If you
want a sure headache, you'll try to explain the plot line to this
unintelligible mess of a movie. Astonishingly, probably 90% of
viewers attempting to watch this will likely be lost just from the 2
minute intro explaining what is going on! The nearest I could come
up with is that there is some old sorceror who puts out a rumor of
his demise in order to find and defeat the one chosen to replace him.
A bunch of different factions come out of the woodworks to fight for
some sort of kung fu Melting Stance.
Of course, I'm probably way off, but I practically gave up about halfway through the movie because people kept switching identities and appearances so much, to follow what was going on would have required Cliff Notes with identity charts (and still there would have been no guarantee).
The look of
it is very good, though the tongue-in-cheek humor is tedious most of
the time. Lots of really good special effects, competent fight
scenes, and attractive actresses manage to maintain a minimal
interest, but that sure isn't enough to make it good. Too much plot
mixed with too little dialogue adds up to little more than a pretty
looking 90 minutes of nonsense. Such a waste of decent actors.
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