What? No jet pack?

Rating: Null/10 (16 June 2001)

The tragic thing is that they showed most of the best parts in advertisements. I mean they literally took every decent scene and packaged it up and shipped it out to the recycle bin of commercial wasteland until we'd wake up in the middle of the night with the subliminally, surgically implanted fight scenes and the surprise concept that the ninjas are anti-gravitational. Over and over with that drumming and some strange scene with the wisps of green trees sinking from the weight of Chow Yun Fat. Sword fights. Oscars. Word of mouth. Ang Lee here. Geisha runway fashions there. All profitable concepts are pimped to the extreme. And the mystery is gone.
I saw the movie before I even saw the movie.
But regarding the film, the story was just too childish for me. Too bad I'm not Asian. They're the only ones who seemed to like it.