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Cast
- Donnie YenSilent Wolf
- Michelle YeohYu Shu Lien
- Jason Scott LeeHades Dai
- Natasha Liu BordizzoSnow Vase
- Harry Shum Jr.Wei Fang
- Eugenia YuanBlind Enchantress
- Roger YuanIron Crow
- Chris PangFlying Blade
- JuJu ChanSilver Dart Shi
- Woon Young ParkThunder Fist
Recommendations
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The A.V. Club
Anyone merely hoping for more gravity-defying fight sequences will be reasonably satisfied by Sword Of Destiny, which chugs along amiably enough and never goes very long without a skirmish of some sort. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
It’s a shame the rest of the soap-opera story doesn’t measure up to its stunts. - 63
RogerEbert.com
A well-made, confident piece of entertainment that lacks the poetry and nuance of the first film and gets less interesting as its narrative thinness is revealed but never feels like something that’s being phoned in to make a quick buck. - 63
Slant Magazine
Sword of Destiny has an appealingly inventive, unruly genre party streak running down its figurative back. - 50
Los Angeles Times
There are a few inventive battles on a frozen pond and atop the tiled roof of a temple, but they are so CGI-enhanced as to seem cartoonish, not marvelous. - 50
The Film Stage
Like so many too-late sequels, the film — directed by the first film’s action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping — rides on waves of nostalgia and little else. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The emotional connective tissue that made Lee’s film so poetic, romantic, tragic and thrilling is missing here, reducing Sword of Destiny to a series of loosely related fight sequences and gauzy, overwrought flashbacks. - 40
The Guardian
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny isn’t so much a continuation as a Xerox copy with cheap toner.
