This is one of those movies that are a very good glimpse to chinese classical culture but at the same time it's very entertaining, funny, natural and fluent storytelling, engaging characters, great scenarios and cinematography for those times. Still they manage to tell all these with a background of chinese philosophy, sect struggles, politics, ethics, all in a comedic way. Not easy thing to achieve, and this movie does it! Great charisma in Jet Li character as well as other actors. His mother was very funny and depicts maybe a stereotype of chinese mom haha! Classic film!