The Warlords

The movie adapted from a Qing Dynasty (1644 1991) tale about the (assassination of Ma Xinyi) deals withe three Blood Brothers during the taiping rebellion of the 1860s. When the movies opens we see general Pang ( Jet Li as the legendary General Ma ) emerging from a pile of corpses in the battlefield. Pang has played dead while his army is being massacred after being betrayed by Kiu forces. Pand is rescued by a runaway courtesan Lian ( Wu Jing Lei ) and he joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu ( Andy Lau) and Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro). When soldiers attack the village Pang suggests to Er Hu and Wu Yang that they join the Qing army and fight for a cause instead. The three then take an oath to become ( Blood Brothers ) pledging loyalty to one another to the death. Inevitably this pact is threatened when Pang gets embroiled in a web of political deceit orchestrated by the Empress advisors. To make things worse Pand is also involved in a love triangle with Lian who happens to be Er Hu lover.