With all the negativity i heard about this movie, i was pleasantly suprised that this movie was actually quite watchable!!

There are many flaws brought up by the previous reviewers but this is expected especially if you cut a 4 hour movie into 2.5 hours.

The action is slightly above average,many reviwers said that there was not enough fight scenes but i disagree. I think the main issue here is the bad guys dont put up much of a fight especially with there spectacular introduction

Apart from Charlie Yeung, everyone looked like a wooden cut out, espcially Leon Lai but his role was limited. With so many characters, its easy to leave out many of the "7" and that does occur. There are 2 characters of the 7 which are only seen fighting and little else.

Thats why the dvd has special features explaining the characters, because otherwise you wouldnt even know there names or even what they look like!!

There is little story here, it is character focussed but this is done poorly.

The chinese version of "seven samurai's" or "the magnificent seven", unfortunately these 2 movies are classics, this isnt!!

I do hope they release a 4 hour version, then judgement can be really made about this movie, and to see if Tsui Hark should give up the movie business or not.

Enjoyable for myself, a lot of critisms well deserved about this movie but having not seen a martial arts movie for sometime, i think my judgement maybe impaired, since i am giving this:

7/10