Very Disappointing

Rating: 2/10 (13 January 2001)

I found CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON very disappointing. I was very excited to see it ever since I saw the previews on television and couldn't wait until I had a chance to see it. But when I finally saw it, all of these excitements seemed for nothing. The plot in CROUCHING TIGER could have gone in so many directions; it could have gotten deeper into the romance between the Li Mu Bai and Yu Shu Lien or into the romance of Lo and Jen, it could have also been an action movie focusing mostly on the martial arts (which I admit, were pretty cool), it could have gone more into the woman liberation thing and how women should be able to learn how to fight as well as men, and it even could have been a comedy. But the plot didn't go in any direction whatsoever. It slightly brushed upon each of the directions that I said before and never went in very deeply with any of them. I sat and endured the movie just to see if it would get any better. It didn't. At the end of the movie I was so disappointed with how bad it was I didn't even have the words when people asked me what I thought of it. This movie tries to work on too many levels and ends up not working on any of them. If you are planning to see it, don't bother, it's not worth it.