Most overrated movie of the last 400,000 years

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 2001)

Excruciatingly boring slice of middlebrow chop-socky from Ang
Lee, a director who has become the Marcus Welby of contemporary cinema--his work consists of a series of fatherly
nods and pats on the hand. In no way engaging in its story or
characters, the movie doesn't even have strong action sequences
to recommend it. (The first three or four of these numbers, filled to
brimming with ludicrous "wire work," are nighttime exteriors lit
grimly by all-too-realistic moonlight.) Somehow, promises of an
"exoticized" MATRIX have caused American movie theatres
showing DRAGON to overflow. The fact that a painfully torpid movie
like this one, or UNBREAKABLE, finds an audience, while
"difficult," "patience-requiring" works like TASTE OF CHERRY or YI
YI play to tiny crowds, is one of those mysteries that makes me
want to beat my head against a wall. As does this movie.