Why did they choose this movie?

Rating: Null/10 (24 August 2002)

The movie isn't bad, but it's not great either. I can name plenty of other Hong Kong martial arts movies which are much better and more entertaining than this one. So why did they pick this one out of the 100000 Hong Kong movies released every year? and rated this high on imdb? My guess is that since this movie got picked/hyped and shown to western countries, they rated it this high. Not just in imdb..
What I'm getting at is that there are so many other great Hong Kong martial arts movies better than this one which I'd much rather see highly rated.