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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon -- Superbit [2001]
from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
starring Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Sihung Lung
directed by Ang Lee

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Dubbed
• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is so many things: a historical epic on a grand scale, an Asian martial-arts flick with both great effects and fantastic fighting (choreographed by The Matrix's guru Yuen Woo Ping) and a story of magic, revenge and power played with a posse of star-crossed lovers thrown in for good measure. Set during the Qing dynasty (the late 19th century), the film follows the fortunes of righteous warriors Li Mu Bai and Yu Shu Lien (Asian superstars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh, respectively) whose love for one another has lain too long unspoken. When Li Mu Bai's legendary sword Green Destiny is stolen by wilful aristocrat's daughter Jen (exquisite newcomer Zhang Ziyi), who has been trained in the way of the gangster by Li Mu Bai's arch-rival Jade Fox, the warriors must fight to recover the mystical blade. The plot takes us all across China from dens of iniquity and sumptuous palaces to the stark plains of the Western desert. Characters chase each other up walls and across roof and treetops to breathtaking effect and to Tan Dun's haunting, Oscar-winning East-West inflected score.

Directed by Taiwanese-born Ang Lee and cowritten by his long time collaborator American James Schamus, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon joins the ranks of the team's slate of high-quality, genre-spanning literary adaptations. Although it superficially seems like a return to Ang's Asian roots, there's a clear thread connecting this with their earlier Western films, given the thematic focus on propriety and family honour (Sense and Sensibility), repressed emotions (The Ice Storm) and divided loyalties in a time of war (Ride with the Devil). Nonetheless, a film this good needs no prior acquaintance with the director's oeuvre; it stands on its own. The only people who might be dismissive of it are jaded chop-socky fans who will probably feel bored with all the romance. Everyone else will love it. --Leslie Felperin

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Just got bored and found it silly.
  I watched this for the first time recently and couldnt understand why it was so popular, i found this film utterly boring and very stupid for e.g the flying and stupid jumps, for me its very unrealistic as in the fight scenes two people throwing swords at other full pelt and no blood no one hurt no nothing, but the only reason it got 2 stars rather than 1 is because of the way its filmed, apart from that found it very very boring.

• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - No 9 - All Time List 2008
  I initially had grave doubts about this film - however those doubts were plain and simply wrong. This film has just about everything you could ever want from a movie. It has epic fight scenes, contains beautiful landscapes, martial arts of the finest order and contains one of the most moving and simple love stories even portrayed in cinema.
  Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi performances are first rate. The cinematography is outstanding. This is fiction not reality.
  For the philistine there is an... more info

• DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!
  I have many many martial arts movies, this one is not in my collection! Yeah, it's pretty...how could they make Chow Yun Fat look like a wet weekend? How could they make Michelle Yeoh's amazing fighting skill look bad? And as for the other girl,(can't be bothered to remember her name), yeah she's pretty, yeah she can fight but....oh dear!
  A big budget means nothing if you have a rubbish directer. I imagine he sooo wanted to make an epic like Once upon a time in China, but that did not happen. I've... more info

• Amazing film that combines love, romance and Martial Arts.
  This isn't just a film with fights and battles. It has a much more deeper story line and plot and the characters are perfect for this kind of movie.
  This is one of the best films of all time.

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