Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Original title: Di Renjie: Tongtian diguo

2010
PG-13
1h 59m

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6.6/10

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Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)

An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.

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An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

12K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 10 wins & 17 nominations

Shangguan Jing'er
(as Li Bing Bing)

Andy Lau

Detective Dee

Jean-Michel Casanova

General Aspar
(as Michel)

Sos Haroyan

Assistant to Umayyad Ambassador

Jialin Zhao

Interpreter

Yan Qin

Jia Yi

Jinshan Liu

Xue Yong

Aaron C. Shang

Shaizi
(as Aaron Shang)

Deshun Wang

Xiazi Ling

Mickey He

Prison Officer
(as Shenming He)

Lu Yao

Li Xiao
(as Yao Lu)

Yanming Jiang

Undertaker

Yonggang Huang

Zhang Xun

Richard Ng

Wang Lu - before face-lift

Teddy Robin Kwan

Wang Lu - after face-lift
(as Teddy Robin)

Director
- Hark Tsui
Writers
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Trivia
Based on the Chinese folk hero Di Renjie, popularized in the West by a series of detective novels written by Robert Van Gulik, who called him "Judge Dee".

Goofs
General Asper, the Umayyad Ambassador, speaks modern day Spanish, a language that did not yet exist as such at the end of the 7th century CE.

Quotes
Detective Dee: Ruling requires power and strategy, but right and wrong cannot be confused.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2010 (2010)

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Featured review

7/10

really not all that bad.

As far as wire trick movies go... this was actually rather good in my opinion. I really enjoyed the action scenes, the maneuvers seemed rather plausible and life like, no major glitches or hang ups, and for once you couldn't see the wires (big yay there!) As for the story plot.... neh not that real impressed, I got hung up a lot with story line, about surviving the shot through the chest... with the fire beetles, with the fight scenes that defy gravity and all that.

Characters were interesting... Not sure what to make of the acupuncture/transformation bit. Kind of weirded me out, although it wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen.

As for the name... I think its rather lame and/or something got lost in the translations.

Over all this was an interesting movie, though I'm not sure I'd watch it again.