Visually pretty otherwise pretty bad

Rating: 4/10 (14 December 2004)

I know there's a new appreciation for Chinese action movies in the make of 'hidden dragon' but any movie where you can dance and fight in thin three branches (hidden dragon) and fight skipping on water (this movie, is just plain bad.
The fight scenes are over rated in my opinion. People fly like supermen through the air, dance over water and hit thousands of arrows out of the way, so a guy can complete the word for sword.
I don't get these movies and why they're so great. Visually the movie is at times beautiful, but the fight scenes are a letdown. 7 Samurais are still the archetype of this genre and if I want to look at cool fight scenes, I'll watch reruns of the Matrix series.
Give me a short and brutal Samurai fight scene anytime, over a athletic anti-gravity Chinese sword movie.