Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

(2010)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 443 votes

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Year: 2010

Runtime: 122 мин

Country: China, Hong Kong

Director: Сюй Кэ

Cast: Энди Лау, Ли Бинбин, Дэн Чао, Тони Люн Ка-Фай, Карина Лау, 吳耀漢, 泰迪羅賓, Лю Цзинь Шань, Yao Lu, Ван Дэ Шунь

Plot

When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.

In 689 A.D., the Empress Wu Zetian is building a 66 m high statue of Buddha for her inauguration as the first empress of China under the objections and conspiracy of the other clans. When the engineer responsible for the construction mysteriously dies by spontaneous combustion, the superstitious workers are afraid since the man removed the good luck charms from the main pillar. There is an investigation of Pei Donglai and another investigator that also dies after withdrawing the amulets. Empress Wu assigns her loyal assistant Shangguan Jing'er to release the exiled Detective Dee from his imprisonment to investigate with Donglai and Jing'er the mystery of the deaths. They ride in a mystic and epic adventure to unravel the mystery.