This is a no nonsense martial arts flick. No comedy. Light on romance. Heavy on sword and knife fighting with blood splashing and slicing of of body parts. It's gory. The fighting is very fast, sometimes in the dark, with sparse lighting, so keep your eyes open. The fighting is part chinese whip chain, part knife fighting, part sword fighting. These's even a bit of parcor (sp?) All super fast some over the top effects in the fighting towards the end, but nowhere near the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon level.