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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Whenever critics seem to rave about a film, I don't. This is a typical example. The use of obvious wire effects is a bit too much, and there is too much sword-wielding just for the sake of sword-wielding. Later, even the story did not interest me anymore and the action sequences seemed too comedic.Yawn.

Movie Review: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000)This exceptional elegant "Kung-Fu" action movie, firstly received to the public as special screening out-of-competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2000 in its 53rd edition, lets director Ang Lee, soon after to be awarded with the Oscar for "Best Directing" in 2006 for "Brokeback Mountain" starring Heath Ledger (1979-2008) and Jack Gyllenhaal and again in 2013 for "Life of Pi", creates here a magical world of ancient-to-medieval China including fine-researched "Martial Arts" technique-ruling characters called "Wuxia", quickly translated as "Armed Heroes" and a sword of mystical powers to be shifting the owner frequently, which needs to be put to safety in a rural monestary; a story based on a four-part book-series by writer Du Lu Wang (1909-1977), writing somewhere between the "World-War-2" (1939-1945).Cast and crew porduction efforts, under a considered low-budget production by "Hollywood" standards with under 20-Million-Dollar in production value ruled by also-into-writing involved executive producer James Schamus are nevertheless sublime; thanks to highly-trained as motivated acting members, going out from Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yoeh, performing as gentle romance-indulging characters Master Li Bu Bai and Yu Shu Lien to furious playing "Wuxia" shaolin fighters, when nemesis characters given face by 20-year-old scene-ruling actress Ziyi Zhang and servant-playing 53-year-old Pei-Pei Cheng, who together "Kung Fu" fight towards magical-realism visuals-pushing hand-to-hand, as sword-to-spear choreographies by Yuen Woo-ping, using amazing "Hong-Kong" cinema of the 1970s / 1980s invented action wire-techniques, which leads to beautifully-swaying fighting characters exterior-as-interior, in an highlighted rural guest house brawl, when director Ang Lee finds constant beat work for his actors to transcend emotions of realism in hint of slightly-fantastic world creations in formidable porduction design by Tim Yip and atmospheric-to-exciting cinematography by Peter Pau."Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" having great reviews and less to no criticism in a flawless 115-Minutes motion picture edited by Tim Squyres that after 18 years since first movie house exhibitions has lost nothing of its striking visual as audible power with a further soundtrack of great beauty and melancholy by composer Dun Ta, when director Ang Lee delivers his first fully round-up out-of-the-ordinary cinematic masterpiece in order to get his followed-up "Universal Studios" major-budget filmmaking shot two years later with pre-productions to inceptional Marvel comic-book adaptation of "Hulk" (2003) starring Eric Bana; Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte to even further visceral as adaptable directing techniques by director Ang Lee.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

The Chinese people at first repelled this movie when it first came out because it broke the normal form and type of Wuxia movies. However, I am really addicted to this type, which has less violence but more social and emotional considerations.

Sorry, I know it's an Ang Lee film (one of my favorite directors), and perhaps I am not a fan of martial arts movies, but the movie just lost me when it became a Western. The plot changed direction, started to not make sense to me because the locations literally looked like the American Southwest (compared to the Orient). I know it won 4 Oscars but the movie just doesn't work for me.