Oh my DOUG. I don't think I can ever watch another movie ever again. This beautiful, stunning masterpiece is what I have been looking for all this time. Through endless hours of fidgeting in darkened theatres. Unnumbered counts of scornful derision heaped upon the heads of lesser movies, undeserving because they could never be this.

Yes, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has blown my mind right out my ears. From the first moments I felt connected to the movie. Well directed, well acted. That first moment when the black-clad figure flipped up, and then through the window... it took my breath away. Then they took to the air, and I was lost. I laughed with delight, with the sheer joy of witnessing this movie. It took an hour to lose the grin after the movie was finished.

I am someone who gauges how good a movie is by what time and under what motives I look at my watch. Spiceworld lasted fifteen minutes. After an hour and a half of this movie, I looked at my watch, and that was only in disappointment that there was only half an hour left. As the BeefKing next to me gasped in one particularly stunning sequence, I could watch this all night.

This movie was made for me. Merely the word 'epic' is enough to make me pause and take notice, and this exemplifies and surpasses the term. Enchanting, breath-taking, exotic and all in all, a grand and beautiful dream.

For those who (amazingly) haven't heard of it, this is a Chinese-language movie made by Ang Lee with a huge Hollywood-style budget. Starring Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh, it is, as the director said, "a kind of dream of China... a China that probably never existed, except in my boyhood fantasties in Taiwan."

See it. Immediately. Experience the dream.