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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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Reviews for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Its breathtaking landscapes and tense physical confrontations feel like throwbacks to spaghetti (Sergio Leone) and bread and butter (John Ford) westerns.
Not since Sandy Duncan's version of "Peter Pan" has such a cinematic masterpiece been caught on film.
Beautiful and elegant; marvelously shot and directed; touching, humorous, and thrilling, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the movie of the year.
like being absorbed into the pages of every adventure story you loved as a child.
Os personagens da história acabam tornando-se mais notáveis do que suas próprias qualidades como lutadores.
Our new century isn't very old yet, but the remaining 98 years will be hard pressed to find a more rapturous movie than Ang Lee's sumptuous new triumph.
The crossover hit that (quite rightly) started all those high-flying wire-fu action pictures. With the redoubtable Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh.
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