Could be fun in a nostalgic sort of way. Hey, the original was quite charming. This kung-fu epic is slow at times, with a plot that initially seems overly complicated, but the film eventually dissolves into the singular, desperately compelling story of a precocious young woman too headstrong and inexperienced to know how to do what's right. Of course, most folks are really going to CTHD for the fight scenes, which are suitably astonishing. The warriors defy gravity, flying across rooftops and through trees while angling their kicks and punches from just about every axis imaginable.
Rivalries ensue both sporting and romantic and fast cars spin wildly out of control.
The grizzled but still good-looking Ed Harris plays the Nazi sniper who s sent to lock horns with Law, and Rachel Weisz plays the pretty girl who gets between all three men. Torn has said that he considers Green to be a comic genius with something real to say. To his surprise, the MPAA even allowed the extra gross stuff. Stylist Ridley Scott replaces humanist Jonathan Demme, soulful Julianne Moore replaces mannered Jodie Foster, and Anthony Hopkins returns to the role that won him an Oscar in this fairly useless sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. Avoiding the plot twists in Thomas Harris's novel that left some fans red with rage, Scott and screenwriter Steven Zaillian instead deliver a diverting thriller in which nothing of substance actually happens.