Yi ge ren de wu lin (2014)

MOVIE The movie is story heavy which is a great thing. You get to know all about the protagonist and antagonist. The characters are fleshed out though we don't get to know anything about the victims who died, but all you get to know is that they were best at a particular martial arts.

The fighting is solid, you get to see fists, legs, grapple, sword and my favourite MMA. Donnie Yen does fight in this, but the disappointing thing is we get to see more of the antagonist fight MORE in the movie rather than Donnie. He only fights at the beginning and towards the end:/ The fighting choreography is good, you get to see some of the moves CLEARLY, no camera cheap tricks. One of the moves I like was when the antagonist does this movie to Grapple's face+chest+stomach, that was indeed badass because the camera focuses pin point to what you need to see.

This movie may not be as amazing as Flashpoint, or some other's favourite SPL. But definitely it is a well worth title, I can rewatch this over again. It is certainly a refresher because Donnie's latest movies have been disappointing: 14 Blades, Special ID, Wuxia, Monkey King, Ice Man -__- (some of them were not that bad but they can't be re-watched again). But this movie proved fans wrong.

VIDEO video is very nice, they used a nice camera in this movie. I love the river village, you get to see the waters ripple so clearly and sharply. That is where the HD really shines. For everything was crystal clear and vibrant. But mind you, all other scenes were great in HD.

AUDIO poor! I am using Tritton 720+ and I used Movie Mode. The audio which was in 5.1 DSA MA (however you spell it), was fine. The sound effects were nice however audio dialogue was poor. Because you couldn't hear what they were saying, you can hear, it is just that the audio effect is louder than speech audio. It felt like Matrix Bluray encoding:/

EXTRAS terrible!!! completely terrible! No nothing! Just movie | subtitle/sound | scenes. a quick cash grab by Signature distribution company. greedy bastards!

Verdict. if you have a multi region bluray, I say get the Asia version because that must have extras. If you only care about the movie, get this version. If you want your money's worth, I say you should WAIT until price drop to low!

In fact I think I am starting to dislike buying UK release martial arts movies on Bluray, because they are cheap knock offs! Sony did an amazing job with Ong Bak 2 on UK Bluray release because the audio quality was better than Magnet's Ong Bak 2 Bluray release. Man of Tai Chi was a pis's poor terrible blur ray release in UK, it had no extras! Shame the US version is not region free.