# Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sword-of-destiny/747267 "2016-02-27T02:16:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sword-of-destiny/747267/1 "2016-02-27T02:16:54Z")
It’s Netflix exclusive, unless you want to pay to go see it at an Imax, which I don’t think is a great use of money. It’s fine as a movie at home. Well, I’m most of way through and while it is good in many parts, it feels a lot more like a pilot to an intriguing Netflix show. I don’t know why they greenlit a movie when a martial-arts-fantasy show would have made more sense. The reviews online have been quite bad, but my wife and I have enjoyed it quite a bit. Anyone else checking it out? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sword-of-destiny/747267/2 "2016-02-27T13:43:45Z")
Well, we finished it and here is what it comes down to. 1. The final 20-25 minutes were insanely awesome and if you must, skip to about 25 minutes left and play from there. Great choreography and a very nice group of set pieces. Worth it. 2. Should have been a pilot to a show. 3. Good, certainly not atrocious, but falls far short of the original. C+ or B- would be my grade. I have one closing question that I will spoiler. My wife and I both missed something. OK, so Snow Vase, the lead girl…got stabbed/impaled at the end by the enemy girl. She appeared to be dying. Then, we cut and she is on a horse next to boyfriend/brother(that’s what we called him). Did the movie show anything at all to indicate she was being healed? We feel like there was a very key piece of information edited out. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sword-of-destiny/747267/3 "2016-02-27T19:28:04Z")
Re your spoiler, nothing showed but previously we did see Michel Yeough with relevant abilities. I have to say this was better than I expected, The original was a masterpiece so I went in pretty skeptical but I am impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sword-of-destiny/747267/4 "2016-02-27T23:27:34Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > Re your spoiler, nothing showed but previously we did see Michel Yeough with relevant abilities. When was this shown? ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sword-of-destiny/747267/5 "2016-02-28T01:33:33Z")
I thought it was pretty slow, to be honest. I did watch the whole thing, though, and the interesting tidbit I have is that I watched the first 15 minutes or so on my Macbook Pro (late 2013 so Retina), and when I switched to my 1080p TV I noticed a significant drop in resolution. Pretty sure this movie is available on 4k. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sword-of-destiny/747267/6 "2016-02-28T01:36:12Z")
She healed Silent Wolf earlier. nothing special mind you but she evidently has basic first aid down. The part of this that took me a while to wrap my head around was that they were all speaking english this time. and the girl had a british accent. that was weird.