To start off the moive was great! The actors were phemonenal. Everyone did a great job protraying their characters. The tear jerking scenes were so touching and emotionally heart wretching. I love the interaction between the two Nie brothers and their disciplines.

Could you watch this moive without watching the Untamed? -Absolutely not. Honestly and quite frankly the moive can be quite confusing if you have never heard or watch The Untamed prior this. The moive is missing alot of character and story development, which is explained in the The Untamed of course.

Yes, you should watch this movie, if and only if you want to better understand the relationship between the the Nie Brothers, who have very little interaction with one another in the Untamed. Despite saying that the moive was great, I do have to say that it story plot was very predictiable along with the events. I do however enjoy the moive giving Nie Huai Sang a chance to shine as the genius he truly was. He was a genius, who was misunderstood by many because of his inability to properly wield a sword. However his unique way of thinking allowed him to save him and Nie Mingjun when all the odds were against them.

Another highlight, is Nie MingJun character whom is known to be this stoic man who never waviers at any adversity, however this moive dipict him as more then just the legendary Blade Master. He is compassionate and benevolent man whom only wish to see his brother succeed. Plus his fight scenes were amazing.

Here are some problems that I had with the film.- For starter, it was too short. I felt that the moive should have been alittle longer and a little better developed. More bromance between the two would not have hurt. Another problem that I had was, that ending fell short of my expectation.

What I was anticipating from the moive. I knew that the moive was going be surrounding the relationship of the two Nie brother, but I was expecting a better ending. No, I already knew that Blade Master was going to die, so I was not expecting a mircle to happen. My only expectation, was to see the logic of how Nie Huai Sang figured out that Jin Guangyao was the person behind the death of the blade master. Yes, that scene does exist in the moive however that scene was too fast and honestly I wanted more, I wanted to see Nie Huai Sang finding the mistake between the song of clarity and the song of Clamity. I was also expecting to see him appoarch the orginally Mo Xuan Yu and then we can fill in the rest with The Untamed.

Overall, Production value was great and the acting was wonderful. It was worth the watch, but the ending is a bit disappointing.