How can the director of this film be proud of his work? Included in the extra feature of the DVD are some interviews of the director and actors. They reiterate ad nauseum how proud they are of this film. In spite of these positive comments, this film is just a carbon copy of some cheap Hong Kong martial art movie with some shameless rip-off of Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow. Fight scenes are merely Koreanized version of Chinese martial art fight scenes with those exaggerated sword plays and physically impossible midair ballets. Just like many Hong Kong movies, the plot is close to nonexistent. Just like many Hong Kong movies, the characters are one-dimensional. The good girl swordfighter is saintly good while the villains are just plain evil. Unlike the real world, there is absolutely no gray area. Also, why do so many of the Balhae bandits look so much like Captain Jack Sparrow? In fact, with the effeminate gestures and weird make-up, one of them looks as if Johnny Depp was speaking Korean. Did Jack Sparrow immigrate from 18th century Caribbean to 10th century Korea to father some offsprings? Although it was a fun movie, "Shadowless Sword" is very unoriginal. It is just a rip-off of martial art movies from Hong Kong.
Review of Shadowless Sword
