Amazing Film

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2003)

I have only seen this in the original Mandarin (which I have a intermediate understanding of) with Korean sub-titles (which I do not understand at all), so a few of the plot elements were lost to me...but I was so absorbed by the sounds, colors, action, that words seemed of little importance. Yimou Zhang did an amazing job directing this epic...and yes, this film would easily qualify as an epic. Visually it surpasses any movie I have ever seen. And honestly, I was most impressed by Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, though Jet Li did a wonderful job himself. I give classic and some modern European films their due, if you want to check out amazing foreign films...Europe is the wrong direction.