Far better than "reviewers" take.

Rating: 8/10 (24 August 2001)

My wife and I found the movie to be much better than we were led to believe by critics. The acting was great, the plot well laid out and the direction exceptional. The fighting was well done, the setting perfect. It was not smothering in foul language but, of course, hollywood seems to have a pathetic need for the "f-word" even though the word did not exist during the period covered in the movie.