Rating: 6.6/10
Director: Hark Tsui
Release Date: 30 September 2010
Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama
Stars: Tony Leung Ka Fai, Chao Deng and Carina Lau
Storyline: In 689 A.D.,
the Empress Wu Zetian is building a 66 m high statue of Buddha for her
inauguration as the first empress of China under the objections and
conspiracy of the other clans. When the engineer responsible for the
construction mysteriously dies by spontaneous combustion, the
superstitious workers are afraid since the man removed the good luck
charms from the main pillar. There is an investigation of Pei Donglai
and another investigator that also dies after withdrawing the amulets.
Empress Wu assigns her loyal assistant Shangguan Jing’er to release the
exiled Detective Dee from his imprisonment to investigate with Donglai
and Jing’er the mystery of the deaths. They ride in a mystic and epic
adventure to unravel the mystery.
