Not as quite what I had expected

Rating: 6/10 (8 February 2001)

I was dying to see this movie as the United States people love this movie. Well,I had just saw it and it was not quite up to my expectation. From my Asian perspective, this movie just used the same formula that Hong Kong and China had used in their martial arts movies all this time. This movie is more slow paced compared to other martial arts movies dated back since 1980-s. Seriously said, I was born in a country where Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Tamil, English and even Japanese movies are screen almost everyday in the television.I had seen a lot of movies that I don't think even arrive in the United States. Of course, one might say, the acting in this movie was superb, but , I just might say, I had seen much better than this. The movie just have some famous Hong Kong actors who had made their debut in Hollywood (Chow Yuen Fatt and Michelle Yeoh). I had seen a lot of Chinese movies, so I guess again, there's nothing new. Don't get me wrong, even people in Malaysia who had seen this movie are commenting the same thing.