I was tortured more than the storyline...

Rating: 1/10 (10 October 2003)

Whether you take this movie as an allegory or just as pure on entertainment, it is sadly lacking. The fountaining of blood is remincent of the 80's and quickly tiring. The cross between those unbelievable, badly dubbed Marial art movies with 1 weakened man (in this case woman) able to defeat armies despite the draining injuries and anime would be laughable, if it wasn't the whole movie.

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT BELOW Plus, you can feel no connection with the leading lady, who is for some mysterious reason a target of a group she once embraced. It is hard to feel bad for an killer when the table was finally turned on her. No only does her previous lifestyle fail to enamour us to her, the fact she is walking down the aisle while pregnant with another mans child does not particularly endear me to her.
There are so many unanswered holes in the plot...Why was she targeted? Where does she get the money to fly all over the place from? How could she lift a man above her head when she was too weak to barely lift her sword? How can she recover for years of atrophied limbs in a mere 13 hours? How can she casually be near the scene of so many crimes and not get caught? And please make up your mind, is she an expert with the weapons or not? It seems every new foe she meets she is almost defeated, but perseveres and triumphs.