What we have here is a different beast from “Hero”; a film that delights in giving us spectacular violent encounters, yes, but that also decides to develop a romance that we all know has no way of ending well. [Full review in Spanish].

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 28, 2025

... it is the lush photography, magical martial arts choreography, and high-flying battle ballets that make the film so stunning.

| Feb 3, 2024

It reminded me of a Chinese version of Twilight to be honest with this horrible love triangle

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 29, 2020

None of Daggers' ménage á trios of characters is developed... It denies the drama audience sympathy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Gorgeous, but also very violent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

The studied, artistic affectations may prevent this Mandarin-language art house effort from being as kinetically potent as the films it emulates, but it more than compensates by offering up deeply felt emotions played out on a grand scale more than adequa

| Jul 4, 2008

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 27, 2007

A gorgeous film in all respects, both accessible and artistically satisfying. Excellent.

| Original Score: A+ | Jun 21, 2007

Moments of astonishing greatness followed by yawn-inducing romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Though it's full of action and suspense, House of Flying Daggers lacks the reverberations of Hero's plot.

| Sep 16, 2005

See it in a theater on the biggest screen you can find

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Though it is by no means explicitly political, the film expresses a tragic exasperation with the tendency of politics to subsume the rights and lives of individuals.

| Jun 21, 2005

Wonderfully conveys how the act of loving another can be a game, a sacrifice, a ruse, a weapon, a betrayal, and, most of all, a political act.

| Original Score: A | May 4, 2005

[Zhang] adopts a stylized but more naturalistic look for the visually sumptuous wuxia spectacle House of Flying Daggers.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 13, 2005

Assim que a histria parece prestes a se entregar a um clmax emocionante, o roteiro decide mergulhar no pior dos melodramas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2005

I'd rather sit through a slide show of scenes from this movie than revisit 99% of the fare churned out by Hollywood

| Original Score: A | Feb 25, 2005

Made me long for the days when director Zhang Yimou made intimate movies with emotional depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 7, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2005