the first shi mian mai fu (house of flying daggers) reviews up on aicn, and its pretty scathing. the reviewer lays out the entire plot for you, and then picks apart the various issues they had with its presentation. while the reviewer quite liked the various fight scenarios, the characterizations and plot bizzare twists left them a little wanting. so even tho house of flying daggers was lauded at the cannes film festival, the reviewer still found the movie to be rather pedestrian when compared to the other big releases of the summer like spider-man 2 and harold and kumar. that latter movie raised eyebrows and suspicions from quint…
> shi mian mai fu (house of flying daggers) review (via aicn)
