Final 2008 Film review: and onward into 2009

This one took forever because I kept getting an error message every time I tried to post it. I had to retype by hand. Weird.


Warriors of Heaven and Earth

On paper this had everything I love in an historical film with fantastical elements:

handsome male leads in strong roles (one surely doomed; one you're not sure)

a strong and sympathetic female character (the general's daughter as calm, competent, courageous, but not--as she would not likely have been in that culture--secretly a ninja warrior;