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Name: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Director: Ang Lee
Genre: action, adventure, drama, romance
Released: 2000
Duration: 2 h
Rating: 7.9

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has an iRankMovies score of 85.9/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

卧虎藏龍

A timeless story of strength, secrets and two warriors who would never surrender.

Release:2000

Runtime:2h 0m

Country:Hong Kong SAR China

Director:Ang Lee

Language:Chinese

Genre

ActionAdventureDrama

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Keywords

Martial Arts Kung FuBased On Novel Or BookFlyingTaskmasterSwordTigerVillainess

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.9/10· 293K votes

Rotten Tomatoes96%

Metacritic94%

TMDb7.4/10· 4K votes

With 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.9/10 on IMDb and 94/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

Cast of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Chow Yun-Fat
as Li Mu Bai
Michelle Yeoh
as Yu Shu Lien
Zhang Ziyi
as Jen
Chang Chen
as Lo
Lung Sihung
as Sir Te
Cheng Pei-Pei
as Jade Fox
Li Fazeng
as Governor Yu
Gao Xian
as Bo
H
Hai Yan
as Madame Yu
W
Wang Deming
as Tsai
Li Li
as May
Huang Suying
as Auntie Wu

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon facts

Original title: 卧虎藏龍
Budget: $17M
Box office: $214M
Collection: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Collection

Our take on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Ang Lee's 2000 wuxia epic wraps a tale of stolen swords, secret love and a rebellious noblewoman in gravity-defying martial arts of astonishing grace. Romantic, melancholy and visually sublime, it brought the genre to the world stage. If its poetic action and longing moved you, seek out wuxia epics and martial-arts dramas where combat becomes a kind of dance and desire drives the blade.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Ang Lee choreographs martial arts with balletic grace that transcends action spectacle
•Female martial artist character defies eighteenth-century gender expectations with quiet strength
•Bamboo sequences and wire work create visually poetic moments of weightless beauty

What the audience disliked

•Slow dramatic pacing between action sequences may feel tedious to action-focused audiences
•Philosophical themes about duty and sacrifice overpower individual character agency and desire

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