Magnificent Cinematographyat its best... Storyline at its VERY worst.

Rating: 3/10 (8 June 2005)

Well I'll be definitely bucking the popular trend for this film. For me on the whole I was VERY disappointed. The storyline(s) is extremely disjointed and confusing. It had a nice overall message of integrity, but to be honest I was so frustrated with the disjointedness of the movie it over-rode any fondness I had for it. The simple concept of the movie was dragged on and on to the point it lost its cohesiveness.
Yes there is one saving grace; the cinematography is so outstanding, I have to think very hard to find another movie to rival it. The location is magnificent and the use of colour is magic. However the use of the colour tended to exaggerate the obvious disjointedness of the story(s).
Jet Li was terrible. He seemed to never put any real effort into his role. He was like a stone most of the time from his introduction to... well the end.
The shifts of stories was so bad I wouldn't even rate it a 1. But the saving, and only saving grace is that its a tremendously beautiful movie - eye candy that is!! And that, and only that, is what takes it from zero to a rating of 3.