In order the prove that he is the best swordsman around, a young man named Fragrant Chu (Aaron Kwok) and his three sisters (Gloria Yip, Anita Yuen, Winnie Lau) are going to a martial-arts tournament where Fragrant's goal will be to defeat Flowerless. This later is known to be the most experimented and lethal swordsman in China. But on his way to the competition, Fragrant will prematurely meet the famous swordsman and, in their way to the tournament, they will challenge themselves in several friendly duels. But after a while, Flowerless who is in fact a woman (Chingmy Yau), will reveal herself as a very good ally for Chu and her sisters. Together they will have to face several dangers during their journey, among them is the blood sucking Bat man who is ready to do anything to rule over the world of martial-arts. Like I said in the synopsis, I was too frustrated to watch the entire film so I did plenty of "fast forwarding" during the last hour. The main problem I had with this flick was that there was too many idiotic, crappy and stupid humorous set pieces which were constantly ruining some good action scenes (In case you didn't know, this is one of Wong Jing's unfamous trademark). From what I saw, the plot was alright although I though it was really insulting to know that we were suppose to believe that Flowerless was a man until she reveal herself (Anyone who know what Chingmy Yau look like will understand what I mean). Some of the fights were inventive but the acting was uneven (Both Gloria Yip and Chingmy Yau are very cute but their acting abilities are limited). Its still woth to be seen for the fights sequences, but be sure to have a remote control close by. To bad because in better hands it would have been an amazing film.

[Reviewed by Martin Sauvageau]