Ang Lee has held his hands up and admitted that King Hu's stately 1969 movie was a major influence on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And - after the slightly tedious first hour set in a sleepy town outside Peking - you can easily see why. The second and third acts are packed with whirring, acrobatic, tree-climbing sword scrapping as a small band of unjustly outlawed rebels take on the forces of an evil government official in ancient China.
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