Better Late Then Never

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

a comedy. an action movie. few impressive fight scenes. and the wise measure between theme. result - a nice movie who has something from kids movies but, in same measure, the flavor of an interesting job. not special but seductive. not a great script but the measure as powerful rule. a film who has its charm and who gives a Jet Li in admirable role. so, almost a surprise. and a form of entertainment who remains so nice than you ignores the not inspired parts. dramatic scenes are perfect ingredients for easy humor. the basic values are presented in right form. and that facts does the film a decent show. for martial arts fans, sure, more that.

This wilfully demented martial arts comedy is a mixed affair. Set some time in the past - sorry folks, Chinese history is not my strong point - when Empire was all, this sees a group of dissidents attempting to overthrow their evil overlords. Jet Li, acting as Executive Producer as well as the main star, plays Fong Sai-Yuk, a cheeky chappy with amazing Kung Fu prowess who falls in love with the beautiful daughter of an influential businessman and must prove his worth to the judgemental Patriarch. That's all I could really glean from the haphazard plotting, but it mattered not one jot as this is all about the fight scenes, which are many and varied. Going the Jackie Chan route of making use of scenery, this sees Jet leaping about on bamboo scaffolding, dancing on rooftops and even fighting on the shoulders and heads of the eagerly watching crowd. Whilst the comedy element quickly becomes tiresome and irritating the action is dazzling though be warned, it is all wire work, so if that annoys or disappoints this may not be the chop-socky movie for you. Whilst far from great, this nevertheless passed the time efficiently enough. Oh, and try to get hold of the subtitled version if you can as the dubbed voices on the version I watched are almost unbearable at times.

This is definitly one of the best films to come from Hong Kong that i have ever seen. The martial arts scenes are original in content and are visually stunning with Jet Li and Josephine Siao. This is a must for any HK film fanatic's collection. Warning. Do not under any circumstances watch the dubbed version of this film entitled The Legend. Its awful. They've butchered it.Watch the subtitled version, it makes so much more sense

what do you think of when someone talks about a Chinese movie, which is a cross between martial arts "Crouching Tiger" action, hilarious comedy, a farce, modern fairytale, passioned lovestory and very out of sync talks? with a great score though...well, this Jet Li canton movie proved it can work out. the fights are magnificent, the jokes cool and only Shakespeare himself could have written a comedy of misunderstanding, love and honour etc.I liked this one!