El camino del guerrero

I have a very similar relationship to Asian cinema as I do to Asian cuisine. Some things I got a taste for right away and have repeated several times since (Akira Kurosawa, John Woo, Peking duck breast, kung pao...), some things I tend to be cautious about (comedies, various noodles made in various ways...) and some things I prefer to avoid (anime, sushi and other sea creatures). So the film The Warrior's Way (there's the title again!) was a great unknown. Fortunately, it turned out well, exceedingly. It's not a comedy, but exaggeration abounds, visually it's a beautifully re-styled spectacle almost as colorful as Lemonade Joe, the action scenes are deliberately exaggerated and thanks to that can be imaginative. The protagonist is rather inarticulate, which is a good thing, because the talking is done by his co-stars in the form of the charming Kate Bosworth, the frothy Geoffrey Rush and the slimy Danny Huston. If Italy made a spaghetti western, this could be a noodle western. Great fun, just don't take it seriously.___P.S. Intersonic has pleasantly surprised us this time. On the DVD cover it says that it does not contain Czech subtitles, but they are there. (09.09.2015)