Pretty drawn out and slow. There were lots of scenes that really dragged. The fight scenes were just OK for 1970, but the last one was good.
For a wuxia movie you’ve gotta have people jumping really high. This movie solves that problem by cutting to a performer doing flips off the ground. But it was done in a very drastic way that didn’t feel like it had much lead-up.
I remember seeing reviews for this movie that described it as ‘dreamy’. Which, like… huh? To me something being dreamy is when characters in a story just go along with whatever is happening to them, regardless if it makes sense. Which doesn’t happen at all. Aesthetically this also didn’t feel very ‘dreamy’ either. It doesn’t help that this is a /very/ common descriptor for movies, to the point of being overused. Maybe other peoples dreams are just really boring.
I might’ve liked the movie more if I learned more about Buddhism, which this movie clearly has lots of themes of.