Overhyped

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2002)

This and "Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon"... both critics and everymen, literally EVERYBODY, hype 'em up and give them straight "A"'s all the way. And lil' me just doesn't get it.
"Fellowship" is more than an okay fantasy tale, maybe 7 or 8 out of 10. Gets points for NOT being childish but is definitely too long (I haven't read the book)
"Crouching..." gets boring earlier, mostly due to an unnecessary overlonged romantic (soapy) side-plot, BUT there's the always charismatic Chow Yun-Fat in the lead role and some fast-paced kung-fu- action, so a 6 or 7 out of 10 is probably right.
Now, every OTHER review I read from the two movies above, all they get are "Five stars" and "10/10"'s. Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against them and they're both okay. But just that- seeing them after the massive hype gave me the "That's it?" blues. Now if you ask me - for a better fantasy tale check out "Star Wars" and for a better historic Kung-Fu- epic, Jet Li's "Once Upon a Time in China".