A Writer's Odyssey

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A Writer's Odyssey

2021

2h 10m

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Fantasy

Drama

Adventure

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A man embarks on a violent quest to find his missing daughter.

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Richard Kuipers

Variety

Feb 12, 2021

From around the halfway point... a hollowness creeps in, with each new plot development promising insight and discovery but delivering little more than visual stimulation.

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Alex Saveliev

Film Threat

Mar 28, 2022

6/10

Yang seems to have embarked on his own writer’s odyssey, going for broke, with a substantial studio budget to help visualize his dreams.

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Kevin Carr

Fat Guys at the Movies

Mar 12, 2022

2.5/4

It isn't perfect, but it's still an interesting movie.

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Andrew Benjamin

Battleship Pretension

Mar 16, 2021

Kongwen has clear motivations that we see and can relate to. His is a classic hero vs villain story that is fun to watch. It's also visually just more exciting to watch.

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Sean Gilman

The Chinese Cinema

Mar 3, 2021

A solid action movie (with) an ingenious set-up rife with allegorical potential and the kind of sneaky politics one hopes to find as a sign of life in a mass-market product.

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Hasitha Fernando

Flickering Myth

Mar 1, 2021

A Writer's Odyssey has its faults, but don't let that deter you from seeing this emotionally engaging, visually ambitious epic. It's one hell of a wild ride, that's unlike anything you've seen before.

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Avindu G

@RT86379654 Dec 22, 2023

Writer's odyssey fails to take shape with a definite theme due to the excessive details that are packed into the two hours span. Two parallel stories are stiched together with force yet neither of them produce a proper story. Visuals are magical yet wasted on the confusing nature of the stories. Plot is understandable but the delivery is blunt. It's light hearted and proves that any idea when supplemented with right amount of technology could makeup to a good story. Performances doesn't look to be natural rather seemed as a struggle with the ever changing directions. Audio effects were fine but a bit too excessive. It's a fun watch but confusing.

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simon j

@RT50235455 Mar 15, 2022

Effects and conceptual art are great, but the storyline is confusing and too infantile.

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Jan 10, 2022

very nice visuals and I liked the simple story myself

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Oct 29, 2021

One of the very few Chinese movie that I went to cinema to watch. Amazing soundtrack; nice SFX. Story is refreshing and graphics is stunning.

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Jun 13, 2021

I absolutely loved this movie! It was so fun, emotional, and breathtaking in many sequences. I loved the way it played with story and parallels. I'm a sucker for xianxia and wuxia fantasy, but I wasn't sure about how the story would play out, divided between two worlds: the modern and fantasy. But it did so very well, and I had a blast!

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May 5, 2021

A boring garbage. This is a copy from other Hollywood movies with minimum creativity.

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Synopsis

A man embarks on a violent quest to find his missing daughter.

Director: Yang Lu
Screenwriter: Yang Lu
Distributor: CMC Pictures
Production Co: United Entertainment Partners
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Drama, Adventure
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 12, 2021, Limited
Runtime: 2h 10m
Sound Mix: DTS, Dolby Atmos

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