Pointless style

Rating: 3/10 (29 January 2003)

And even the vaunted style isn't that great. Am I the only person who found the cool chop-socky sequences completely ruined by the lame, badly-realized "flying" effects?
Yeah, yeah, the cinematography's gorgeous, but it's in the service of a storyline that is as corny and clichéd as anything that ever came outta Hollywood, and as muddled and confused as anything that ever came outta Barbra Streisand's mouth.
And at least classic Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan-type chop-socky flicks don't take themselves so *seriously*.
3 out of 10...grudgingly, for the camera work.