I got to see this at the JP cinema Causeway Bay - on that BIG screen.
Anyway, I loved this movie and I think the rest of the cinema did too. Everyone was as good as I hoped they be, the story keeps you guessing (a little like a Cardassian play; it's not who dies but who killed them and why that's important), you feel compelled to pay attention the whole time... Not one person left to go to the toilet, no-one's mobile rang, and (not to give anything away) but the two blokes either side of me were crying as much as I was at the crucial points.
The ending is a surprise even after you've worked it out for yourself - you don't need to have a good grasp of Chinese history to know what will happen, but again it's the way it happens which is a surprise.
Donnie Yen gets good fights with Jet Li (with a twist), Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung are the lovers / opponents / unbeatable warriors, Jet Li is the ultimate assassin, and Zhang Ziyi is the faithful sword-bearer/apprentice. Simply fantastic, not as sweeping and doesn't get lost in telling the story like CTHD, and better in a lot of respects. And it has Tony Leung!
See this movie!
9/10