What a great movie

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 2001)

One of the few movies over the past few years where I have gone to the theater twice to see the same movie. The fighting is great, and probably where it gets its appeal in the US. The music is perfectly tuned to the events in the movie, haunting music for the slower scenes, more upbeat for fight sequences. The acting and plot were both first rate.
If you have never seen this movie before, watch it with the subtitles. I listened to only a bit of the english dubbed version and found it to be not so good. It doesn't take much more of your brain to read the subtitles, and I believe it adds a lot to the movie. It also appears that the translation for the english dub and the subtitles were done by different groups, so the meaning may come across differently in a few areas.