kung-fu with a romantic story

Rating: 10/10 (8 March 2014)

When Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon came out i've been fanatically into fitness. Watching fighters flying across screen seemed like a reasonable outcome of the right exercise boosted by mediation, despite being physically impossible, at least at the current stage of human evolution.
The movie offered a good story, albeit slightly melodramatic. And the overall production quality was impressive, to say the least.
Then i talked to some people from China and it turned out that Wuxia is a well established movie genre merging kung-fu action with romantic stories. For them Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was neither fresh nor special, rather a mainstream introduction of the genre to the Western audience.
Nevertheless this is an excellent movie.