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"THE WARRIOR'S WAY" (2010) (Jang Dong-Gun, Kate Bosworth) (R) Alcohol/ Drugs Blood/Gore Disrespectful/ Bad Attitude Frightening/ Tense Scenes Guns/ Weapons Heavy Extreme Extreme Moderate Extreme Imitative Behavior Jump Scenes Music (Scary/Tense) Music (Inappropriate) Profanity Extreme Moderate Extreme None Moderate Sex/ Nudity Smoking Tense Family Scenes Topics To Talk About Violence Moderate None Heavy Heavy Extreme QUICK TAKE: Action/Adventure: The world's greatest swordsman abandons his assassin clan to start a new life in the American Old West, but can't escape his ways. PLOT: Yang (JANG DONG-GUN) is a warrior-assassin hailed as the "greatest swordsman who has ever lived." His skills are put to good use in a war of clans, leading the slaughter of his rival clan's entire population. But a crisis of conscience stops him short of killing the last surviving member, a baby who he goes on the run with to the American Old West. Yang knows that as long as he keeps his signature sword in its sheath, his clan will not hear its "weep" and they will not know where to find him. He travels to a small desert town where a former friend has settled. When he gets there, he finds that his friend has passed away and that the town is populated almost solely by the remnants of a failed carnival and circus. He is befriended by Eight-Ball (TONY COX), a little person who was the former Master of Ceremonies for the carnival; Ron (GEOFFREY RUSH), an alcoholic former bank robber who is quite handy with a rifle; and a local woman named Lynne (KATE BOSWORTH), who still grieves over the murder of her parents at the hands of the ruthless Colonel (DANNY HUSTON). Yang and Lynne subsequently fall in love. Yang's peaceful new life, though, is threatened by the return of the Colonel and his gang of marauders. And when Yang whips out his sword to defend his town, he exposes himself and his friends to his old clan under the leadership of Saddest Flute (LUNG TI), Yang's former mentor. A gargantuan battle royal between ninjas, warriors, gunslingers, and carnies ensues. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Teens, especially males, will likely be drawn to the film's hyper-stylized action. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For strong bloody violence. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: JANG DONG-GUN plays an enigmatic assassin who has trained all of his life to be the greatest swordsman who has ever lived. He has used that skill to kill many members of a rival clan and drive them to the brink of extinction. But he has a crisis of conscience when he is about to kill the last of the clan, a female baby. He escapes with the baby and discovers love and peace in a small desert town in the American Old West, only to have that peace shattered when forced to do battle with a group of local marauders and then his old master and his ninjas. KATE BOSWORTH plays a young American woman who is consumed with feelings of revenge against the man who killed her parents and younger sister. A romantic at heart, she falls for Yang and convinces him to teach her the warrior's ways. She can be quite violent when pushed. GEOFFREY RUSH plays an alcoholic former bank and train robber who changed his ways when he fell in love. His wife was eventually killed by a federal marshal who was hunting for him. He now drinks to excess, but is pressed back into service when a roving gang of pillagers under the command of The Colonel threaten his small town. DANNY HUSTON plays the violent leader of a group of outlaws who live only to steal, kill, terrorize, rape, and pillage. He is especially obsessed with violating young girls who he insists be cleaned and bathed for him. He is the man who killed Lynne's family. TONY COX is a little person who was the former Master of Ceremonies at a carnival that broke down in the small Western town where Yang holes up. LUNG TI plays Yang's former master, who now actively hunts for Yang after he disobeyed a command to completely kill every single member of a rival clan...even the last baby. He is a hardened taskmaster who even once ordered a very young Yang to kill his own dog as a sign of inner resolve. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a brief summary of the content found in this action-adventure movie that has been rated R. Profanity consists of at least four "s" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are also uttered. There's some sexually related material/behavior as well as brief & partial nudity (male bare butt). Violence consists of people being shot with a variety of guns and rifles, and sliced, diced, stabbed, skewered, and generally cut up by various swords and knives often wielded by the hero, heroine, and dozens of ninja-like warriors. Much of this is done in a highly stylized, video-game-like manner with animated blood spurts, super slo-mo lunges, and special camera trickery that follows the bullets out of gun barrels and into their targets. Other violence consists of various characters being punched, kicked, and generally manhandled often with bloody results. Some are blown up by exploding dynamite, while still others fall great distances off an exploding Ferris wheel. Bad attitudes are present throughout, as is much potentially imitative behavior and various thematic elements. Some derogatory terms are used for Asians, Mexicans, and little people. One character is labeled a town drunk and is often seen swigging from a bottle of whiskey. The main villain is a gleeful rapist with a particular taste for very young girls. No on-screen rape is shown, but we get the psychological lead-up to such acts twice with two pre-teen sisters crying and naked while being scrubbed in a bathtub. A baby is also placed in jeopardy at numerous points in the film, including a climactic battle with the main villain who puts a gun up to the child's head as a threat. Some of that material could be unsettling and/or suspenseful to some viewers. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. For those concerned about bright flashes of light, there is one sequence where the main hero kills a number of bad guys in a hallway in which the lights flicker, creating a strobe-light effect. For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, again this is a highly-stylized film that often moves back and forth between slow-motion and various fast visuals. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE When we first see Ron, he is drinking from a bottle of liquor. One circus performer swigs from a bottle of whiskey then spits the spirit at a torch he is carrying, creating a brief fireball effect. A bottle of whiskey or some spirit is shown on a table as the Colonel enjoys a steak dinner. The Colonel and his thugs shoot at a clown, trying to hit the shot glass of whiskey balancing on his head. The Colonel is shown drinking in the scene. Ron stumbles into the scene clearly drunk and snatches the glass from atop the clown's head and drinks it. To help with Ron's aim, Eight-Ball places several bottles of Ron's favorite liquors amidst a bowling pin as he looks to practice rifle shooting and hitting targets. During the climactic battle, the firefighter ignites fireballs by spitting alcohol through a lit torch. BLOOD/GORE Yang kills a lone assassin in the marsh with his sword, and a blood spray is briefly seen. Yang takes all of a second or two to kill multiple ninjas who have surrounded him, with very brief blood poofs visible in the air and then quickly evaporating. One is left alive, and Yang kills him too in a showdown with the fatal slice also causing a very brief, but bloody spray. The dead and charred body of an elderly assassin is discovered by Saddest Flute and his minions. A fly is mashed, complete with smushed sound effect, when a door opens suddenly. Yang's bare chest and stomach bear multiple scars from previous battles, most of which look like they resulted from stabbings and sword fights. A barely teenage Lynne throws a pot of boiling water on the Colonel's face, noticeably scarring him. Much blood is shown after Lynne is shot by the Colonel, including an extreme close-up of her face that is quite bloodied as she watches her family executed. At one point, her tears mix with blood and stream down the side of her face. Years later, the Colonel returns to the town wearing a "Phantom of the Opera"-like mask that conceals some of his facial scars. It is eventually ripped off during the climactic battle sequence, revealing his full-on facial scars. Many bloody, stabbed, and sliced-up corpses are shown lying on the deck of a ship Saddest Flute and his men are on as it steams its way across the ocean and to America. One of the Colonel's henchmen bears facial scarring, black discolorations, and one eye is clearly different from the other. The Colonel rips the back of Lynne's dress to reveal the scar from the bullet wound he gave her a decade earlier. Yang slices up several of the Colonel's men with his sword, causing brief blood sprays. After he is done, Yang's face and clothes are shown to have caught some of the blood. Kate throws a dagger into a man's back while riding away on horseback. His body is shown lying on the ground afterwards with blood on his face and back. A severed hand still holding its sword lands at the feet of Yang after Ron ignites dynamite that blows up numerous attacking riders. Yang attacks numerous fallen riders amid a dust cloud, carving them up with his sword and causing multiple blood sprays. The last one to die is shown having his throat slit and a slo-mo stream of blood is shown gushing out of the man's neck. Gunfire is exchanged during the climactic battle between the Colonel's men and the townspeople dressed in their carnival attire and we briefly see bloody bullet wounds on those who get shot. At one point during the battle, we see Yang slice through multiple gunmen in silhouette accompanied by silhouetted blood splatters. When Saddest Flute and his ninjas join the battle, the violence escalates and men on both sides are shot, stabbed, and sliced, with bloody results. At one point, three ninjas swoop down, completely envelop three of the Colonel's men, and slit their throats underneath the clothing. The three men fall to the ground dead and bloody. In one long, highly stylized tracking shot, Yang kills about two dozen ninjas with his sword drawing blood from almost all of them. Yang fights multiple bad guys in a barn with exceedingly bloody results. Lynne joins the fight late, stabbing one of the ninjas and killing him before he can kill Yang. Both she and Yang have splashes of blood on their clothing, faces, hands, and weapons. SPOILER ALERT: A bloody Eight-Ball lays dying in the street, having been shot by the Colonel or one of his men. SPOILER ALERT: Lynne eventually cuts the Colonel's face, then one of his Achilles tendons, with bloody results. He takes off his mask to reveal the full extent of his scars from being scalded years earlier. Lynne then delivers a bloody death blow: a sword deep into his back. SPOILER ALERT: A final swordfight between Yang and Saddest Flute ends with Yang killing Saddest Flute. The death blow is not dwelled upon and is barely shown. We only realize Yang has won after a montage flashback followed by the camera panning down the older man's body to reveal he is now kneeling in a puddle of his own blood. With the battle over, we get a brief tour around town of the carnage as multiple corpses are shown - many of which are seen lying in their own blood. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE In Asia, rival clans vow to war until no one is left. Some Asian audience members may take offense to the term "Oriental" that is casually used on at least two occasions in the film, such as a medicine being referred to as an "Oriental cure-all." When Yang first arrives, the townsfolk openly scoff and laugh at him, especially when he opens the door to what he thinks is the local hotel and it turns out to be nothing more than a hollow facade. Ron opens a bottle of liquor with his teeth and spits out the cork. In a flashback sequence, the Colonel and his band of marauders terrorize a small Old West town, pillaging and threatening men, women, and children. The Colonel gives a long, slow, close inspection to a barely teenage Lynne, and it is clear he intends to violate the girl after he finishes his dinner. The Colonel claims to have once killed a man because he cooked his steak to the point where it was too well done. The Colonel and his thugs return to town in the present day and terrorize the locals again. This includes standing a clown up again a carnival wheel and shooting at objects on his head, including a glass full of whiskey. In addition, they tie a rope around a drunken Ron's neck and drag him through the town. The Colonel calls Eight-Ball "a little boy" (he's technically a midget) and asks if Santa brought him anything for Christmas. The Colonel shoots and kills a Mexican wife and her husband with one bullet. He then notices they have two young daughters and orders them seized and bathed for his pleasuring later. The Colonel calls the two girls "spics," a derogatory term for Mexicans and people of Latino descent. In assessing how the townsfolk will fare against the Colonel's thugs, one of the carnival performers refers to Yang as a "chink with a sword," which is a derogatory term for Asians The Colonel uses one of his own men as a decoy in order to escape. The ruse works when Kate kills the disguised man, thinking it was Colonel. Ron reveals to Yang that he was once a violent man who robbed banks and trains. The Colonel puts a gun to Baby April's head and threatens to pull the trigger. A flashback sequence shows Saddest Flute testing a young Yang's inner resolve and freedom from emotional attachments by ordering him to kill his dog. Yang complies. FRIGHTENING SCENES Scenes listed under "Violence," "Blood/Gore" and "Jump Scenes" may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to younger viewers and/or those with low tolerance levels for such material. In a marsh-like setting, Yang is surrounded by multiple hooded ninja assassins intent on killing him. The Colonel gives a long, slow, close inspection of a barely teenage Lynne, and it is clear he intends to violate the girl after he finishes his dinner. A frightened and crying clown is lined up against a carnival wheel and shot at repeatedly while forced to balance various items on his head. Two young girls cower in fear in a bathtub as they are being scrubbed and prepared for the Colonel to violate them. Kate is seized by four of Colonel's men and held down against her will on a bed as the Colonel contemplates raping, maiming, and/or killing her. Just when the climactic battle looks to be nearly over, several dozen ninjas descend from the skies, land atop the buildings of the town, and are then ordered by their master to attack. GUNS/WEAPONS Yang fights with a prized sword throughout the film, one that when unsheathed is said to emit a "weep" drawing enemies to it. An opening attack sequence features ninja-like warriors wielding swords. Yang has a smaller knife that he stabs a waitress with who is about to try and kill him with a knife. Lynne wields a wooden cane at one point. She is also usually armed with daggers, which she enjoys throwing against trees, walls, and other targets in the hopes that one day she'll get a chance to kill the man who killed her parents and sister. In a flashback sequence, the Colonel and his gang of ruthless outlaws descend upon the town all wielding pistols and rifles. Yang teaches Lynne how to fight with daggers and swords in several training sequences. Yang and Eight-Ball take Lynne's swords from her and tie her up so she will not be killed trying to seek revenge against Colonel. Lynne, though, was concealing two daggers which she manages to use to cut herself loose. Ron has buried a massive cache of guns, rifles, ammunition, and dynamite which he and townsfolk use to defend themselves during the climactic attack. The climax indeed features a sword-wielding Yang, a rifle-toting Ron, and the townsfolk armed with rifles and pistols pitted against the Colonel and his men who are all armed with a variety of firearms and Saddest Flute and his men all armed with swords. Ron and the locals have also buried dynamite throughout the town that they blow up periodically. Two of the Colonel's men wield a gigantic machine gun, the kind you find mounted to the side of a helicopter. They fire and kill multiple ninjas with bloody results. But one of the ninjas is able to cut off both the arms of the man holding the heavy gun. The stumps ooze blood. The gun drops to the ground, pivots, and continues to fire, only this time at the Colonel's men killing nearly all of them in a hail of bullets and blood. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "Sh*t!" "Oh, sh*t!" "Damn!" "My arm ain't worth a damn," "G*ddamn it!" "I should never have taught you this G*ddamn game!" "It's for the whole G*ddamn town!" "It's a G*ddamn butcher's shop in here!" "Smooth as a cat's ass," "Condor crap," "Dang!" "Dang it!" "Tarnations!" "What the hell is wrong with her?" "I'll see you in Hell, little girl, and wear something nasty," "I don't like your stinkin' face," "You're slower than molasses in January," "You evil little midget," "Hey, Yellow Boy!" "You gotta a chink with a sword," "You sure know how to throw a dead cat into a party room," and "Sweet mother of God!" Impressionable young people may be tempted to imitate some of the fight sequences and fancy martial-arts moves performed in this film. Yang carries baby April kind of like a purse, holding on to the back of her neck. A fugitive Yang burns a tavern to the ground to conceal the fact that he has been there. Ron opens a bottle of liquor with his teeth and spits out the cork. One circus performer swigs from a bottle of whiskey then spits the spirit at a torch he is carrying, creating a brief fireball effect. Several male townsfolk chide Yang, with one calling him "Yellow Boy." Eight-Ball stops them by grabbing their testicles through their pants and twisting. A number of townsfolk, including Yang, climb the local Ferris wheel and sit high near its top to watch the sunset. A few of the carnival folk and others have tattoos that are briefly visible in certain shots. Yang and Eight-Ball play poker for money. As part of her training, Yang blind-folds Lynne and has her throw daggers at him. Lynne playfully throws small rocks at the back of Yang's head. When one is about to hit baby April who he is carrying, Yang effortlessly catches the pebble. Lynne says to a dour Yang, "You sure know how to throw a dead cat into a party room." The Colonel and his men rest various items atop a frightened clown's head and prepare to shoot the objects with their guns. To keep her out of trouble and harm's way, Yang and Eight-Ball bind and gag Lynne. But she manages to break free anyway. A desperate Colonel holds a loaded gun to a baby's head. JUMP SCENES After Yang kills a lone warrior assassin, multiple ninja assassins suddenly come from a marshy pond and surround him. A scene cuts from the Colonel taunting a clown to the clown being shot at repeatedly while trying to balance various items on his head, creating a brief jump effect in the audience. As the Colonel and his men descend upon the town for the climactic battle, multiple carnival attractions turn on rather suddenly and loudly. Dozens of ninjas fly up from underneath a snow bank to surround Yang. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) An extreme amount of tense and often foreboding music occurs throughout the film. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) None. PROFANITY At least 4 "s" words, 1 slang term used for male genitals ("hard-on"), 3 hells, 1 ass, 1 crap, 1 damn, 6 uses of "G-damn," and 1 use each of "Oh my God" and "Sweet mother of God." SEX/NUDITY Among the carnival folk is a cross-dressing man who goes through the film showing cleavage. Yang is shown shirtless, but with pants on, washing himself. Lynne comes in and he quickly throws a towel over his bare chest and stomach, which she playfully tries to remove. Eight-Ball grabs two male locals by their crotches to get them to stop making fun of Yang. Ron falls face-first to the floor drunk and his ill-fitting pants leave about half of his bare buttocks visible for all to see. The Colonel gives a barely teenage Lynne a close inspection, including opening her mouth to look at her teeth, as he clearly prepares to violate her. Lynne and Yang spar in a playful swordfight that ends in a long kiss. The Colonel orders two young sisters to be bathed for his pleasuring later. He clearly intends to rape them, but a tarted-up Lynne posing as a local prostitute intervenes and offers her body to Colonel. The outfit Lynne wears to seduce the Colonel reveals a lot of cleavage. The Colonel comes on strong, kissing Lynne's neck and grabbing for her breasts. She teasingly tells him that there is no place on the body that should be off-limits as long as it is properly cleaned. Lynne mentions that the Colonel could have a "hard-on" for a scar. SMOKING None. TENSE FAMILY SCENES April is an orphaned child whose parents were killed (off-screen) by Yang. A crisis of conscience prompts Yang to spare the baby's life and he takes care of her from there on out. A young Lynne watches helplessly as the Colonel kills her father, mother, and younger sister. Yang shares with Lynne that his father was killed in a one-on-one fight, and he was mad at him for a long time because he was not better. Ron shares with Yang the story of his wife being killed by a federal marshal who had been hunting for him. On her deathbed, she made him promise never to pick up another gun again. Ron advises Yang to not pursue his romantic relationship with Lynne any further, calling her "a flower" and him "sand." Yang refers to Saddest Flute as a "father figure," but one he eventually must kill in a final showdown. We see a montage of clips from when Yang was a young boy being trained by the elderly man. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT Rape. Child molestation. Drinking alcohol to excess. Warring clans throughout history. Loss of a parent. VIOLENCE An opening fight sequence in a marsh-like setting has Yang killing an opponent with his sword. Multiple ninjas then jump out of the water and surround Yang, who kills them all within about a second with his sword. One is left, the fabled greatest swordsman who has ever lived. Yang and he face off, and Yang slices him with a fancy move to claim the title. Yang is chased through a wooded setting by multiple ninja-like warriors. As they overtake him, he kills all of them in a flash using his sword. At a seaside tavern, Yang rightfully suspects that an elderly waitress is really an assassin, so he stabs her fast and hard with a knife before she can harm him or baby April. He then sets fire to the tavern and burns it to the ground. Lynne comes up behind Yang and hits him hard across the back with a wooden cane to see if he is as fast and elusive as she suspects. Eight-Ball grabs two male locals by their crotches to get them to stop making fun of Yang. A flashback sequence shows the Colonel and his band of marauders manhandling and brutalizing several townspeople, including Lynne's father. In a flashback sequence, a barely teenage Lynne throws a pot of boiling water against Colonel's face in self-defense, scalding him. She then runs away and he gives chase, eventually shooting her in the back. He then walks over and kicks her while she is lying on the ground bleeding, then goes and grabs her father, throws him to the ground, puts his boot down atop him, and shoots him. Kate then watches as her mother and younger sister are similarly executed off-screen (we hear the gunshots and can surmise it is them). Lynne playfully throws small rocks at the back of Yang's head. When one is about to hit baby April who he is carrying, Yang effortlessly catches the pebble. Off-screen, it is clear that Saddest Flute and his men have slaughtered everyone on board a ship headed for America, as we see multiple dead bodies lying on the deck. Lynne and Yang spar in a playful swordfight that ends in a long kiss. The Colonel and his thugs return to town in the present day and terrorize the locals again. This includes standing a clown up again a carnival wheel and shooting at objects on his head, including a glass full of whiskey. The Colonel eventually shoots him in the foot. In addition, the Colonel and his men tie a rope around a drunken Ron's neck and drag him through the town. The Colonel shoots and kills a wife and her husband with one bullet. He then notices they have two young daughters and orders them seized and bathed for his pleasuring later. The Colonel isn't fooled by Lynne's ruse and has her seized by his men and held down on a bed while being manhandled. Yang eventually crashes through a window and carves up at least a half-dozen of the Colonel's thugs with his sword in a lunging attack that takes all of five seconds. The Colonel escapes from the room, pushing Lynne out a two-story window, and using her as a cushion to soften the landing. She survives. He then uses one of his own men as a decoy when riding away. Lynne throws the dagger at the man she thinks is the Colonel, hitting him in the back and killing him. The Colonel gets away. A climactic battle develops in which the Colonel regroups his men and they attempt to lay siege to the town once again. He first sends ahead a number of men on horseback with guns and swords drawn. Yang stands alone with one townsman as they approach. Just as they are within a hundred or so feet, Ron from a sniper's perch atop the Ferris wheel shoots a stick of hidden dynamite that blows up the riders and their horses. The exploding dynamite creates a desert dust cloud that Yang uses to attack the surviving, disoriented riders. He kills at least a dozen of them with his sword. The battle eventually gets taken to the town. Ron's spotter throws down various single sticks of dynamite, which Ron shoots and ignites. Ron also shoots multiple bad guys on the ground and those who climb up the large Ferris wheel and try to kill him. The Colonel orders his men to shoot up at the Ferris wheel and Ron must break off his assault. He eventually swings down off the carnival attraction using a crude zip line and ignites sticks of dynamite hidden all over the Ferris wheel, bringing it down and killing many of Colonel's men. Multiple townsfolk dressed in their carnival attire exchange gunfire with Colonel's men. Both sides take casualties. The fire-breather seen earlier in the film ignites some booze and engulfs one of Colonel's marauders in flames. He is promptly shot by the Colonel. At one point during the battle, we see Yang slice through multiple gunmen in silhouette, killing each of them. The townsfolk think they have driven back the Colonel and his men, but they emerge from hiding shooting. Then, Saddest Flute and dozens of ninjas descend seemingly from the sky and land atop the various buildings of the town. Saddest Flute gives the order to attack and the ninjas pounce with swords. The townsfolk form an on-the-spot, brief alliance with Colonel's men in shooting and killing multiple ninjas. We see the Colonel specifically shoot one in the head. Ninjas, meanwhile, slice and dice several of Colonel's gang. Soon after, three ninjas swoop down and wrap their clothing around three of Colonel's men, completely enveloping them. We hear the slicing of the three men's throats. The ninjas let the men go and each of them drops to the ground dead. In one long, highly stylized tracking shot, Yang kills about two dozen ninjas with his sword, jabbing and slashing them in the heads, throats, backs, torsos, and midsections. Two of the Colonel's men wield a gigantic machine gun, the kind you find mounted to the side of a helicopter. They fire and kill multiple ninjas. But one of the ninjas is able to cut off both the arms of the man holding the heavy gun. The gun drops to the ground, pivots, and continues to fire, only this time at the Colonel's men killing nearly all of them. Yang fights multiple bad guys in a barn. Lynne joins the fight late, stabbing one of the ninjas and killing him before he can kill Yang. SPOILER ALERT: Eight-Ball has been shot and killed off-screen by either the Colonel or one of his men, and baby April has been taken from him. Colonel's men stand guard at the door of the room where the Colonel is holed up. Multiple ninjas come to attack, but the men use their large machine gun to shoot and kill them all. In the hail of bullets, they have shot a light in the hallway leading to the room, creating a strobe light effect. Yang uses the disorienting effect to slice and dice all six of the men. Inside the room, Yang chops Colonel's gun in half before he can shoot baby April. He defers to Lynne to kill Colonel, as she has been craving revenge. The two have a long fight with swords, during which the Colonel often manhandles her and throws her across the room and into walls. SPOILER ALERT: Lynne eventually cuts Colonel's face, then one of his Achilles tendons, causing him to crumple to the floor. She then delivers the death blow: a sword deep into his back. Acting on orders from his master, Saddest Flute, a young Yang kills his beloved dog with a sword. We don't see the dog get slashed, though, but we hear it. SPOILER ALERT: A final swordfight between Yang and Saddest Flute ends with Yang killing Saddest Flute. The death blow is not dwelled upon and is barely shown. We only realize Yang has won after a montage flashback followed by the camera panning down the older man's body to reveal he is now kneeling in a puddle of his own blood. An epilogue shows Yang now living in a snowy setting far North. He sells fish and uses a frozen one to stab an assassin posing as a customer. Reviewed December 3, 2010 / Posted December 3, 2010

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