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Title: Overdone
Review: With a cast like that, I expected a decent film...I could never get into it, though. I felt like I was having "art" shoved down my throat...each flashback has a color scheme, like red, green, etc. It gives the movie a great visual appearance, but ultimately distracts and removes the viewer from the experience...it reminds the viewer he/she is watching a movie, rather than relating to the movie directly. I've never had that sensation in a Hong Kong or mainland movie, even those for which I had no subtitles and had only the images to tell me the story. Plus, I can see the same person die only a couple times before I get fed up and say, "just kill the guy, already, and get on with it!"Odd thing...almost all of the people I've talked to in mainland China hated "Crouching Tiger", but loved this movie.
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