Such an overrated movie

Rating: 5/10 (1 February 2002)

This was one of the worst movie experiences of the year 2001, no, make that of my life. Everybody was saying the story was so beautiful and how it touched them and that it will surely win an Oscar for best picture, but I was disappointed to even see it nominated in that category. And it definitely stole it for best score. But enough about that. The one and only thing the movie's got going for it are the amazing fighting scenes wich are done really well and precise. But that's it. The rest of the movie (except, well, Zhang Ziyi) is really boring and complete garbage. The movie really put me down and I can't remember when I last fell that depressed. Afterwards I just went home and went to bed at 10 o' clock on a Friday night. I have to blame everything on the people that put together the trailer of the movie - they presented it as a sort of kung fu movie, making sure that they only showed the action sequences and the effects (about 15% of the movie) and none of the boring stuff (you do the math). And that has never happened to me before, I always knew al least what kind of a movie I was going to see, so imagine my surprise: there I am, watching the movie, expecting to see lots of action and the characters just keep babbling about a magical sword and talking about read-it-between-the-lines love. Blah. And I knew this movie would be bogus the moment I found out who was directing it - mister sensibility himself, I just convinced myself I'd give it a chance. After this crap I began appreciating my instincts a whole lot more.
But it couldn't have been that bad a movie says the layman; let me put it this way, I consider myself an eye-candy man, meaning that I have seen all kinds of crappy movies, but hey, if they had decent effects, if they were presented in an interesting way, mercy, if they even had a decent musical accompaniment, they had something to offer, they were at least viewable. Well, this movie has special effects that should be seen with a bib only, but the story, it really hurts just to remember myself about it, well for the story you need a vomit bag, the kind they have aboard airplanes, SO I DEFINITELY NEVER, EVER WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE EVER AGAIN (except the Zhang Ziyi part). A waste of time, but a good movie if you're the masochist type.