Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonThe action sequences can be inedible for some viewers but one cannot deny the fact about the way they are projected, as they express rage, fury and vulnerability more than the performance can; this is a masterstroke by the makers and the primary reason of its definite impression that it leaves the audience with. The script doesn't bar any specific format and has a newer and smarter structure to offer, that is completely adaptive and enthralling in its own way of storytelling. Ang Lee; the director, has done a tremendous work on executing such an eerie and humane vision of its "meta-human" characters. It is rich on technical aspects like editing, sound department and choreography. The performance unfortunately is not something where the feature scores and the actors, too weren't given enough range and room to flaunt in or factor in except for the lead actress. Despite of brilliant execution, it fails to draw out the essential emotions from the screen which at a certain point, is what it completely relies upon and in the end leaves this hollow space floating in the air. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is actually hidden beneath its self-created legacy that is layered and installed subtly which is plausible but it also never goes loud even when it becomes essential.

One film critic said of, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: "it's not really a fight film, it's a dance film". The expertly and beautifully choreographed, filmed and edited action scenes in this film are indeed graceful and most pleasing to watch. This film masterfully combines drama and romance in a fantasy martial arts period film. It's a highly imaginative film which successfully combines a variety of film genres together. This Asian film from Taiwanese director Ang Lee received a huge 11 Academy Award / Oscar nominations, the most ever for a foreign language film. From my perspective, everything works, and is done to high standards in this film. Directing, writing, cinematography, film editing, choreography, art direction, costumes, makeup and music score. There is a emotional resonance in this film, rarely done so well in the action genre. The martial arts fighting scenes are impressive to experience for how skillful they are thought out and executed. Ang Lee said he made this film out of his boyhood fantasies, growing up with traditional martial arts action films.

I consider myself open-minded, I'm curious about any movie that stirs interest among other people.I've no problems with foreign movies, as long as I can understand them (or can find a decently subtitled edit) I watch them eagerly.So when I say I'm very disappointed by 'Crouching tiger,hidden Dragon' it's not out of prejudice, or for it being unfamiliar with my usual choices.It really is mediocre, considering the budget and the target genre.Cinematography is good (and that's why is 3/10), the rest of it is null or minus.Story is void. The beginning hints some good backstory, which soon turns out absurd and very weak. Scenes follow each other without a real plot.The timing is really bad (seriously, a 20' flashback with nearly NO connection to the main action?).Fights are good, but as many say, nothing special considering other movies of the same era (or older).Character development also is absent. Characters act as some stereotypes out of some ancient romantic poem. Pretty bad idea in an action martial arts flick. It simply does not work, and looks stupid. The only character I found believable and worth of sympathy was Shu Lien, and she was underdeveloped and often left out.To conclusions: many ideas definitely could work, the execution is poor. Bad timing, weak plot, poetry above narration. Mind that if the latter is done properly, it can yield great results. Here its not done properly. Decide: kung fu movie, or poetry. If you wander between, you risk to result ridiculous.

This is a typical Ang Lee movie, complete with slow pacing, melodrama, a random, rambling plot, and good visuals and fight scenes. Also very Ang Lee, the characters act in strange and illogical ways. For example, in the scene when the bandits attack Jen Yu's caravan, they kill a few unfortunate guards and run away for no apparent reason. After chasing the bandit leader for days (I guess?) in order to retrieve her comb, Jen Yu then jumps in the sack with him way, way too quickly. And the melodramatic ending when Jen presumably commits suicide-- why is she even doing this? Is she so regretful of Li Mu Bai's death? Does she miss her assassin governess? 我受不了。