More than you would think

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2013)

This film is... a lot of things.
I can spend paragraphs using positive adjectives to describe my affection for this film, but alas, my reviewing skills are lame and without proper practice.
Ang Lee had a story on his hands and he knew how to tell it. The film is so beautiful and so engrossing for the audience that I really cared and related to the characters.
Everything from the score, to the costuming beautifully demonstrates and sets the scene of a feudal China. The characters are so larger than life, which is so great because I really felt that this element brought out the best of the story, it was so epic!!!
The fight scenes, whilst almost comical (the gliding aspect that is) were effective and really tense, this film also boasts one of the coolest chase scenes I have ever seen.
The dialogue is so well spoken by the characters and their poetic elegance far surpasses my expectations of this masterpiece.
A truly awesome film! If you only see a couple foreign or Chinese films in your lifetime, make Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon one of them!
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon= 9.8