Cinematic Excellence!

Rating: Null/10 (24 February 2001)

This is a really beautiful film. A film where women dominate the fighting and have the upper hand on men in the physical world. It takes s country like China to role reverse in terms of who is better at fighting in terms of the sexes. Then the male goes completely spiritual and wants to teach the female to "improve" on what she has learned. I loved it, loved the actors, they were wonderful and inspiring.
The film, however, requires a lot of dramatic licence (for 40 somethings) but when you give it that: WOW!.
The wonderful thing about this film is the fact that one could never view it on the television, it would lose in its impact. IT IS BEAUTIFULLY PHOTOGRAPHED!. It is China's "Big Country".
In England, Cinema is dying everyone buys videos and DVD's. It seems that people want it this way, with a film like this, however, it would be great to see the cinema come back to life here.
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