Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)

Review first published by LWLies. To Western viewers who perhaps first encountered it in its most stylised wire-fu form through Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the popular genre of wuxia – or period martial chivalry – might seem merely an empty (albeit thoroughly entertaining) excuse for decorously mannered sensation and spectacle. In this regard, Tsui…