The plot is incomprehensible, the special effects are sometimes less than desired but you have to give it credit for being the very first movie in the world with HOPPING ZOMBIES. Yes, before these zombies evolve into higher undead that fly, they must indeed begin with hopping. All of us watching this movie simultaneously cried "Night of the Lepus" at the stirring Zombie Hop. Sure to catch on at the local raves.

It's still kind of a fun movie despite the occassional silliness because it doesn't really take itself all that serious. The oriental vampire is really much tougher than the western variety and the movie depicts this. These vampires don't need to bite you on the neck, they just kind of suck the blood right through the air. They are apparently able to breath fire like a dragon, too.

This movie is shocking in every sense of the word. The hunters here are fighting the supposedly vampire king which looked like a piece of log. The whole time they were fighting the log, any rational human being can see that the log is dragged from here and there. Once in a while, we would have a close up of the the log's face and not that I'm disgusted with its maggot laden face but I was petrified by its lack of facial contortions. Oh, I just remembered, the vampire king is supposed to be dead. By the way, the make-up is appalling, all of us can see that the young actors are playing old guys who seem to defy gravity and wouldn't it be wonderful if we are blessed with such power and thus, we needn't hail a cab anymore? Watch out, Spiderman! The subplot about seeking gold in a freaky household sporadically threatened by snakes (one of them is king cobra - in that part of the world?) is way beyond logic. In fact, this whole movie is supposedly about entertainment, and the movie is allegedly claimed to be the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger genre. Trust me, this movie doesn't have the grace, the rhythm of the latter one that would inherently make it a modern classic. The special effects is C-quality as Robert Rodriquez dominates the B-quality section nowadays! In the Western world, Tsui Hark is famed as a Director but I really don't feel that one should use his signature name in vain especially with this inconsistency that tarnishes his previous accomplishments. Some of the actors here are charismatic and funny and thus, making it watchable. The fighting sequence set pieces are good in patches but not coherent. This movie holds such a great promise but it's been tainted by so many other Hollywood horror thriller flick with the most obvious one being the Predator?! I know what you are thinking. Well, watch this at your own peril. Don't say that you have not been owned.

Tsui Hark is an amazing producer and director who has trained many a great action director such as John Woo. But this film? Ouch! Confusing plot. Stupid dialog. Laughable zombies (they hop). Maybe it was meant to be a comedy.

Check out the 'Once Upon A Time in China' set of DVDs with Jet Li for a better idea of what Tsui Hark is capable of and stay from this turkey! The HK equivalant of Plan 9 from Outer Space.

My family loves really stupid movies and this one actually passes out of that genre into good fun. The fight scenes were surprisingly well done; the actors were charming. And, yes, the film had almost no logic, but it got to the point that we just said "HUH?" when it would suddenly not make sense (and there were so many loose threads at the end!! What about the snake?? What about Jiao and Dragon??? What about all the bandits who got attacked???). And when the "zombie wrangler" (that is a truly masterful stupid translation) awakens the zombies and they begin to HOP everywhere -- well, stupid fun just doesn't get any better.

The master vampire in this movie looks exactly like a burnt manikin dummy being pulled through the air by a wire. The special effects in this movie is very cheesey. The acting is also bad. The actors hardly have a script, but I guess that they didn't need one since they spend 90% of the movie fighting each other.

If you want to watch a good Vampire martial arts movie, than I sugest that you get the original Blade, or From Dust till Dawn part 1.