Drastically over-rated.

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2002)

I acknowledge I'm not an avid Kung-Fu movie fan, so maybe thats part of why I didn't care for this movie and why I was so surprised this movie got rave reviews. To me, this is one of the most over-rated movies of all time.
The fight scenes are pretty well done, I suppose. But there's that little thing about the "law of gravity" that I just couldn't get over. At times, gravity was bent more than in The Matrix (which at least explains that they are indeed bending/breaking the law of gravity). Running up walls, or flying with their legs kicking like they are somehow propelling themselves with their legs just bugged me. If you disregard other things that are real about life, then you can make lots of other things cinematically pretty and fluid too. But its just not believable.
I found the plot pretty boring too. I didn't find anything "great" about this movie at all. I think a large part of the hype this movie received in the U.S. was just because its a foreign film that didn't totally suck. Kind of how some people just find foreign cars, foreign accents, foreign clothes, etc. exciting.
This movie wasn't awful, just not very impressive.