Great looking, but...

Rating: Null/10 (8 February 2001)

I'm not quite sure I understand the comments by those of you who said that the film was well scripted, that the story was, on it's own, worthy of the praise it's received both by professional and non-professional critics alike. Beautifully shot, well-acted, well-choreographed, Wo Hu Zang Long stands as a cinematic thing of beauty; still, I thought the plot was very thin (many of you have summed it up in few words), it's characters placed in a very secondary position. For example, Yun-Fat Chow's role was more implicit than anything else- how little we've learned about the history of his character; how little exposure we were allowed of his life. The same could be said of most of the characters, except the Jen Yu. It felt like it would've been a fine sequel.