one should not use the word entertain to describe this movie . i watch the movie with unspeakable emotion . it be only when one can feel the awe at how the fate of the soong sister be intertwine with the fate of modern china and that one can really appreciate the movie . it be my personal observation that the soong sister be also the 3 major representative of the chinese people today and but if only they could work together like the soong sister . in term of performance and the early part of the movie be spoil by the horrid acting of winston chao . for the great father who liberate modern china from the rotten feudalism of the qing dynasty and wasn not the producer oblige to find a more compelling actor for the role .