"House of Flying Daggers" is director Zhang Yimou's follow-up to the spectacular epic "Hero." Like "Hero," "Daggers" is a simply gorgeous movie to watch. The vivid colors, the costumes and even ...

As the Tang dynasty nears its end in a.d. 859, Mei, a member of the cult of underground resistance fighters known as the House of Flying Daggers, travels through fields and mountains and ...

The plot is thin, but the real meat of the film is the ballet-like, gravity-defying and supernaturally acrobatic fight scenes. It’s a visual feast. House of Flying Daggers ...

In his second trip to the martial arts well after his landmark "Hero," mainland Chinese helmer Zhang Yimou draws different water with the same bucket in "House of Flying Daggers," a more crowd ...

As "House of Flying Daggers" unfolds, you're barely aware of the story's dramatic boning, the corsetry that keeps it in shape. To seduce us, it uses the most basic tools -- color, sound, movement ...

House Of Flying Daggers. Naturally, the plan goes awry, knocked off course by hidden loyalties, external complications, and unexpected passion, all of which seem to necessitate fight sequences.

People always describe the fight scenes in martial-arts films as "balletic," which is a fancy way of saying you can enjoy the beauty, grace and athleticism even if you don't like watching people ...

While House of Flying Daggers is hardly Hero’s sequel, it negotiates similar territory, combining romance, lush cinematography and enough martial arts to satisfy even the most zealous fight ...

With "House of Flying Daggers," China's all-time greatest movie director Zhang Yimou ("Raise the Red Lantern," "Shanghai Triad") continues his unexpected detour into the lucrative world of martial ...

The debate over which of Zhang’s two masterful pieces of cinema is the better is one that will run and run, but for my book House Of Flying Daggers just takes it. Hero has a stylised beauty and ...

In his second trip to the martial arts well after his landmark "Hero," mainland Chinese helmer Zhang Yimou draws different water with the same bucket in "House of Flying Daggers," a more crowd ...