Amazing beautiful movie with an ordinary Asian "impossible to understand" reasoning

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2001)

Although I am not a fan of martial art films I must say that the fighting scenes was the big upside of the film. Unreal - sure, silly with people flying in the air - sure, but it is filmed in such beautiful and magic way that you just want the saga and special effects to continue. The effects reminds me a bit of Matrix. One unusual but positive thing about the film is that it has women in the center of the fighting scenes. One scene when one girl practically wrecks a whole 2-floor restaurant with a whole army of warriors within it spurs the audience to laughter thanks to the girlsÂ´s snappy lines and cocky way.
The story is apprehensible but the way these Chinese people think and reason is beyond my understanding. Moral, ethics and an understanding of what life is really about seems to be the core message through the film. This is also a feature that increases the value of watching it, see the world through new eyes!
The actors are good, but they lack expressions of feelings, they are all kind of stoned-faced but perhaps that is the way people were like in those days in China.
7/10