What no one expected was that Yeoh would break her knee and need a month's rehab, or that it would rain sheets in the Gobi. He was finally ready to pay homage to his lifelong ardor for martial-arts novels and pictures. And nothing only about it. The fight scenes evoke grand old movies with computer technology. It's contemplative, and it kicks ass.
High art meets high spirits on the trampoline of the movie's plot.
Based on part of a Wang Dulu novel that runs to several volumes and thousands of pages, the script by James Schamus, Wang Huiling and Tsai Kuojung concerns the theft of a sword, the Green Destiny. The wiser, more cautious adults are both drawn to and upset by Jen's beauty and vagrant energy. They sense Jen's avidity for rare toys like the Green Destiny. And then one night, the sword disappears. Three years after its return to the mainland, the former British colony is showing signs of economic resurgence.