Peculiar

Rating: Null/10 (3 December 2001)

I'm afraid that this movie left me cold. The acting is generally quite good - Michelle Yeoh's performance is excellent - though Chow Yun-Fat is surprisingly bland and uninvolved. The fight scenes are well correographed but rather
bland, and there's twice as much movie as story. The pace isn't so much slow as undistinguished; night and day seem haphazardly placed (not helped by the fact that so many nighttime scenes are shot on obvious sets.) Overall, the film is very careful, and much less interesting for it. Ang Lee has done, and will likely do, better films than this.