This movie do not deserve such high score

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2004)

As you may not know, most Chinese people don't like this movie.
for the first reason, real Chinese don't speak like in the movie, a real Chinese assassin wouldn't act that way, and real Chinese emperors and assassins don't think that way.
for the second reason, a Chinese could see easily from this movie that the story, the lines and the kungfu were designed particularly for western people, especially Americans.
The colours are like too much fat and oil in food, they are totally non-sense. Silk in the palace is only a meaningless symbol, assassins wear that, they make love in that, they fight in that, but, what difference will it make for them to wear plain cloth, to make love in bed, or to fight in an arena???
Although the pictures were shot quite beautifully ,kungfu was exciting and we can see digital technology which is never seen in movies from China mainland, the story, the lines and the ideas Zhang Yimou wanted to tell us is nonsense.