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one of the best martial arts movies I've seen in recent years, along with 2010 Reign of Assassins, have become two of my all time favorite martial arts movies. both Donnie Yen and Takeshi Kaneshiro gave a very strong performance. I'd rate this as Donnie Yen's best movie in terms of acting, he's really improved a lot in just a few years, no wonder he's becoming such a mega star in Asia nowadays, it's movies like Wu Xia definitely help his career, of course some of the credit goes to the highly highly acclaimed director Peter Chan, who knows how to get the most out of his casts. This is such a refreshing movie for the martial arts genre, I predict this film will win a lot of awards next year, either Donnie Yen or Takeshi Kaneshiro will take home the best actor title.

First of all, don't be fooled by the low score (5.7) on IMDb (not enough users vote on it anyway), it's not a good indication how good this movie is.

I totally agree with the previous poster that this movie is one of Michael Hui's best films! And I have seen most of Michael Hui's movies to make such a bold comment! As a matter of fact I liked it even better than his other classics such as "The Private Eyes", "Security Unlimited", etc. I'd probably rated it as my 2nd favorite Michael Hui's movie closely behind the great "Chicken and Duck Talk". That tells you how much I love this movie! Highly recommended movie if you love Michael Hui's humor style.

I thought this movie would suck too, but I was pleasantly surprised by this movie after seeing it.

It's really a pretty good film, I like it it's not just about action, but it's also about the philosophy of life and competition. The ending will surprise a lot of people for sure, at first I didn't know why it ended like that but after thinking about the whole movie I realize it makes perfect sense.

Overall this one is definitely worth a look.

I'd also recommend Tung Wai's other work "Hitman" starting Jet Li, it's also one of the most under-rated movies.