This was a doozy. It started out alright, but then it got boring, and then it got lame, and then it just kept going, and then it finally ended.
There is pretty much ZERO martial arts in this movie and pretty much no choreography. There's just a lot of motion back and forth and swooshing and lots of clanging of swords. Sure they had to have a choreographer and it's not completely void of some stunt skill, but it's the bottom of the barrel. Everyone in the movie has the exact same sword style too (well we see 1 other sword type briefly from 1 character, but 500000 other swords all the same style.)
The story actually had some potential, but it's all lost on the bad directing (it could have been a good drama if they had less pointless clanging and a better director.) There was 1 aspect that came across VERY well and it's a shame it got lost in a crappy movie. Because it was so good, I'm going to explain it all here. Spoilers ahead:
The main character's wife gets kidnapped by the baddies trying to draw him to them, he doesn't bite (they just want his magic sword with which they can conquer the kingdoms) - so they beat her up and send her back to him hoping to make him pissed to come at them. When they beat her up they very much are like 'we could rape you, but we're not going to' and when she gets back to him she is very worried he won't accept her because he will think she's been raped. He believes that she wasn't when she says she wasn't, but then she's like 'but can you still take me back? everyone else will think I was raped and will talk behind your back' and he's like "I don't care, I'm sticking with you, I love you."
Later they get separated for a while, and in the meantime he loses his vision and has to learn to fight by sound. Finally he goes to kill the baddies who have again kidnapped his wife and the older woman she was staying with (and her family.) He does alright fighting the baddies a bit but then they begin using the old woman's family as body shields and the main character ends up killing off the entire family unknowingly as he's fighting the baddies. Then he kills the old woman in the same way. The wife is like "they're having you kill the family, you just killed granny!" Pretty tragic. Then when he finally gets all the baddies killed and kills the main baddie his wife is still there and he's just wracked with guilt and will live the rest of his life blind and she says something like "don't worry, I'll be with you always."
There is pretty much ZERO martial arts in this movie and pretty much no choreography. There's just a lot of motion back and forth and swooshing and lots of clanging of swords. Sure they had to have a choreographer and it's not completely void of some stunt skill, but it's the bottom of the barrel. Everyone in the movie has the exact same sword style too (well we see 1 other sword type briefly from 1 character, but 500000 other swords all the same style.)
The story actually had some potential, but it's all lost on the bad directing (it could have been a good drama if they had less pointless clanging and a better director.) There was 1 aspect that came across VERY well and it's a shame it got lost in a crappy movie. Because it was so good, I'm going to explain it all here. Spoilers ahead:
The main character's wife gets kidnapped by the baddies trying to draw him to them, he doesn't bite (they just want his magic sword with which they can conquer the kingdoms) - so they beat her up and send her back to him hoping to make him pissed to come at them. When they beat her up they very much are like 'we could rape you, but we're not going to' and when she gets back to him she is very worried he won't accept her because he will think she's been raped. He believes that she wasn't when she says she wasn't, but then she's like 'but can you still take me back? everyone else will think I was raped and will talk behind your back' and he's like "I don't care, I'm sticking with you, I love you."
Later they get separated for a while, and in the meantime he loses his vision and has to learn to fight by sound. Finally he goes to kill the baddies who have again kidnapped his wife and the older woman she was staying with (and her family.) He does alright fighting the baddies a bit but then they begin using the old woman's family as body shields and the main character ends up killing off the entire family unknowingly as he's fighting the baddies. Then he kills the old woman in the same way. The wife is like "they're having you kill the family, you just killed granny!" Pretty tragic. Then when he finally gets all the baddies killed and kills the main baddie his wife is still there and he's just wracked with guilt and will live the rest of his life blind and she says something like "don't worry, I'll be with you always."