overrated movie

Rating: 6/10 (9 March 2001)

I'm gonna stick my neck out and write that this movie is overrated. It's good, sometimes very, very good, the fightscenes are fenomenal and the photography is stunning, but it's not a fantastic movie. Maybe if you haven't seen to many movies, or to many movies of this kind, then you could think it's the best movie in the world. I have seen to many films in my life to be shrugged at when i cast my opinion about this movie, but that is what happens. If you say you think this movie was just okay, then the fans look at you in a strange way and you can almost see in they're eyes this guy must have bad taste in movies or he doesn't know what he talks about. Well, Ang Lee's martial arts- western lack a story to begin with, it's a saga, nothing more and to implicate anything philosophical into the movie is quite silly.Between the killer fightscenes it's almost boring, very beautiful, very well acted, but you kind of wait for the next fightscene to come along. After a while, as in any movie,you begin to feel tiresome with the flying combats and when they fly down the waterfall it's Superman- the movie. If they can fly, why do the fight at all? And as i friend of mine pointed out, why is it suddenly so okay with women fighting, why are all going, oohh it's so feminist, it's so awesome, so cool and so forth. But they're fighting nonetheless and it's that a good thing? I know i'm out of line here a bit because it's a fairytale, but a lot of things bothered me.
Like the roller coaster ride of different genres within the movie. it's a adventure movie, a action movie, a period piece, a romance, a western and a martial arts movie all wrapped up in one, and that brings the movie down. It's to much up and down, it can't decide what kind of movie it will be. So there you have it. I know there a more of me thinking this way about this movie out there, but will you dare to come out and say your opinion? I dare you, because i won't have this movie to be, like, the number one on this site. It mustn't be.