The Assassin (2015)
The film is set during the mighty Tang Dynasty-period in Chinese history. Nie Yinniang returns to family after several years in exile. The mission of her order is to eliminate the tyrany of the Governors who avoid the authority of the Emperor. Now she will have to choose between sacrificing the man she loves, or break definitively with the "order of the Assassins" (Martin Matevosyan)
AKA: Nie yin niang
Country: China, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Directed By: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Written By: Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Cheng Ah, T'ien-wen Chu, Hai-Meng Hsieh
Starring: Chen Chang, Qi Shu, Satoshi Tsumabuki
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The Assassin belongs to 20 collections
1. FIPRESCI Prize (public: moderated by paulofilmo - 11 stars)
2. Cannes Film Festival: Best Director (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 6 stars)
3. Cannes 2015 Official Selection (public: moderated by CCLZA - 3 stars)
4. BBC's The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films (public: moderated by jeff_h - 1 star)
5. FIPRESCI Grand Prix for the Best Film of the Year (public: moderated by Thegoodboy)
6. Fantastic Fest 2015 (public)
7. NETFLIX QUEUE (public: moderated by estragon)
8. Netflix USA (private: mpowell - 6 stars)
9. Foreign - Hong Kong (private: NhanLa - 1 star)
10. Göz Nuru (private: Giskard - 1 star)
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Even Sherlock Holmes wouldn't be able to figure what the hell happened in this movie. I can understand why somebody might love this movie and that my own attention span might be holding my enjoyment back, but I can't stand art that feels deliberately obtuse.
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Beautiful landscape, costumes, and cinematography. I wasn't paying enough attention so I might have to rewatch, since it was too confusing for me to follow. There are too many things unsaid so the slowness is probably meant for me to feel my own reactions, but I just wasn't paying enough attention. I appreciated the fights being fairly quick instead of the genre drawn-out battles. Fav scene: dispatching three people rushing her in the woods.
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| Nov 16, 2018 | pl_ | 55 8% |
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| Oct 17, 2018 |  |
Henrik | 80 80% |
| Sep 28, 2018 |  |
PDM.82 | 67 37% |
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'The Assassin' is slow paced and difficult to follow, a film for the patient viewer. Chinese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's vision is really good with gorgeous still shots and brilliantly choreographed fight scenes. Hsien even won the "Best Director Award" at the "Cannes Film Festival". I thought the story lacked the suspense and excitement needed to make this movie truly worth seeing. Too slow and too tedious, I think this movie could have been a lot more exciting.
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adrenaline | 70 69% |
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Darren | 72 57% |
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Meditative and real nice looking.
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| May 01, 2018 | John Milton | 70 61% |
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Neonman | 67 28% |
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Boring and beautiful.
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| Apr 29, 2018 | LEAVES | 52 54% |
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| Apr 28, 2018 | Jet- | 87 92% |
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#18#, exp3, rw3, story, rartings
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| Jan 16, 2018 |  |
danozu | 65 55% |
| Jan 13, 2018 | mjbreuer | 63 40% |
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antidood1 | 40 7% |
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Gets all the points for its technical qualities, and none for characters, plot, storytelling or general watchability. Some arthouse movies have this weird thing where they're both glacially slow and impossible to follow, so maybe here it was just too much for me. On the other hand, I now know how people feel when they watch Drive but secretly just want The Fast and the Furious.
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lan | 10 0% |
| Jan 09, 2018 | cengaveri | 62 5% |
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| Oct 10, 2017 | ashfieldmall | 50 27% |
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| Oct 01, 2017 | sandrikoti | 90 56% |
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| Sep 30, 2017 |  |
astrakhan | 72 24% |
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I was anticipating eagerly and couldn't believe how disappointing this was. Definitely not intended as a Western-acessible Chinese epic in the vein of "House of Flying Daggers". So many scenes of robed noblemen and women sitting at tea ceremonies discussing politics. No real sense of place because everything was set in a salon or a forest. No sense of society outside of nobility and assassins. The bizarre, underwhelming cinematography was the final nail. Spectacle assassinated by arthouse.
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kidmaniac | 32 4% |
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| Apr 02, 2017 | toro913 | 71 76% |
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| Mar 30, 2017 |  |
Armilio | 58 21% |
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A wuxia movie with a lot of trees shotted with different coloured cinematographies. Hou likes trees, i guess. The fighting are more realistic than usual for this genre and they are never the centerpiece, never resolutive; it's all about theatrical poses, little body movements, the untold. With so few dialogs we don't get to know the characters well, but we know perfectly the relations between them: the words aren't needed. Interesting as a different way to do a Wuxia, but too slow.
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| Mar 20, 2017 |  |
ericdupont | 85 78% |
| Mar 11, 2017 |  |
backwardsuit | 80 79% |
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There's something intoxicating about the opaque formalism in this film's style & story. It conjures a breathless world of shrouds, masks, mists, social ritual & deceit where morality & truth only reveal themselves for half a blink. The sedate narrative makes this timeless & enigmatic though at times it can feel like watching some kind of gorgeous 9th century staring tourney. I get how this can translate to hollow/boring/pretentious but I found it deliberate & often mesmerising storytelling.
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mCihhh | 40 12% |
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| Jan 05, 2017 | Sane | 76 70% |
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| Dec 29, 2016 |  |
auhasarderik | 6 40% |
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I guess the best thing you can do is forget about plot and characters and drink up the visuals. This may be the most pointless movie I have ever wanted to keep and watch again.
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| Jul 11, 2016 | Onderhond | 50 42% |
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brickwall | 80 79% |
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Every single frame of this film is stunning and the restraint shown by everybody involved is rather impressive.
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Carlos | 69 49% |
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walkearth | 65 73% |
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Visually stunning. Vibrant colours. Didn't like the 4:3 ratio. Great costumes, sets, makeup, hairstyles, etc. But damn, that's a slow pace. Quite a difficult watch.
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kough33 | 58 23% |
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An expensive set design and cinematography experience is accompanied by a supposedly threatening sound in a movie in which nothing specific happens. A bunch of dialogues repeating what we have already seen, makes it even harder to take.
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| Jun 04, 2016 |  |
MUBIvotes | 36 61% |
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frederic_g54 | 7 56% |
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The Assassin's biggest shortcoming lies in its sluggish storytelling, boasting an undernourished screenplay which makes its deliberate pace exacting. There's just too little meat on the bones in terms of its underlying plot or, for that matter, the characters. Granted, while I struggled with the film, I was however enticed by its reserved, captivating atmosphere and the ending is most fitting.
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| May 05, 2016 |  |
filmfreak88 | 50 27% |
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Bunken | 80 88% |
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Halmbrander | 80 57% |
| May 02, 2016 |  |
JakeAesthete | 29 29% |
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It seems almost unavoidable to compare this to The Grandmaster, even if Hou and Wong aren't necessarily even particularly similar filmmakers per se. That said, whereas Wong was able to completely subjugate the wuxia genre and use it to further his typical style and themes, here the material feels more at odds with Hou's sensibilities and neither are particularly complimented by the other. Still, the cinematography is great, even if nothing else about this is very interesting to me per se.
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| Apr 26, 2016 |  |
hazelhawks | 55 37% |
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M.Robitussin | 90 60% |
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Mr.Cinema | 59 29% |
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| Apr 17, 2016 | Gifts | 84 80% |
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