Outstanding.....

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 2001)

ALthough the last several reviews have been non favorable, I must disagree.
If you have not seen this movie, go see it and make up your own mind.
If you enjoy shallow movies that tie up all loose ends, no cliff hangers, and are in english - You will be disappointed! (on occasion I like these as well)
But if you trully love movies then you owe it to yourself to go see it.
Take an Indy art film, martial arts film and a romance film and roll them all into one. On any one of these genres alone it is a masterwork, but it does it on all three.
It is a stunning film to view as noted by many other reviewers. The romance between both couples is very well done. Yeoh and Chow do a great job at giving you an unfulfilled romance with few words being exchanged. And as martial arts go {start flames} THIS is to martial arts what Star Wars was to Sci-Fi! (end flames} That is to say, this movie will change how we will view and judge all future martial arts movies. Tiger has simply raised the bar for the future. I can't wait to see the action sequences of films like Matrix 2, Star Wars 2 and the Tiger Prequel that is under early development.
This movie captured me as few movies have. On so many levels it has succeeded. If you can get past having to READ a movie (a small hurrdle IMO) then you owe it to yourself to go see it!