Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: great fight scenes, beautiful look
Disadvantages: a bit slow for some peoples tastes

...deep than Loch Ness. Yes Crouching Tiger is a subtitled film but it's also an epic which delivers on a lot of levels. The plot involves a mystic sword that is stolen and starts off a whole chain of events that tests the honour of many characters. Because of it's translation into english you may not grasp the story completely as some of the lines lose their meaning when out into english. Some of quite laughable as well. However there is so much ... Read review

Advantages: Some good stunts
Disadvantages: Slow pace..

...damn slow. 10 Oscar Nominated Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (CTHD) was a great hype movie like the over boring Charlie’s Angels. The first thing when it got released in Mumbai was to see the movie and went with a very high expectation and what I got was 2 human being flying all over the place. The story centers on the legend Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat), and his attempt to hand over his mystical sword Green Destiny. As ’’lady ... Read review

Advantages: Profoundly moving
Disadvantages: sad

I would have to have been deaf not to hear the raving reviews about this movie. But I was not prepared for how breathtakingly beautiful it was going to be. Now, I am a fan of Once Upon a Time in China and a whole host of other chinese/ martial arts movies. I happen to think that the Chinese sword is one of the most beautiful weapons on the face of the planet. So I am undoubtedly biased. But even so this is a wonderful story. It's part fairy-tale, ... Read review

Advantages: action excellent, cinematography worthy alone
Disadvantages: none

This is a great film!! It is so different from the usual mush that we have to see. It is bright and colourful, full of movement and charm; tenderness and compassion and amazing action. Subtitles films were never my forte but halfway through this I don't even think I noticed them. You just read as if you were listening and you get so carried away with the whole ambience of the film, they almost become part of the background. The story revolves ... Read review

Advantages: special effects, good and thoughtful development of characters, impressive
Disadvantages: no sequel as yet...

I watched this film when it came out in Malaysia during the summer. Many ppl thought that it would belong to the martial arts genre...however, ppl who have watched this would consider it to be partly martial arts, partly drama and partly legendary - kinda like the Once Upon A Time In China films. The story stars Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh as well as a new Chinese actress, whose name escapes my mind at this minute. Typical, eh?! The plot centres ... Read review

Advantages: Enjoyable
Disadvantages: In Chinnese (if thats how you spell it!)

Anyone who says violence never sold anything, see this film and you'll be coverted. I've never thought of violence as romantic, or particulary wanted to see it, but this film leaves you begging for more. Amazingly corygoraphed using mouth watering timeing, even if you lose the complicated story line, you long for the Kung-Foo. I won't give too much away, except for an important tip: REMEMBER, while your caught up in the seductive violence, to listen ... Read review

Advantages: Drama and action woven together in the best way possible.
Disadvantages: Absolutely none!

This movie is utterly breathtaking! A sumptuous visual feast that feeds your soul as well as your eyes. Ang Lee skilfully weaves the best elements of traditional Chinese cinema with a Hollywood-like budget and serves up what will surely become the most successful foreign language film of all time (mark my words!). What a joy too in finding a film that gives women such strong, defined and central roles. Look out Hollywood - this film is out to show ... Read review

Advantages: Good Film with Good Effects, Epic, Oscar winning film,
Disadvantages: -

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, one of the films directed by Ang Lee. This movie is an epic! IT is a martial arts movies with the characters played by Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Zi Yi, Chang Chen, and Chow Yun Fat. Zi Yi plays as a evil martial arts women. She looks like a normal unique person, but at times in the movie she is played as an bad person. She first meets Michelle, which Michelle gets friendly with her and she shows Zi the sword. Zi ... Read review

Advantages: Utterly absorbing
Disadvantages: subtitles may put some off

Last night I went to see 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon', thinking I was going to see a martial arts film set in contemporary New York with English-speaking Chinese actors. It was a delight to discovery all my preconceptions were totally, utterly, wrong. This is a mesmeric film, beautifully shot, superbly performed and totally absorbing. Although the plot seemed to dart all over the place, I suggest that confusion felt as a result of this is not ... Read review

Advantages: Visually stunning, superb acting
Disadvantages: Only on in selected cinemas

I went to see this brilliant film only this weekend. I am still in awe. After much searching of local cineams to watch this marvellous film I finally tracked it down, playing at a small 100 seater cinema some 45 miles away from my house. However this film more than makes up for this journey. Storyline will appeal to everyone, bit of a love story, bit of a thriller, bit of an action movie. The subtitles were clear and expertly translated (from what ... Read review

Advantages: fantasy, magic, romance, pain and fighting too
Disadvantages: makes every other film look drab and dull

I'd been waiting for this film since I missed it at the London Film Fesitval, hungry. And it opened, and I went, and it was not what I expected and I loved it so much I straight back in and saw it again. I love kung fu films, and especially the Hong Kong ones, as wonderfully foreign as the Chinese and slicker. I expected the film to have even better production values and suffer a little Hollywooding in balance - and the reviews and hype had me ... Read review

Advantages: Scenery, effects
Disadvantages: subtitles, story

It's the worst thing in the world - person after person tells you how brilliant a movie is to the point where anything less than Schindler's List or Casablanca proves to be a disappointment. I reckon that's what happened me here, as I left the cinema largely unsatisfied. First the good points - the scenery is amazing and the special effects are awesome. (People walk on air and on water in very convincing fashion.) The fight scenes (all with old-fashioned ... Read review