swords to the fore in martial arts master Yuen Woo-ping’s wuxia heaven (opens in new tab)

Impressive film is full of exquisite fight scenes and action-movie stalwarts who overcome a ridiculously tangled plotRecently becoming the most successful wuxia film of all time at the Chinese box office, Blades of the Guardians offers a duly impressive spectacle, chock-full of epic set-pieces that lean more on physical effects than CGI, and of course lashings of exquisitely choreographed fight scenes mostly using – as the title suggests – swords.One wouldn’t expect anything else, given it is...