This historical epic has a few things going for it, including charismatic leads, particularly an intense Mark Dacascos; some lovely landscape cinematography, and an inspired bit of horsemanship. However, its large battle scenes are incompetently staged but unfortunately well-shot and all the energy drains out of the film once the main love story ends - between the two brothers-in-all-but-blood. After that, the demands of genre step in and characters revert to types and start reciting triteness.