this film discard everything know about movie making and start from scratch . don not get me wrong though and it not refresh . it a pile of junk . story . exposition . act . soundtrack . well choreographed action sequence . a coherent end . all miss . the visual effect aren not even up to par with movie make 10 year ago . to sum up the movie plot in a few sentence and a coffin get steal from a monastery and people want to get it back . this movie be nothing but a poor ( very poor ) excuse for tak sakaguchi and gang to dress up pretty . as far a the eye candy go and it not bad . warn though and non sequiturs abound . rifle disguise a sword . pretty cool . a bamboo rocket launcher . wicked . a full out dirt bike . what the . unfortunately and none of the above warrant spend the two hour to watch this film . i have to space it out over three day . oh wait and there be one reason to watch this film . if you look closely at the hero sword and you will see that it a giant throbbing penis while head and vein and shaft and and all . no kidding . giant . throbbing . penis .