Was it a member of the Flying Daggers?
It's unlikely.

Wow! What an amazing movie House of the Flying Daggers is. I almost felt like I was being too harsh on Star Wars, but then when I think about it in comparison to this movie I don't feel that way anymore. The two actually have a lot of similarities.

Both have fairly preposterous plots, both are action oriented, and both are gorgeous. But in Flying Daggers the dialog works, and there's some character development. Sure, it's mostly cliche, but when it works, who cares? They even managed to kick the crap out of Star Wars from a dialog perspective working within the confines of translated subtitles.

It's hard for me to describe how impressed I was with the fight scenes in this movie. They strike a fantastic balance between reality, fantasy and art. People compare this to Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but for my money this is clearly the best of the three from an artistic and choreagraphic standpoint. The story is a little weaker then the other two [1] but it's not too far off.

Highly recommended!

1. That's assuming you don't mind the very East Asian slant of Hero that turns a lot of Westerners off to the story. It's a movie with a plot that could never have been made in the West - it's uniquely Chinese in that sense.

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