Cast of The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
Dong Li-Fan House of a Thousand Flowers Manager An Yun-Cheng House of a Thousand Flowers Patron Gong Geer Apprentice Cheng Gao Yu-Lin South Beauty Restaurant Manager Wang Rui-Huan Young Eunuch Xu Chong Dugu Cheng/Cheng's brother/Old D Daniel Yu Cock Fighting Gambler #1 Ning Hao Cock Fighting Gambler #2 Chen Liwei Young Swordsman Li Ming Young Big Eight Chef
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman Reviews
New York Times Andy Webster
In his embrace of American sensibilities, Wuershan seems to have mastered a Hollywood specialty: empty calories served loud, flashy and fast. Slant Magazine Jesse Cataldo
Wuershang is too busy mixing up a slurry of postmodern techniques, abortive fight scenes, and noisy set pieces to spend any time on fundamentals. Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
Wuershan's heavy hand, never letting up for a moment to allow any air or life to enter the film, cuts off the film's energy even as it rattles relentlessly on. TheIndependentCritic.com Richard Propes
The film is chaotic, but it's also a tremendous amount of fun for those able to simply abandon their expectations. New York Post V.A. Musetto
And the prize for the most incomprehensible movie of the millennium goes to the Chinese martial-arts comedy "The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman." Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
Only in the centerpiece sequence does first-time director Wuershan successfully maintain his balance of the grotesque and the fanciful, a tricky feat elsewhere upset by his obnoxious style. That Shelf Shelagh Rowan-Legg
This film breaks almost every filmic rule regarding amount of content, pacing and editing speed, but somehow the combination flies through the air as swiftly and smoothly as the magical cleaver, slicing all that oppose it. Film Journal International Maitland McDonagh
This coarse, complicated period comedy is unlikely to catch on with mainstream U.S. audiences, while fans of contemporary Chinese movies will compare it-mostly unfavorably-to Stephen Chow's equally broad but more graceful action comedies. If [it] sounds juvenile, well, okay, maybe it is. But who cares, when it's all so damn much fun?
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