Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

dworldeater My DVD box says this movie is "a film full of kung fu and love". I'll go with that because describing what this film is about is not so easy. While I am at odds trying to explain what this is about, I can honestly say I enjoy this a lot. Like many other wuxia(or swordsman films) the storyline is sporadic and constantly changing. This is quite normal for the genre and while much of the subtext can be lost in translation to western viewers like myself, I still found this to be entertaining regardless. Butterfly And Sword is a real beautiful and completely insane action packed martial arts/fantasy saga with an excellent cast that has Tony Leung, Michelle Yeoh, Joey Wang, Donnie Yen and Elvis Tsui. There are love triangles, eunuchs and vicious fighting among warring clans. The action is at an accelerated pace, choreographed with brutal efficiency with maintaining a sense of grace and beauty while our heroes rip through the bodies of evildoers with their superior kung fu skills. Butterfly And Sword may be a bit excessive for viewers that are not familiar with swordsman movies. However, for those more familiar with the genre will dig and appreciate this flick.

squelcho Who cares about the plot when it only gets in the way of the action? The editing makes for some headscratching and eyerolling moments, but I think I understood the basic power trip thing in the end. Any excuse for a tear up. Graaaaaaaaaaar! I love this movie for the gratuitous gore, insane high speed swordplay, and wobbly wirework. This is my idea of fun fu. It reminds me of the madder Ghost Story type movies from the early eighties that sacrificed plot for pure adrenaline. I was half expecting the fake eunuch to drop some fancy prehensile eyebrow moves on Michelle and Tony at the end, but the scissorhand thing was a fine substitute. Maybe I'm just unsophisticated, but movies like this strike me as pure action comedies. Seeing Donnie Yen wiggling his sword at the speed of light in between bouts of lovesick drunkenness is worth the price of admission. The human arrow sequences are a riot, especially the first one where Tony Leung goes through at least a dozen flunkies without blinking. And without getting any blood and guts on his clothes. Neat! Watch this movie if you like bloody high speed entertainment. Don't waste your time or money if you want a philosophical history lesson.

Mr_Pink05 this film is truly incredible, please people, comment on it. I think it is one of the best martial arts films I have ever seen. However, it is very cult and i could not imagine most mainstream audiences enjoying this film. If you are not a philistine, then you will probably appreciate the very high quality of this film. i would give this film 10/10 because it is not only an excellent kung fu movie, but the cinematography is also jaw droppingly good. I must warn people that the Michelle Yeoh death scene is cut off in most DVD copies of this film, so it goes from her standing there, to butterfly and sword sitting in the back of a cart weeping... how bizarre.Kick ass film though!

luke Once again I find people making crazy reviews about how good the action is in this film and how it's the best feature of the film, fight scenes which require 300 different shots and constant camera angle changes is not good. I love wire action and fantasy martial arts but this is dreadful the characters for some reason was the only thing that kept me watching, but they were not so good as to make you care about them. Some one else said that it doesn't show off the capabilities of some of the actors, I would have to agree as the fight scenes are awful I don't know how people can say that they are good. I know everyone goes on about crouching tiger, hidden dragon and I agree I'm pretty sick of it to but there is a good reason for it just compare it to this film. The story line is fully explained you don't get a random scene and wonder what the hell is going on, you don't have to watch it 3 times to get a good understanding of whats going on and much of the fight scenes are not just constant changes in camera angles, the fight scenes are easy to follow no one wants to watch a fight scene made up of bits and pieces of different footage. I realise there is a big difference in budget but even the parts of the fight scenes when people are not flying around and are standing in one place, fighting is still just rapid changes in camera shots. There is one part near the end where they actually speed up the action so much it just looks fake and cheap. Once again as I have said before try and watch this film some other way than buying it so that you know what your getting yourself into if you do decide to buy even if it only costs £5.99 like my dvd did it's still not worth the money except for a good laugh at the film and those who rate this film highly on this site.