This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Glad to have a visual upgrade on 4K UHD (since I'd previously seen this on DVD) reaching its prettiest moment when Mu Bai and Jen are suspended with their swords in the windy forest. Sure, the wuxia genre received a more vibrant spark later on, but this film is just as fanciful on the combat side. Several instances, really, with brisk hand-to-hand deflections when Shu Lien pursues Jen after the Green Destiny is stolen (even bested in their intense, emotive…