Absolutely beautiful film and quite possibly Jet Li's best film, with an engrossing story, and top notch performances

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 2006)

This is an absolutely beautiful film, and quite possibly Jet Li's best film, with an engrossing story and top notch performances. All the characters are fantastic, and the fight scenes are very well done, plus Jet Li is simply amazing in this!. All the characters are extremely likable, and the scenery is absolutely stunning, plus the ending is a shocker!. It was a hard film to follow at times, because I am not really familiar with any of this stuff, however, I was really stunned by the story, and really liked how it all unfolded, plus the cinematography is incredible!. The wire work is also very good, and I especially loved the battle on the water, plus Jet and Donnie Yen had a fantastic fight! in the beginning. I thought it was especially cool when they shot hundreds of arrows at the same time and that they put it in slow mo, and the music is fabulous, plus it has some very emotional scenes as well. It's quite unpredictable, and it's wonderfully arty as well, plus I can see why this film is so popular. This is an absolutely beautiful film, and quite possibly Jet Li's best film, with an engrossing story and top notch performances, and I say go see it now!. The Direction is wonderful!. Yimou Zhang does a wonderful! Job here with outstanding camera work,wicked angles, great use of colors, awesome slow mo shots, and just keeping the film at an extremely engrossing pace. The Acting is top notch!. Jet Li is amazing as always and is amazing here, he had this intense stare look on his face throughout that really worked, and gives one of his finest performances, he also kicked that ass, looked really cool, and was just a lot of fun to watch! (Jet Rules!!!!!). Tony Leung Chiu Wai is fantastic as Broken Sword, he was really likable, had some good lines, and was my 2nd favorite character here, I loved him. Maggie Cheung is gorgeous and does excellent here as Flying Snow, she had some great emotional scenes with Tony Leung, had a cool character, and even though she was unlikable at times, she did an excellent job overall. Ziyi Zhang is incredibly gorgeous, and does fine with what she had to do as Moon, I really liked her. Daoming Chen does what he has to do well as the King, I liked him. Donnie Yen is fantastic as always, and showed off his great martial art skills, I just wished they used him more often (Yen Rules!). Rest of the cast do fine. Overall go see it now!. ***** out of 5