Leofwine_draca
BICHUNMOO is a Korean historical action movie, set in China and clearly inspired by the wuxia genre in that country. It's a film about an outsider who falls in love with the wrong woman and ends up battling various evil factions intent on seeing him dead, and it's all rather par for the course for this particular genre. As a whole, though, it has too many negative aspects to make it a truly entertaining movie.Director Kim Young-jun also helmed the later - and similarly-themed - LEGEND OF THE SHADOWLESS SWORD, which I think has the edge over this film. Because the storyline in BICHUNMOO is just too muddled, jumping all over the place with quick editing and failing to take the time to introduce all the new characters who keep appearing. Although it's a lengthy production it seems rushed throughout, with frenzied action getting in the way of proper characterisation and depth to the narrative.The action isn't that great either. I didn't mind all the cool wirework and gravity-defying combat, but what I did mind was the super-fast editing, which is almost as bad as shaky cam. The viewer has little time to register the cool death effects and awesome moves before it jumps to the next fight, and the next after that. I think that action choreography and direction is a very fine art and it's easy to get it wrong; sadly BICHUNMOO offers far from the best that the genre has to offer. Add in some indifferent performances and you have a very forgettable sort of movie.
David Griffin
OK, look, I've seen like 3 or 4 different versions of this movie. some edited way better than others..i've never seen a movie so edited, and re-edited and re-released so look, if you haven't seen all the versions there are, stick your review back where it came from.. you have no idea what you are talking about..if you gave this show a negative review, or said something smart-aleky, please do us all a favor and stop watching movies.. they aren't your thing.To know what actually happens you have to see all the other versions..there is giant skip in time..Heres what actually happens: AND its NOT called Outlive.. thats the lamest title i've ever heard, hence, i'm sure you're all watching the lamest version ever made.its Fei Tian Wu 飞天舞.. Dance with Sword.. Bichunmoo in Korean anyway, I'm so upset by all the negative reviews.. i don't much care to right your wrong.. sit around in ignorance, because you don't deserve this movie.. someone obviously agrees with me, hence, your cheesy version.OK, short story..it begins with the young couple (adult) enjoying time together...they play and do things best friends do together it then goes back and shows them doing similar things as kids.. making promises to each other..then they show the bit about the dog.. and the dog yelps and is heard dying.. not your version of the dog growling on and on.. thats because they obviously don't want you critics saying Asian people thoroughly enjoy hurting your best friend they continue doing everything together, until her father realizes he's not going to learn anything from the Warrior, and forbids her to see him ever again and so on.. and then he marries her off, and then her husband becomes friends with him..now, there are actually 2 different actors, depending on the version, both wear the same blue garb when they meet and both wield a fan in that scene. two totally different characters.. only one version makes any sense.. the other version you have no idea who he is unless you've seen the other versions..her brother is also her protector and sworn to uphold her fathers wishes..many attempts are made on his life by many different people.. he almost dies like 8 times in the real one..His Master is killed, but not until he learns that it was the King who killed his family & Clan She and he were together the night she was forbidden to see him again, and thats when she got pregnant, like a day before being married to the other guy.. Her arranged husband thought it was his son, and raised him as such.. she always secretly knew it was her true loves son.. and the Warrior had no idea he had a son at all later on, he learns its his son, while paying her a secret visit while her husband was away they don't tell the son, and he hides his face under a mask and wears his hat and pretends not to be his father, but trains his son in the art of His Master Swordsmanship his art is legendary, and like most epic actual Kung Fu films.. there's always a secret book.. his entire story is defending his book & Art & Secrets from falling into the wrong hands.. her husband wants it, the king wants it, her brother wants it.. and they go to extreme measures to get it..his Friends have been loyal and true to him from the first scene in the movie on the river.. they are same that aid him in several battles, and his best friend is the one who slices the messengers throat open when makes the joke about the girl and later the son learns who his father is, and he does battle against the husband, and the brother, knowing his sister loves him, helps him to win the battle..and I honestly don't think you have any idea what actually even happens in the movie and so on.. its the best movie ever made, and blows The Banquet, Crouching Tiger, Hero, The Promise, Fearless, Ip Man, Once upon a Time, and any JetLi or Jackie Chan movie ever made out of the water.. period do your homework before giving negative reviews to the best movie on earth..or just stop giving reviews period.
Skeloboy
Well, I bought the DVD and afterword's I read the reviews on IMDb before I saw it, and they're not good, so my expectations was really low.But I liked it. The story line is a bit confusing and a bit to cliché, but its still good.The fighting scenes are great though. Yes, there might be some blood spurts as in the old movies(and Kill Bill), but so what? Its one of those movies you have to see, if you like martial arts ad sword fighting, but if you're going for a love story with some action, choose another one.
