The movie is amazing for who liked the first one. It is worth.
The movie may have arrived 16 years too late and take awhile to pick up. However Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny makes for a fine kung-fu fantasy/adventure full of solid action and great visuals nevertheless.
Definitely is much more worth sitting through than Ridiculous 6 that was also made for Netflix.
A decent modern kung fu movie.
However, by no means a spiritual successor to Tiger & Dragon.
I had no idea what this movie was about when I sat down to watch it on Netflix yesterday. I certainly had not watched its predecessor which, as I discovered afterwards, seems to have received quite high ratings.
To me this was a fairly decent movie quite adequate for a little Monday evening TV session. I would probably have been a wee bit disappointed if I had spent money and effort to see it in a movie theater though.
I did like the overall story and the cinematography. It did feel quite a bit like a old western in Asian setting. Make the sword a shipment of gold, the setting in the old west, add the hero and the gang of good guys with pistols instead of swords, do not forget the bad guy with his cronies and you have a good old fashioned Western. That is not really bad thing as far as I am concerned. The Asian setting and the Asian honor culture adds a lot of elegance to the movie.
The story is plain and simple with few surprises. As tradition dictates there is plenty of Asian martial arts going on. The fights are a little on the slow side and clearly intended for a rather low content rating. You never see anyone get really hurt. Sure people die but the deaths are quite bloodless. Personally I would have preferred a bit more hard hitting action. The fights almost became a bit comical at times.
I would say that the characters are okay. Not the best actors I have seen but I found them to be adequate. I did like the good guys. The bad guy could have done with a bit more charisma and the witch or whatever she was supposed to be felt underwhelming and underdeveloped.
One thing that annoyed me was this unrealistic flying around by some of the characters. Sure, it looked somewhat cool and very elegant but come on! Suddenly it appeared like the character became weightless and just floated through the air. Not very convincing.
On the whole I did enjoy the movie but, as I indicated above, it was not really a wow kind of movie. I have actually added the predecessor to my shopping list since that one got so good reviews. Speaking of reviews, on all the review sites I have looked this movie gets a rating of about 6 out of 10. Of course one site just had to stand out. Rotten Tomates! Their so called “critics” gave it a rotten rating with an abysmal score of 19%. What the f…? I know those self appointed “art” critics are too full of themselves to be taken seriously but that is a new low. Anyway, end of rant!
nice fairy story, good choreographer fights i assume if you like the first one you will like it as well.
Entertaining, Not great but a good follow on.
This movie was terrible! The fight scenes were pretty ok, but they could not make up for the rest. I'd recommend skipping to all the fight scenes if you must watch it. You wouldn't miss much in plot and character development.
More of a crouching pussy cat to the first movie's tiger, but decent enough.
Very disappointed, too much cgi and no mandarim.
It is okay, good fights and landscapes, but much lower than the other. They speak in English and not in Chinese
This sequel is even more kickass! Fight scenes too epic!
Wu Xia in English and connected to Netflix is enough to keep fans away . maybe that´s why i didn´t dislike it. expectations were to low and ... well it´s not that bad.
dont expect it to be near the masterpiece of its predecessor, but dont skip it if you are a true fan.
The title has apparently been changed from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II: The Green Legend to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
Shout by DeletedBlockedParent2017-09-10T10:44:35Z
This movie completely missed the point on what made the first one so great...