A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows. But things are far more complicated than they seem...
Though occasionally overwrought, peerless sequences, such as the sublime flight through a bamboo forest, ensure House Of Flying Daggers is a work of real beauty.
Miami Herald
January 14, 2005
One of the most visually astonishing martial-arts fantasies ever made.
Film Scouts
June 21, 2007
A gorgeous film in all respects, both accessible and artistically satisfying. Excellent.
An intoxicating cocktail of splendid visuals, spectacular action, state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery and some old-fashioned swashbuckling worthy of Hollywood's Golden Age.
ESplatter
July 04, 2008
The studied, artistic affectations may prevent this Mandarin-language art house effort from being as kinetically potent as the films it emulates, but it more than compensates by offering up deeply felt emotions played out on a grand scale more than adequa
Zhang proves that Hero was no accident with House of Flying Daggers, another Chinese period piece resplendent with a dazzling palette and soaring, ambitious fight sequences.
Movie Habit
September 01, 2005
See it in a theater on the biggest screen you can find
