Could have been better

Rating: 3/10 (17 August 2006)

I had no plans of seeing this film, but I wanted to see what the hype was all about. For me the first ten minutes of the movie seemed like twice that. I found this movie to be very boring. Not because of it mostly being dialogue, it was the lack of dialogue.
It was written well and was played great by the actors It seems to me that Ang Lee was just trying to show off with most of the landscape shots. For me they seemed to throw off the story and bring me out of the movie. I haven't seen any of Ang Lee's previous films but after this I'm not sure if I want to.
I guess what really ruined it for me was the unnecessary landscape shots, I think the audience realizes that they are on a mountain from both the title and the fact they mention it in the film.
I thought it was a great idea for a film, I just don't think that they pulled it off, but that's just me.