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Watch it - The Seven Swords

March 3rd, 2008

During some time out this weekend, I had the opportunity to watch an awesome film on my newly acquired Sky HD box via the Sky Anytime feature, that film was Seven Swords.

It’s certainly a while since I last got to sit down and enjoy some Martial Arts on screen and this was no disappointment, what I would consider to be an epic in it’s own right with a tale of love, betrayal, heroism and magic swords. What more could you want from a film?

The thing that caught my eye with this film was the beginning (sort of what happens to me with books, I either switch on to it immediately or not at all), a bunch of downright evil looking barbarian types (think Mad Max) start slaughtering the innocent with a multitude of insane weaponry. Umbrella’s that remove heads, wierd farming devices that remove limbs and all out madness ensues which leaves a poor village decimated, and that was only the beginning!

Now I know what you are thinking? A bit different from your last post huh? Well yeah but it is time we got down a dirty and I do love a good Martial Arts flick! You can’t have insane weaponry without some poor soul catching the sharp end and you know the good guys always win right? Good, so lets move on…

The general gist of the movie is that some emperor dude has decided to kill everyone that practises Martial Arts as he sees them as a threat so he has hired crazy weapon wielding nasties to go out and kill them all. The downside for the nasties is that little did they know there were awesome warriors hidden in a mountain that would come and kick their behinds with cool swords, shame on them for not anticipating it!

I could rabbit on for a while about the cool cinematic’s etc but really what I want to do is throw you straight into the action so you can experience some of the uberness and then go watch it for yourself. I know there have been some folk slating the film but quite frankly they are wrong, this is a great film that I would recommend to anyone.

Enjoy the vid!