Originally titled 'Battle of Wits', after watching I would say the title change was required. As a 'historical fiction' character driven movie its positioned fairly in the center of Asian cinema, neither terrible or great. While I accept movies are seldom realistic the premise that Xiang, commander of the army of Zhao, would resort to the kind of tactics he does only serves to feed the story of how brilliant Ge Li is. While Ge Li isn't bloodthirsty the notion he is a pacifist is misplaced, the city wanted to surrender but Ge Li convinces them to fight rather than live as slaves of Zhao. The traps he sets are designed to attack his foe morally and psychologically as well as kill as many of them as he can. All in all its more like a game of air hockey being advertised as championship Go. If you don't care about all that and watch it as a big production hero movie it fills the bill much better.
Review of Battle of the Warriors
