Hao Lan zhuan

Jinyan Wu is the Kristen Stewart of China, dull, expressionless, and for some reason all the men in the series are madly in love with her. The script is terrible, full of conveniences and characters taking meaningless actions.

The series is supported by the magnificent costumes and excellent actors (except the protagonist).

Yuan Nie in many moments maintains the series with his charisma and Jing Ning created a very interesting character who is cruel and wonderful at the same time.

It had everything to be a memorable series, but the terrible script and dull protagonist ruined the series.

But in the last episodes the series becomes terrible, boring, almost unwatchable.

The shooting scene is very beautiful, the actor's costume is also beautiful, and the heroine is very smart

Soooo boring and it's worse than Yanxi Palace, the storyline was all about some boring war, failed attempts to escape for several time. So boring hrmm

The 3 stars:

• Beautiful scenery & costumes
• Very good acting from many actors (Han Qiong Hua, a side cast did very well. Most impressed.)
• Some good moments of ingenuity and cleverness

THE BAD:

• Horrible script. The writer keeps dilly dallying and using a multitude of irrelevant filters to fill the episodes.
• Just when you think the lead male hardens his heart for a bigger cause, he weakens and falls back into her arms, and ruins his plans once again. This carries on at least 20 times. For Christs' sake. Once is fine. Twice is plenty. Thrice is stale. And they went more times than that.
• There is just no sense of a good script at all. People can walk in and out of the palace to anybody's content. The way they write this is ridiculous.

If you are a big fan of Yanxi Palace, stay away from this. You'd be sorely disappointed.

Some were saying that this movie was boring it did take a bit longer than what I thought it would cuz most of them move pretty fast but it was kind of like a Chinese, "Game Thrones", I didn't understand why someone would want to be a queen of a place that her family despise and was it war with all the time That's the only part I didn't understand but I don't understand all the culture either and I'm getting to know the culture sometimes by watching these historical period pieces.

I love the actors and actresses I have my favorites and I've seen them in other things and that's the one big reason why I watch a lot of culture movies because of the actresses and actors in them so that's why I gave a 9 out of 10 on this score.

Yes it could have moved a little faster but I still liked it because it's done in episodes and I started watching on YouTube so it was hard to find when I wanted to watch the whole thing and not have the episodes scattered. Now it's on a whole different platform so I can't watch it anyway but I've already seen it, No spoilers.