Artistic, Kick-ass Martial Arts, Great Story

Rating: 10/10 (27 February 2004)

Some people don't like this movie because a lot of the scenes are unrealistic or overdone. My response to that: this movie isn't meant to be realistic - it's meant to be fairytale-like and exaggerated. The scenes in this movie are extremely beautiful.
For those who don't care about artistic stuff, this movie has serious ass-kicking martial arts scenes too! They aren't bloody and ultra-violent, but they are amazing and intense nevertheless. In my opinion, the actions scenes in this movie blow away the ones in The Matrix series any day.
The plot of this movie is brilliant too.