This is the best Chinese fantasy epic movie I've ever seen. With top-notch script, nice visual effects, and most importantly, full respect for the ancient wisdom in the collective imagination of folklore and myths, it depicts a tragic picture of human beings, deities and demons at the time of change. Despite that the picture is huge, the way the storyteller walk us through it is quite personal. It landed on the dilemma of a teenager who was asked by the monarch to kill his father. His responsibility as a son, a loyal guard of king, and as an individual conflicts with each other, keeping him in misery and forcing him to make a final decision. Therefore, in spite of the ancient Chinese setting, it has the power to touch people from another culture background. I believe people around the globe will like it as much as they like the Game of Thrones.

Absolutely a fantastic movie, the storyline, the acting, the virtual images, the music all made this movie an Epic movie.

Let me talk about the conclusion first: this is the best mythical epic movie in China!

As a fan who read Fengshen Yanyi at the age of seven and re-read the original novel countless times in more than 20 years, I can say responsibly that this movie is definitely not a magic reform! On the contrary, it is the first masterpiece among all film and television adaptations.

Some passages that seem magical at first glance are actually well-founded, and they are the optimal solution after careful research and selection. The adaptation of the movie is very good.

This new story from a contemporary perspective can be called a divine script. It is seamless from beginning to end, and echoes before and after the transition.

Can't wait for the 2nd one!! Highly recommend to everyone!

It's a phenomenal movie, it revolves around the core of the prophase of the Chinese civilization--fatherhood and inheritance. The director has excellent taste in history and Chinese myth. Very clear storyline and character shaping, all of them correspond to the ancient Chinese value system, the kind intent to manipulate his sons equals he wants to dominate the whole regime, but he has the ambition to eliminate his ancestors to build his surmountable power which makes he be seemed as a villain in Chinese culture. The cinematography is top-notch, I am appealed to the whole time in the movie! Highly recommended, it's a stunning epical representation of the Shang Dynasty and Chinese myth!