A Film Without a Beginning

Rating: 9/10 (8 May 2018)

I've seen this move over five times and each time I feel the same. Its biggest flaw (in fact, in fact) is that it has no beginning. It is assumed that a story must have a beginning, a development and a result. Well, here is the beginning. At first, the film has the feeling that something is missing. After seeing it, he discovered that the film one is adapted to the fourth book of a pentalogy, so we do not have the information of the first textbooks. While it is compensated with the part that gives information in the dialogues that leads us to imagine what has happened between the characters before, it is still partly with that feeling that something is missing.
Otherwise, wonderful. Great performances by the entire cast; beautiful photography; big fights, both with weapons and without them; a dream recreation of ancient China; an adequate and versatile soundtrack, which works perfectly in both action and dramatic scenes; a couple of love stories not very original but very worn; and an agile direction of Ang Lee, which takes us from one place to another without giving us a break.