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Director
Ang Lee
Cast
Chow Yun-Fat,
Michelle Yeoh,
Zhang Ziyi,
Chang Chen,
Cheng Pei-Pei,
Sihung Lung
Genre
Action,
Adventure,
Drama,
Romance
Two warriors in pursuit of the invaluable Green Destiny sword, which has been stolen, and a notorious fugitive join forces with an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life. Together they will fight for justice, and for love.
Although its nothing like your typical Hollywood combat movie, it is so much better: elegant, visually stunning, and awe-inspiring. The mix of martial arts and mortality creates a cinematic dream that will be left in your mind for weeks to come.. Despite the cinematography's central role, the character development does not disappoint, as the lines between good and evil are blurred. A must watch for any foreign film fanatic.
Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
Rarely has combat been portrayed as beautifully as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Taiwanese director Ang Lee's thoughtful meditation on menace, mortality and the martial arts.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Ang Lee, a world-class director working at the top of his elegant form, has done something thrilling. For all the leaping action, it's the film's spirit that soars.
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
You have never seen a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon because there has never been a movie like it.
USA Today by Mike Clark
This is a great movie, but it needs a sales job because it's in Mandarin.
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for.
Boston Globe by Jay Carr
Watching it is a nonstop high.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey
It is with gravity and levity and incomparable grace that Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- by light years the best movie of 2000.
Newsweek by David Ansen
At once elegant and sublimely silly, contemplative and gung-ho, balletic and bubble-gum, a rousing action film and an epic love story, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one bursting-at-the-seams holiday gift, beautifully wrapped by the ever-surprising Ang Lee.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year.
Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
A spell-binding, engaging and often breathtaking work in which exquisite sets, costumes, photography and music combine with top-notch acting and out-of-this-world fighting scenes.
Slate by David Edelstein
My first viewing left me dazzled but slightly confused; a second deeply impressed; a third rhapsodic. I wish I hadn't needed to rediagram it in my head to turn it into the masterpiece it so obviously wants to be.
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The picture is more fun than it has a right to be.
Variety by Todd McCarthy
Brilliance of the action and effects are supplemented by a consistently superior and resourceful score by Tan Dun.
Village Voice by Amy Taubin
Crouching Tiger's dramatic line is so blurry that the central character is only a bystander to the climactic fight between forces of good and evil.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The film satisfies on both visceral and emotional levels.
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