my 2 cents

Rating: 7/10 (29 December 2000)

There are plenty of comments on this movie already, so I only have a few points to make. Many had commented how great this movie is and I agree with most of them. Great cinematography and great story. It truely capture the accent of WuXia's world, especially "WuDan" mountain.
1.) For those who think this is the "oriental Matrix", get real. Yo Peng's movies existed way back to the 80's. Bamboo jungly fight scene are very common in WuXia world, nothing ridiculous about that.
2.) From my Asian point of view, the fight scene only worth about 7/10. For a 10/10 fight scene, watch Jet LI's Once Upon A Time In China series. AKA Wong Fei Hung. There's difference between martial artist who fight and actors who pretends they can fight.
3.) Chow and Yoh's bad Mandarin bothers me a lot more than I think, I guess it doesn't matter for most of you.