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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

2000

Ang Lee

Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen ...

7.0

62,283

Action. Romance. Drama Two master warriors (Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh) are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocrat (Zhang Ziyi) prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her deeply romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face to face with their worst enemy - and the inescapable, enduring power of love. Set against ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The most exhilarating martial arts movie I have seen (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Foreman New York Post	"You have never seen a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon because there has never been a movie like it"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Here is the kind of filmmaking magic that we’ve been missing for ages. [Lee] uses breathless storytelling, ravishing romance and martial-arts miracles to sweep us into adventures beyond our imagining"	POS
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	A sweeping romantic epic with a strong feminist backbone (...) 'Crouching Tiger' also happens to boast a generous offering of seriously kick-ass action sequences that make 'The Matrix' seem downright quaint by comparison"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] manages to be both electrifyingly exciting and sweetly romantic - qualities wrapped up in the preternatural innocence of a fairy tale."	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"A cinematic wonder that exceeds the necessities of plot. A martial arts opus packed with emotional resonance. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Tom Breihan AV Club	"'Crouching Tiger' wasn’t just a kung-fu movie; it was also a grand and lush romantic epic with as much in common with 'The English Patient' as it had with, say, 'Iron Monkey.'"	POS
United States	Jami Bernard New York Daily News	"Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for"	POS
United States	Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer	"The best movie of 2000"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"'Crouching Tiger's' blend of the magical, the mythical and the romantic fills a need in us we might not even realize we had."	POS
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"A masterful synthesis of generic conventions and creative imagination, a sublime amalgam of some of the best tendencies and talent our times have to offer"	POS

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