![]() Kicking off with a long-winded info dump doesn’t help in introducing the new story or players, either. ![]() The emotional connective tissue that made Lee’s film so poetic, romantic, tragic and thrilling is missing here, reducing Sword of Destiny to a series of loosely related fight sequences and gauzy, overwrought flashbacks. Polished production and a fairly strong curiosity factor should earn the film minor box-office success in its “home” markets, but beyond that its status as a weak sequel to a niche film (regardless of a $200 million haul worldwide) will make for a stronger Netflix draw than a theatrical one.Įven with Yuen valiantly channeling (or straight-up imitating) Ang Lee’s stylistic flourishes from the original, there’s little in John Fusco’s ( Marco Polo, Hidalgo) screenplay for him, or anyone, to latch onto and run with. at the end of February, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny seems primed to be greeted with broad indifference. Set for wide release in Hong Kong and China a week before its Netflix premiere and limited theatrical screenings in the U.S. It’s never a good sign when exhibitor chains and distributors make it difficult to find a movie, or better yet cancel early (paid) preview screenings, and so the harbingers for action director and choreographer-turned-filmmaker Yuen Woo-ping’s sequel to Ang Lee’s Oscar-winner are ominous to say the least. Taking a page from the cynical Hollywood book that hoists sequels no one wants ( Terminator Salvation, Grown Ups 2) onto moviegoers, The Weinstein Company teams up with China Film Group, China’s biggest producer, for a continuation of the saga started in 2000’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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