Not that good! Can't believe all the hype.

Rating: 7/10 (5 January 2001)

The fight scenes are so ridiculous. Every scene revolves around setting up the next showdown. Michelle Yeoh has a great screen presence that is wasted. The movie has very little character development. The relationship between Michelle and Chow is not explored enough. Also, there is a twenty minute side story in the middle of how Zhang Ziyi's charachter met a rebel and fell in love with him. When they get back to the main story they barely touch the relationship between the two young stars. Instead they have Zhang beating up a bar full of men to wow the audience. I guess I am the only one who doesn't have this on my top ten list. Almost Famous and Wonder Boys are much better films that develop there characters. I didn't hate this movie, I just went into it with higher expectations.