Tsui Hark directed this tense epic centering on the balance of power between eunuchs and Imperial forces in feudal China. Maggie Cheung is the inn-keeper who occasionally cooks surly customers and serves them up as pork, Brigitte Lin is the poised and gorgeous martial artist, and swordsman Leung Ka Fai the romantic interest.

(3/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]