If there is one genre for which 3D was created in the deepest pits of its spectacle-soul, it’s martial arts. Swords and lances are stabbed at the audience, arrows hiss by too close for comfort, jabs are thrown and kicks snapped, stopping just shy of your nose. The story of the prince and the warrior who must defeat a shifty eunuch and his horde of fighters comes rattling toward us with all the tricks of the trade up its sleeve—good reason for master-director Mei-Chun Chang to go full tilt and give no ground with this one. Few, if any, 3D movies of the era rival its range of effects! (Olaf Möller)