muximas Seeing all the negative reviews I just have to write one that contradicts this. People seem to go into this movie with expectations of another Crouched Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This it is not, having trained in 5 different martial arts I could appreciate the fights in this movie a lot more than those in CT,HD though as there are no ridiculous fights in tree tops or moves so fast that they are impossible to pull off...I love the movie Kung Pow and although that was an intended totally ridiculous movie this one did have some references to it, but it also had a lot of references to Star Wars with the very Obi-Wan like Master, an evil empire chasing the princess and the orchestral score.Most of the scenes were cut a little short and the actors may never get any Oscars but at least it never felt like the movie was dragging along (LOTR - are we there yet?) and it had adventure, treason, romance, a master and an apprentice, decent not over the top fights, some kind of land pirates, magic, an ancient riddle, and a Chosen One...I watched the movie with my 16, 18 and 22 year old kids and none of us got bored, at times we good a good laugh with the references to other movies and we enjoyed it, only the lack of a decent ending was a let down but kept us wanting to see the sequel...It's not a pretentious movie and if you can look at it that way it's really a good one!

thesmithstampa Seriously people. How did this even get out of the terrible imagination of some bad writers mind? The acting was terrible. The storyline thin and almost incoherent at times.The people reviewing high on this film must be involved in the making. Terrible waste of time I will never get back.In all consideration, someone else could probably make something out of the idea of this story but a good start would to pretend this film was never made. There is nothing redeemable about it. The martial arts, magic, revenge could all be made into something decent but the acting, writing, effects, costumes, casting and, well just about everything else feel short.Sad sad sad. I feel bad for anyone who invested in this.

scottshimamotocomic I'm all for Asian Actors getting some featured roles in TV and movies, so this is no criticism of the actor's work.I'm saying Hip Hop because of all the "sampling" that is going on in this movie...The theme music is the same as the one from the original Six Million Dollar Man...The guy that is with one of the brothers squats down and talks like that dude in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy...The white blind master guy has crazy eyes like Master Po from Kung Fu...Seki's father in the movie looks just like Sho Asahara from the Aum Shinri-kyo doomsday cult in Japan...The tall dude is a rerun of Andre The Giant's character in "Princess Bride"...Should I go on? I must say that Marie Matiko and Musetta Vander are very hot!!!The lameness is not the fault of the acting or even on the concept, it's on who ever thought that people wouldn't remember all these "rip offs" of other people's original ideas...

mwendel While many people probably expected this movie to be some kind of great martial arts / sword fighting flick; it only delivers on a juvenile level. The fighting contains very little blood, and that which it does have isn't like what you would see even in a PG-13 movie today, but I can't say it was bad fighting, not can I say it was great fighting.This movie because of the way it was shot reminded me of watching a very long episode of a Hercules style television show. So I'm not sure if this was originally intended for the television or the big screen.I think the story makes a lot of assumptions about what the watcher knows. They don't explain much about the geography used. Characters have little to know background given. The characters in some respects I believe are so proto-typical that they probably didn't feel the need to tell much about them since their appearance could tell you quite a bit. While I like this about the movie, and it makes it very easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys, in many ways its what I don't like about the movie too. I like characters, well, to have some more character and depth to them! I don't think anyone who watches this will be left going, ugh what a terrible movie, if they have the right mindset. But if you're looking for a serious martial arts / Asian flavored movie then this isn't the film for you.