The music IS the best bit...Really!

Rating: 3/10 (18 April 2004)

maybe I don't get it, but this film doesn't work.
I love Hong Kong/John Wu/Kung-Fu etc etc movies, but this is too daft, too over the top, too boring. I sat and sat waiting to find what the 32,000 people saw, who have voted it into the top 100 on IMDB. I am still waiting.
I think its the hype, it rolled over the world laing it on several feet thick. People saw it and thought it must be good... . But, it isn't, it really really isn't.
It sits in the same trough as Magnolia (utter tripe!) and Godfather pt3 (directionless, uninvolving tripe..but tripe none the less!) where people seem to believe it is good, because it should be good, (and all their friends spout "its good" so they don't seem to be the only stupid one.)

The Emperors New Clothes obviously still lives on!