锦衣卫

There seems no excitement in the movie and fighting scenes are so so nothing to shout about. Story wise seems more interested to introduce the other characters into the movie which seems disparate. Donnie Yen as 青龙 leads a group of highly skilled bodyguards serving the Emperor, they are trained from young as orphans and do not question the tasks being ordered to do.

During one mission, he was ordered to retrieve some imperial seal from some righteous officials. But another party was interested but failed while 青龙 escaped injured. 青龙 made his way to some 镖局 and requested to escort him to somewhere. Though along the way, he seems to be protecting them more than they protecting him.

He took 赵薇 as 乔花, daughter of the 镖头 in exchange of them diverting the enemies attention till he gone to his destination. He knew who betrayed him when one of the failed assasins told him. 戚玉武 as 玄武 in cahoots with the 太监 贾精忠 to steal the seal to sell to soms Prince who want to revolt. 玄武 as the bastard is inferior in so many ways as to 青龙, skills, confidence and stance, not sure why his character being protrayed this way.

And this 太监 贾精忠 is just a greedy baddie, the person to defeat is the assasin from send by the Prince, 徐子珊 as 脱脱, are we lacking words in thousand of years of chinese history ? What a name ? Maybe 睡睡 ? 插插 ? coming up. As 青龙 finds out more of the revolt plot, he met 吴尊 as 大漠判官 which is totally too modern, boyish and suave looking to be some bandits 老大. They raided some gold together prepared for the 太监 贾精忠 by the prince in some "T" city.

So it is up to 青龙 to stop the war and get back the seal in time but also to duel with 脱脱, seems wierd Donnie fighting a woman. The last fight scene was just so so. 6/10