Detective Dee: A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami
The cloud wisps that materialize into the written introduction of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame inform us in stately language that the film is set in the year 689 A.D., when the Chinese regent Wu Zetian was about to become history's first female emperor. Rival warlords aligned to block Wu's ascendancy and, the narration adds in a switch to pulp-magazine idiom, "All hell was about to break loose." Hellfire, to be exact: as they oversee the construction of a giant Buddha to honor the Empress's coronation, several high officials literally burst into flame, their bodies quickly reduced to a sulfurous, satanic char. The Devil was rarely such a showman.
Tsui Hark, though, has been raising cinematic hell for more than three decades. The Hong Kong movie mogul — who was born in Saigon, studied film at the University of Texas and worked at one of Manhattan's first cable TV stations — went on to direct about half of the best pictures from Hong Kong's golden age ( Peking Opera Blues, Once Upon a Time in China, Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain ) and to produce most of the other half (John Woo's A Better Tomorrow , Ching Siu-tung's A Chinese Ghost Story , Yuen Wo-ping's Iron Monkey ). From a tiny colony of 6 million souls came a stream of vital, eviscerating melodramas that taught Hollywood how to infuse action films with a whirling visual poetry. Behind the camera or as a prodding overseer, Tsui Hark was the central creative figure of a truly popular national cinema.
Like other Hong Kong directors, he did a stretch in L.A., helming a couple of Jean Claude Van Damme movies, and returning home when the international taste for the S.A.R.'s low-budget thrillers had atrophied. The worldwide market was interested only in traditional martial-arts fantasies — and, really, only two of those: Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's Hero . Tsui Hark's gorgeous new adventure, which had its world premiere at last year's Venice Film Festival and is now opening in the U.S., meets those two winners on their own level and often soars deliriously above.
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