| Cast |
Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye Liu, Dahong Ni, Junjie Qin, Man Li, Jin Chen |
| Director |
Yimou Zhang |
| Screenplay | Yimou Zhang, from the play by Yu Cao |
| Music | Shigeru Umebayashi |
| Cinematography | Xiaoding Zhao |
| Editing | Long Cheng |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2006 |
| Produced by | Beijing New Picture Film Co., EDKO Film Ltd., Elite Group Enterprises, Film Partner International, Standard Chartered Bank |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Die Burger Jacques Liebenberg  Kan geensins kershou vir Zhang Yimou se vorige meesterstukke nie. | 1 |  |
| Cape Times Kevin Thomas Dramatic, lethal palace intrigue. | 10 |  |
| iAfrica.com James O'Ehley Ultimately, spectacular production designs and giant CGI battles can't really disguise 'Curse of the Golden Flower's soap opera plot and often hammy acting. Still, fans of the genre would want to check it out. | 10 | |
| Mail & Guardian Shaun de Waal | 14 |  |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman Curse of the Golden Flower is certainly a visually stylish production, but it lacks something called soul. | 14 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge Superb acting, action and design gove this film stature. | 15 | |
| BBC Jonathan Trout A visual experience that few big screen outings could hope to match. | 10 | |
| Box Office Wade Major An opulent spectacle of almost Shakespearean gravitas and eye-popping cinematic virtuosity. | 15 | |
| eye Weekly Adam Nayman The battle sequence is phonily spectacular - all CGI swarms and god's-eye military choreography - but it's a marked improvement on the preceding Shakespearean intrigue, which is merely spectacularly phony. | 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Curse of the Golden Flower is director Zhang Yimou's ambitious attempt to blend martial arts action with Shakespearean melodrama. It's not a perfect marriage but it offers two hours of solidly over-the-top entertainment featuring incredible visuals and powerful performances by international icons Gong Li and Chow Yun Fat. | 15 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers If looks were all it took to thrill, this opulent, near-operatic historical pageant would rank with Zhang Yimou's last two epics, Hero and House of Flying Daggers. But Golden Flower is cursed with being too much of a good thing, starting with Gong Li's cleavage. | 15 | |
| ScreenItProbably not for pure action aficionados and likely too overwrought for those seeking realistic drama, Curse of the Golden Flower is as pretty as the chrysanthemums that fill its signature and titular festival. | 12 |  |
| Metacritic.com 32 critics | 14 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 112 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Fans of martial arts epic will get what they bargain for. | 13 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 7594 Netizens Zhang Yimou's zillion-yuan test for the Beijing Olympics | 14 | |
Average .. 61% | 12 | |