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Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings is Tsui Hark's third Dee film, but the second prequel to the original, and it finally puts the Empress center stage as an antagonist, tying into the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. The fairly generic Mark Chao is once again "Young Detective Dee" (though no longer young enough for it to be reflected in the movie title, which just seems to be like a sad confirmation that Andy Lau will never play Dee again), caught up in another crazy wuxia mystery, this one filled with witches and wizards trying to overthrow the Tang Dynasty. You might even call them supervillains. The insane Buddhist finale has to be seen to be believed, but it's also a dreadful deus ex machina. The least of the three films, story-wise, it does have better character development and much better CG than the previous installment, so it's entirely watchable even if sometimes you wonder just what's happening and who all these people are. 5 years 2 months ago