Una mujer, una pistola y una tienda de fideos chinos

...surely a leading contender for the most pictorially stunning blood-soaked burlesque comedy since Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are in My Neck/Dance of the Vampires.

...Zhang Yimou er legesyg som aldrig før og kaster genrerne op og rundt i luften som en nudeldej.

The film is all over the place, really, until the plot kicks in, at which point Zhang hits the dimmer and plunges everyone into darkness, even a pair of characters seemingly on hand purely for comic relief.