A master
assassin, armed with the fabulous 14 blades, try to thwart a plot against the
emperor.
The concept
of the 14 blades is wonderful, a rectangular box hiding inside the titular
blades, every blade has a different shape and a different purpose, but in
practice this is more of a missed occasion. I understand that they wanted to
convey the holy nature of those blades but in practice we hardly see them at
all and considering that the title of the movie this is quite a big problem.
Having said
that the action overall is good if a little bit confused. It suffers from that
peculiar martial arts movie problem where too much wacky stuff is happening on
the screen at the same time making it difficult to follow.
The plot is
fairly interesting, mainly thanks to the relationship between the hero and a
girl he kidnap during his quest. On the other side it is overlong and the main
plot manages to be complicated and boring at the same time.
A martial
arts movie for martial arts movie fans, non believers will not be converted by
this.
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