This is a really bizarre movie, I quite enjoyed it actually for the most part, with fun performances, however it dragged in some places. All the characters are cool, and the story while bizarre, is often compelling, plus Michelle Yeoh is simply amazing in this!. I taped this a while back, as it was on Spike TV, and I must say I am glad I watched it, and it was refreshing to see something so original, plus the fight scenes are especially good. I loved set designs, and the finale is very exciting and creative, plus I was really surprised by how extremely violent it was (a baby gets killed!). Yeoh,Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung made a great trio, and had fantastic chemistry with each other, and Yee Kwan Yan played a very wicked villain, plus it takes a while to get going, but once it does, it never looks back!. The dubbing as expected is pretty bad, however it's bearable, and the fight choreography is good as well, plus it will keep you guessing throughout. This is a really bizarre movie, I quite enjoyed it actually for the most part, with fun performances, however it dragged in some places, still I highly recommend it. The Direction is very good. Johnny To does a very good job here with solid camera work, fantastic visuals, cool angles and keeping the film at a strong pace for the most part. The Acting is excellent!. Michelle Yeoh is amazing as always and is amazing here, she is extremely likable, kicks that ass, as always was intense, is hot, brought her usual charisma, and had great chemistry with both Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung! (Yeoh Rules!!!!). Anita Mui is excellent here, she's very cute, likable, was focused and delivered an engaging show I liked her lots!. Maggie Cheung is beautiful, and also does well, her dubbing voice is somewhat annoying, but she did a great job, and looked awesome!. Damian Lau did good with what he had to do as the Insp. and husband I liked him. Yee Kwan Yan is great as the villain, he looked awesome, and was quite evil. Rest of the cast do fine. Overall I highly recommend it. ***1/2 out of 5

This film is early wire-fu at its best. It is not Western cinema, and has to be viewed in the cultural context of wire-fu. It has great action sequences, over the top acting and plot line, unbelievable CHI powers, in other words, everything we love about wire-fu, and to review it in any other context is muddled reasoning at best. It's themes of redemption and honor is particularly poignant. The heroines are comic book perfection, the villains, get high marks for creepiness factor, and the supporting cast provides interesting foils. Not the best film, but a great one none the less. The Heroic Trio is definitely one of the better popcorn films out there.

For the first 45 minutes, I was debating whether or not to turn The Heroic Trio off. I came to the film via Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and, wary that many purists have called CTHD diluted Hong Kong wire-fu, I thought that a real one might be quite interesting. It was, but it wasn't entirely successful. It isn't nearly as good as CTHD. Go ahead and accuse me of being a Westerner. I know I am. The main problem with THT is the editing. I assume these films are made fast and that they are quickly edited. And I'm sure fans care less about the story than the action. The editing here is so choppy that I was always racing to catch up with the film. It took me a long time to figure out the relationships between characters, and a lot of things still didn't make much sense to me. Even if the action scenes are supposed to be where the filmmakers invest all their interest, most of the action scenes are just as poorly edited as the rest. In the old dancing musicals of Astaire and Rogers, the directors made it their point to show the entire scene, so you could see the dancers and what they are doing. The same ought to go for these types of movies. That's certainly what they were thinking in CTHD: there may be cuts, but there are long periods where you watch the actors do their stuff. In THT, they cut almost every time someone draws a weapon or kicks. One of the most effective shots in CTHD was when Jade Fox tossed that round blade at the old man's forehead. We see it travel from Fox's hand straight into the man's forehead without a cut. I heard the audience shout "OUCH!!!" You'll find nothing that good here. At least the action sequences get better in this respect as the film progresses. The final battle scene is a lot of fun and very exciting. 6/10

Is this really as bad as Teen Wolf or Highlander 3, as one reviewer here has suggested? No. In fact, if you're attuned to the kind of crazy stuff that was surgin forth from Hong Kong's movie factories in the early 90s, this will already be a key component of your cult viewing repertoire. The three leads are all stunning and elegant adn everything else is secondary. The plot is maudlin and at times really cloyingly sentimental, but this is just HK cinema for you, and it always displays extreme emotions in a deliberately heightened manner. Its ultimately a really enjoyable film, but you have to see it with some kind of cultural/historical context in mind to help you avoid those nagging Teen Wolf comparisons...