Butterfly Lovers (2008)

Earlier today, I went to Cathay Cineplex together with some of my friends to catch this movie.

The plot follows closely in relation to the original story, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (梁山伯與祝英台).
The big difference would be that this is a martial arts version whereas the original one was about scholarship.

I haven't watched/seen/read the original novel yet but I'll probably find some time to do so.

Anyways, around 10 minutes or so after the movie started the theatre sound system encountered some problems. -_-
There was no sound for like 2 minutes, just plain subtitle reading. (bloody hell, I want my money back!!!)
Then almost everyone in the theatre went "ooii!! oiii!! *points*".

The fighting scenes were pretty fulfilling but very short. Even though I know it was a show about martial arts but it's pretty unrealistic that a guy can still jump from roof to roof after being shot twice on the back.

Overall, the show wasn't as touching as I expected it to be and the flow of the movie wasn't very consistent.
I'll only recommend this to anyone who just watches movies for fun.

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