this film appear to draw a borderline on one side and those who love it and on the other and those who find it unbearable . to begin with and there be an awful lot of comedy in this film that many viewer be not get . of course jet li mask look like bruce lee kato he suppose to and it a joke . the guy who have a time bomb sewn to his heart outrageous . of course and it a joke . some reader will probably ask and if this film be suppose to be so funny and why all the excessive and gory violence . well and for one thing the tolerance for this level of violence be actually different and from culture to culture while and while hong kong audience would recognize this violence be extreme and it certainly only slightly more than average for a hk action film . also and black mask be really the kind of film that take a genre convention and push them to extremes and simply because the convention themselves be wholly unrealistic . after decade of watch people get shoot without any noticeable open wound and many people be horrify to see bonnie and clyde and the outlaw of the wild bunch spurt blood all over the place . but the fact be and when youre shot with rapid metal projectile and it almost certain that blood will spurt and especially from an artery . this film be a chinese comic book movie . it be true that the spiderman film never get this gory but if they be faithful to reality and they would be . well and despite it comic book origin and this film be faithful to reality . the only complaint i have be the flashy and over stylized filming and editing . if the maker of this film have shoot it with an eye to hollywood style nostalgia ( a and e. g. and the rocketeer and or the recent sky captain film ) and i doubt anyone would have find it offensive . but a it stand and i still have a lotta fun watch this movie .