If you enjoy classic Hollywood movies, you can skip this one. This movie appeared promising in the beginning but quickly devolved into a jumbo mess. The events were difficult to follow, the subtitles were way to small/moved to fast and the flipping back and forth between Chinese and English was very distracting. Apparently, this is a "message" movie, very poorly done. What this says about the current state of affairs in the movie industry and the over-hyped Oscars.......is depressing. Only a tech head who likes cool special effects will be fascinated by the overly long and tedious Kung Fu movie. Somewhere in there, a message is buried. I will be horrified if this film receives the Oscar for best picture. Compared to All Quiet on The Western Front, another best picture nominee, it is a big, annoying and tedious goose egg (with the exception Jaime Lee Curtis, who performance is hysterically funny.)