The cinematograpy is pretty lavish, with interesting imagery of scattering white flower petals and constantly billowing opaque curtains blowing in the wind at night. The people are all beautiful, if conniving and evil. This movie contains a surprisingly large amount of adult-grade erotic content (lesbian kisses, rape scenes, nudity), so is not one for the kids.

Overall, this one makes for an interesting night, and if it just had more character development and a somewhat more sophisticated plot, the luscious imagery, fantastic atmosphere, other various interesting touches would make this film a recommended one in my opinion.

2/5 DONT BE FOOLED
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Outside of Hong Kong (Thailand, excetera) there are tons of VERY LOW budget movie studios. Basically, to save money, they take stock footage from Hong Kong films (since the fights are the most exspensive and time consuming to film) cut it down, and edit them into thier own cruddy productions. Case in point, Slave of the Sword's fights are taken from Butterfy,Comet,and Sword (aka. Butterfly and Sword). Butterfly,Comet,and Sword is great, but Slave of the Sword stinks. The only thing it offers is a creepy love scene in wich a dog barks in slow motion, while rivers of blood are superimposed across tha couple bonking, and some screeching music plays in the background. But, even that cant save this cheapie.