A practically perfect film.

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2001)

Wu Hu Zang Long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is a magic-reality martial arts coming-of-age action movie date film. Any film with a premise this encompassing would be either incredibly bad or incredibly good. Fortunately for us, this film is a masterful work, raising the expectations of the forms and depth to which an action film can affect an audience. This film is Enter The Dragon, The Joy Luck Club and The Lord of the Rings all rolled up into one, presented with a coherence that only a five-thousand-year-old culture could portray. Goddamn it.