Gorgeous, but also very violent.

Wonderfully conveys how the act of loving another can be a game, a sacrifice, a ruse, a weapon, a betrayal, and, most of all, a political act.

About as viscerally and visually exciting as film can get, and yet it is also fully, ripely romantic in a way that few modern films would dare.

What we have here is a different beast from “Hero”; a film that delights in giving us spectacular violent encounters, yes, but that also decides to develop a romance that we all know has no way of ending well. [Full review in Spanish].