Détective Dee - Le mystère de la flamme fantôme

Titre original : Di Renjie: Tongtian diguo

2010
PG-13
2h 3m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,6/10

12 k

MA NOTE

Détective Dee - Le mystère de la flamme fantôme (2010)

An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.

Liretrailer2 min 11 s

6 vidéos

99+ photos

Wuxia Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller

Un détective en exil est recruté pour résoudre une série de décès mystérieux qui menacent de retarder l'intronisation de l'Impératrice Wu.Un détective en exil est recruté pour résoudre une série de décès mystérieux qui menacent de retarder l'intronisation de l'Impératrice Wu.Un détective en exil est recruté pour résoudre une série de décès mystérieux qui menacent de retarder l'intronisation de l'Impératrice Wu.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,6/10

12 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 10 victoires et 17 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Based on the Chinese folk hero Di Renjie, popularized in the West by a series of detective novels written by Robert Van Gulik, who called him "Judge Dee".

Gaffes
General Asper, the Umayyad Ambassador, speaks modern day Spanish, a language that did not yet exist as such at the end of the 7th century CE.

Citations
Detective Dee: Ruling requires power and strategy, but right and wrong cannot be confused.

Connexions
Featured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2010 (2010)

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5/10

Flashy and colourful epic with good actors yet sadly underwhelming

There's some very good things to say about this film. Great set pieces, wonderful camera work and some very good actors. Colourful, historic and epic in its aims, with some great but not overly violent martial artistry.

Yet for all that it ticks off on the list, it's just not very engrossing.

The detective story is a bit convoluted and tries to marry magic, superstition, rationalism and surprise. Yet, it gets all a little too confusing and not something you can accept. I agree that you have to suspend disbelief, but you are meant to be figuring out the mystery and you just lose interest when some of the revelations are made. Some of it is clever but too left-field to admire.

This is just a disappointment. I just couldn't get into this, I watched to the end and was left just underwhelmed. As said, I liked a number of things about this film, yet the sum of its parts is definitely not less than the whole.