What a disaster !

Rating: 5/10 (26 September 2003)

This film had everything to be a great one : a good director, a very nice photography, a really good story, some pretty good actors (except for Jet Li who is not one) and so on. But I think it has been totally spoiled with incredibly stupid and grotesque phony fights, as boring as superfluous, to much kitsch wind, etc. People were laughing in the theater, which is a very bad thing when it's not meant to be. We kept imagining the film as it should have been, with more realistic fights (which is far from being antagonistic with heroism) and a real screenplay instead of the same tricks used again and again, with just a change of colors (which by the way were beautiful).