Well, quite alot actually.
When I finally sat down to watch The Princess Blade (conveniently taped from SBS some time ago) I was expecting a hack 'n' slash action movie with a blood and gore rating somewhere between very high and Quentin Tarantino. SBS warned me that the movie was rated MAV (meaning mature adult violence I believe) and only hightened my expectations. What I saw, however, was a movie that never seemed quite sure what it wanted to achieve. Sword fighting scenes showed alot of promise but the convoluted story cock-blocked the sword fights every time things started get a bit frisky. In the 90 minutes of movie only about 20 mins are dedicated to combat. The rest of the story is mildly interesting but clashes horribly with the story in which the fighting happens, neither one coming accross as fully fleshed out. There is, howver, some enjoyment to be had here. Sound FX and the musical score are quite pleasing. The sounds of swordfights, the clicking of a loaded gun and the sounds of footsteps on various surfaces all sound really good. I mean REALLY good. For some reason the sound FX kinda made this movie for me. In a way the combat sounds better than it looks, kinda funny that. The acting is a mixed bag, sometimes satisfying but often just bland. The lead actress who plays the brutal hottie isn't particularly good, but she does have quite a piercing gaze to go with her piercing katana. In the end it's hard to say how I feel about this movie. It's not great, it's not bad and it's also not very long. You may find it worth watching, who knows? It's underwhelming but there are certainly worse ways of spending 90mins.
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