disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (14 January 2012)

I have seen this 3 times now and always hoped to assuage the disappointment I felt on my first viewing. The principal actors are good - Chow Yun Fat has a real presence on screen as does Michelle Leoh but the plot such as it is is dull in the extreme. Some of the movie is beautifully shot but the action scenes are almost laughable. Seeing CTHD put me off this kind of film until I caught Hero on TV. I bought Hero on Blu-ray and it is sumptuous and really artistic - everything that I was led to believe Crouching Tiger was. This film's success must have been as a result of the Hollywood hype surrounding it. It certainly does not live up to one's expectations of it.