Awesome, in the literal sense.

Rating: 9/10 (8 February 2001)

This is one not to miss in the theaters... Plot-driven, maybe, but imagining a "visual poem" can best help describe the movie; intense action, haunting music, and wondrous landscapes. And hopefully, it is never dubbed, because the language is so graceful: it adds volumes to the epic poem that is this movie. (I do not speak Mandarin, but wish I did after watching... I am sure I missed so much double meaning, timing, rhythm and rhyme.) It is easily the greatest fantasy movie I have seen, and one of the greatest movies I have seen in a theater. I could write an entire review with a thesaurus, branching out from the word beautiful.