Yeah, I agree Lasereth. And why did Spoiler:
the King have Jet Li executed? He wasn't an enemy by that time, not if he had future plans to unite the different people.
Again, I'd recomend seeing the movie more for the art than the story, it's a bit confusing. (maybe it's not confusing and I was just paying more attention to the beauty and not fully reading all the subtitles
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