The Magic Blade (2012)

Mom and Son moment!

The 2nd movie that I watched with Wallace Chung and I sort of loved this one. The Martial Arts, Fantasy, Visual arts was not a perfect 10 but it was liked. The things I loved about this movie was, of course, is Wallace Chung! The fact that it showed the Mother and Son bond in this piece. I'm a mom of 3 sons so my love for each one and I have a saying "If it took me to save any of my sons in health or life circumstances that I would sacrifice my life for them... I would do it in a heartbeat". I felt this in the story line. I know the movie was released listed in 1976 or here it is 2012 but I am trying to catch up on some of these Chung movies to see if he had passion in acting as he did back when as he did in 2017 " General and I" and so far he does! Don't fool yourselves, I'm not going to be one of those obsessive fans but I love a great movie and movies are not great unless the actor is. I also read where Wallace Chung loves Martial Arts and so do I.

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Dropped mainly because of one scene...

As with some older series, we need to keep in mind the resources available at the time and the mindset of the audiences back then. For its age, the costumes and action scenes were done relatively well. The dialogue and pacing in this one was a bit rough in the beginning but it progressively gets better. The plot itself and the actors are what draws you in. There's are loads of mysteries/plot twists, misunderstandings, secret pasts, romance, fight scenes, etc.

My main gripe was mostly the repetitive conversations between the characters and I've become exhausted from the constant melodramatic cries of love/love-stalking, and unlimited self-sacrificing stories. But let it be known that this is very watchable for those who aren't as exhausted as I am currently. This is why I was able to watch this many episodes but what made me finally drop this was when for the sake of one very loved person, they sacrificed the ghost doctor's lifespan of 10 years. And for his love interest to state that he was already old anyway and that 10 years wouldn't make a visual difference made me barf a little. Then to seal this nonsense, after he heals the ML, not a single person thanked him or showed any concern for him as he walked out alone without anyone even noticing. This completely discredited every single other main character for me.

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