Rest in peace Pai Ying, unforgettable as the villain in King Hu’s DRAGON INN and one of the heroes in A TOUCH OF ZEN, THE FATE OF LEE KHAN, and THE VALIANT ONES
I think people think you can just plug HK or Japanese choreo into a Hollywood movie and it'll look like this. It won't. Kenji worked on Snake Eyes, they smothered so much of his style. See also, Tony Leung's recent comments about Shang-Chi
Only gets better rewatching this in a theater. Tsui Hark carefully toes the line between pure maximalism and coherence that I don't see his peers pull off this gracefully, at least not with how frantic his films often gets, it still manages to presents a clear through-line.