On the level of pure popcorn entertainment, there’s not a thing one can fault the 3D megabuster for.
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Village VoiceSimon Abrams
Village VoiceSimon Abrams
The equally thrilling and exhausting Hong Kong martial arts fantasy Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings boasts more inventive weapons, monsters, and plot twists than most Western audiences will know what to do with.
Dee’s investigations are not truly suspenseful, or governed by much hard logic. Without these, what remains is a restless action-comedy with a few nice reversals.