This won best director at the Venice film festival?

This film for the most part was really bad, and i'm talking about on a technical level as well as story.

- This film literally had the worst blood effects I've ever seen in a mainstream film. I felt insulted and cheated by how pathetic and lazy they were, there are YouTube vids with better effects than this.
- The action was awful, it was done with mostly close-ups and very quick editing, just like the sequels to 'taken'! :D This is a martial arts film, and when the characters are a cliched bore, action should at least be good on a technical level, but it wasn't.
- The editing was just terrible, every cut away shot was so poorly done, I honestly felt there was something wrong with the DVD I had.
- Sound mixing/ editing, goes along with the editing point,
- The dialogue, why does everyone say their thoughts out loud? Doesn't seem like a stylistic choice, but laziness and bad writing. Even when they are talking normally, it's horrible cliched.
-The pretty bad acting,

The lack of any visual directorial flair made this film laughably bad. I have honestly never been baffled by a film receiving praise. At least with some terrible films, they have one or two things that I can understand the dummies in the crowd enjoying, but if you were a traditional warrior/samurai film fan, how are you not insulted by how generic the story is and how bad it is on a technical level?