If you are fan of Kung Fu movies, this movie probably offers nothing ground breakingly new. But it does have some nice fight scenes and some decent comic relief to make this movie an enjoyable watch.
If you're not Kung Fu movies, it might make for a good introduction to the genre as it is very much like the more Western theme of Zorro. Both films feature a corrupt, but stupid goverment, a upstanding citizen secretly defying the system and plenty of gratuitous fight scenes as the powers that be seek to capture the rebelous saboteur.
Once you get you head around the genre's convention that studying Kung Fu can grant people ability to perform super human feats, you kind of realize that, except for the subtitles, this movie could be Zorro or Schwatzenegger or the Matrix.
As one last note, this movie actually brings together some characters from Chinese folklore, so there is little introduction to them, much as a Western movie wouldn't spend much time introducing Zorro or Robin Hood.
If you're not Kung Fu movies, it might make for a good introduction to the genre as it is very much like the more Western theme of Zorro. Both films feature a corrupt, but stupid goverment, a upstanding citizen secretly defying the system and plenty of gratuitous fight scenes as the powers that be seek to capture the rebelous saboteur.
Once you get you head around the genre's convention that studying Kung Fu can grant people ability to perform super human feats, you kind of realize that, except for the subtitles, this movie could be Zorro or Schwatzenegger or the Matrix.
As one last note, this movie actually brings together some characters from Chinese folklore, so there is little introduction to them, much as a Western movie wouldn't spend much time introducing Zorro or Robin Hood.