Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

silverhaireddemon The action, the sets (scenery) are beautiful and pleasant for the eyes, despite this I think this movie is overrated. There were so many plots and characters that were either missed or abandoned. Jen-Yu got the most spot lights and scenes here, perhaps she is supposed to be the main character but I found that her story wasn't really interesting and her character was very annoying, I get it that she was very talented and brilliant fighter but her personality is such spoiled that she caused many problems to the others. What's the point with sword getting constantly stolen, returned and stolen again. In the beginning, I felt sympathy to her for her arranged marriage when she already had the man she loved (Lo) and wanted to live a free woman, but her immaturity, arrogance in her skills, and throwing tantrum when Shu-Lien only tried to give her wise advice were beyond my nerves. It is fair if she started as annoying character, but I expected character development in her which didn't exist. The flashback sequence showing her love interest (Lo) was too long, I enjoyed the fight on the horse in desert but still, it could've been cut. She desperately wanted to retrieve her supposed precious comb yet it never explained why it was precious, the comb actually was just a plot device for her romance with Lo. Jen's fight with Shu-Lien was quite pleasant in my eyes but I hated how it went though, surely I saw that both had comparable skills, but Jen had more advantage with that legendary sword (wtf when it could sliced the heavy weapons Shu-Lien used), Jen said to her when she blamed the weapon for her lost (indicated that Jen was superior than Shu-Lien) yet their very first fight when Jen stole the sword (both unarmed) told the otherwise. I half-expected that Jen would accidentally killed Shu-Lien with that sword to the horror, I'm so glad when Mu-Bai knocked that sword out and threw it, as skillful as Jen was, she wasn't worthy yet to wield that sword. So many random fight scenes for Jen being awesome with no relation to the plot, only to show how spoiled and arrogant she was. None of the characters got proper development, Shu-Lien and Mu-Bai got lesser scenes than Jen, their past love story was barely mentioned. Almost forgot about Jade Fox, the supposedly main villain here became only an extra character, her lost and demise felt like a joke. Only appeared briefly in many unimportant scenes, her fight with the Police Inspector Tsai and his daughter May (since both father and daughter held revenge against her for killing his wife) resulted in May lost both her parents in the hand of Jade Fox, this had promising premise to further the plot but got abandoned for the sake of beautiful Jen. Mu-Bai's revenge on Jade Fox for murdered his master, got ditched for the sake of paying attention to Jen. I wished May and Mu-Bai would unite to defeat Jade Fox (as they had similar motives) and May became Mu-Bai's disciple instead of Jen but everything was about Jen here, I would be okay if the story itself nice and Jen's character got proper development, but not. Also, a flashback of Jade Fox killing Mu-Bai's master with Mu-Bai mourned for his master would be much more worthy than Jen-Lo's lovey dovey flashback. Mu-Bai's death too, should be very sad and moving, but his lack of scenes, importance and development hardly made me feel it, though I feel sorry for Shu-Lien, losing her loved one (after losing her fiancee years ago). I'm happy when Shu-Lien pointed the sword at Jen's neck, it seems like she wanted to blame Jen for it (and so do I) but in the end she forgave her because despite everything, Jen was her beloved "sister." I expected Shu-Lien to commit suicide, to follow Mu-Bai and to be reunited with him as she already lost everything, only facepalmed so hard when Jen was the one who choose to commit suicide despite she already reunited and could be live happily together with Lo.As beautiful as the fights and the sceneries were, storyline/plot is still the most important and core element in every movies, and since the plot here is weak and failed miserably, I think that it's enough to watch this once, this movie is the kind that I hardly want to watch for second time, though I would like to give it a try for the sequel later.

axapvov I´ve watched this four or five times, well, I tried, because I´ve fallen asleep every single one of them, seriously. I am able to sit through movies like THE LAST EMPEROR ot THE WEEPING MEADOW and I´m kind of a stubborn film goer, usually forcing myself to endure any kind of film, no matter how long, slow or bad. Also, I liked other works by Ang Lee, specially EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN. I came to the obvious conclusion there must be something utterly boring about this film that makes me not give a rat´s ass about any character or any of their affected dialogues. I´m guessing the fighting scenes are so gorgeous and unique this film has stayed in our colective subconscious as way more than it really is.

b-18258 Lee's famous film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is being marketed as both a loving homage and a redemption of the alleged excesses of the HK martial arts movie, a questionable approach since excess — in the larger- than-life characters, stylized violence, and dazzling shifts of tone — is a primary lure of these films. In Lee's words, "People tend to look down on the genre. Some may have thought it strange that I could just drop what I normally do and make something like a B-movie. And as I was doing it, there was no escape. I had to bring in drama, I had to bring in women, I had to bring in beauty and whatever I feel added quality to it. It became an Ang Lee movie."The film has a muted, elegant look that works in its favor to transport the viewer to its setting of ancient China, meticulously recreated.

ElMaruecan82 If Akira Kurosawa could live for a hundred years, he would have made movies like "Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon", an epic tale of love and duty told with stylish grace and poetry, and… a good deal of action sequences, now, that's the most honest and serious compliment I can give to Ang Lee.His film has been regarded as the culmination of 'martial arts' movies but I'm not too hot about this label, because my mind can't help but associate it with Bruce Lee, Van Damme or Jackie Chan's flicks. I'm aware that 'martial arts' is the most popular genre in China or East-Asia in general and is widely associated to plots involving apprenticeship, relationships between masters and disciples, tales of revenges, of good vs. evil and quest for a sacred relics or an inner peace, well, while "Tiger" does handle these elements, it is beyond genre tagging, it is a film that tackles usual archetypes but with indomitable freedom and a style that can appeal to any movie lover. Still, ever since this film was made, there would be two Lees counting in the legendary scroll of Asian cinema.The film is about two skilled fighters: a master swordsman Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-fat) and female bodyguard Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) who have in common a precious loss, his former friend he promised to avenge and, her fiancée she promised to love and the same dedication to their duty, that feels like a decoy where they can hide the uncertain feelings toward each other, but that wouldn't fool an unwise eye. Li Mu Bai is instantly recognizable as a heroic figure but when we see him, he's a worn-out man, contemplating his burdens with a tired spirit. To seal this abandon, he decides to give up his sacred sword: "Green Destiny" and assigns Shu Lien to give it as a present to a friend in Beijing. There she meets Jen Yu, a governor's daughter played by Zhang Ziyi and whose governess (Cheng Pei-Pei) is revealed to be bandit Jade Fox (no spoiler as this comes quite early).The relationships between masters and disciples are vital to the film and they're all ambiguous and enriched with other personal subplots that unfolds like a rose under the sun, Jen Yu is a fiancée but has a lover in an impetuous desert bandit named Lo (Chang Chen) who also have projects for both of them, and Jen Yu remains the real mystery and core of the film, she's the leading role actually. And Ang Lee goes beyond the simplification of having just a hero, a villain and a quest. Anyone is actually a crouching tiger or a hidden dragon for that matter. It takes several viewings to really appreciate this film as you discover each time another layer of the characters' personalities, and it's never done without feeling like a character study, you can discover more about them during a fight, or a stare.Indeed, Asian cinema has this unique capability to be surprisingly quiet in a very heart-pounding way, and the counterpart is that the action sequences, meant to thrill you are hypnotic and you just stare at them as they didn't even belong to the film. "Tiger" is remembered for the gravity-defying combats where two characters can walk over a wall, jump miles ahead or literally fly over trees and there's never a moment where it feels over the top (no pun intended) or laughable, and that's a credit to the way Lee, surrounded by master visual effects and storytellers, know the audience and is aware that there's nothing as beautiful and dreamy as being able to fly, this is part of human subconscious, this is the ultimate challenge. These scenes have become immediate staples of the art martial genre and parodied everywhere, but even with that in mind, the choreographic battles are impressive.Ebert compared these actions to musical numbers in musicals, they're expected now and then as a relief or a plot punctuation, but I felt they had the same aesthetic value than in Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon", where, you forgot you were watching a film and you just admired the beauty of some shots, looking like Rembrandt and Vermer paintings. The beauty of "Tiger" and the cinematography are simply breathtaking, and it is so contagious that even the characters become part of it. There's a panoramic shot over a long wedding outfit, and it takes as long as it would to show a bamboo tree or a pagoda, but this is the dazzling and beautiful Jen. And then an arrow hits the rickshaw, she raises her curtain and the action starts. There's just something in Lee's directing that shows fighting with art and displays art with the soul of the fighter. Martial Arts came from the Art of War and that's exactly what you get in the film: battles and art.And like for the art, the greatest battles aren't necessarily in forest, arenas or castles under the moonlight but in the mind of tortured characters who are their worst adversaries. It might sound corny but not when Ang Lee is in the command and treats his material with a respect to the audience, one that provided one of the best-looking movies of the 2000's, and as today, the highest-grossing foreign movie of all time.The title comes from Chinese proverb "Behind the rock in the dark probably hides a tiger, and the coiling giant root resembles a crouching dragon." Well, I wonder what extraordinary effect this had on audiences sitting in the dark and experience the story told by a director who, on the field of cinematic mastery, is not just a tiger and a dragon, but a butterfly who swings across the breeze with poetic lightness and gracious beauty, defying the wind like Lee did with cinematic conventions.