Excellent movie. Beautiful cinematography and acting.

Rating: Null/10 (19 February 2001)

This movie is extremely good. It is also very "Chinese", with the martial arts based on old stories of Taoist masters. There was a nice love story, and plenty of fight scenes. There is also a sad ending, that a lot of people don't like. They say the final death makes no sense, but I guess everyone forgets "Romeo and Juliet". The locations used were incredible, and sometimes I actually missed parts of the fights because of looking at the scenery. Everything was very understated, as far as personal relationships between characters, which can throw some people off. I still believe this is one of the top movies of the year.