Brent M
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After initially disliking the film at the theater, it has grown on me with subsequent home viewings and now I enjoy it quite a bit. I still don't like the choice of Gong Li in the female lead role, though, as she didn't impress me that much with her acting and was VERY difficult to understand. She wasn't the only one either as a lot of the characters delivered lines like they had marbles in their mouth. I don't know who to fault for this, the actors themselves or the people who were in charge of mastering the audio. Bottom line: you shouldn't need subtitles when people are speaking English and difficult to understand dialog is the movie's biggest problem IMHO.