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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999)

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Reviews Counted:143

Fresh:139

Rotten:4

Average Rating:8.5/10

Consensus: 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.

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 8, 2000 Limited

Box Office: $127,652,038

Synopsis: Known for making films about familial relationships, director Ang Lee surprised everyone with his martial arts epic CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. Based on a novel by Wang Du Lu, CROUCHING TIGER... Known for making films about familial relationships, director Ang Lee surprised everyone with his martial arts epic CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. Based on a novel by Wang Du Lu, CROUCHING TIGER starts with the revenge plot common in the wuxia stories that Lee loved as a child, then adds a feminist twist. Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) is a legendary martial artist who has decided to pass on his sword, the Green Destiny, to a friend. Soon afterward, the sword is stolen by a masked female, setting in motion events that test the bonds of family, love, duty, and sisterhood. Chow appears with three generations of female stars: Cheng Pei Pei, a 1960s action heroine; Michelle Yeoh, the beauty queen turned 1980s action goddess; and newcomer Zhang Ziyi, who smolders as the princess who wants more than domestic tranquillity. Famed action choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping (THE MATRIX) stages jaw-dropping zero-G fights across rooftops, rivers, and bamboo trees, while Yo-Yo Ma punctuates the fisticuffs with dramatic cello solos. Described by Lee as "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY with martial arts," CROUCHING TIGER recalls the best wuxia films of the 1960s and pushes the genre in new directions. [More]

Starring: Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Chang Chen, Ziyi Zhang

Starring: Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Chang Chen, Ziyi Zhang, Sihung Lung, Pei Pei Cheng, Fa Zeng Li, Xian Gao, Yan Hai, Deming Wang, Li Li

Director: Ang Lee

Director: Ang Lee
Screenwriter: James Schamus, Hui Ling Wang, Kuo Jung Tsai
Producer: Bill Kong, Li Kong Hsu, Ang Lee
Composer: Tan Dun
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

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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.

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07/30/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
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The film has so many different elements that there's enough in it to appeal to almost everyone.

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11/29/06
Ken Hanke
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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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02/09/06
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...my expectations were high, and I wasn't disappointed.

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12/31/05
John Venable
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12/06/05
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09/30/05
Scott Nash
Scott Nash
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Lo and behold. An action movie that isn't about 'seize the day' or 'follow your heart' opportunism.

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01/15/05
Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet
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It's a feeling akin to seeing Peter Pan fly for the first time or watching the first light-saber duel in Star Wars.

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06/22/04
Judith Egerton
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06/11/04
Dragan Antulov
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05/19/04
Colin Covert
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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.

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04/30/04
Gabe Leibowitz
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The smartest and smartest-looking action movie of the year.

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07/19/03
Glenn Lovell
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05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
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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.

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04/25/03
Rick Groen
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Globe and Mail
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Within five minutes of the opening you'll wonder when was the last time you felt so alive, so excited in a cinema.

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02/12/03
Harry Guerin
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02/08/03
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01/10/03
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01/07/03
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Latest News for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

September 13, 2006: Yeoh Joins "True North" and "Babylon A.D."
When we last saw Michelle Yeoh on the big screen, she was teaching Zhang Ziyi the finer points of how to stop a man in his tracks with a blink of the eyes in "Memoirs of a... More...

September 13, 2006: TORONTO: Zhang Ziyi, Yuen Woo-Ping's Latest "Banquet" Not Very Fulfilling
Zhang Ziyi and action director Yuen Woo-Ping last worked together in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," a movie which helped change audience perception that martial... More...

September 05, 2006: Solid Cast for John Woo's New "Battle"
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June 06, 2006: Weinsteins to Mount a Live-Action "Mulan"
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