excellent movie but not in cantonese
I love this movie. This is as good as Ip Man and better than Ip Man 2. The only minus is that I thought this DVD can play both cantonese and mandarin, but found out that it can only play in mandarin.
An Epic Film
This is a great movie. It has a good pseudo-historical story about Sun Yat-Sen visiting Hong Kong in 1906 to plan a revolution against the empress and the government of China. The empress when she learns of the visit dispatches a small army of ninjas to assassinate him. The first hour of the film introduces the location, the very diverse characters and the story. The second hour is non-stop action as Sun arrives, the ninjas and their fearsome leader attempt to kill him, and the motley group of characters we've been introduced to attempt to thwart them and save Sun. There's a lot of heroism and loyalty on display here, and some unforgettable fight scenes. The one that pits Donnie Yen against the ninja champion is probably the most thrilling because he has the skills but the others are powerful,too. In every respect this movie is exceptional, the direction, the acting, the cinematography, the set creation, and the scoring. It's a classic.
Spectacular cast and atmosphere, action is kind of secondary
Whenever I find myself getting lost in conversations with other people about martial arts films one of the guys that always seems to get glossed over is Donnie Yen. He's just as good as the Bruce Lees, the Jackie Chans, the Jet Lis, and Tony Jaas out there, but for some reason he's just never really been able to click with the mainstream. Yen seemed to stick around wuxia films longer than the names you probably associate with these types of movies and extravagant wirework is usually the first thing to make an action film feel mediocre to me. People can't fly around, run on the tips of blades of grass, or kick people seventeen times in the air before landing on their feet and doing it all over again; the more realistic an action film is the more enjoyable it is to me. But ever since Hero (yes it's a wuxia film, but it's one of the exceptions), Donnie Yen has put out some really fantastic action films that are either more grounded or the wirework involved is a lot more subtle. Kill Zone...
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