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This movie is a huge fantasy with martial arts based on historical facts (THREE KINGDON IN CHINA). Wizards and dragons clash, and good and evil collide. War breaks out, the people and loyalists suffer, and the hero fights a lonely and desperate fight. For us who are familiar with Western superhero movies, it is well worth seeing as an Asian Super Hero. Zhao Yun courtesy name Zilong was a military general who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty and early Three Kingdoms period of China. Originally a subordinate of the northern warlord Gongsun Zan, Zhao Yun later came to serve another warlord, Liu Bei, and had since accompanied him on most of his military exploits, from the Battle of Changban (208) to the Hanzhong Campaign (217-219). He continued serving in the state of Shu Han - founded by Liu Bei in 221 - in the Three Kingdoms period and participated in the first of the Northern Expeditions until his death in 229. While many facts about Zhao Yun's life remain unclear due to limited information in historical sources, some aspects and activities in his life have been dramatised or exaggerated in folklore and fiction. In the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he was lauded as a member of the Five Tiger Generals under Liu Bei.