I can understand the recent fascination with Ang Lee's masterpiece about the quiet warriors and thieves, but can't say that I liked it at all. Given that there were a lot of amazing action sequences and the story was more than that of your regular run of the mill action movie it stands well in some places. It's the middle that sends me to sleep everytime I watch it. The love story is carried out to long and caused me to go, "Yeah I get your point...she likes him and he likes her but she's a princess and he's a renegade." I've seen it a million times and it still plays the same as it did with Shakespeare...this one doesn't even have a twist. That is why I feel that the film doesn't hold its own and is in fact very unoriginal and boring. A vailiant effort by Ang Lee but not good enough.