Great movie... one of the best from China

Rating: 9/10 (23 February 2004)

Good story line, wonderful direction and beautiful cinematography. Even though I was never a great fan of Jet Li's acting abilities, he was fine here. The rest of the cast was stellar. The use of the different color schemes, although not exactly subtle, was visually stunning.
I know some people complained about all the "flying" around in the movie. However, that is how these Chinese martial arts novels have been written for centuries and thus became an integral part of these type of movies for over some 50 - 60 years. Besides, no one is complaining about how Luke Skaywalker did some gravity defying moves in the "Star War" movies... which by the way has a lot of parallels to these old martial arts movies, minus the space ships of course.
POSSIBLE SPOILER: By the way, in the Chinese culture the color white is associated with death and is the color people used to wear to funerals in the old days.