Cast Member: Yu Cheng-Hui

Equal parts goofy, exciting and tedious, the flick works best when Li and his band of pint sized pugilists are kicking butt and performing amazing feats of acrobatics.

Jet Li excels in this third lead role with another flawless display of kung-fu alongside his dramatic abilities.

It’s a languid, leisurely swordplay film that advances at a glacial pace and is defiant in doing so. Yet that is, along with the crisp cinematography, its greatest strength.