This movie will, as the reviews on Amazon attest to, appeal to White people obsessed with all things Asian. White people who like to eat rice and kim chee, date Asians, learn Asian languages, visit Asian places to speak with the natives, learn yoga, "become" Buddhist, and buy cheongsams and kimonos--those White people will love this movie. It's an Asian war story of epic proportions: lots of war scenes, international conflict, a "love" story. Here's the real problem. A bunch of people spend the entire movie defending and sacrificing their lives for an ungrateful princess, and there is no love story, really. There's one powerful warrior determined to defend the princess's life at all costs, but we never see any love or even lust between the two. This movie has gore, yelling, death, and obsession--no love, though, and barely a story.
--A.Y.