Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)

A story of lost love, young love, a legendary sword and one last opportunity at redemption.

Director:

Woo-Ping Yuen (as Wo-Ping Yuen)

Writers:

John Fusco (screenplay), Du Lu Wang (book)

Stars:

Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh, Harry Shum Jr.

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Donnie Yen	...	Silent Wolf
Michelle Yeoh	...	Yu Shu Lien
Harry Shum Jr.	...	Wei Fang
Natasha Liu Bordizzo	...	Snow Vase
Jason Scott Lee	...	Hades Dai
Eugenia Yuan	...	Blind Enchantress
Roger Yuan	...	Iron Crow
JuJu Chan Szeto	...	Silver Dart Shi (as JuJu Chan)
Chris Pang	...	Flying Blade
Woon Young Park	...	Thunder Fist
Darryl Quon	...	Turtle Ma
Veronica Ngo	...	Mantis (as Thanh Van Ngo)
Gary Young	...	Te Junior
Andrew Stehlin	...	Black Tiger
Trevor Sai Louie	...	Guard Captain

Storyline

Still mourning the death of Li Mu Bai, Yu Shu Lien returns to safeguard his sword, the Green Destiny. Hades Dai, 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 , comes to Shu Lien's aid, together with a disparate band of warriors who still believe in the iron way of honor.

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Plot Keywords:

3 dimensional | netflix | ancient china | sword | love | 

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Taglines:

The past returns with a vengeance.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for martial arts violence and brief partial nudity

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the beginning of the film, Shu Lien says that 18 years have passed since the passing of Li Mu Bai at the end of the first film. In reality it's been 16 years since the first film was released.

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Quotes

Yu Shu Lien: Honor, duty, excuses for bloodshed. That is why I left it behind, all those years ago.

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Connections

Follows Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

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Soundtracks

The Eternal Vow
from the feature film Wo hu cang long (2000)
Composed by Dun Tan
Published by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC
Produced and Arranged by Christopher Tin
Featured piano soloist Láng Lang

User Reviews

Lower you expectations

I don't know how they could take a masterpiece like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and destroyed it. This sequel has nothing of the first movie except for the title.

Maybe i am too harsh, but Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was an epic movie, with good story line, legendary character in Li My Bai, great chemistry between characters and epic ending. So based on that my expectations for this movie were high. Plus if you put Donnie Yen, and Jason Scott Lee on top of that you would expect nothing less than the previous movie. But, no. In CTHD 2, the story is terrible, the characters are weak, empty and shallow,there is no connection between them, the directing is bad, and the worst part is, it's in English. The only good thing are the fighting scenes and they are average at best.

So to summarize this movie is an average Chinese kung fu movie with some decent action, sword fighting scenes. As a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel its a big disappointment and not worth watching.

Details

Country:

China USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 February 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend

Filming Locations:

New Zealand

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$38,659,039

Company Credits

Production Co:

Netflix, The Weinstein Company, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1