The Most Overrated Film I Ever Saw

Rating: 3/10 (26 February 2001)

How could this movie make your top 10 list? The plot was ridiculous. The fight scenes were no big deal (generally any low budget Chinese Kung Fu movie has similar scenes. What was with all the flying? And the 70 year old woman who reads a manual and becomes an awesome Kung Fu master?

The beginning of the movie introduces a sword that is very old (I think about 400 years) that gets stolen. It then turns out that nobody really cares about the sword.
It then turns out that an aristocratic young woman (who also read a manual and became and awesome Kung Fu master) stole the sword. Why? It is never really explained. She also had an affair with a guy in the desert who leads a band of rebels. The scene where they meet involves him attacking her caravan and stealing her fan. She chases after him on horseback. There are some horse riding tricks performed as the two battle on their horses (something like Indiana Jones did in Raiders of the Lost Ark).
The fight scenes are an insult to anyone that has studied martial arts. One person can take on hundreds and never get tired. (the director needs to see any Jean Claude Van Damme film to see what exciting fighting looks like) And then they fly and float in the air like Mary Martin in Peter Pan. There is also a scene where the old woman shoots poisonous needles through a Gatling gun type device and the needles are blocked by the heroes swinging their swords.
This movie is two hours long and the plot just didn't ever make sense. The ending was ridiculous too. Hollywood must have made real garbage last year if this bomb could have been considered for an Oscar.