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At least it looks good. Bartkowiak has a way with the camera that keeps the images fresh and interesting. On the other hand, the film is atrociously edited, chopping up the action sequences to cut back and forth between two or three scenes and losing the momentum in each one in the process. This is a bit irritating because some of the scenes are quite fun to watch, even though most are ludicrously contrived and essentially irrelevant to the plot (such as Li battling a room full of Ultimate Fighters for no reason at all). The whole film is fairly irrelevant, actually. None of the characters or settings are remotely believable, so you just sit back and watch it all rush past, explode, and so on. The fight scenes are well staged in a choreographed sort of way. The storyline is ridiculously stupid, ending exactly as you knew it would. And then there's the funny bit worth sitting through the end credits for. By the time you get outside the cinema you can hardly remember anything about the film at all.