--- product_id: 88077449 title: "Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings" brand: "carina laufeng shaofengtsui hark" price: "239 zł" currency: PLN in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.pl/products/88077449-detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings store_origin: PL region: Poland --- # Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings **Brand:** carina laufeng shaofengtsui hark **Price:** 239 zł **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings by carina laufeng shaofengtsui hark - **How much does it cost?** 239 zł with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pl](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/88077449-detective-dee-the-four-heavenly-kings) ## Best For - carina laufeng shaofengtsui hark enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted carina laufeng shaofengtsui hark brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description For his bravery and cunning, the emperor entrusted sleuth Dee Renjie (Mark Chao) with a sacred mace whose ceremonial import-and rumored mystic power-make it crucial to the crown. The conniving Empress Consort Wu (Carina Lau) thought the artifact would be better off in her hands... and Dee is now faced with a cabal of wizard assassins pledged to deliver it. Third grand historical adventure from Tsui Hark also stars Feng Shaofeng, Lin Gengxin, Sandra Ma. 132 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Mandarin; Subtitles: English. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Review this entry is handedly the best of the series --Blood Brothers Filmostentatiously swirling mayhem --LA Timesblown the roof out to deliver some of the strangest and most delightfully batshit insane material that this series may ever see. --Blood Brothers Film P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Actor Feng Shaofeng is known for Wolf Totem (2015), White Vengeance (2011), Journey to the West (2011), and The Monkey King 2 (2016). About the Director Tsui Hark is known for Once Upon a Time in China (1991), The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014), The Killer (1989), and Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010). See more ## Images ![Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+M-DMa54L.jpg) ![Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91aky6SdMzL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wild spectacle *by M***S on October 17, 2023* This seems like it took most of a Deep movie, a little bit from a Journey to the West movie, and an unrelated movie about...I don't know what and everyone gave it their all. I love it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Campy *by G***N on July 23, 2021* The detecting part is well told.Better than a kung fu tale. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An entertaining film about an historical hero. *by W***S on May 10, 2022* The emperor presents Dee with a magic weapon called the Dragon Taming Mace. But then, the Empress becomes paranoid that Dee will use the weapon against her, and orders Dee killed. On advice, the Empress embraces foreign sorcerers called the Wind Warriors into her government. The Wind Warriors stage magic tricks to empress the emperor — a huge golden dragon threatens the court, followed by skeleton bats, a huge tantric god with thousands of eyes, and multi-armed red blobs. Zen Priest Yuan Ce comes to the rescue, with an antisorcery sutra to recite and the calming request that we all drop hate from our hearts. Then he disappears riding a giant white gorilla.—— WHO’S WHOTSUI HARK directed the film in 2018. Tsui started a new wave of Hong Kong cinema, directing Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) and Journey to the West (2017). Hark says that viewers “go to feel, not to understand” but this didn’t work for me.DETECTIVE DEE (Di Renjie) is a well-known historical character, magistrate, statesperson, and folk-hero of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). Popularized in the west by Robert Hans van Gulik’s 16 novels, there are now over 23 Detective Dee feature films.MARK CHAO (Chao Yu-ting) stars as Detective Dee. He also starred in Tsui Hark’s prequel, Young Detective Dee and the Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013) and The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity (2020). Unfortunately, Chao didn’t have the chops and Four Heavenly Kings suffered.WILLIAM FENG (Feng Shaofeng) is Yuchi Zhenjin, Dee’s friend who is alternately working to protect or kill him. Feng also starred in Tsui Hark’s Young Detective Dee (2013).KENNY LIN (Lin Gengxin) is Shatuo Zhong, a traditional doctor who saves Dee’s life. He was in Young Detective Dee (2013), The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014) and Journey to the West: The Demons strike back (2017). Not enough magnetism for this role.CARINA LAU is Empress Wu Zetian. She also starred as the Empress in Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) and Young Detective Dee (2013) among her 86 acting credits. She didn’t seem to be connecting in this film.ETHAN YUAN is Zen Priest Yuan Ce who gives the film direction and provides some good advice.THE EVIL WIND WARRIORS are Faceless Monster, Moon Water, Spectral Blades, Night Ghost, and Flying Smoke, seen mostly in CGI. The emperor used them to gain power and then dumped them.IS THIS AS GOOD AS DETECTIVE DEE AND THE PHANTOM FLAME?Heavenly Kings is an entertaining film, but I was disappointed when comparing it to the great Detective Dee and the Phantom Flame (2010). Here’s why . . .1) Heavenly Kings has Dee fighting magic and mysticism that is never explained. In Phantom Flame, logic triumphed over superstition and what looked like the occult was unmasked as clever trickery.2) Although their backstory was endlessly repeated, the villains' personalities are never explained, nor are the source of their powers. Ultimately, Dee fights a bunch of outlandish mind-controlling eccentrics who are never unmasked. It is all sorcery and “mass hypnosis” nonsense.3) Heavenly Kings suffers without the magnetism and screen chemistry of Phantom Flame’s Andy Lau, Li Bingbing and Deng Chao. Better acting made Phantom Flame a better picture.4) The Dragon Taming Mace is reduced from a great engineering feat to a magic wand.5) Heavenly Kings has so much going on with so few explanations that things get confusing and characters’ motivations are unclear. Compared with Phantom Flame, Heavenly Kings is a mess.WHAT DOES HEAVENLY KINGS TELL US ABOUT THE EMPRESS?Heavenly Kings blames Empress Wu Zetian’s extreme thoughts and behavior on mental illness with symptoms like irritability, anger outbursts, grandiosity, religious and persecutory delusions, and hallucinations. She believes she is a Boddhisatva (an enlightened being) and she prays to a golden stature of herself — this helps explain the huge statue of the Empress in Detective Dee and the Phantom Flame.TECHNICALSpecial effects included Digital Frontier, Cutting Edge, Cubic Pictures, Mofec, Oscar Fx, W2 Studios, IOFX, Macrograph. Composited on VFX Studio Ubuntu. 132-minutes.WES’ FAMILY RATING: “Mature Teens Only.” There’s has too much dark magic for young children.CONSIDERATIONS & RECOMMENDATIONSFour Heavenly Kings never really lives up to its predecessor, Tsui Hark’s Phantom Flame. Although King’s striking images ask for high definition, I think that renting it will be enough for most viewers.Feel free to click my name for more film ideas. 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