Over-Rated

Rating: Null/10 (6 March 2001)

Not a bad story, the action at times was great, but something that bothered me (and please be patient while I try to explain this) was the inconsistency of the super human actions of the characters in the movie. In the first action sequence, the two fighting characters are flitting over roof tops as if gravity is lower in this universe. In the same sequence, one character is bounding between two walls to climb them, indicating she is super-humanly strong to do so. If she is lighter than normal, why wouldn't she just do a standing jump to get where she wants to go?
If the sequences were played such that the characters were very strong and very acrobatic and were so powerful that they could jump very high, I think the action would have satisfied more hardcore martial arts fans and impressed the more plot oriented viewers. In that light, the characters should not have simply floated between roof tops, but should have jumped high in the air in wide arcs. The lighter-than-gravity concept best demonstrated by the bamboo sequence could not be played realistically, because it required sustained action by the characters that they could not pull off because, in fact, they are not lighter and were supported by wires. It limited their movements and distorted their actions, which would not have happened if, say, the movie were animated and the artists could actually make the characters move correctly in a light gravity environment.
Really weird and nit-picky I know, but that's how I see it.