Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It's the start of the 8th century. The Chinese Tang dynasty is battling the Turk for the silk road occupied by Buddhist kingdoms. Lieutenant Li tries to release Turk women and children when he's ordered to execute them. He's forced to mutiny and escape. Later, the Tang emperor sends Sir Lai Xi to kill Li who is labeled as 'the butcher'. Lai Xi is Japanese forced to live in the Tang court since age 13. He is promised a passage home after killing Li. The two men fight but join forces to defend a Buddhist caravan. The caravan is carrying a powerful relic and the Turks are after it for control of the local Buddhist tribes. Lord Khan recruits ruthless local warlord Master An who is promised the Khan's daughter.This has good locations of the vast desert landscapes and local settings. The story is relatively simple but a little disjointed. The battles are part-realistic and part-unreal kung fu. There's some good action but also some confused action. This is a watchable action adventure with some good but also some deficiencies.

I really enjoyed this movie.Do not expect "hero" or "house of Daggers" type quality but do expect a ripper of a Chinese B movie.Amazingly charismatic leads in this movie with special mention going to Xueqi Wang and Kiichi Nakai.The action is very good,the fighting choreographic fairly well done without over the top gore or violence and no wire work.What will keep you to the end of this movie is the acting not the action.The basic story is about a Imperial Agent wishing to return home, but first he must bring back or kill a renegade solider.While hunting him down the two are forced to unite for the greater good of a caravan being attacked by bandits.***mild hint of a spoiler here****This was very good up until the end,it took a bit of a supernatural twist.It was like they project ran out of money or steam and they just needed to finish it.Still very very good in-spite of a weakish ending.

This film was a really great surprise. The characters were a lot of fun without being goofy or two-dimensional, and the story was complicated enough to be interesting without being overwrought and confusing. The locations were beautiful, and the costuming was great, too. The action was practically non-stop -- lots of chases and sword fights. It didn't have any of the hokey mysticism that so often appears in films like this (although there was a lot of acrobatic swordplay), opting instead for a grittier approach (with a notable exception or two). Definitely worth seeing.

I liked this movie but I was not awestruck by it. It has some excellent characters and a very engaging plot. There are a few lines that will make all but the most jaded filmwatchers smile.But this movie has a couple of drawbacks which mark it as a notch below other films like "Crouching Tiger" and the infinitely superior "Hero." Both of these films also had excellent characters and stories but were visually far a cut above. A BIG cut."Warriors" uses jump-cuts and too-tight camera angles in an effort to hide the fact that many of its stars are not actually martial artists. The resulting fight scenes are very frustrating to watch. Like I said, the plot carries the movie along and it is indeed a good film, but I hate getting snookered by creative editing.Compare any fight scene in "Warriors" with, say, the extended battle scene between the two women warriors in "Crouching Tiger," most of which is filmed in medium shots that allow your eye to follow the line of action. IMHO this is a lot more impressive. Even the goofy wire work doesn't take away from that. But "Warriors" is worth a rent. You will care what happens to the characters. And you will see a very nice meditation on the question of what, as people of honor, we must do.