Movie was all over the place with no real plot. I was ready to call it quits after about a hour or so. It went on, and on, and on. I just wanted it to end, but at least I did make it to the end. Michelle Yeoh did a great job, and Stephanie Hsu wasn't so bad either. I appreciate the effort it must've taken to make this movie, but it wasn't that good. Had potential to be so much better, tho.
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I was able to watch the beginning until I almost threw up from the nonsensical language-swapping (have to switch between listening to what someone says and reading what they say constantly back and forth, like WHAT? WHY?), the close-ups of old, ugly people's horrible, wrinkled faces, the 'you are not supposed to throw up when you see this although your body can't help it if you are not a rare deviant group' and other stuff like that.
The overall ugliness and annoyance of this movie was turned to 100 almost immediately, and the beginning is the worst kind you can have. Yeah, doing taxes is exactly as interesting in a movie opening as stocks are in a Superman NES game. What were they thinking?
I don't see why people praise trash like this - could it be, because they 'have to', because THE MESSAGE - when a movie hates white men as punching bags as much as this movie does, and celebrates a RARE DEVIANCY from a norm (not that anyone should openly show these things in a movie in my opinion anyway, a sudden slobber attack is disgusting - if you have hard time understanding why I almost vomited at the bad haircut laundry-scene near the beginning, just imagine an old, white, heterosexual Linux-nerd of a pervert man starting to slobber over some young asian beauty celebrity, and maybe you get the idea)...?
But my point is, does this movie really do anything that original or creative? Does it give you anything you did not have before? Does it provoke, make you actually think of the nature of reality or anything? Are you yet not tired of 'THE MESSAGE'..?
I used to think Jet Li's blatant The Matrix rip-off, 'The One' sucks, but when compared to this, wow.. how brilliant does it look!
A movie does not have to be a chaotic, convoluted mess to be good, you know. You can tell a story in a coherent, more linear, understandable way, even if that story is complicated. 'The One' does this actually well, it's WAY more interesting to watch - but so does 'The Matrix'.
My point is that there are so many good stories out there, so many interesting, well-crafted movies, TV shows and even comics, that there is absolutely no need to watch something like this.
If you read the old comics 'The Secret Wars' and then its sequel, then watch 'The Matrix', 'Back to the Future' and 'Primer', then move on to 'The One', some old Jackie Chan movies and some Cynthia Khan movies, do you REALLY need this movie for anything?
I mean, seriously, do you?
Same here. I would have walked out 45 minutes in had someone else not bought my ticket (and he drove me - so I was
effectively held hostage by this film). This felt like kind of an anti-movie movie. It's absurd, nonsensical and adheres to very few laws of entertainment.
The scene with the two subtitled rocks took it into orbit for me. Amazing that a film can be an Oscar-winner when it demonstrates no respect for its audience. Just about as much of a tough sit as a series of ISI beheading videos.