And now Ko has sent him out on yet another mission. He must infiltrate the Elite Villa sect and learn their secret plans. As I watched the film in the theatre, it became pretty obvious to me that it was a modern remake of something much older. Simply put, the film has two stories that alternate screen time. First, there's the wu xia story.
Motivations are effective.
Ko wants power. Her ultimate goal is to be the head of China's greatest martial arts school, and if she has to ambush and assassinate people to do it, that's their problem. If only the plot were up to the effort. At the end of their scenes, they either died or disappeared. This sort of thing is one of my pet peeves, so it sort of distracted me from everything else going on screen.