Understanding the Impact

Rating: 6/10 (7 January 2002)

Personally, I can't find anything in the movie that really gives justice to the praise everyone gives it. I mean it has beautiful scenery and the acting is pretty good. But so what if people fly around? I found nothing special about this film that makes it stand out from other contemporary chinese films. Or maybe because I've seen too many chinese movies to acknowledge the fuss. There are many other chinese films that have much better plots, but they were just never able to have a big enough budget to open like CTHD. For me, once you've seen one chinese contemporary sword-fighting film, you've seen them all.