Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: Great film and equally great DVD
Disadvantages: -

There aren't many crouching tigers and the dragon?? Well it was very well hidden I can give you that, but what an epic! The winner of 4 oscars is now available on DVD for those unfortunate enough to have missed it out when it was on the big screen. The film is directed by Ang Lee and co-written by James Schamus and is a truly epic film of great proportions. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was so good and on so many levels as it serves as an historical ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic fighting skills and an epic scenery which takes the breath away
Disadvantages: A bit too balletic and dreamy for my tastes

Ok, we all know that this film has been one of the longest awaited with baited breath movies for quite a while. I feel like I'm being a little bit irreverant and blasphemous but I have to say that its all been done before, in some ways better, in some ways worse. You can't take anything away from the film makers or the actors, the choreography, particularly the women, and the landscapes were absolutely stunning. I have rarely seen female martial ... Read review

Advantages: Compelling, intriguing, gorgeous
Disadvantages: Questionable depiction of death?

If you've heard anything about this film its the 'better fight scenes than The Matrix' line that rather diminishes the potency of the work. Sure, the wire-work is impressive and the choreography of the combat amongst the best I've seen, but its the combined strengths of the other elements that elevate this work above the crowd. In brief: Characterisation Lee can hold the camera so long on his protagonists because he has provided them with a host ... Read review

Advantages: great action shots and scenery is breathtaking
Disadvantages: epic, some scenes could be editted better

...the world. Now, through Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, we get a rare chance to taste one of the most wild and inventive forms of cinema ever produced. Legend of the action film, Chow Yun-Fat (Hard Boiled, The Killer) plays Li Mu Bai, a legendary Wudan swordsman who’s grown weary of the martial arts life. He returns home to profess his love Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh: The Heroic Trio) and hand his sword, the Green Destiny, over to Sir Te. However, ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant Matrixesque fight scenes
Disadvantages: Subtitles

I was very surprised to find the cinema packed for a subtitled Chinese film. This is not your common-or-garden blockbuster so it is great to see mainstream multiplex cinemas showing it. As I looked round the audience though, I couldn’t help wondering whether they knew what they were letting themselves in for, and some of the reactions later on seemed to confirm my suspicion that many were expecting something else. The story involves a very ... Read review

Advantages: Film for all ages. The beauty lies in the stillness.
Disadvantages: None

Dir: Ang Lee with Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Ang Lee has one other important film under his belt: "Sense and Sensibility", with a brilliant screen play reworking from the novel by Emma Thompson. It seems that this recipe worked well between director and screen play writer James Shamus. This is not your average common garden variety run of the mill Chinese martial arts film. Indeed, the film has the fingerprints of Lee's brilliant directing ... Read review

Advantages: Everything - one of the best films I've seen
Disadvantages: None

I had wanted to see this film ever since I heard about it and the tremendous praise it had been getting. Finally, last week, I got to see it at the cinema. My anticipation and expectation levels for this film were at an all time high so it really had to deliver. The film is set in a fantasy version of ancient China and begins with a lengthy conversation between the two principal characters. Both are warriors played by Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle ... Read review

Advantages: Those fight scenes! Those locations! Those effects...Get the picture?
Disadvantages: Novel boiled down to film-length leaves simplistic yet confusing plot

...he realised they were all crouching and hidden! Steal from the best, I always say! ... Read review

Advantages: superb performances from the actors.good action scenes.
Disadvantages: subtitled alough they are easy to keep up with.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is, for lack of a better word, AMAZING!!! **An interesting aspect of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is the smooth incorporation of martial arts into a tightly-knit, engrossing plot. The plot/focus of the movie is a sword, "the Green Destiny" an ancient saber wielded by a hero, and the circumstances surrounding its continual theft and return... With the invaluable sword as the bone of contention, Love, Honor, and Sacrifice ... Read review

Advantages: high-action and amazing scenery
Disadvantages: subtitles

Zero gravity is the most amazing ingredient of Ang Lee’s martial-arts adventure. Its characters are early 19th century mandarins, warriors and brigands. They don't walk if they can run, don't run if they can leap and don't leap if they can float. One minute their feet are on the ground. The next, they're airborne, as if gravity never existed! Truly amazing - I've never seen anything like it! The fantastic mountain scenery of mid-China adds ... Read review

Advantages: just watch it
Disadvantages: none that i have seen

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a wonderful mix of a classis chinese fairy tale and classic kung fu action. Whereas most Kung fu films don't make it to the big screen outside of Hong Kong, it was easy to see Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was something special. For a start it is a very beautiful film, rarely do films present this nice a look and feel, and thats big budget Hollywood films. The genre that this film comes from is notoroius ... Read review

Advantages: Spiritual and moving, stunning locations and fight sequences.
Disadvantages: Subtitles - the translation into English quite probably loses certain meaning.

...may have seen. The story of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is fairly mystical, quite violent and strangely gentle. It tells the tales of a swordfighting warrior, his friend / lover and the daughter of a powerful Governor. From the start, I could tell that the film had Buddhist leanings - perhaps a Buddhist may appreciate this film and the parallels I think it tries to draw more than anyone else. I can only speak from a non-Buddhist point of view, ... Read review