Great movie and my theory on it's #1 ranking

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2002)

I don't really have a lot to say about this movie beyond the fact that I did think it was quite enjoyable and very good. However as many before me have said I don't think I would consider this the best movie ever made and here is my theory as to its ranking: The past oh say, 2 decades or so, has been an age of horrible incompetence on the part of the movie industry as a whole. So as a result when the occasional competently made film like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memento, or Lord of The Rings comes out its greatness gets somewhat blown out of proportion, because it's the only movie around at the time that's even decent. Then if it IS good enough to be considered a "great" film it ends up in the top 10 of all time when instead it should be in the top 10 of the last 5 years.