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Village Voice
Visually unspectacular and emotionally stillborn, The Sorcerer and the White Snake fails as both a fantasy and a romance. Full Review
Justin Chang
Variety
Overblown saga of shape-shifting demons, butt-kicking clerics and the perils of interspecies romance occasionally dazzles but finally frazzles with its relentless visual assault, embedding Jet Li and his capable castmates in one screensaver-ready fantasy backdrop after another. Full Review
Mark Jenkins
NPR
This China/Hong Kong co-production flips the formula: The fantastic images are solid, but the action is less substantial. Full Review
Oliver Lyttelton
The Playlist
Perhaps hardcore Jet Li fans will be able to get some joy out of it, but we'd suspect that even they will struggle with this one. Full Review
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
A mad, laugh-out-loud mashup of “The Little Mermaid,”“Harry Potter,” assorted vampire tales, “Pan’s Labyrinth,” the disaster epic “2012” and oh –“Pokemon”– just to impose the cinematic precedents on display here, Sorcerer is a Chinese twist on the reliable sword and sorcery genre which caused Hollywood to impose “Clash of the Titans” and “Immortals” on the undeserving. Full Review
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