This was a good wuxia story that inserted frequent attempts to manipulate the audiences emotions that seemed awkward and misplaced. Sadly between that and queuing up the cheesy music every few minutes really broke up the momentum for me. Excellent costumes, martial arts and traditional wuxia theme but forced unnatural over the top emotive scenes in order to appeal to a wider audience were completely unnecessary and caused it to drag excessively. This could have had a similar level of appeal as say Snow Sword Stride which didn't need to rely on people shedding tears every five minutes that but it definitely fell short unfortunately.