Movie Review: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016) *Beautiful but Shallow Compared to the Original*

Still mourning the death of Li Mu Bai, Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) returns to safeguard his sword, the Green Legend. Hades Dai (Jason Scott Lee), an underground warlord, sends his lieutenants to steal the sword , with plans to dominate the martial world. A young mysterious swords-woman and the hero with a past, Silent Wolf (Donnie Yen), comes to Shu Lien’s aid, together with a disparate band of warriors who still believe in the iron way of honor.

16 years after the Academy Award-winning Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the long battle to get the sequel made is over and it ended up being made by Netflix.  Not just content with Emmys, Netflix had two Oscar nominations this year in documentary categories, and I bet hard cash they have a statue inside three years.  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (hereafter for the sake of my carpal tunnels to be CTHD2) is actually the fifth film in a series that completes a story that began in China and ended up grabbing the focus of the world.