What is all the fuss over???

Rating: 1/10 (9 March 2001)

After reading movie reviews and listening too all the acclaim for this film, I finally went to see it with high hopes, expecting an epic. About an hour into the film, I realized that not only was this movie FAR FAR from an epic (such as a Gladiator or a Braveheart), but it wasn't even good. The action sequences made "X-men" look realistic. Indeed, they would be more at home in a Mortal Kombat movie. The fighting itself was fairly well done, but certainly nothing you haven't seen recently in any number of other films. What really puzzles me is how anyone (above the age of 10) can honestly say that this movie has much of a plot. It is transparent from the start, and is basically a rehash of any number of earlier films (including dozens of B movie martial arts flicks). I was tempted to get up from my seat and leave about half way through the movie during the "desert romance" sequence that interrupted the progression of the main plot for 20 minutes are so, while convincing me that this is quite possible the most overrated movie of all time. Are Chinese movie viewers really this unsophisticated? If you want decent action combined with a love story, rent "The Princess Bride" instead of wasting your time with this movie.