The acting is phenomenal. You will rarely see such (now this is the crux, it is very sparse throughout the film) HUMOR, and I mean well done acting on Tommy Lee's part. He is one of the most insidious villians of the genre. I found new respect for Meng Fei. How he holds up to Chen Kuan Chun is nothing short of admirable. Lung Fei and Liu Chia Jen are great as usual. And there is an acrobat/actress who is a very famous assassin in this film (I don't know her name) and she is great. Another madman in the film, Wang Kuan Hsiung, this guy with his mysterious quote, "only... the dead love roses" as he is putting a rose onto another deserving victim in the story. And his fighting, though somewhat brief, is lighting fast with great accuracy.

Despite some of the other comments you may have read above about the English dubbing, I must say that this is one of the very best English dubs ever to be applied to old school martial arts films. The limey accent on the one actor who is only heard to speak thrice throughout the entire film is "actually" comical. The guy who plays him is an outstanding character actor in his own right.

The music is awesome. Deadly serious and perfectly appropriate per scene.

This film when veiwed for the first time is quite unpredictable and very satisfying as to how the plot unfolds. The film is adult oriented and highly entertaining.

In my opinion this film has much more to offer than the "indisputably awesome" "The Hot, The Cool, And The Vicious". Also should be mentioned is another Tommy Lee masterpiece, "Along Came The Tiger". These are without question his three best films, but "Killer's Game: The Green Jade Statuette" stands out above them all.