EDITOR’S NOTE: Apologies for how late this is — catching up on so much work!

Guo Jing may have wandered the martial world honing his skills, but he has learned to appreciate the time he spends with his lover, Huang Rong. However, his tranquility goes away when he learns that Huang Rong’s father is the man who has killed his masters. Yet he has gone to anger too quickly, as it was all a misunderstanding and now, he may have lost her love forever. He must also come to terms with the man who raised him, Genghis Khan, and choose between family loyalty and justice.

Based on chapters 34 through 40 of Jin Yong’s legendary martial arts novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes and directed by the legendary Tsui Hark, this brings back the feeling of large-scale Shaw Brothers wuxia films. Hark has already made two other adaptations of the book, Swordsman and Swordsman II.

I loved the end of this film, where Guo Jing pushes through thousands of soldiers to have an audience with Genghis Khan and speaks to him of heroism and the responsibility of protecting one’s own people.

Currently the highest-grossing wuxia movie in Chinese cinema, this has a perfect use of its leads, Xiao Zhan and Tony Leung Ka-fai (Big Tony, not Tony Leung Chiu-wai, who is Little Tony).