GurlyIamBeach
Instant Favorite.
Kailansorac
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Brooklynn
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
auntiespam69
This is one of my favorite movies. It's not the acting, the script, or the fight scenes. The movie taken as a piece of pure entertainment is pure cheese and gives us most of the clichés seen in martial arts movies.As a movie of Light, it's incredible. Oz, played by Billy Zane (who's always fun to watch) has a unique outlook on the bad guys as he WAS a bad guy for the first few minutes of the movie. He loses his fight with the White Warrior (who's female) who wins the fight by opening his heart and letting Love flow into his being again.Oz: "Are you ready to die?"White Warrior: "Are you ready to Love?"With that, he joins the fight against his old mentor, Slate. He finds the Four Elements - warriors chosen before birth to defeat this darkness, and trains them to fight with Love.This is NOT your average Hollywood film. It's a movie about opening your Heart to Unconditional Love, the removal of limitations, and of forgiveness (both of ourselves and those who have "wronged" us).
Conagher-7
This movie wasn't as good as it could have been. The potential was there, with a decent plot and a few good actors, but it was just not done well.The idea of a group of different individuals putting their differences aside and coming together to achieve a common goal is not new, but it can be done well. Here it was not. I didn't watch the movie for the story, which was good as it was not real good. The whole "love will overcome all" is a good idea, but Os runs it into the ground to the point that he comes across as one of those fake happy lovely-dovey Mormon missionary types that makes most people nauseous.Judging from the commercials and the packaging, I expected this to be more of a martial arts movie. Sadly, where most martial arts movies use the story to connect the fight scenes, this movie apparently forgot that it was a martial arts flick and concentrated on a really weak story at the expense of the fighting. One could count the number of fight scenes in this movie on the fingers of one hand and still have plenty of fingers left. The fights that it did have weren't all that great, either. The fighting relied a lot on wires, which is okay for a fairy-tale or a wuxia movie, but it just looked silly here. Also, it wasn't hard to tell that the actors trained just long enough to pull this movie's few fight scenes off. The actions weren't crisp or particularly fast, and they tried to hide all of this via flickering lighting, jerky camera shots and slow-motion. It was just not good from a martial arts perspective.Unfortunately, most of this 90 minute snoozer is only worth fast-forwarding through, which I did for most of the last thirty minutes, and I'm kicking myself for not fast-forwarding earlier through the totally inane temptation scene. Fast-forwarding through a movie is something I almost never do, but I couldn't take it after an hour of drivel. This movie may have worked as a children's cartoon or some sort of kids live-action movie, but not as a movie aimed at a post-adolescent audience. Mel Gibson I can forgive for being involved in this silly movie, but Jet Li ought to know better. Hopefully he did it as a favor or lost a bet or something.Bottom line - avoid this one.
blueslaad
I have seen hundreds of martial arts movies, old and new, poor and sweet. I saw the front cover, billy zane + sword = NICE. Looked at the review on the back, something along the lines of those 'fighting that puts the Matrix to shame' sort of dumb. All be it (or is it one word) it was a while since i saw it, i can remember a few good bits but. 1. There was ONE i think decent martial artist in this film, the rest of them were slow, as was the actual fighting. And it was simple and bland 2. The seemed to be an eternity of training, fighting training? oh no sitting in rooms doing spiritual training trying to forget horrid things that happened in their past......zzzzzzzzz. WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FIGHT.Anyway if like me u want a martial arts movie don't see this - 3/10 If you want a compelling lively story don't see this - 3/10 If u want to add this to 'films i have seen' then see it 3/10 for sheer underachievement and boredom
cthulhumanboy
Spoilers AheadWhen I saw the poster of an action flick with the names of Mel Gibson and Jet Li, I wanted to see the movie, and when I finally did, I was very disappointed. A plot that makes no sense, bad acting, and funny(in a bad way) scenes, like that Cd that was flying around like a razor blade, why would they use the Cd? they could've used their weapons. And why was that leader riding the bike while explaining the story? Since the warriors were all synchronized and stuff, they might as well be color coded. What's with the weird test? and why was the Asian guy about to get all funky with his sister? Is it just me or was there some major incest? I have no second thoughts about the one star rating that I gave this movie. And ending was hard to swallow, this evil guy wants to take over the world and they give a second chance after they have a knife fight? what did he mean by "He's human now"?