set in early 13th century, Daoist monk Qiu Chuji travelled for 2 years to stop Genghis Khan and his soldiers from killing in Europe and Asia.

The opening arrow on a map shows the enormous expanse of territory Genghis Khan's soldiers conquered, stretching from Mongolia all the way to Afghanistan. Based on real historical events, the film tells the story of the legendary figure Qiu Chuji, a Taoist priest of Quanzhen Sect of Jin dynasty, who and his disciple travelled for two years to meet in the Khan's camp. Qiu's long journey is inter cut with the Khan's battles, his fierce warriors riding across the plain and laying fiery siege to city walls.

i loved the story if it had been directed right it would have been an epic movie may be it was the bad cutting decide for yourself. all the people in this movie gave their best but the director got cocky and strayed away from the great story which needed none of the martial arts gimmicks to sell the movie, then he went further and try to include a romance story for final epic ending which never come. if this was my movie i would put it on operation table to do a better cut throw away the other stories and and few more scene's to original story and it would be an epic, as it stands one time watch at best.