However, upon finishing this film I had rather mixed feelings. The pacing and the acting were adequate, but the "martial arts" action largely consistently of outrageously exaggerated flying, spinning, and plentiful explosions (generated presumably by the character's mastery of inner "chi" power). I've seen too many of that sort and had hoped for more conventional hand to hand, sword to sword fighting than all this zapping around and wirework, particularly since the marketing on the DVD cover went to such lengths as praising the combat choreography.

Also, I personally thought the love sub-plot was awkward and clichéd. In a nutshell, Princess Ling (Michelle Reis) is on the run from a religious cult that overthrew her father's kingdom, and she stumbles into a hideout of a tribe whose prince similarly lost his kingdom years earlier to Ling's father. Despite this complication, it was easy to figure out the young royals were going to fall in love anyway and ride off into the sunset after defeating the bad guys.

Lastly, since the story kept on preaching about the dangers of ambition and revenge as it unfolded, half-way into the movie I sensed the princess was never going to restore her dynasty, and that took away a little suspense there was about the princess's ultimate fate.