Chess Warriors
2007-02-03
English Title: Chess Warriors
Cast:
Dicky Cheung Wai Kin
Amy Fan Yik Man
Ho Mei Tin
Howie Wong Man Ho
Summary:
This movie is about a chinese emperor and his love to play chess. He love it so much that he has created a huge chess board and the chess pieces are the the real life human, he called them his chess warriors. The rules are a little different from normal chinese chess game. When one chess piece beat the other, they will fight until one piece kill the other. The player control the chess pieces, telling where each pieces will go.
My understanding of chinese chess are limited. I used to watch my dad play when I was little. Not much of a player myself, so I can't actually explain it quite well. There is an online chinese chess game if anyone wanted to play with a real life person. It's at http://www.clubxiangqi.com
Anyway back to the movie. In every kingdom there is a corrupt official. That corrupt official hated the Chess Warriors because the guy in charges of teaching the other chess warriors are always ruin his plan to overthrow the emperor. During a chess match with the neighboring king, the emperor listen to an advice from the corrupt official and lose the game. As promise the loser will lose lands previously agree. (The emperor thought this is better than going to war for land) Not only that but his car piece lost his hand from the battle and the guy in charge of the chess warriors lose his life.
After the match, the corrupt official blame the lost to the chess warriors and their bad fighting skill. This led to the leader of the chess warriors' family arrest and the car piece guy left to die. Luckily the daughter manage to escape and she plan to get revenge. The car piece guy was save by a handicap chess lover and somehow gets involve in his affairs. Later on they will learn cool kungfu from a martial artist and will use it on a chess game.
There is also a love triangle going on in this movie too. It turns out that the car piece guy (I can't translate his name so I'll just use his chess piece name) will fall in love with the evil official's daughter. The leader of the chess warrior's daughter has also love the car piece guy but he doesn't love her. The guy that love her is the handicap chess lover, who later turn out to be a prince. In the end, well you have to watch it to find out. ^__^
I have to give this movie a 7/10. I am not a chinese chess fan. The only reason I actually watch this is because of Dicky Cheung is in it (He is the handicap prince). He is funny. I guess he's a comedian, like Stephen Chow. Lots of people say he copy Stephen Chow style but I don't know. No comment here on that. I don't care. All I care is after finishing a project or homework, I just pop in a Dicky's movie and he makes me laugh. That's money well spent. ^__^
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