Review of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) by Angel T — 04 Nov 2010

The cinematographer in me drools over every scene in this movie, but the plot is kind of all over the place, and 3/4 of the lead cast had really REALLY bad accents since they're not native Mandarin speakers (but this probably only bothers the part of the audience, like me, who do); I'm not a huge Zhang ZiYi fan, her acting style is rather bland, and Little Tiger's actor didn't really have what it took to be one of the leads.

..the Dragon-Tiger love story was sort of sweet, and the girls are pretty kickass, but ultimately this was a packaged-for-America Asian action flick, it's like the Asian equivalent of giant explosions all over your screen.