Most Overhyped Movie of the Year!

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2001)

I keep seeing people posting these raving reviews of Crouching Tiger, and watch it get as high as the Top 10 on the Best 250 list... I'm sorry, am I missing something?
If a movie had great special effects, but terrible acting and a paper-thin plot, the average 2000/01 moviegoer would scream about how terrible Hollywood was getting. But because this is a movie about fighting and kung fu and ninjas and what-have-you, we're supposed to love this?
Crouching Tiger is an excellently-directed and cinematographed movie, and certainly deserved its Oscar nominations. But a movie should not live on special effects alone, and it disturbs me to see so many "serious" movie fans warping the weakness of this movie, let alone ranking it high enough to place above movies like Rear Window, Pulp Fiction, North by Northwest, Silence of the Lambs, It's a Wonderful Life, Goodfellas, 12 Angry Men, Saving Private Ryan, Vertigo, The Sixth Sense or The Matrix (among MANY others)!