Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 146
Fresh: 142 | Rotten: 4
The story is compelling, the acting is stellar, and the direction is fantastic. Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh provide the action of The Matrix plus the romance of Titanic.
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 1
The story is compelling, the acting is stellar, and the direction is fantastic. Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh provide the action of The Matrix plus the romance of Titanic.
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Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee took a break from making Western period dramas to fashion this wild and woolly martial arts spectacular featuring special effects and action sequences courtesy of the choreographer of The Matrix (1999), Yuen Woo Ping. In the early 19th century, martial arts master Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) is about to retire and enter a life of meditation, though he quietly longs to avenge the death of his master, who was killed by Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-pei). He gives his sword, a fabled
Jan 12, 2001 Limited
Jun 5, 2001
$127.7M
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (160) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (148) | Rotten (4) | DVD (43)
The smartest and smartest-looking action movie of the year.
It's abundantly clear that Lee, in conjunction with fight choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping (famed for The Matrix), has brought to these standard tropes his own elevating, near-feline sensibilities.
Chow reveals astonishing depths. But the revelation is Yeoh.
It's rare to find a film that satisfies our craving for pop while giving us the transcendence of poetry.
High art meets high spirits in a rapturously romantic epic that really kicks butt.
You need a roadmap to find the hidden masterpiece.
Yimou's crowd-pleasing martial arts action melodrama is captivating and thrilling from beginning to end.
Amazing, magical martial arts fairy tale.
There's an ethereal dramatic effect here that transcends a primary function of imagination and storytelling.
Often imitated, never equaled, "Crouching Tiger" soars because it showcases culture as much as cutting-edge martial arts. Unfinished business, unspoken passions and unwanted prejudices stand beside fists (and feet) of fury in a lyrical film.
Lee brought a distinct elegance to the wuxia genre of mythic, lyrical martial arts pictures...a breathtaking visual and emotional experience for the viewer...[Blu-ray]
The movie is good, sometimes very good, but I suspect it's a masterpiece only for those who haven't seen all the earlier masterpieces that equal or surpass it.
The film has so many different elements that there's enough in it to appeal to almost everyone.
...my expectations were high, and I wasn't disappointed.
Lo and behold. An action movie that isn't about 'seize the day' or 'follow your heart' opportunism.
It's a feeling akin to seeing Peter Pan fly for the first time or watching the first light-saber duel in Star Wars.
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon mixes In the Mood for Love's unobtainable romance with Dancer in the Dark's selfless-to-the-end philosophy.
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a film that combines beautiful cinematography, romance, and tons of great action sequences. I haven't watched a whole lot of martial arts, or wuxia, films, but Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon makes me want to watch more films in the genre. Plus, I just started taking Tae Kwon
January 19, 2012
Super Reviewer
For this film, Ang Lee decided to put his career of making Western period epics on hold and instead make a far Eastern histprically based period epic. That's totally cool by me. The story here is a action packed but also romantic epic concerning several plotlines of love and vengeance all connected in some way to a
June 9, 2006Super Reviewer
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