astonishing fotography, incredible martial-arts and great acting

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2001)

Being a martial-artist myself the martial-arts scenes of the Matrix was the biggest let down of the movie. And so much of that movie depended on them. "Crouching tiger, Hidden dragon" is quite different in most respects. The martial-arts are true and gives great justice to Chinese traditions (except for the flying and walking-on-walls part but thats just really cool). And even better is that the movie doesn't depend upon it. I think this is the most beautiful movie i have ever seen in terms of photography, scenery, etc. Even if you're not a martial-artist or even the slightest bit interested in martial-arts this movie is a top notch piece with great actors (i was amazed, i thought Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun Fat only could _fight_ on screen), great script, great martial-arts, great greatness. This is an excellent movie and I will be looking for Zhang Ziyi, another great actor starring in this movie, in future films. See this movie!