Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Pros: Excellent performances, brilliant direction, and beautiful cinematography make this well worth seeing at the theater.

Cons: A few action scenes are a little over-edited, and the plot is a little too broad at times--still, these are very minor complaints.

Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sony Pictures Classics
Rating: USA: PG-13/ Australia: M/ UK: 12

For years now, devoted Hong Kong cinephiles have known the wonders of the island nation’s film industry. We were on the cutting...

Pros: Like its martial arts scenes, this movie leaps, twirls and dazzles

Cons: The plot is pretty standard stuff with few surprises

The Bottom Line: Believe the hype--this movie is a jaw-dropper. This has something for everyone--fans of action, romance, epic and foreign flicks will all be satisfied.

Review: Exactly twenty minutes into Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, you know one thing is certain: movies will never ever be the same again.

At twenty minutes, director Ang Lee takes what seems like a cut-and-dried historical film about...

Pros: Great action, beautiful scenery, nice performances

Cons: Cashier asked me if I realized the film was subtitled

The Bottom Line: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" richly deserves its Oscar buzz. It's a pleasure from start to finish.

Review: When I recently went to see "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," I got a firsthand glimpse of what can happen when a commercial multiplex brings a foreign language film to one of its theaters. As I bought my ticket for the film, the cashier asked me, "Do...

Pros: Gorgeous scenery, incredible martial arts and characters you care about

Cons: Fantasy sequences may bother the realists

The Bottom Line: A masterpiece of beauty and fighting for what is right, this movie needs to be seen on the big screen.

Review: A bad thing about living in West Texas is that movies come to the area late. Crouching Tiger opened here this weekend and after seeing it, I rushed to Epinions only to note that 141 people had written about it. Well, I'm going to add my views as I...

Pros: Intense fights, lots of weapons, great character development

Cons: Some find it a tough pill to swallow

The Bottom Line: Looking for a great escape? Give this one fifteen minutes and you'll forget where you are, or maybe even who you are.

Review: This movie was not at all what I had expected. I was hoping it wouldn't be too, because I've seen my fair share of the whole "foreign fighter kicks ten guys' butts with a broomstick" genre, and the whole thing was just becoming way too silly. After...

Pros: Some of the most awesome fight scenes ever filmed

Cons: Subtitles

The Bottom Line: The fight scenes put The Matrix to shame!

Review: I still find it hard to believe that Ang Lee, the same directory who made the bore-fest The Ice Storm, could turn around and make this exciting epic called Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger.

The story is about a warrior who is wanting to give up...

Pros: Zhang Ziyi is awesome, good fighting scenes etc..

Cons: Jade Fox.. ugh I hate her.

The Bottom Line: I promise you you won't hate it. Maybe you won't love it but you certainly won't hate it.

Review: Buying this movie is probably one of the craziest things I've ever done. I've had some very bad experiences with movies from China and Japan and those countries over there. I decided to never watch a movie from Asia again after I saw "Gorgeous". (with...

Pros: Heartbreaking performances by a trio of superb actors; unbelievably beautiful scenery; breath-taking action scenes

Cons: It ended. I wanted it to go on and on and on.

The Bottom Line: Forget everything you thought you knew about martial arts films - this masterpiece by Ang Lee doesn't just redefine the genre...it's created a whole new genre. Go see it now!

Review: I came away from a screening of director Ang Lee's transcendent masterpiece, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, feeling as if I was floating in a wonderful dream. I didn't want to wake up.

It doesn't matter that the picture was filmed in Mandarin...

Pros: Martial Arts Sequences, Acting, Plot, Cinematography

Cons: Care for some TRAGEDY??

The Bottom Line: This is one of the best movies of 2000 in any genre.

Review: There Is No Desire Without Constraint:

This concept blows me away, and it is the central theme of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. To say that this movie is a martial arts movie is like calling The Matrix an action movie,...

Pros: Performances, direction, martial arts, settings, themes.

Cons: Minor.

The Bottom Line: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a skillfully crafted martial arts epic with fine performances, excellent action sequences, and genuine romance. This film is definitely worth seeing.

Review: Author's Note: This is part of the Favorite Movie Write Off hosted by KingpinLJC. As you can probably tell, this is my favorite film of 2000 (so far)! The other particpants in this laboratory experiment include Janesbit1,...