Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016) on Netflix
PG-1320161h 36mActionAdventureDrama
Yu Shu Lien leaves retirement to guard the Green Destiny, the sword of Li Mu Bai. The warlord Hades Dai covets the blade, and a masked horseman rides to her aid.
- Netflix3.8/5
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- Rotten Tomatoes20%
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Plot summary
Yu Shu Lien has lived in solitude for eighteen years, and now travels to Peking, where the house of Sir Te displays the Green Destiny. West Lotus warriors attack her carriage on the road, and a masked horseman helps drive them off. In his tower, Hades Dai, the West Lotus warlord, hears a blind enchantress say the Green Destiny surpasses his own great sword and that he cannot rule the martial world without it. She urges him to send the young Wei Fang, since the boy and the blade are bound by destiny. That night, Wei Fang slips into the Te house after the sword, and Snow Vase fights him. Snow Vase asks Shu Lien to take her as a pupil in the Iron Way.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The day after Netflix's announcement, Regal Entertainment Group said it would not show the film, its Russ Nunley declining to be part of an experiment where you can see the same product on screens varying from three stories tall to 3 inches wide on a smart phone; AMC, Carmike, Cinemark and Cineworld followed the same day.
- The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television approved the production with amendments: replacing the White Lotus Society with a fictitious martial arts faction, downplaying “Oppose the Qing, Restore the Ming” content, controlling the amount of gore and violence, and rewording one of Yu Xiulian's lines.
- It was reported that Zhang Ziyi was in talks to reprise her role as Jen Yu, but her agent Ji Lingling said Zhang would return only if the director was Ang Lee; Shuya Chang was cast instead, as a similar rogue Wudan swordswoman renamed Han Mei.
- The film was shot in English and dubbed into Mandarin, the reverse of its predecessor, which was made the other way around.
