Bad reviews or bad reviewers

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2001)

This is a great movie. YES! Overrated? NO! But unless some reviewers, I can understand why some people don't like it. Ask yourself this, Why do the bad reviews have a lot of paragraphs? Why do these people have the urgent necessity of explain with great tenacity their points? Why do they use that rhetoric and those remarkable words just to convince you that is a bad movie? What kind of films do they like? (good question!) **SPOILER AHEAD**
The people who like the movie just like it for what is a great action/romance/drama movie. Most of the reviewers who don't like the film said, `I don't get it'. Why? There are three reasons for that (you can choose). FIRST: Maybe they don't want to get it (you can get excuse if you don't like or are not used to read while watching movies). SECOND: Maybe they are used to their `steroid-pumped clowns' heroes who kill every enemy they have in sight. So for them Li Mu Bai do not fit into the hero category, just because he did not kill Darth Maul, Godzilla or Jar Jar Bins at the end of the movie. The man is a hero, a respected warrior, but since they don't know why he gained that reputation they `don't get it'. So they had no sympathy for this character or any (the characters were not developed) Um! That brings me to the next point. THIRD: Have these guys any imagination at all? Some of them claim that they read, but what do they read? X-Men, Superman, Archie perhaps? They want plot. Maybe they can't see beyond their noses. The main characters are not Li Mu Bai or Shu Lien or Martial Arts or the Sword. The main character is a girl who becomes into a dangerous person due to the misguide of a twisted woman, due to her reckless attitude and mainly because of her whim. But the plot is more than that, just look for it.
They need more character development. In a two hour movie? Can't they just imagine how Li Mu Bai became a great warrior, how and when began the relation between Li Mu Bai and Shu Lien, how Jen did became a great fighter without the help of the Jade Fox, how can she practice that kind of martial arts without being noticed? Imagination! They read, however, one of the best things of reading is use your imagination. What kind of background had Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars? But we recognized him as a hero and we had sympathy for him. We need no prequels or character development to knew it. Imagination?
Sorry, there is a fourth reason: Maybe some reviewers don't know that there are stories and very beautiful places in other places of the world that are not between Mexico and Canada.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a must see.