Lots of big names from Shaw Brothers movies and other familiar faces appear. If I had to pick one major gripe about the film, it's that there are too many stars. Doing this never gives any key roles to all the big stars. It really does move from one fight scene to the next with a new set of actors ready to get it on. A few other stars are also very under-used as well. Jimmy Wang only appears at the start in a non-fight scene. The production seems much lower compared to past Chang Cheh movies too.

Putting all of that aside, it still holds a lot of solid fights and a big cast of stars which makes it worth checking out. And just like a lot of Chang Cheh movies, the bloodshed plays a big part. This is one of the bloodier movies from Chang Cheh.

Only problem I have is that the movie has such a good cast it was hard for them to add any type of depth to the characters. There's really only a couple you get know while others hardly have any lines and you never know anything about them. But I guess that's what we get with all the extra scenes they had to cut out from the original version. Hopefully they will release an uncut version some day.

Overall this is a great movie for any old school fan of HK films back in the day. Don't listen to the negatives about this film, judge that for yourself.

The original Twins Effect was great it had some good fighting and it was funny. Twins Effect 2 really has nothing to do with the first film rather only having the Twins to star in it again.

Storywise its about men are slaves and women rule. The twins along with Donnie Yen and a few other main characters set out and try and find this sword. Once they have it there able to kill the queen with it. The queen over powers people everyone is scared of her and no likes her.

Charlene Choi one of the twins probably kept me from not turning it off. She grows on you and really did a good job she's cute and can be funny.

Donnie Yen is in this and has a cool intro scene at the start and yet there's not much else he really doesn't have that huge of a role. There is a fight scene between him and Jackie Chan which was kinda pointless but still was an alright scene. It wasn't to original and there wasn't anything special about it.

Jackie Chan son is also in this probably cause Jackie Chan help worked on the movie. His son does nothing and isn't the best actor he does no stunts or fights. Just tags around with on of the twins.

The costumes lol wtf? There horrible the women wear these purple get ups that look ugly and can ruin the film.

The choreography is so-so its no were near as good as in the first Twin Effects. Besides the Donnie Yen fight scenes there's a couple more but there's not a whole to say about them. The twins fight at the start which seems slow paced same with the other small fights that break out during the film.

The one thing that kills this movie is the CGI its bad. There's a couple good effects but they over did it. Instead of the good ol wire work they just replaced everyone with CGI bodies whenever they do some high jump it looks really bad.

They could have used that money and focused more on the choreography.

This was a let down but thank god for the Twins. It also could have been a lot worse there are some funny scenes and the fighting is OK.

See this if your a fan of the first Twins Effect or a fan of the Twins. Besides that your not missing much go see or watch the first Twins Effect again.

Choreography is nothing new you see a lot of the same moves they could have mixed it up more.

The story itself was alright but the ending wasn't great I didn't know why they would end it like that. Makes you think that's the best ending they could come up with? It doesn't even end like an ending should. I would have rated it higher if the ending was better.

Good transfer on to the DVD all the colors look well like a DVD should. They got some great camera work like at the start of the film just the tone of light that was used. Also the settings that were filmed mix well with the movie there's a few different locations that look nice.

Id rent this before buying should be easy to spot a most rental stores. The choreography could have been worked on more and with a better ending it this could have been a better movie.

I've seen lot of Donnie Yen flicks this is one of his weaker films that he's worked on but not his worst.

This movie is outstanding and very entertaining. The story it starts out showing the bone setter (Zatoichi) coming to this small village nice little fight scene at the start. He uses this stick which is really a sword its slick looking. He moves a bit slow when walking but is fast with his sword, he's a machine!

After he gets into town you kinda see that the village is very poor cause of other stronger type people that make people pay monetary fees pretty much taking there money.

You learn a little bit more about the bone setter, he gambles and is good at it he never loses cause he is blind so he listens to the sound of the dice, the game they play is a type of odd & even type game with some dice.

Anyways the bone setter meets a brother and sister who are set to avenge there family's death. There not sure on who killed them cause it was a group of people who did the group so they kill pretty much who ever they can. The bone setter helps them out which leads to a lot of great sword fight scenes.

All the blood in the movie is cgi which I wasn't to surprised cause Takeshi did the same with battle royale which I know same people hated that but I didn't mind I thought it looked good but there is some scenes you can tell the blood is clearly cgi.

I was also surprised this movie is filled with a lot of humor and its great it mixes well with the movie. When they get to a serious scene the scene is serious, but when they get to a part that has humor you laugh so they did a good job with that.

Overall I was stunned by this movie cause it was so well done. The humor, gore, bone setter who is slick and does a job. Also a great ending. A must see and a must buy for all fans and collectors of Zatoichi movies.