Image Unavailable
Color:
-
-
-
- Sorry, this item is not available in
- Image not available
- To view this video download Flash Player
Painted Skin 2 (2012) - The Resurrection - W/ English Subtitle
Purchase options and add-ons
Customers who viewed this item also viewed
Product Description
Oriental fantasy love movie "Painted Skin II" again by Pang Hong Producer, Marketing Director, Young really Kam again marketing gold medal producer Chen Kuo-fu, the Golden Horse Award for best new director Ur good directed. Re-pooling Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, suction gold magic trio. More a collection of budding popular star Yang Mi, Feng Shao Feng, as well as the strength of the singing will be Kris and new Chenting Jia, about a "use your heart for me Yan" caused "skin deep, and the heart with the magical love story. The film runs through the three confusion and robbery, is the confusion of life, heart, confusion, love and confusion, color robbery, robbing the heart, Sang robbery, death robbed, love robbery. Each role burdened with confusion and robbery. "Painted Skin II 3D version in June 2012 within 28 days of the summer file grand release. Crack the eight Chinese domestic movie box office records. The highest single-day box office 90 million, the highest first weekend and 299.3 million yuan, one-week box office.
Product details
- Media Format : Subtitled, NTSC
- Actors : ZHOU XUN - ZHAO WEI - CHEN KUN - MINI YANG -
- Subtitles: : Cantonese
- ASIN : B009TH3LLA
- Customer Reviews:
Important information
To report an issue with this product or seller, click here.
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
This is a love story beyond most, and even the music is Perfect. I can't understand why it never got a Hollywood award for ANYTHING! What about the cinema-photography? Not good, but Great! Why can't Hollywood films get perfect editing like this one? And why can't Hollywood writers and directors put a film this perfect together? This film raises the bar, and it makes Hollywood fare look amateurish. Nuf said.
This mythology-flavored story begins when a fox demon in the form of a beautiful woman (Xun Zhou; Cloud Atlas, Painted Skin) is freed from an icy prison by her bird demon sister (Mini Yang; Wu Dang). They are called demons. But they're not your typical satanic, drooling, toothy-mawed monster demons. They're more like evil immortal beings.
The obscure story is driven by our two female leads. The millennia-old Fox seeks the willing heart of a mortal man in order to become human and a warrior Princess (Wei Zhao; Red Cliff, Painted Skin) who hides a facial battle wound behind a mask seeks her one past love (Kun Chen; Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, Painted Skin). They meet and the Fox offers to help the princess--a favor which comes with a price. The rest of the story is hard to explain without giving too much away...I won't even try. All I'll say is that this is a romantic tragedy told in a fantasy setting in which all of the love-seeking protagonists are deeply and differently flawed.
This film makes every effort to please the eyes with long wispy dresses, impossibly long hair flowing in the wind, a scintillatingly colored wardrobe for the Fox and princess, and CGI-enhanced lighting. The CGI elements are far behind their time, much as we would see in an early 90s movie (when it would have been first rate). However, despite its obviousness, it is occasionally crisp and beautiful...other times just plain lame.
The special effects techniques--among other components of the film--contribute to a strong sense of high fantasy with story-telling that feels like a story-driven videogame. The presence of a dire bear, magical items, forbidden love and demons contribute to this feeling.
Though rare, the action is uniquely stylized. While I am often disappointed by film editing which obscures the execution of techniques such that you don't really "see" them being executed from start to finish in one clip, this film delivers action in a way that I can compare to none other; it's impressive. Some of these moves couldn't possibly be executed by stunt men and sometimes CGI-ing the impossible just cheapens the experience. Yet here I enjoyed it as I would a comic book, a glimpse at a time with a notion of anime-action transition. It's hard to explain.
The finale may be exciting for early teens, but I found it all quite silly. This movie fell apart in the last 40 (of 130) minutes for me. But I guess it was still worth watching this beautiful movie.
6-14-17 2nd viewing proved quite hard to bear -- the slowness is just way way way too too. I forced myself to watch it all....had to just to see if the story did actually tie the knots. Quite the bitter sad tale. The beauty was still there in force, but, sheesh.
Not suggesting I watch this for at least years from now.
Top reviews from other countries
Vicky Zhao has some subtle charisma allowing her a wide range of emotions and characters, and here plays a wounded princess having to face dire circumstances.
The story is fairly complex and based on the forbidden love between two pairs of lovers. It came from an old collection of Chinese fable/ghost stories called Liao Zhai where you read about ghosts, fox fairies (some good and some bad) and their interaction, often leading to love and sex, with humans. Painted Skin is based on one of these stories.
As I did with films like 'Pan's Labyrinth', I left the real world behind to immerse myself in this world of twisted love, loyalty, cruelty, kindness and visual feast for a little over two hours. Wow, what a trip! The real world is now so mundane and boring by comparison.