Beautiful

Rating: 8/10 (17 June 2006)

I do not pretend to be a martial arts film expert, but this film was amazing. The merging of such beautiful settings, with the breath-taking fights clearly defying physics but making what would be a bloody duel into a elegant and flowing "dance of blades", if you will.
The idea of the actual real-time characters largely not moving, and the film focusing on flashbacks, is well "pulled-off", through a clever plot and the many different possible stories, all possible and all fascinating.
Although many people may see this film as uninteresting, and just a fighting film, it is much more. It is a constantly gripping arts film; a cinematic beauty, an elegant marvel caught on film, almost.
I did not think i would like this film, but loved it. Try it out, i urge you to.