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I was forced to travel to Nottingham to see this film as ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ is not on in Bolton for some strange reason, but it was well worth the two and a half hour car journey. Ang Lee (‘The Ice Storm’) has produced a simply breathtaking film, and although thirty minutes of the film are dedicated to fight sequences, this is a whole lot more than just a martial arts film, and as such it is no surprise that the film has had such mass appeal.
Chow Yun Fat stars as Li Mu Bai, a dragon warrior who has become tired of fighting and vows to retire. He hands in his legendary, centuries old jade sword, ‘the green destiny’, and asks his inamorata, Shu Lien, played by Michelle Yeoh (Tomorrow Never Dies) to give his sword away as a present. She dutifully completes this task, but it is stolen by a masked warrior who has mysterious martial arts powers. Li Mu Bai is then drawn in to finding out who stole the sword, and is also magnetically drawn towards the beautiful Shu Lien.
The fight scenes are stunning, and it is no surprise that Lee brought in the special effects team from the matrix. It must be noted that many Chinese films have excellently choreographed martial arts scenes, but I have seen none which has managed to incorporate this into a coherent plot, and they are also lacking the titanic acting skills of Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun Fat.
Ang Lee has taken considerable risks in making this film, firstly in putting his house on the line, to finance the film, and secondly in taking a chance with doing the entire film in subtitles, which usually means low box-office returns. Lee must be commended for this, and although he is probably going to be edged out of the Oscars by ‘Gladiator’ and Ridley Scott, he surely deserves best director for this film which in my mind is the best film I have seen in the last three years. Only ‘Enter the dragon’ can compete with it as the best martial arts film ever. Overall 9/10
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