The trailer looks good, but the movie is below average. It feels like a slapstick of action, romance, and adventure that make you think about the strange film production than being engage in the movie.
The action is average at best. Too many slow-mo and the camera-work is not very exciting. The dancing kung fu sequences are far from an artful work in some other movies. For a long time, I thought this is a Taiwanese-production or a Chinese-production action film. However, for a HK movie, I expect a lot better action.
The story-line is the biggest flaw and very questionable. It made very little sense -- no background story about the treasures, or characters; I'm not sure if the main lead is a doctor or an appraiser or just super martial artist; the con-schemes are not clever at all. As for the characters, they dress nice and look pretty, but not likable. The monk-in-training(Shui Heyi) has no character, the daughter(Ning) is more like an overactive high school teenager (as oppose to a teen in that era), the romance between the leads just come up with very little in-between, and I don't even know why they try to patch some vague love interest between the Shui and Ning.
If at least the story is decent, I would say watch it. IMHO, try something else.
The action is average at best. Too many slow-mo and the camera-work is not very exciting. The dancing kung fu sequences are far from an artful work in some other movies. For a long time, I thought this is a Taiwanese-production or a Chinese-production action film. However, for a HK movie, I expect a lot better action.
The story-line is the biggest flaw and very questionable. It made very little sense -- no background story about the treasures, or characters; I'm not sure if the main lead is a doctor or an appraiser or just super martial artist; the con-schemes are not clever at all. As for the characters, they dress nice and look pretty, but not likable. The monk-in-training(Shui Heyi) has no character, the daughter(Ning) is more like an overactive high school teenager (as oppose to a teen in that era), the romance between the leads just come up with very little in-between, and I don't even know why they try to patch some vague love interest between the Shui and Ning.
If at least the story is decent, I would say watch it. IMHO, try something else.