Ang Lee Archives

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 11, 2000Flying Swordsmen Fantasy

Sensational hit that introduced most of the West to the Wu Xia film. Directed with elan by Ang Lee, there comes a sublimely graceful poetry in the film's imagery of sword combatants dancing up walls and flying through the air

Director: Ang Lee

Actors: Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Pei-pei Ching

Category: Fantasy

11 December 20003 October 2025 by Roog

Hulk (2003)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 15, 2003Comic Book Superhero/The Rampaging Monster Within

An early entry among the pre-MCU surge of Marvel Comics films in the early 2000s sees Ang Lee taking on The Incredible Hulk. Not Lee’s best film, this was slighted at the time but is worth reconsideration

Director: Ang Lee

Actors: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 July 20032 November 2025 by Roog

Gemini Man (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 7, 2019Assassin Fights a Clone of Himself

Ang Lee dips his feet into the action genre in a conceptually fascinating work where assassin Will Smith facies a younger clone of himself. Smith's performance and the effects used to de-age his double are top-notch

Director: Ang Lee

Actors: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 December 201925 October 2025 by Roog