This Tsui Hark-directed kung fu movie starts out with a dog getting caught in a bear-trap and that kinda sets the dark tone for a lot of this film. This is also the movie that made me realize that Hark is not a big fan of animals(though I guess that could be said of a lot of Hong Kong directors). Besides bear-traps there are a lot of swords in play and as a result one of our heroes ends up becoming a one-armed swordsman. It never lives up to the grandeur of that classic fu film and veers a little too much on the speedy wirework side of things for my taste. There's also a bit much in the dramatics and dumb philosophizing but it doesn't totally ruin the whole film.
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