Beautiful movie...both visually and story wise.

Rating: 10/10 (15 September 2004)

I have to admit I was expecting a bit more action, however, I was not disappointed in the least watching this movie. This had to be one of the most gorgeous movies to look at I have seen. The use of colors and the locations were just great. As if that were not enough it had a very good and emotional story to go along with it. The first part of the movie contains the most action as there are some good fight scenes plus other visual action scenes. The arrow scene and the fight between the two women in the orchid are both very well done. Then the movie shifts in more of a story mode as things are revealed and sacrifices made. The movie unfolds from different perspectives as the one known only as Nameless tells his story to the emperor. The characters all have some rather cool names as well such as Flying Snow and Broken Sword. The movie is a bit of a sad one, but it works very well. I was also happy they kept it with subtitles rather than dubbing as dubbing can ruin a movie of this sort.