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Absolutely the worst movie.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is a great martial arts film that could probably qualify as just a good film in general.It has interesting characters, a decent plot line, some great cinematography, and excellent fight and battle scenes. For those who hate the wire-fu genre, don't worry. They sacrifice the acrobatics here for some real gritty action, lots of blood and guts flowing with every severed limb, gouged eyeball, and decapitated head.The characters of the "Seven Swords" are dominated by Lai Ming, Donnie Yen and Charlie Yeung. The other ones are there but have much less significant roles. The design and use of the swords they use are quite remarkable. I really liked the secret to Charlie's sword.The plot line with the Korean mistress was a bit of a misdirect but it did play an important part of the story and gave Donnie a chance to try speaking Korean.The ending was the one disappointing part. You can see the director/writing wanting to do a sequel so badly. But alas, it never came to pass (yet).8/10

i've just watched this movie on DVD, at 135 long. i thought it was good, but certainly not a masterpiece. it looked gorgeous though, and had a stirring score. The dialogue was nothing to write home about though eg "protect the innocent villagers" or maybe it was "save the innocent villagers" But i thought it had some really good emotional scenes in it. i did find it confusing as regards keeping track of some of the characters. but that's my problem. the action sequences were good, but ot awe inspiring. i didn't think the film was overlong. and that's all the comments i'm gonna make on that movie, except to say i would recommend it. is that enough

If the action scenes were removed, this film would have been painfully boring.With the film reaching a very long and tedious 2 hours and 20 plus minutes, I expected the movie to be at least logical. However, some scenes outright stupid or ludicrous. For example, why would someone even pay for the heads of children and women when the imperial edict was to ban martial arts? So the bandits just attack helpless villagers and get paid? Then there was a scene when the leader said to free the horses so the villagers can escape. Why would do that? Then when the two swordsmen freed the horses, one horse named Rifle, was following them. The two swordsmen had to hurry and hide from Rifle. But after they can't see the horse anymore, one of the swordsmen hurriedly and repeatedly shouted out the horse's name, presumably to say goodbye. Stupid. I thought they were trying to hide awhile ago from that same horse? How about when Green Pearl and the other swordsman decided to go to the general's fortress to loot its gold? How could the two quickly get out of the cave when the whole place is under siege with cannons and the general's army is all over the place? Then the two was immediately back in the general's fortress. Then, surprisingly, the general is back in his fortress with his army and cannons no less to surprise the Green Pearl and her companion swordsman. That was some fast transportation back then, eh? Maybe I fell asleep watching this overly long movie so I missed the explanations for the above scenes. Given that if you take out the action scenes, the film would be boring, I would not be surprised to fall asleep in the first place.The cinematography is OK, although the viewer can see the obvious camera filters effects that were used. In many scenes, the "afternoon effect filter" was so obvious that even plants had the orangy/afternoon lighting on top and normal color on the bottom.Over all, the film is mediocre and trying to be "artistic" but came out flat, illogical, and boring. The action scenes were entertaining and bound to wake up the viewer. The rest of the film is bound to make the viewer fall asleep.

After the opening sequence of this film I thought I was in store for a stylish piece of cinema. It turned out to be a piece of crap. The film has some good photography but is plagued by a silly story, too many characters, and kung fu sequences that just aren't very good. I would rather watch old Bruce Lee fight scenes than watch the generic, lame fights in this film.Tsui Hark's best days are far behind him, much like John Woo. Personally, I think his best films by far are Double Team and Knock Off.The bottom line is Seven Swords is a bit of a bore.