An action film in the Chinese way with many typical Hollywood elements

Rating: 4/10 (6 February 2001)

As I expected after seeing the trailer and reading about the movie I did not like it!! It is worth mentioning that I was persuaded by friends to watch it with them but I regretted it at the end. There is too much action in it and many incredible scenes where fighters fly in the air. It wouldn't have annoyed me if the plot itself were interesting. Even that was not interesting for me since the movie was concentrating on these fight scenes and irrelevant love stories in a Chinese background. The most of the plot is typically from Hollywood. Nevertheless it did not have a happy end which made it deviate from the Â‘normal' plots. Anyhow I was not really able to understand this end! I was disappointed this time from the director since I saw other brilliant of his works like `Eat drink, man woman'. The photography was good especially showing the beauty of the nature in China. The sound track was also interesting for me. It was made mainly with far eastern style but it was also mixed with many other styles and a big variety of instruments. In brief if you like action films with love stories and you want to see one in an exotic atmosphere I can recommend this movie to you.