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The Magic Blade

24 years ago, "God of Sabre" Yang Changfeng was double-crossed and murdered by someone close to him.

Top Cast

  • Wallace Chung Hon-Leung

    Wallace Chung Hon-Leung

    Fu Hongxue

  • Baron Chen

    Baron Chen

    Ye Kai

  • Zhang Meng

    Zhang Meng

    Zhou Ting

  • Zhang Dinghan

    Zhang Dinghan

    Ming Yuexin

  • Lu Yong

    Lu Yong

    Nangong Bo

  • Jiang Yiyi

    Jiang Yiyi

    Young Ming Yuexin

  • Mao Xiaotong

    Mao Xiaotong

    Nangong Ling

  • Lily Tien

    Lily Tien

    Hua Baifeng

  • Berg Ng Ting-Yip

    Berg Ng Ting-Yip

    Qi Yixin

Overview

24 years ago, "God of Sabre" Yang Changfeng was double-crossed and murdered by someone close to him.

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  • McHomeschooled
    McHomeschooled
    Sep 17, 2020

    Intending to watch **The Magic Blade** (1976) on _Amazon Prime_ tonight, I inattentively turned on the identically-named and similarly-genred **The Magic Blade** (2017). A horrific mistake that I won’t soon forget. **The Magic Blade** (2017) is the first of two compilation films that recut the 40-episode **The Magic Blade 天涯明月刀** (2012) television drama based on Gu Long’s _Xiaoli Feidao_ wuxia romance novel series, specifically the _Biancheng Langzi_ trilogy ending _Tianya Mingyue Dao_ (1974). Unfortunately for me, I wasn’t familiar with the two prerequisite reading assignments or really anything related to the story so my only frame of reference is the film itself. The opening to **The Magic Blade** (2017) is so incoherent that I thought it was a poorly cut trailer. That is until it kept going and started to establish characters. After 15 minutes of soap opera-esqe reaction shots and feeling like I should know what is going on, I gave into to my curiosity and did some cybersleuthing, but, of course, at that point it was too late to turn back. The editing in film is abhorrent in virtually every way. A lot of that has to do with the fact that it’s trying to cram 13 hours of story into 108 minutes, but even the fight scenes are rough early on. The fight scenes surprisingly improve as it goes along, but that’s a hollow victory when scenes constantly have abrupt cuts that pivot to other scenes with no connection to what you were just seeing. There’s literally a fight scene were the villain changes from being a white-haired ghost to a masked assassin in the middle of the action for no reason. If I had to describe **The Magic Blade** (2017) in a single statement, it would definitely be “And then... and then... and then...”. There’s never closure of any kind; things just keep happening. If that’s not what you consider to be a good time, then don’t recklessly click play like me.

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