Brotherhood of Blades
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
Sombre, breathless, extreme wuxia / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →In the late Ming Dynasty, three sworn brothers who serve as the imperial secret police are dispatched to hunt down Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch politician who had been forced to resign from his influential post and exiled from Beijing. The brothers return successfully from their quest, only to find that their task was but the beginning of a strange conspiracy.
Our read · Brotherhood of Blades (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded wuxia · action · historical entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Brotherhood of Blades
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