WAIT FOR THE English EDITION.

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2007)

WAIT FOR THE English EDITION. I find it a cowardly move on the part of the director to debut a foreign language film in the United States for these two reasons: (1) This keeps it from competing directly against (big) "American" films (for an Oscar), you see, foreign language films get to compete in the "junior varsity" league. (2) I saw the movie 2 1/2 times in the theater, attempted to watch such a visually stunning movie, and was distracted by subtitles. The first time I GOT UP AND WALKED OUT, because NOWHERE was it said in the promotions, that the movie would be in Spanish. I am sure millions were duped in just this way, to go see the movie, in such a lazy release. OOooh I know the director, he a wanted it to be a justa lika heya envisioned ita to be. Get real, the movie would have been a potential blockbuster, if they had just dubbed it. Oops I forgot, refer to reason #1.
Despite these prideful, disrespectful, and cowardly choices on the part of the Director, and distributor, it is still an "okay" movie. A dark theme, disturbing monsters, and real life monsters, should dissuade parents from letting children watch. The ONE good thing I will say about the film is that it did not (?) pander and try to get a PG-13 rating. In my opinion, dumbing it down for vastly wider audience.
All this can be summed up like this... Did you watch "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" at the theater in mandarin Chinese with subtitles? I DID, twice. When the English DVD version was released, it was as if it was a whole NEW AND MUCH BETTER movie. Get it?
So rent this if you must, but WAIT and see how much better the movie will be once it is dubbed into English!