very different but dam good

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2001)

when i sat down in my local theatre to watch this i didnt know anything about it i hadnt read anything about because it didnt attract me it foreign stuff doesnt usually. It began with well awesome backgrounds and well the theatre i watched it in was very state of the art so it was in very big and wide format then i thought oh no and nearly left subtitles and stuff no thanks but when i sat through it and watched i though yeh ok then came the stealing of the sword the first real martial arts scene of the film i mean "whoa" i sat there in total concentration i even started to check for cables round them for they flew and hovered over roof tops amazing some very very good camera work. The fighting was very fast i mean this was a film made in china it looked like it cost tons it was all very professional i mean in the matrix there were mistakes and stuff you could see when watching it but this was flawless now the story was also good i mean i didnt understand the sacred chinese things that happened so obviously a strong culture change was immersed. To even expect to sit through something 2 hours long with complete detail to lots of action which everyone wants at the end of it i mean learning about a culture on film usaully go's in one ear and out the other by the time you leave so they didnt try and force it on you so it could be watched just for the fighting. It was all well acted even if i couldnt understand a word for it to have been dubbed i would have preferred but it may have spoiled the chinese feel it gave please watch this give it a chance its amazing.