..........falls short in my eyes.

I feel apart from Jet Li there is minimal character development with the other characters. There are some good battle scenes but when the war feels like it is finishing up, the story feels like its jumps too quickly into another direction and things happen quickly instead of building up to it.

Really Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro did not need to be in this picture. There is little of them to do apart from shouting.

STill its a enjoyable movie but has though (for me) those typically sad endings you get with movies made in china