Visual masterpiece and quite....dull

Rating: 5/10 (30 August 2004)

Sorry can't help it. The movie IS visual stunning, it's nearly perfect in it's genre, but to me if feels as charismatic as the communist regime in China.
It's a monumental CGI stunt, nothing to do with martial arts at all. Tony Leung is the best actor of the lot, but he as the rest, hasn't got anything interesting to say. It's a movie filled with symbolic, open for interpretation. I don't get a kick out of it.
To me a movie like "Oldboy" is 10 times as powerful as this movie.
See this movie for the spectacular scenery, colors and CGI and show of for friend, by pumping up the volume in some of the fight scenes...great surround sound. That's it!
6/10