* ActorAllusion: Creator/JetLi gets to deliver [[Film/OnceUponATimeInChina multiple flying kicks]] in the climax.
* DesignatedHero: Everyone at the inn ''BUT'' the rebels is a complete bastard.
* RefugeInAudacity: In-universe when Feng impersonates Yu Huatian, and winds up ''smacking the palace people around''. Y'know, the very folks who would gut him on the spot if they knew.
* SoOkayItsAverage: The movie has some breathtaking moments but a lot of moments where things get dull or just plain confusing as to whose motivations are what.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The movie lives on this. It's debatable how much it lives up to this, though.
** Feng (smalltime crook) assumes Zhou (TheHero, duh) has come to silence him and busts out every dirty trick in his book (garrotte, concealed blade, [[ArmedLegs another concealed blade in his boot]]), but Zhou counters every thing thrown at him without batting an eyelid. ''Cos it's Creator/JetLi, dammit.''