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June 18, 2003 —

From Entertainment Weekly:

Joyful monstrosity is the very attitude that's missing in Lee's first feature since ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,'' his Oscar-winning epic about outwardly cool, inwardly passionate Chinese martial-arts masters. Working with a story by his longtime collaborator James Schamus (who also reworked the script -- cocredited to John Turman and Michael France -- to better fit Lee to a T), the director anesthetizes his Marvel Comics mutant with a mopey psychological back story that leaves little unanalyzed space for fun. A comic-book superhero has seldom squandered so much screen time being conflicted about his heritage and destiny -- and I don't mean conflicted in a sexy, Wolverine-y, ''X-Men'' way, either; a big-budget comic-book adaptation has rarely felt so humorless and intellectually defensive about its own pulpy roots.

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