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Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The name of the film doesn't exactly help in explaining what this is about. Basically what we have here is a film that very much is derivative of "A History of Violence", a North American movie which was quite popular for anyone who may not have heard of it before.What we have is Donnie Yen as our lead who is found out to not be the weak feeble countryman but is hiding a dark secret that may lead to danger for all those he loves. Takeshi Kaneshiro stars as the moral minded detective who opens up a pandora's box with his investigations into Donnie Yen's character.Now this is a film that combines the beauty of big scale Chinese movies with some sublime martial arts choreography, wonderful to watch. Ridiculously good fun but sadly the movie does seem to fail in the last quarter or so, I just guess they didn't know how what to do after all the twists and turns earlier on in the film.It's worth a viewing if you enjoy martial arts, but I feel it will appeal to many others too for the direction, settings, acting and suspense. It's a fine film but could have been much more. Enjoyable enough.

Simply put: It is hard enough to find a really spectacular film, one that stands out above the others.It is even harder to find one which, the moment you see it, you know there will be never be anything like it again because it is a "one of a kind." This is the real deal. The opening scene is the eastern version of the opener in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE 2005 (also, not by coincidence, one of my all time faves) and the remainder of the arc is very similar, allowing for the cultural variations.Donnie Yen arguably gives one of the most nuanced performances of his career, Takeshi brings back memories of Peter Falk in Columbo, and the beautiful Wei Tang remains one of the most overlooked Asian actresses.A caution: if you go on a Wushu binge and approach this as just another Kung Fu spectacular, you will get annoyed and confused.If you take the time to savour the plot development and the subtle performances, you will have the time of your life.

I have had my share of martial arts movies for the past 20 years. From Jackie Chan to very old and obscure Shaw Brothers productions. This movie is definitely one (if not the best) martial arts production I have ever seen. Not only that, I'd say it is one of the best movies I came across, martial arts aside.This film combines traditional first part of the 20th century Chinese rural imagery with modern visual effects, as well as beautiful traditional folkish soundtrack with more modern music. The director was able to do this without creating a separation between the past and the present, but rather mixing them together in a way that not only avoids overlapping, it also gives more strenght to each one of the styles used.This movie is not a non-stop action show. In fact, there are 3 fights in the whole movie, as far as I remember. However, these are masterfully done, and the lack of violence only builds the momentum for what it's to come. Apart from that, I love the Sherlock Holmes vibe the detective reasoning gives, and how it's portrayed in the movie (both visually and with his remarks). We also find a deep psychological element present. I find very nice the way this movie treat any person with some knowledge of certain martial arts styles and Qi to a fine exposure of somehow subtle but efficient show of both, combining them together only as the legendary masters would do. The movie doesn't have the need for explanations of techniques or the names of one school or another.If you like martial arts, this is a must. If you like good movies, this shouldn't be missed, even if you don't like action or fights. The pace of the film will probably make you forget what type of movie you are watching.Simply Excellent.

I loved this! Kara Hui, Jimmy Wang Yu and Donnie Yen all give absolutely terrific performances, with Yen's perhaps being the best of his career. Lots of wire assist in the martial arts, but it works in the context of the film, and besides... Hui and Wang aren't exactly spring chickens, so its great to see them in anything, much less doing such fine work in such a fantastic film! Plus, as one or two others have noted, though there are martial arts in this movie, I would not exactly call this a martial arts film. Regardless, it is easily among director Peter Chan's best, Chan - of course - also being responsible for HE'S A WOMAN, SHE'S A MAN / COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY / the GOING HOME segment from THREE / and Jet Li's THE WARLORDS).The film also stars Takeshi Kaneshiro. He portrays an investigator who humorously refuses to believe that it was simply accidental, bumbling, good luck that allowed Yen's country bumpkin, Jinxi (intentional wordplay?), to win out in a battle with two notorious murdering thugs. Instead, he believes Jinxi is hiding his martial arts skill (much as TV's Columbo would hide his intelligence), though each time he puts Jinxi to a cruel and painful test, the result is the same... Jinxi proves to be less than he seems, not more. But that's when Kara Hui and Jimmy Wang Yu enter the picture, and they too think that Jinxi is hiding his true identity, and they're willing to murder or maim his loved ones in order to force him to reveal his hand. And speaking of hands, there's a very nice homage to Wang Yu's ONE ARMED BOXER and ONE ARMED SWORDSMAN in the final chapter of this funny and dramatic film.