House of Flying Daggers

A gorgeous movie with some cool fights but a weak story and bland characters. If they'd spent as much time on the script as on the cinematography and production design, they might have really had something.

Great Asian movie. I like it very much especially the dancing of the blind girl. Beautiful filmed !!

A visually beautiful film, but clearly aimed at a Western audience. If you dig beneath its pretty colours you'll find a film which is more shallow than a film of this genre ought to be; lacking a strong story, important message or grand theme.

Like Hero before it I'm surprised by how invested I was in the story. I came for the martial arts, where it certainly delivered both in choreography and how beautiful the film is, but the cherry on top was that I found the plot both interesting and heartfelt. This is more romance than Hero was, but because of that the final fight was actually really emotional and brutal. But even if you just judge it based on how wuxia it is, it succeeds admirably.

I'm afraid I will never know how to like Asian films. It's always the same boring stuff about characters that are just as interesting as a dead fish.