best meets worst.

Rating: Null/10 (8 September 2004)

I don't know what it is about foreign films from China and Japan, but they all seem that they are all trying to live up the the greatness that is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Not that this movie was bad, but that all of the movies that keep pouring out of the east all seem to just be generic.
I think the worst thing about this movie, all together was the way it was the water fight scene. The idea that they were using their swords to balance on the water, well it kind of make me think about a cartoon my cousin was watching. The idea that some one could use a sword to balance themself was kind of strange to me. The running on water I could kind of believe. Other then that, the battle scenes were okay.
Now the biggest problem with the movie is that some people could not understand it. I know I did since I've read up on martial arts and am not a complete moron, I saw some people leaving to movie muttering "I have no idea what just happened." So if you have a small attention span or no idea how to follow a story with out an explosion or two... don't see this movie.
I gave it a 7/10 because the idea has been done before, but the story was compelling.