not much to say other than plenty of wire fu and suppose sholin monk ego trip about kung fu and caricature japanese plotting to take over china . all of this would not be so bad if not for the utterly fake japanese sword fighting . if you watch a samurai movie or two you can tell that the japanese fighting in the movie be simply the same kung fu ( really circus acrobat ) stunt men do the same thing except with a japanese sword . however and there be a couple of fun moment such a when a japanese woman ninja tear off her clothes in mid flight to disarm a monk and capture him with a fishing net . storywise and there seem to be a bit of schizophrenia as far a whether the japanese should be show a completely despicable or if there could be exception . the japanese protagonist be show a largely honourable but not beyond unwarranted cruelty such a when he murder a sedated monk so that he may have his duel . quite disappointing with a very silly end . do not for a moment evoke even the semblance of the idea of an epic battle .