Boring Tiger, Sleeping Dragon...

Rating: Null/10 (16 August 2001)

...at least if it's dubbed. I've seen it twice: once with subtitles in the theater, and once as a dubbed rental.
Subtitled it's good (not great). Once you willingly suspend disbelief and let the film carry you along, it's a good flick; not the greatest thing ever made, and certainly overhyped. The martial arts are well done, especially the fight of the two women, and the time the young princess does a 'Dodge City' on a restaurant/tavern (For those who don't know, the fight scene in 'Dodge City' with Errol Flynn is, IMHO, the gold standard of all fight scenes).
It is beautiful to look at, in a painterly sense, but that only goes so far before ennui sets in.
I think you have to see it subtitled on the big screen to get the full experience.
Otherwise, it's overlong and downright BORING to the point of tedium when viewed dubbed on the small screen. My daughter walked away from it, which surprised me, she being of the "Grrrls Rule" persuasion.