Made me laugh

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2002)

This movie is just begging to be spoofed. I was actually laughing out loud through much of it. The way they were flying around in the fighting scenes just seemed a little too much. Instead of just exaggerating the physical abilities of the characters, they simply rewrote the laws of physics. Suddenly they are flying around in unbelievable ways. The only justification for this in the plot is that they found some book that they studied to tell them how to fight this way. I'd like to get that book!
Another thing that made me laugh was the Jade Fox character. We are lead to believe that this somewhat old lady is able to fight off three people. And she didn't even learn the special flying techniques some of the others knew (she couldn't read the book, she only looked at the pictures!). It was pretty funny, sort of like seeing your mother really kicking some ass. And this was the main villain in the movie.
One thing that was a little annoying about the fighting scenes was that there were something like 10,000 punches and kicks thrown and almost nothing ever connected. And when they did connect, the other guy just went flying off to another wall or roof or tree.
Another scene that was pretty funny was the one were Jen is sitting in the restaurant and the group of 15 or so guys go to attack her. She is probably just over 100 pounds and these big guys attack her while she is sitting down and she kind of just blocks them to the side with a single arm and she is not in the least bit jostled. It's funny, when she's flying around she's super light, but in this scene she is suddenly as dense as lead. HA HA HA!
Best comedy of the year! 10 out of 10
In all seriousness, this movie certainly does not justify the high rating it has here. The fighting scenes in B movie kung fu pictures are much better than this flying around stuff. The story was decent but a little hard to follow at times. I understand that this movie was not well liked in China, and I'll have to say I agree.
5 out of 10