Friday, January 21, 2005
We saw "The House of Flying Daggers" last weekend. It was disappointing. The acting was fine, and the plot was halfway decent, but the whole setting was silly. Zhang Yimou knows how to make things pretty, but it was over the top. All style, little substance. He managed half of "magical realism." Rotten Tomatoes gave it a high fresh rating, but it's overrated. You know how every movie after "The Matrix" copied bullet time? This movie is like one of the copies, but what it's copying is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Save your money, or at least see "The Incredibles" instead.