George-Michael Payne

This would have been a great movie if it was 99% in English because I can't read subtitles on my screen. The excessive amount of foreign language goes so far beyond a conceptual hint for flavor that it became burdensome and incomprehensible. Too bad they ruined it like that. I eventually turned it off before making it to the end. I can't imagine spending all that money producing a movie then having the audio in a language most people can't understand. There is so much of it I would not classify this as an English language film but rather a foreign language film. I would guess that if they re-released it in English it would probably do well. A hard lesson to all filmmakers - artsy subtitled films will never be successful. I found myself praying and praying for it to return to English but it just kept going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

I watched this through my high school years age 12 to 15 and was profoundly influenced by it. It introduced new perspectives and thinking about life and spirit in the same way that Star Trek, Alan Watts, and Alfred Kinsey did. Not only were assumptions shattered, but I also learned that sedentary thinking may be called into question thus creating new truths and realities. It made me question what was right and wrong about my own thinking and helped me to see the contrast between how different cultures intersect when different paradigms collide. Before the series I thought simply in terms of black and white. I thought I knew who the good guys were and who the bad guys were, and Kung Fu showed me the gray that lies between. It taught me how energy flows, and that the way violence plays out between an antagonist and protagonist sometimes switches their identity.