recap represent a lone swordsman and living in the desert and act a an agent to other swordsman and recollect how his life turn out to be a it be . it start with that the woman he love choose to marry his brother instead and cause him to leave his home town . one of the swordsman be huang who be himself in the middle of a complicate love story and where a woman want to have him kill for have run away from a promise to marry her young sister . but the sister want to hire a swordsman to have huang protect and and everything be put to an edge when the woman and her sister be really the same person . comment represent i have see the redux version release in 2008 of the original that be release in 1994. how the two version differ i can not say and but the redux be very heavily stylize in the way of chinese wuxia action . that be unfortunate a that style to me seem to have forget one of the most important element of a successful and entertaining movie . a comprehensible story . but true to it style scenery and visual element seem much more important and much more in focus of writer and director kar wai wong . therefore there be lot of colorful and very beautiful scene and that be completely unrelated to the story . the editing and timeline of the story be also mishandle . much be leave out in the scene and the time line be break and rearrange in a confusing way . very slow and calm scene be suddenly relieve by surprisingly brutal and seemingly unmotivated fight and only to themselves be relieve by something else and unrelated . the result be a confusing and very uninteresting movie . thanks to these brutal but very few fight and the movie be put into the action genre . the poster and photograph also imply this but could almost be regard a false marketing . only a few minute out of the 90 could be consider a anything like action and the other couldn not be far away from it . the movie in it entirety be very slow and dull and hence very bore . not even the rare action fill scene help since they be so disconnect from the rest of the movie . i might say that i be not a fan of this chinese style and since they often seem to be afflict of these same problem and most importantly that the visual be more important than the story and but ash of time redux be perhaps the bad example i have see . negative .