beautiful and forgettable

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2002)

My thoughts on this film.
It is a beautiful movie. It look s very very good. It has a lot of fighting scenes. Some of them are entertaining, but most of them are just plain stupid. The sound and music works fine, but are not that noteworthy.
The main problems with this movie are these things:
1.Uninspiring story
2.You never really get to know the characters that good, so I at least couldnt care less about what happened to them. I dont think it is the actors or actresses fault, it is the story. Of course, if you speak Chinese you may get more into it, but I still think it will fall short.
3.The flying. Why they thought that removing the gravity in some scenes would improve on the excitement I will never understand. It just ruins the whole thing.
Some people has written here before that it is a fantasy movie and that we should have an open mind to what is possible in a fantasy movie. I agree, in a fantasy movie I always accept these things, but this is NOT a fantasy movie. At least none of the trailers or ad's for this movie has given me that impression. As far as I know it's a tale from the ancient times. If people flew back in those years I would love to know the reason. At least then I would accept it as a fairytale.
This movie would be very good without the flying, and it could have been great with more depth. (Just because it comes from exotic China does not make it deep and thoughtful)
Why people compare this to Matrix, I dont understand. They have absolutely nothing in common. (to say it is similar because of the fighting scenes is like comparing Rambo to the X-files because they both have guns in them)
My personal impression of this movie says not to recommend it to others, but it is not a bad movie so a lot of people will like it.
I will rate it as I rate games.
Visuals: 9/10 Sound : 8/10 Story : 6/10 Value : 6/10
Score in the normal IMDB fashion would be a 7/10