Amazing Film which appeals to both sexes.

Rating: Null/10 (11 January 2001)

It's got amazing fight choreography. Nonstop action. A romantic twist of drama for the ladies. Plus it empowers females as potent figures of physical power, grace, and depth. Well done. My own biases clouded my judgement of this film at first. I criticized that it made women seem too off the wall for anything plausable. Myself being a white middle classed young guy who lives in a suburb and goes to malls like alot of other people reading this, you don't see too many women with even the potential ability to match the grace, the altheticism, and the acrobatics that are expressed by the women who star in this film. Yes, i've seen guys who can perform the things they did in the movies, but never women, and i've been a martial arts student for a few years even. Then I came to terms with the fact that, the women in this film are Asian, and that's a hell of alot different than the mall strolling Joe or Jane from America. Also, I came to terms with the idea that no one can fly around like Peter Pan, as these characters do in the movie. But having seen a few Japanese animes and having tasted a few Japanese created video games, it seems as though the flying bit is an assimilated part of oriental culture. Thus, I think this movie deserves a lot of respect for ways which are very alien to most Americans, but seems to be very much an element of eastern ways. Bravo.