All style, no substance

Rating: 1/10 (11 July 2007)

I heard good things about this movie so I stayed up to watch it when it came on TV at 3 a.m. The visuals were stunning, and the action sequences (especially the "mind battle" between Nameless and Sky in one plot) were fantastic.
However, from a plot perspective, this movie is terrible. First we get one plot of how Nameless killed the three assassins, which is false, then another detailing what the Emperor thinks happened, which is false, and it just kept going until I didn't care anymore. And why did Broken Sword get stabbed in every single plot? And I still don't understand why Nameless didn't kill the Emperor. If the cryptic "Our Land" message was supposed to be the reason, it simply wasn't good enough. I don't see why a man who had his province oppressed would kept from killing a tyrant for the sake of unifying with other provinces he's probably never seen, much less cares about. This is more proof that the critics, who have overwhelmingly lauded this movie, are out of their minds.