Talk about a narrow focus in criticism!

Rating: 1/10 (5 March 2009)

"Lacking in Nativity!!!, 6 January 2009 - 1/10 stars - Author: thirumurugan-k from United States - The language in which the characters speak is the soul of a movie. Cidade de Deus, Shichinin no samurai, Ladri di biciclette were made in native language and so the originality of the movie was intact even though I watched those movies with English subtitles. Slumdog millionaire is totally lacking on this aspect and it is definitely not a film to be rated in the top 250.
I understand that the movie is made for western audience. But, It would have been better if the movie was made in Hindi and was released with subtitles to the western audience (similar to Lagaan)." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Movies should be criticized as a whole - picking out one thing to criticize is just too shallow to be helpful! It's like criticizing the color of someone's clothes in a movie. You have to let the creators and director have some leeway in how they present the movie and what audience they are trying to reach. And such a criticism doesn't tell us much about why the reviewer thinks the movie should be poorly rated, it only tells us about his bias about one aspect of the film. If a reviewer can't approach a movie as a whole then what have they accomplished in their review? Only that they are reviewing a bias that their ego can't cope with. Give us a valid review or move on! Let's face it - it is pretty ridiculous (and superficial) to give a movie 1 star out of 10 based on how the soundtrack was presented language-wise.