Entertaining Quality Fluffy Fairy Tale

Rating: Null/10 (8 February 2001)

It seems everyone on earth says to see "Crouching Tiger...". A serious senior martial arts teacher who is a co-worker says that the M.A. displayed are displayed accurately. Good. Fine. This movie to a serious FILM-GOER has good performances, plenty of martial arts that I couldn't say were good or badly executed, sequences of people being able to fly for no reasonable explanation (to the point of being ridiculous-looking), luscious cinematography and is another example of professionally-executed film-making leaving the age of the bad film-making from China in the past. My viewing was with subtitles that didn't distract from the film at all. I can say you may enjoy this film as a fantasy, a drama and a morality tale. But for a dose of reality that you can relate to, well, you won't find it here.