What a beautiful movie!

one of my absolute favorites!

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Review: I always like watching these martial arts movies that show the Buddha monks training. There discipline is second to none and the way that they control there bodies is amazing. Anyway, these two close friends who have grown up together in the Shaolin Temple, end up coming to blows when one of them become power-hungry. The storyline is very straight forward, but I liked the authenticity of the whole film and I've always been a fan of Michelle Yeoh. The epic fight scene at the end was brilliant because you have seen these two close friends grow apart but Jet Li has managed to keep his discipline to his art. The speed of the fight scenes were amazing and the choreography was extremely well put together. On the downside, some of the stunts were way over the top, but it's an enjoyable film with a some good acting. Enjoyable!Round-Up: In this film, you really see different sides to Jet Li. At the beginning, he's very vulnerable and he totally looks up to his best friend. Then you see him on his own with his new friends, the rebels, but you can see that he longs for his old friend. When he gets portrayed by his old buddy, he really does lose the plot so his new friends try and bring him out of his strange depression. He then finds some old scriptures that his old master gave his friend when they left the temple and this is what brings him back to life. After some severe training, he's now ready to face his old friend, who has now become way to big for his boots. That's when you get the epic showdown at the end with the help of Jet Li's new found friends. A classic concept for all Kung Fu fans.I recommend this movie to people who are into their Jet Li movies about 2 orphans who are close friends through there childhood but then they grow apart because one longs for power and money. 6/10

first thing's first.. tai chi master i can accept that as it's title.. but twin warriors?? help me with this.. whose jet's twin warrior? is it his childhood friend or the ever beautiful miss yeoh? when you look at the poster's you'll assume that it's michelle.. which i don't really think so.. though her fight scenes were one of the must see in the movie (check her in that restaurant scene,, *sigh* beautiful indeed and the later part she;s just amazing..) for me they should have stick to the Chinese title. anyways,, one of my fave.. i was hoping though a somewhat romantic involvement between michelle and jet.. ughh it never came.. still A MUST SEE MOVIE.. 9/10

Hong Kong kung fu cinema is a complicated genre to navigate for the uninitiated. People's opinions differ so wildly from movie to movie that what you consider a gem may be a relatively obscure movie. In other words, everyone has their own favorite kung fu movie, whether it's Crouching Tiger, the 36th Chamber, 5 Fingers of Death, or - in my case - this one.I just watched this movie for the second time, and I'm even more impressed. There's something about its energy that's just completely unflagging, ferocious. The meaning and the lethal glare with which Chin Siu-ho (criminally under-billed: what a performance!) lowers his hands after performing the Buddhist Palm on his superior. The impossible fight in the temple; the legions of talented extras! The endearing innocence which Jet Li brings to his character, and the fluidity of his "Taoist boxing", real or assisted (remember when he acted like the punching bag, swinging around and knocking his weight into his opponent as if he had concentrated all his weight in his feet?) The picture and sound are much lower quality than other Yuen Woo-ping movies within a year's radius (Iron Monkey, Wing Chun), but it's difficult to notice such superficial markers of quality when the pacing, emotional power and action of the movie so surpass the era's other offerings.Another of the movie's fine points is the natural flow of its few comic sections. I often find the comic relief in "serious" kung fu movies to be stilted and awkward. Slapstick can be done ingeniously (Stephen Chow movies), but when it's stuck randomly in a movie that otherwise portrays itself as serious, it can be disastrous. The humor in the Tai Chi Master is applied with a light touch, so you can laugh instead of frowning and looking uncomfortable.But what really separates the Tai Chi Master from other excellent kung fu movies with direction and energy is its firm moral compass. When was the last time you saw a movie that knew right from wrong, but didn't make a big deal out of it? Note the distinction between right/wrong and good/evil: If Hollywood made this movie, it would be a movie about good and evil. Instead, we know that Tianbao was not intrinsically evil - he was just "wrong" ("We were wrong, Master!") A movie has little to do with real life if its characters are one-dimensional incarnations of the primeval forces of good and evil. Yet in spite of all this, the Tai Chi Master is not a heavy-handed movie "about" right and wrong - it just contains the answers."My hands do not have strength and power. My heart embraces peace and calm. Resigning myself to adversity. Seeing richness out of the void. Violence be turned to peace. There are always guiding fate. Dynamic or still. Divide or multiple. Follow fate to go in and out of mortal world." The theme song is poorly translated in the subtitles, as it should be. What is verbalized knowledge but something vague and suggestive of personal revelation? In the words of a character: "I've studied Taoism all my life, but you realize its truth all in a blink. You'll be the master of masters. I should probably retire."

This is one of the jewels of my Jet Li collection; the film is awesome in itself, but when Jet's character Junbo loses his mind it's the funniest piece of acting I've ever seen from him. Considering that most of his roles are serious, this is a welcome (and unexpected!) change in pace.The exchanges with the Tao dummy and the ducks especially had me in stitches. And where he mistakes a pole for his Sifu...well, just watch and you'll see what I mean.On that note, if you enjoy the humour in this film, then you'll also like 'The Legend 2'(region 2 title) with Jet and Josephine Siao.