Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.
Top Billed Cast
Yu Shi
Ji Fa
Kris Phillips
King Zhou
Li Xuejian
Ji Chang
Huang Bo
Jiang Ziya
Narana Erdyneeva
Su Daji
Chen Muchi
Yin Jiao
Xia Yu
Shen Gongbao
Yuan Quan
Queen Jiang
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2023-10-21
As with any film that's the first in a trilogy, this spends just a little too long setting out who's who but once it does, this develops into an enjoyable fantasy adventure film that brings a wonderfully vibrant myriad of Chinese mythological and human characters to life. Ancient rivalries and battles between humanity, the deities and some marvellously created mystical beasts - especially the dragons - form the basis of the story set some three millennia ago. Personally, I tended to the side of the immortals - and there's even the slightest hint of a bromance for one of them - as the "Demon Fo...
S SejianVerified TMDB Critic
2024-11-07
This was quite fun!
"The Investiture of the Gods, also known by its Chinese names Fengshen Yanyi and Fengshen Bang, is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons genre written during the Ming dynasty." Yes please, give me more!
This is the second time this year I'm being treated with the mother goddess Nuwa in media, and being mixed Chinese and only recently learning this part of Chinese mythology, I am happy for it!
It's a long movie, so strap in. I don't complain about movie length unless it's a snore and this isn't. The CGI isn...
