular swords for the most part. It would have been cool if it showed each weapon with a distinctive different look and style of fighting to it. But that just doesn’t apply to this movie for the most part. What starts out as a bit over the place plot while being somewhat interesting quickly becomes a romance movie between Donnie Yen and Zhao Wei’s characters. However the fight choreography is done really well in this and doesn’t come off as being super lame to watch or anything like that. It seems like Donnie Yen’s talent is increasing with every martial arts movie he is in. The set pieces are well crafted as well and if the plot carried it’s own weight as well, this would have been a great martial arts movie.

5.8/10

The era of great Hong Kong movies is now in the past
It does seem that the quality of Hong Kong cinema has declined remarkably. I don’t know what it is that during the days of Jet Li and Jackie Chan in the classic period I was able to follow the movie despite the sub titles, but with some of these later offerings I seem to simply get lost. Okay, this movie was easier to follow that some of the others that I have seen, but it seemed to be problematic at best, and did not really come to some decent ending.

What I did gather from this movie is that it is about a special forces group in Ancient China who are raised as Imperial guards from when they are children. It seems that one of the Emperor’s seals are stolen and the head of the guards is tasked to try and return it. The guards are given 14 swords, each one of them having a special purpose in their task to maintain order throughout the empire. The last blade, the 14th blade, is specifically used to commit suicide in the event of a failure.

As mentioned, the movie was a little eclectic at the beginning, but it settled down a bit in the middle and it was easier to follow, though it still felt many of the scenes were simply thrown together simply for the purpose of having a scene with a lot of sword fighting and martial arts. Okay, that might have worked in some movies, but the earlier movies seemed to work, where as this one did not. Maybe it also has to do with the people doing the subtitles simply did not do a good job because not only do you have to read them, but you have to digest them as well. Still, I was able to watch Amelie with no problem despite not understanding a word of French.

Other Information:

Original Language zh
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 20000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, History, Thriller
Director Daniel Lee
Writer Daniel Lee, Abe Kwong, Tin Shu Mak
Actors Donnie Yen, Wei Zhao, Chun Wu
Country Hong Kong, China, Singapore
Awards 4 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex 235, Zeiss and Angenieux Lenses, Arriflex 435 Xtreme, Zeiss and Angenieux Lenses, Arriflex 535B, Zeiss and Angenieux Lenses
Laboratory Cine Art Laboratory Ltd., Hong Kong (prints), Kodak Cinelabs, Beijing, China, Stareast Digital Lab, Korea (digital intermediate), Technicolor, Bangkok, Thailand (prints)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)