peacech23 A very well describe the world called "Jiang Hu". A place created by men & ruled by men. It merely like a dog eat dog world. Stronge become eater & weak become meat. Today, u took my stuff, tomorrow i will make u pay double or more, that the logic of Jiang Hu.You live here, you trade here & you die here. Women are nothing but a sex slavery. Justice does not exist, justice only exist in the heart of the person. Well, u can called it an era of Jahiliyyah, where the men fill with anger,arrogant, ignorant & hatred & human life are nothing but a chips of the game.

Avery Hudson Let us hope the rumors are wrong, that the rights holder of Dao (Warner Bros?) is not pulling this film from theatrical release forever, and that the lucky sold-out audience at Walter Reade Theater tonight will not be the last people on planet Earth to see this towering achievement of cinema on the big screen.That said, tonight's screening of a near-pristine 35-mm print was the experience of a lifetime. Tsui Hark's re-imagining of Chang Cheh's 1967 Dubei dao (The One-Armed Swordsman), is (in the words of Subway Cinema curators) "a psycho-tronic phantasmagoria full of scars and tattoos, mutilation, amputation, sexual frustration, and sharp, heavy chunks of steel splitting muscle and breaking bones" - but most of all a story of love and kindness in a world that may be damaged beyond redemption.Original Music by Ying-Wah Wong (as Raymond Wong) and Wai Lap Wu is fantastic. The soundtrack album to be sought out. Any help in finding will be appreciated.

Bruce Wayne I've watched hundreds of kung fu movies and I've heard some good thing about this movie, so I decided to give it a try. What I saw was one of the worst displays of movie making I've ever seen.I can't help but feel like the director want to have every muscle guy in Hong Kong in this movie. Everyone overacts to the point of stupidity. Even Conan the Barbarian had some civility. This movie just has half-evolved men screaming in every scene and stupid women who has no self-respect. The narrator's character should've be killed for sucking so much...she really didn't deserve to live til the end. The entire movie was a melodramatic mess, with horrible acting, bad directing and bad action. They should've just rename this movie to 'The Stupid One-Armed Caveman with a Blade" Here's a question...why do some director use quick cuts for some action movies? Answer: To can hide the deficiencies of the actors. Nearly every scene was close up and quickly cut without any kind of flow. The movie tried so hard to show intensity, but it became almost laughable. Please stay away from this movie it you have any kind of taste in kung-fu movies...or any taste in movies.

Emanuel Berglund This is a fantastic fantasy film, not only has it got many exciting characters, it also has a story that builds up the injustice and leaves you crying out for revenge. You also wonder who is the main character, is it the woman telling the story? Or is it the sword brandishing heroes? As the final scenes come you are really cheering for revenge to be done.I read the previous summary and it's got some errors in it. The main Character doesn't actually loose his hand to the tattoed Dragon, he looses it long before this mythical character turns up.Also, this book he finds isn't called "the blade" and the fencing style he uses he discovers himself as he in frustration spins around and strikes out at at things, discovering the power of spinning around at great speed.