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As spectacular as it is slyly sentimental.

While boasting eye catching costumes and production design, the film contains very little meat, flitting between action and romance but not doing a particularly good job with either.

This is dark, and sweet, and repeatedly inventive, but doesn't always feel coherent.

What makes Flash Point stand out is Donnie Yen's use of MMA.

Every cinematic trick in the book to make Hero's violence as sexy as a car commercial

The fighting is slick, frenetic and plentiful, mixing fast cutting with subtle wire-fu, even if it is by no means particularly original.

This reimagining of Mulan is up there with David Lowery's Pete's Dragon in finding something fresh to say with the material by jettisoning the songs and the emphasis on comedy in favour of bringing its more emotional and adventurous themes to the fore.

While unable to completely disguise its television origins through small-screen compositions and comparatively dull and grainy shot-on-video visuals, the film benefits from quality production design and direction.

Whatever expectations are carried in are brought to a stop, hard.

There is undoubtedly a need, if not a demand, for action movies in our society, but ones as skilfully shot and put together as Seven Swords infuriate as much as they delight.

Victorian London is as phoney as some of the accents.