Fresh, fun, and fantastical.

Rating: 10/10 (11 June 2001)

Gee, I love it when people bash a movie because of the fantasy involved. When you nit-pick over the flying sequences or the bamboo tree fight or the walking on water bit, you really need to understand that this is *fantasy,* not some historical epic or urban-drama. What we have here is what we need more of: thought in our movies.
The action was incredible. If you deny the choreography of CTHD the respect it deserves then you do the whole movie a great injustice. And it was with great relief that I found out that the main fighters involved were mostly women.
Now, the love story is rather complex if you look at it carefully, past what may seem to be a shell of clichés. I won't tell you what is there, but I will tell you that I have seen CTHD six times, and each time there is something new that makes me wonder about the characters that much more.

So go see this movie, get the DVD, and rejoice in great film-making.