Asides from this film containing a lot of martial arts and historical references, this film is prone to having scary moments from time to time.
- The beginning scene in which Yang Qu Yun, a pro-democracy English teacher, is walking down the stairs and communicating with his pupils, gets immediately shot by Ying Xiao Guo's gun, as blood splatters on all the people surrounding him. This immediately creates a huge scene and starts the entire story...
- The scene in which a bunch of assassins suddenly appear in Shen Chong Yang's house and start mistreating him.
- The first fight scene.
- As Fang Tian, a former general living in an opera house, tells his daughter, Fang Hong, to immediately protect Mr. Chen, bodyguards immediately break into the place and pour acid over people, burning their faces in the process.
- The blood in this film is enough to make some people uncomfortable
- Fang Tian cutting off an assassin's left pinky finger can be very disturbing as he does so in order to free himself from getting corned by those assassins.
