I don\'t know about all this new Martial Arts stuff, I mean, I come from the days of Bruce Lee. I don\'t think I\'ve ever enjoyed anyone\'s martial arts as much as his. As for CTHD, what really appealed to me was the viscious sword play. Sure there\'s a fantasy element in there that folks don\'t dig with all the flying, but if you go back to martial arts movie history, you\'ll find that stuff like this started and has permeated martial arts films long before CTHD popularized it for a US audience... it\'s just now that that\'s happened, it\'s suddenly not cool.
I liked it, it was well done for a movie that wasn\'t written to be specificly a martial arts film.