I first saw the making of this movie on AXN and thought it would be a great film. It had some major stars and the location looked beautiful. Considering I had worked in that part of the world for a year, I knew how it felt like in the summer heat and winter cold.
The story is a simple one with a renegade soldier being hunted by an emperor's Japanese emissary. The renegade soldier is in charge of escorting a Buddhist artifact and they get hounded by bandits in the desert. The emissary and renegade predictably band together to save the artifact from the bandits.
After watching the film I was disappointed with the story and how it panned out. I thought the fighting sequences were ordinary and the last part of the story a cop out. I think the whole film could have been done much better with a better script and the fighting choreographed much better. My low voting mark reflects this disappointment.
The story is a simple one with a renegade soldier being hunted by an emperor's Japanese emissary. The renegade soldier is in charge of escorting a Buddhist artifact and they get hounded by bandits in the desert. The emissary and renegade predictably band together to save the artifact from the bandits.
After watching the film I was disappointed with the story and how it panned out. I thought the fighting sequences were ordinary and the last part of the story a cop out. I think the whole film could have been done much better with a better script and the fighting choreographed much better. My low voting mark reflects this disappointment.