Shi san tai bao Li Cun Xiao

My copy is a digital file that plays on a HDTV as wide screen but small and with poor resolution. It is dubbed into English by the A team of voice overs. This hokey video format is half of what is bad about the movie. I have checked around and my copy seems to be as good as it gets. It is wider than the 4:3 of the old Ocean Shores VHS tapes but only because it is stretched. The end result is everything you see seems too close. A viewer might not even notice this but when the fights begin it breaks down. Fans of this genre are well aware of how bad a fight comes across when it is filmed too close. Compound that with the low resolution. The result is making me wonder why I kept watching it. Oh yes, to write this review and then say I am done.

The explanation for this movie is the "Terracotta Army" that was discovered on March 29, 1974 by farmers near Mount Li. This was the army of stone statues buried with the first Qin emperor. The producers took the idea of an army of stone statues and made a martial arts movie. Obviously, not much thought was added after the initial idea.

There is plenty of fighting and Dorian and Polly are excellent fighters. Unfortunately because of the poor video quality I found it impossible to enjoy the fights. Usually I don't criticize a movie for that reason but because there is no better copy in existence I cannot recommend this for fans of the genre with normal eyesight.