This lavish Gloden harvest production by Peter pau, who photographed "Bride of Chucky", "The Bride With White Hair" and the awesmely beautiful "A Fishy Story" give this exciting, Indiana Jones-style adventure a stunning surface on which to stage the busy action. And the action, to put it mildly, is mind-boggling and on the grandest of scaled The fight sequences are fast, brutal and bracing, and are enriched by a pounding, memorable soundtrack and a crisp menu of sound effects. Siu Ming Tsui, who also plays a pivotal character, captains what must have been a very weighty ship on exotic, far-flung lcations that are generously served by stunningly evocative production design and cinematography.