The fight scenes are just as crazy as the.video game series and brought back great memories!

The story is solid - has to be as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is considered a national treasure in China and has been told and retold for hundred years.

Overall I enjoyed the visual effects and storytelling.

I have a feeling many of the bad reviews are from people that never played the game and were expecting a quality oscar winning movie. Or they played the game and someone had the same view that the movie would be some masterpiece. The movie is a PEFFECT match of what the game is. Fun, unadulterated action. It has many of the characters from the game, some of the weapons...etc. The movie is in now way mind blowing, deep and oscar worthy. Heck even most of the subtitles don't even match what the charecters are saying (if you decide to watch it in english with english subs). But I enjoyed the sillyness of the movie and over the top action.

First of all, this is a movie without an actual story. It starts with a coup d'état and some people who don't take kindly to it, but it ends in the middle of the campaign. At most it's the first part of something. Then there are the characters, way too many and probably taken directly from the game, which are like superheroes in a world of feudal bureaucracy and intrigue. They fight for the sake of fighting while the world continues to turn the same way. And while the fight scenes were interesting, they weren't inspiring in any way. A lot of CGI wire-fu and elemental special effects on the weapons. Why a hero could easily destroy an entire army, but they let the armies fight first, for example, is completely weird.

Second of all, I am sure there was a lot lost in translation. A lot of the politics and back stabbing and the dynamic between people is something that I feel Chinese people would understand at a glance, while I feel that everything is alien to me.

Bottom line: It was not an engaging movie and while very long it didn't keep up the tension and it ended without any closure. I liked the mechanics of the fights, but I feel they could have been used a lot better to further the story.