While it sells itself as an erotic Chinese epic, this is actually a comical Flesh Gordon - style spoof of wushu classics like House of Flying Daggers. (contactmusic.net)
Under the introduction of Wu Bin, (China's national wushu coach and Jet Li «s master), over the course of three years Wong Kar - wai visited Beijing, Tianjin, Xian, Hebei, Henan, Inner Mongolia, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hong Kong and other locations and over 100 different kung fu masters of Wing Chun, Eight Diagram, Tai Chi, Xingyi, Tongbei in order to find the spirit and the philosophy behind kung fu. (wongkarwai.net)
Jet Li's last wushu film is entertaining, with some great fights, but is time and again bogged down by clunky emotional passages. (hoopla.nu)