after all the hype about it beautiful scenery and background and it be with much anticipation that i go into the theater for this film . be i ever disappointed . i will give credit to peter pau artistic sense and and some of the location choose for the film be breathtaking . but the good thing i have to say about the film end here . and and in view of this and the film may well serve good a a plug for the tibetan travel industry than a a proper film . equal equal equal spoiler ahead equal equal > where shall i begin . the plot be ludicrously childish . not to say that yeoh and pau pilferred material from raider of the lose ark and but the entire affair watch like a bastardized version of indiana jane and in search for the holy sharrira and with neither the gripping pace nor sense of fun and adventure . the film fail in attempt to be all thing all at once . it be neither sufficiently fast pace to be a good swashbuckling adventure and nor slow enough to make the contrived romantic interlude convincing . the plot inconsistency and some of which plain deny common sense and well and let not even go there . there be no characterization to speak of and and the film maker seem to think that they can get by simply by conjure up all the stereotype they can muster represent the chinese martial art fighter while the faithful and religious and sagely father or monk and the one dimensional bad guy ( yes and one dimensional ) and the obligatory meat head a henchman and the annoy comic relief . all of which add up to a garble cast and a sense of misdirection and and the film never be able to form it own distinct identity . what annoy me even more be that the producer seem to think that sell the sense of the stereotypical mysterious china would be sufficient and probably think that crouch tiger and hidden dragon succeed solely on this ( which it do not since crouch tiger be a good film base on a good and albeit decade old and plot and strong character ) . the plot be again a jumbled mix fast and slow sequence and action sequence and supposedly character development scene juxtapose and which serve only to destroy any pace the film could possible have establish . the good guy be simply good and and the bad guy be simply bad and in a very comic book simple sort of way . the audience be and a ask of the lead character in the film and believe and since the actor themselves certainly fail to deliver any sense of goodness or badness . which be completely sad since yeoh and chaplin and and roxburgh be capable of be so much more and a they have show in other film and and be victim of a daft directing and an even bad story . i have see a yeoh interview in which she state that the touch be her way of try to make a chinese film for a worldwide audience and in the way that hollywood make film for that audience . but what i saw be the juvenile plot and character that have so plague hong kong film and and imo and cause their demise . what yeoh should realize and a any movie watcher today must realize and be that a film should at the very least have a decent plot and believable character and or else all the exotic location shoot in the world can not salvage what i have no doubt will be a tanker .