The promise, everything started of under the cherry blossom tree.*How romantic*. I always love the cherry blossom tree. It portrays the tender yet full of romance feel, gentle yet aggressive to love feel. Everything under the cherry blossom tree is just so perfect.

The story started of when Qingchen, was searching for food right after some battle has taken place. Yeah, when she finally found some stuff to eat from a dead soldier, a little boy was soon tricking her and ties her to the tree. She begged the boy to give her back her food and let her down. The little boy agrees to let her go if she agrees to be his slave. Qingchen says she will only agree to the terms after the boy has set her free. The little boy was very angry when Qingchen was tricking him.

Qingchen then kept running until she was at the lake. Her food stock dropped in to the lake while she was hopping on the tree trunks on the lake. She stood there and cried, when suddenly a goddess appears right before her and gave her back her food. She also makes an interesting offer to Qingchen. Yes.. a very interesting offer. An offer where she will not live in poverty for the rest of her life, all men will adore her, be rich, eat and drink the luxury way.Yes.. but in return, she will have to give up her true love. She can never have true love. Even if she does, the guy who she falls in love with shall die immediately. Pretty cool if you ask me, if I’m her, well I guess I will also pick the same choice. Hahaha...true love? I guess that only exist in fairy tales.

Until this part I find the movie really entertaining and I thought it is not as bad as what being mentioned. But everything after this point is really disappointing and saddening. Even if it manages to make me laugh, I am not laughing with the movie but somehow rather, I am laughing at the movie.

The show then starts of with the 20 years after scene. Where there the great General Guanming is at battle. Yup, a great battle against the great barbarians. Yes, they were out numbered. 200,000 barbarians vs. 30,000 soldiers. The clever general soon pays a man a big amount of money to buy all his slaves. He wants to use the slaves as baits. While the barbarians were busy on attacking them, the soldiers shall sneak from behind and counter-attack them. Everything was going on fine until the barbarians released the bulls, Yes, furious bulls to kill whatever that is in front of them. I must admit the sight where all of General Guanming’s men on the top of all hills were breathtaking. It’s simply amazing. It gives me this feeling of seeing the Great Wall of China.

However I am quickly disappointed with the CG’s. Especially when Kunlun is crawling his ways towards safety. Yes.. no kidding. If you are sitting right next to me during the movie, I was laughing loudly while watching that scene. Guess what, I even manage to shake my head a few times and wonder if I was in the wrong cinema. I just can’t accept the fact that he’s actually crawling in the air. And the way he runs.. I can only think of two words to express it. Yes, two words is more than enough. “Forest Gump”. Ring a bell?

Kunlun soon became “da man” when he manages to attract the bulls back to the barbarians. Yes they suffer a great damage being knocked down by the vicious bulls and then followed by the attacks of from General Guanming. He soon became the general’s new run man (I know it sounds funny, but well it’s nothing compare to watching it on the screen).

The general was soon sent to head back to the palace when news were being spread that Nicholas and his army surrounded the palace to take away the king’s precious concubine, Qingchen. While on his way back, the general got lost and bumps into the goddess. There, he was told about his fate but the general refuse to believe it and makes a bet with the goddess. If he loses the bet, he will have to give the goddess his tears of true love (which when he does shed a tear, he will die).

When General Guanming finally found his way out of the forest, he was quickly ambushed by a hit man sent by Nicholas. Kunlun manage to save the general, however the general was hurt badly. Thus, Kunlun took over the general’s place to save the king.

The scene in the palace was simply amazing. Nicholas hahaha… he is stunning in this movie (well, if we minus of ½ the amount of feathers on his body). Qingchen soon stirs a big mess when she say she will let the soldiers see what is she wearing underneath her robe if they put their weapons down. The king then commanded Qingchen to strip in order to protect himself. The angry Qingchen then asked the man to pick up their weapons and point it to the king if they want to see her naked. That’s when Kunlun (pretending to be the general) came into the picture and killed the king.

Okay they ended up at this valley. Yup, being surrounded by Nicholas and his army. Despite him trying to save Qingchen, he agrees to jump from the valley in exchange of Qingchen’s safety.

What’s new? Qingchen was then caged in a big and beautiful cage while Kunlun manage to cheat death and went back to the general. The general was furious when he found out Kunlun has killed the king just like what the goddess has predicted.

General Guanming refuses to believe in fate and makes another bet with the goddess. He believes he can make Qingchen falls deep in love with him instead. General Guanming soon commands Kunlun to save Qingchen.

Oh my god! My brain almost malfunction when Kunlun manage to free Qingchen from the cage using a long rope. He then pulls the rope and Qingchen was flying in the air as if Kunlun is flying a kite. It’s just so fake and impossible. To make matters worst, Nicholas manage to cut the rope and Qingchen was falling. Kunlun manages to save Qingchen. However, they ramp into a small window. When I say small, I mean “small”. And guess what.. both of them manages to ramp in without breaking the walls or whatsoever.

Matters get more complicated when Qingchen thought that General Guanming is the one who loves her and willing to die for her instead of Kunlun. Qingchen falls for Guanming almost instantly. Kunlun on the other side was blur. He was then saved by Nicholas’s hit man, which turns out to come from the same race. The descended of the Snow People. It is said that the Snow People have the ability to run very fast. So fast that they can run forward and backwards to the past and future.

The scene starts to pick up when Kunlun discover that Nicholas wipes out their entire race and killed his family members. And to even spice up the scene, Guanming was being trapped by Nicholas. Yes, a pretty stupid way to trick that guy. Yeah I’m not gonna leak out how he was trapped. But hey, I could tell it was a trap beforehand. Sigh! this is bad.

Oh this is getting way too long, ermm fast forward. Kunlun tries to save the general and free Qingchen. Oh ya did I forget to mention? Qingchen was captured not long after Nicholas trapped Guangming. The fight between Nic’s hit man and Nicholas himself was superb. I just love the settings when the fight in a room between the crow blinds. I thought that scene was the best in the show. Yes, something I must give credit upon after lots of my brain cells melting and dying despite watching this movie.

The ending of the show is somehow ridiculous and pretty standard. I was disappointed though. I mean, well maybe I expected too much from this show. I don’t know. It just doesn’t manage to convince me this is the most expensive movie China movie to date.

I feel they could do better on the CG’s. I think they should spend more time on the script. It was bad. Everyone I know thinks it’s confusing (including myself. Knowing I will always argue with people and discuss the movie plots with others). Seriously, the storyline was bad.. seriously bad. Even having good actors in the movie can’t help to cover the severe problem in the storyline.