When these types of movies are all a variation of the transgression, training montage and revenge theme it comes down to the fight scenes that stand out. Other than the fact that I really don't need to see a rape this movie has two big problems:
1. The hero goes from a student to a master in one year, with no master of his own, by wearing weighted anklets and sticking his hands in hot iron pellets.
2. The fight scenes are very slow, the sound effects are poor, the choreography is such that you can see every telegraphed blow. Due to the liberal use of fire engine red paint to spew from everyone's mouth it's a case of the first or second hit ends the fight. Unfortunately the fight scenes are very long so all you hear (other than the mass fights) is a whole bunch of misses.
I didn't really enjoy this movie and probably won't watch it again.
1. The hero goes from a student to a master in one year, with no master of his own, by wearing weighted anklets and sticking his hands in hot iron pellets.
2. The fight scenes are very slow, the sound effects are poor, the choreography is such that you can see every telegraphed blow. Due to the liberal use of fire engine red paint to spew from everyone's mouth it's a case of the first or second hit ends the fight. Unfortunately the fight scenes are very long so all you hear (other than the mass fights) is a whole bunch of misses.
I didn't really enjoy this movie and probably won't watch it again.