Boo hoo wu hu

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2000)

This is a prettily photographed comic book story about two sets of lovers, one somewhat oldish, the other rather youngish, of which I couldn't care even a little bitish.
Every now-and-then, the love stories are interrupted by some fantastical fighting/flying/action choreography. These action interludes begin and end with little or no reason in themselves, and have no purpose whatsoever in advancing and story or plot. In the tradition of these Hong Kong style exercises in martial arts, there is much fierce striking and slamming of body parts with no apparent harm done to the participants, except on the rare occassion when a character has to die for story purposes.
Admittedly, the photography and choreography are not hard to watch throughout; but even before its two-hour running time expired, I found myself hungry for a real action film.