This movie is dazzling. Tsui Hark is a great action film director, having been known in the West directing some of Jean Claude Van Damme's best films. Here we see an extraordinary film, visually portentous and with a fantastic story full of references to the spiritual culture of India. We see cinematic versions of Matsya, Garuda, and Indra, and invocations based on dark passages of scrolls with Vedic mantras. The story is complex, the protagonist's abilities leave Hercules Poirot and Sherlock Holmes at the height of chest children, the physical feats of wrestlers defy any universal law. It is a great show, which allows us to celebrate the essence of cinema: marvel and entertain. Masterpiece.
