The House of Flying Daggers

The Ratpure should have called the song this.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), December 1st, 2004.

The Ratpure? never heard of them.

complaing about kung fu movies having unrealistic plots is kinda pointless.

though when she came back to life, it reminded me of the onion article about archduke ferdinand being found alive in 1918, and WWI consequently being over.

This film appears to be a diverting and beautiful (the bamboo scene alone was worth the price of entry) method of convincing me that opera is not my thing.

i loved this movie. even the fake death kind of ties in to what is going on in the rest of the movie.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. The colors were amazing (as others have said). I guess you could say one weakness is the way the love story is so central and yet so undeveloped, and to me, not too convincing. I'm not sure it really was all about the love story. I think it was all about the uncertainty about who knew what about whom, who was acting, who was in control of the situation, etc. The love story almost seems to exist to further that focus. The official outfits for House of Flying Daggers members were awesome, and I wish there had been even more flying daggers.