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Lavish sets and costumes plus eye-popping CGI animation showed so much promise of an A-plus movie, but the script was just awful! Even the heavy star power of the two main leads couldn't save this disastrous attempt at bringing the eternal love story to life, let alone draw in the audience and make us care. The dialogue was stilted, scenes jumped from one to another with flashbacks that didn't seem to connect, the clumsy direction was horrible making romantic scenes seemed cartoonish, lines delivered were either too wooden or too exaggerated...the list goes on. In spite of the gorgeous costumes, the designer couldn't decide whether to showcase the beauty of ancient styles or appeal to the modern mode. The female lead's hair and attire were modernized while everyone else around her was in historical costumes. This caused more confusion to an already chaotic narrative. The ending was the worst part of the movie. I cringed instead of feeling enamored. WTF was that?! Heavy sigh, I was filled with high anticipation and had waited for a very long time to be able to watch it for free...and I'm so glad it was FREE. I would've been more upset if I had to pay. Instead, if you can find episodes free on YouTube, watch the "Eternal Love" TV series starring Mark Chao and Yang Mi.

The movie is like taking the best scenes of the TV shows having the same name. The TV show is much better. This one is so broken. It doesn't have the important parts which it really needs to have, such as why Bai Qian ended on the place where she met Ye Hua? It's like if you haven't watched the TV series version, you wouldn't even get the whole story. The four stars I gave is for video effects, not for story. Finally, I would highly recommend to watch the TV series version first before watching this one. If you watch this one without watching TV series version, you wouldn't understand the whole movie completely.

Terrible ending!!!

I had a high exception earlier because of the unbelievable superior image quality in the beginning of the movie.

Yet storyline is terribly incomplete. The storytelling rhythm is crazy fast, plot driven in a hurry, like a millions dogs chased behind. Too much montage screen switch, and confusing characters recall methods. People who never read the original novel would never figured out the story, or either feel tire to a cheesy romantic story.

Storytelling is the basic foundation, amazing CGI can't save a bad storyline! It is call quality awful movie. The incomplete ending is the worst, totally bum me out. Beside, this movie is edit based on a copycat's novel. The movie failed is predictable because of the plagiarized work, it is empty and bombastic from the copycat because her character and setting were built on the others base. Then how can the director recreated a better piece from an empty work?

Updated: Chinese paid internet army please leave me review along, we all knew those rave reviews from this movie were artificial. Who else will interested to read the alibaba company copyrights news, and rated it high. Maybe idols fans will commend their idols acting, I don't have so much words on that. As long as they keep claim and be logic, it is welcome to describe movie and actor in IMDb. But just behave, stop ShuaFen. I thought I was very gentle to rate 6/10 base on the CGI already.

Chinese movie "Once Upon A Time" (2017) has blockbuster budget special effects and production values, with epic wide shots, huge armies, acrobatic fight scenes, a gorgeous color palette and exotic costumes, as well as insanely attractive actors (Yang Yang) and actresses. I am not familiar with the copyright scandal or the books "Once Upon A Time" is supposedly based on, but there was even a hint of a good story to draw from: humorous, tragic, heroic, villainous, a broken kind of humanity on which to savor. But with all this surefire appeal, even a comical animal sidekick akin to Disney films, "Once Upon A Time" quite definitely missed its mark.

The vast armies had no clout, the fight scenes held little meaning or surprise, the attractive actors became generic-in many ways, there was more splendor than distinguishment. The story had mystery, but it fell apart. One scene skipped to the next, one location became another giving the audience no sense of context or sequence. The story of so much grandiose complexity (300 year heartbreak, 70,000 year missed connections) revealed itself as flimsy. Everything which seemed meant to be epic had little significance, much like a special effect move in a video game with puny attack damage.

Major potential, but not a major let down because I didn't expect much when after forty minutes I still didn't feel any story progess or emotional investment. At this point I just finished the remaining hour and twenty minutes to be able to write this review. Too long, if you ask me and not really worth it.

For starters, the title actress Yiu Lifei who plays the forgetful immortal Queen is sorely uncharismatic although a few drinking scenes almost held hope. Her romantic interest played by Yang Yang is much more appealing and even might have acting chops, but his character had next to no dimension. The extent of their romance seemed only to be to cry on cue in a single, solitary tear across their porcelain cheeks. Boring, after a while.

Many of the side characters however do have a lot of charisma and some emotional depth. One feels there were some casting mistakes for the leads with favor for beauty instead of ability to emote. Luo Jin plays Yiu Lifei's drunken Phoenix friend and his part is small but his expressions sympathetic. Chun Li has a larger part as Yang Yang's consort and Yiu Lifei's jealous rival and she is appropriately evil and vulnerable. Others also play minor roles but do a well enough job. One feels as though with different casting and leadership this movie could've soared.

I'm giving "Once Upon A Time" a 6/10 because truly, the color palette and costumes are next level. The lighting at times was beautiful, and I liked most of the set designs. But for an almost two hour run time, beautiful colors can't sustain a momentous cliche of a film without even basic storytelling skills to back it up. Whoever this director is, they must have missed a few film classes because too often exposition shots are sorely missing and vital exposition in terms of the rules of the world is forgotten until it is much too late. Some backpedaling helped things but by that point I had given up.

6/10 for this weird mix of utterly remarkable visual effects and utterly amateur storytelling. I mean seriously who hired this director and where did they get the editing team from? Intro to film class?

This movie is the perfect bad example of trying to condense a long story under 2-hour time. It was like watching a beautiful music video with fast transitions, but no room for neither story development nor character development. On top of that, the main actors have zero chemistry. Start by watching the TV series starring Yang Mi and Mark Chao first, which does a much better justice of depicting the eternal love between Bai Qian and Ye Hua. Only watch this movie afterwards as a bonus feature.

Although there are quite numbers of negative reviews on this movie (mostly about the novel plagiarism which I don't think it should stop people from watching this movie who already bought the copyright legally from the author), I choose to walk into the cinema as I only trust my own eyes and listen to my own hearts. Overall, this movie is worth watching with very beautiful scenes, costumes, BGM, CGI, good looking actors and actresses. The acting skills of Yang Yang and Crystal Liu are also impressive especially on those sad scenes. However, some of the scenes jump a bit sudden without good transition. Audiences who have never read the novels or series might not be able to enjoy the movie much. Hence, some points are cut because of the film editing.

I watch this movie because my friend who was already read the web story and watched the series. I on the other hand have not heard much of the story except knowing this series or novel is quite popular. I kinda enjoyed the nice cgi and beautiful scenes. As always Chinese fantasy movies usually do produce nice artworks.The costumes were fantastic. Love all the intricacies and beautiful details of each costume. The actor and actress both beautiful and handsome and their on screen chemistry were wonderful. The only thing about this movie is the editing of the story for me is that it's jumping from one scene to another without much explanation. For my friend who already knew the story line , can grasp the whole who, why and what it's happening .But for me it's a bit disjointed, and after she explained to me 'the summary' of the story that i can understand fully what really happened . I would say if the director spend a bit more time of slowly unfolding the story from the beginning i would enjoyed it far more. This movie is like a fan service "summary" of a popular story where the fans already knows the story well to enjoy it more on a big screen with elaborate costumes, stunning cgi and scenery.

No doubt Yang Yang and Liu Yifei are 2 of the most charming actors in China. Enjoy their beautiful faces! But remember the movie meant to tell an Eastern story, or more specifically speaking, a fairy tale based on a typical Ancient Chinese world setting. I don't believe all those Carnival costumes have anything to do with ancient Chinese deities. I will still use my previous phrase here: the costumes are too much colorful and lousy. They make the characters look like genetically modified goldfish.   If you are interested in ancient Chinese costumes, thank you and go to the museum instead of watching this movie.   The storytelling is...Err... Maybe I am not qualified enough to say because I just felt very bewildered and confused about what was happening in the movie all the time. Read the Hollywood Reporter's review. They've made a very good point and I quote here: "Confused identities and scrambled romance make plot summaries impossible, and even describing the picture's quicksilver mood changes might test a reader's patience. "   BTW, as to the plagiarism scandal. The movie might have tried to be original, but the resource novel was a big plagiarism scandal in China. I love China. Chinese writers can write amazing stories. Unfortunately, the protection of copyrights in China is as solid as a thin tissue  

Now I understand that for many this is overly dramatic, not to mention very predictable. But it can also be seen as an escape and an entertaining movie to watch. I've seen way better movies that touch similar subjects, but I always try to not think about that if possible (not always achievable of course).

The CGI is more than obvious, which may contribute to you not having as much entertainment served as you would like. Themes about life, love and regrets are all here. With a touch of magic and some well choreographed fight scenes of course ... does that sound good to you? Then dig in

I watched this film during an excursion for my Chinese class. Since I'm studying the language, the best way to learn is to listen to people talking in Chinese, so we watched this film as it was just released. Just to put it out there, I don't usually watch Chinese films. I'm more into films like Inception, Pirates of the Caribbean, Finding Neverland, The Dark Knight, etc.

Did I end up being able to practice listening to some Chinese? Yes. Did I enjoy the movie? No. I thought the movie was really bad. I'm tempted to say it was rubbish.

Firstly, the plot. I think, in some weird way on a thin thread, the plot works if you can follow it. However, I went into the movie with only a brief synopsis/summary of the story, and half the time I had trouble following the story. This is partially because of the constant cutting between present time and flashback sequences - I often couldn't distinguish what time I was in; I had no idea whether Yifei Liu's character was supposed to be blind or not. The incoherent plot was also caused by the bad pacing of the film – it would jump between quick, short, action-packed scenes to long, drawn-out confessions of love.

I'm not a particular of the romance/drama genre so I won't consider this main theme when I'm rating the film. However, this film is absolutely loaded with romance and love. It tries to play with your emotions and, unless you're absolutely taken with the film, the attempt is futile.

Secondly, the characters. Most of the characters were played well. The performances by Yifei Liu and Yang Yang were not bad. There were, however, some moments that were cringe-worthy, either because their romantic lines were so cheesy or the actors were not as convincing in these moments.

Thirdly, the filming. The action scenes were quite entertaining. Costuming is very beautiful and effective in reflecting the Ancient Chinese context. Film score (music) was forgettable.

Visual/special effects are not so effective. Some scenes that showed vast landscapes/shots, like the underwater shot at the beginning, were breathtaking. However, there a moments where the effects are not so effective, such as the dragon(?) fight scene. Some visual effects didn't look real and made the film almost look like an animation feature. I can't help but compare these effects to other films I've seen, like Inception or Star Trek Beyond, where the effects are much more realistic and believable. (It is possible that this film had a much lower budget – I'm not sure).

Therefore, I recommend this movie to people who are interested in the Ancient Chinese theme, can handle romance overload, can ignore unrealistic visual effects, and like seeing a tiny bit of action. I do not recommend this film to people who have not done any pre-reading about the film. Even watching the trailer is not enough. (Besides, one of the trailers I watched only hinted about the love story – nothing about the context or the fantasy world it was set in).

Generally what I thought - I lost two hours of my life.

Once Upon A Time is a disappointing adaptation of To The Sky Kingdom by Tang Qi and in no way compares to the book or the masterfully presented internet/tv series entitled "Eternal Love" starring Mark Chao and Yang Mi. This movie, is at best, a rushed summation of the book with many of the essential elements and important characters missing or IMO, misrepresented. I suggest that you watch the series on Netflix or You Tube to grasp the magnitude of this great love story.

Watched this because of the series "Eternal Love" / "Three Lives, Three World, 10 Miles of Peach Blossom" that I love very much.. And got extremely disappointed..

• Acting was bad, it wasn't moving at all. Feel like character development is 0
• Plotline is confusing. If I hadn't watched the series, I probably will get confused with the storyline. (they prolly didn't have enough time to summarize everything in 109 mins, but I feel it could have been improved)
• Ending is confusing (I don't know if they purposely end it that way to raise discussion amongst watcher)

The 2 stars is for: 1. Soundtrack is amazing (I got into the series because of listening to this movie's soundtrack) 2. CGI is not bad

I think this movie earned a lot because of the series.. I recommend the series.. worth the 58 episode. The cast and story for the series are amazing. Esp Mark Chao. and Yang Mi. Both are so so so beautiful and acting was superb

I wish I didn't pollute my brain and my love for this world with this garbage of a movie. It completely butchered the story from the eternal love series.

• It was a horrible decision today start the story where they did. Too much back story omitted
• too many changes to the original plot

-The characters/personalities other than yehua are so different from what they should be.

I understand that this is "their take" on the story, but if I had watched this movie without seeing eternal love I would've rated it as 0/10

This is a Chinese fantasy film based on a novel, "To The Sky Kingdom."

"Ten Miles of Peach Blossom/Eternal Love" is a drama series starring Yang Mi & Mark Chao that came out before this film and it is so much better.

This "Once Upon A Time" version is like a half assed version of that.

I don't understand the point of this creation.

It makes me angry to think of every injustice that this movie has suffered since its release in China. I don't know why Chinese audience always screams about how rubbish the Chinese cinematic works are becoming, yet they can treat such a hard-work dedicated piece of art like rubbish??? Well, I guess "you get what you give", Chinese people, if you treat such a good movie like rubbish, then how can you deserve anything better than rubbish?

Now let me express some sincere thoughts about this movie:

1.Plot: The plot is awesome! Not only it is clear, logical, precise and sharp enough to execute an attractive love story, but the ending is also amazing! So creative, so unpredictable, shocking and meaningful at the same time! Sincerely, I have expected a more traditional happy ending or sad ending like Romeo and Juliet, because any average love movie will have an ending like that! But the plot of OUAT has surprised me and won my applause! True artists should be daring and creative like that! Movies are not just to watch, they should also help us to feel, to join in and to think along with the characters!

2.Editing: Well, I think editing is the biggest flaw of the movie. The transition between scenes is so "sudden" and interrupts the emotional flow of the audience.

3.Acting: The cast are beautiful, dedicated to their roles, very good chemistry between all the characters. Although their acting skills are a bit more suitable for dramas and still "weak" in terms of movie acting, but their emotional facial expression are naturally convincing, their voice acting is very good, the action scenes are amazing too.

4.Music: It is a bit disappointing because the BGM is "ok" but does not help to nurture the emotion of the scene. I mean the music is there, but it does not support well the acting efforts of the cast. Meanwhile, the BGM in the trailers and the three theme songs (especially the song by Na Ying) are extremely beautiful and emotional-lifting, but pitifully they are not used in the movie!

5.Special effects: It a 9 out of 10! Perfect! The art concept, the 3D effect, the special effects of wind, water, fur/feather and light.... I really appreciate the great efforts of the Effect crews to complete all of the fancy fairy world scene. Especially, all the special effects are used wisely and appropriately to support the story and bring better emotion for the audience. Meanwhile with other Chinese movies, special effects are mostly "emotionless" and appear just to "show off" the skills of the crews.

Once Upon A Time is definitely like no other Chinese ancient movie before. From the costumes, to the voice line of the characters, to the plot, to the depiction of the fairy world is so different from the popular perception of Chinese audience. But is is beautifully different. You may like or don't like the movie, but it is definitely a piece of art that should be treated with respect and appreciation. It may not be a perfect movie, but it is a movie worth 109 minutes to watch! Actually I'm gonna watch it again several times to capture all of the beauty and ideas hidden in every scene, every line, every details of the plot.

Zhao Xiao Ding, keep on going! Yang Yang, Liu Yifei, keep on going! As long as you give out your whole heart, there will be people who can see it!

The movie was so bad that I wanted to leave in the middle of it many times. Without popcorn, I wouldn't have made it to the end of the movie. The leading man, in particular, seems to be playing a model rather than a prince.

I like the technique of the film. The cast is very good and very beautiful.Actors are really beautiful, they are from China really? A colorful fairy tale. I like being immersed in the fairy world. I also like the boy in the movie, it is so cute. Hope everyone will like the movie .