All the Rage.

Rating: 6/10 (15 July 2001)

Spoilers ahead not attended for people who haven't seen this movie yet......................................................................
Ang Lee did great good directing this film and the costumes were fabulous. Unfortuanately, the storyline was clumsy and it drags us slowly throughout the story and leaves nothing to take with us. So simple points.
1) Flying in this movie is laughable, but acceptable. The landing of the flying however is a unacceptable. The Flying style is like that of the Matrix but the difference is when the people land they take seconds to recover even the agents. Crouching Tiger on the other hand offers no explaination for the flying ability and when they land they aready are running except when the girl flys through wall and tumbles to defense position (direct ripp-off of the Matrix) which is remarkable consireding that she is suppose to be this great warrior: where is the control. 2) Sitting through a third of the movie we get a sense of everything going on until someone out of thin air breaks into the girl's room and then we spend half of the movie watching a flashback of how they meet. You forget so many things from the beginning that by the time they come out of the flashback you can't remember where the plot is heading. 3) The Girl is starts off the movie being selfish and is a dislikeable character and as the movie progresses she is suppose to learn about companionship and how greed only tears us apart. That self-centered whore even in the end she leaves her sister empty. The same sister that spared her ignorance throught the movie while she brought the enemy to power with one last deadly stand. No she jumps off the bridge for her boyfriend. I hated her from start to the end. leaving me with more dispear at the end then the beginning.
Finally, what is this smack about this being superior to anything Hollywood has put out in 20 years. You must be talking about Hollywood, Indiana or something. Or everything from now on will be refered to as "pre-tiger, post Dragon", that's funny last time I checked everybody was taking their movies to Industral Light and Magic so they can look like The Phantom Menace, not to China. Sorry, to be the barer of bad news but try Pre-Menace/Matrix, Post-Menace/Matrix