Maybe I am on another planet, but...

Rating: 4/10 (11 February 2001)

Okay, i have taken a lot of flack from fellow film students and friends, but i have to admit that i was extremely disappointed in Crouching TIger, Hidden Dragon.
I felt that the story was a bit clumsy (was something lost in the translation?), the lack of character motive (Jade Fox anyone- with whom we have almost no explanation of her and her reason for wanting the book), the book and powers themselves (why can these people fly?). I think that the filmmakers (ang lee) expect the audience to just let these elements be accepted, but i find it hard to forget it when the actual spiritual force is left completely ambigous and vague. SOme argue that this is a dramatic choice, a Hitchcockian Macguffin, but I do not agree.
Oh well.