Disappointed

You're not alone, stewartjadams! I agree, there's not much to it except pictures and montage. At least, I didn't manage to recognize whatever there is to be appreciated. It is my experience that if I don't care about the characters, I won't care about the movie either. Then again, this is my problem and mine alone...

To each his own. I actually think Faye Wong is the highlight of the movie. Then again, I'm a fanatic. I love pretty much everything about this movie.

Me too!
I loved 'In the mood for love' and also loved 2046. Didn't like Days of being wild much. And this one is the one I like least. Faye's character is like mentally retarded or something. was she supposed to be so? and if it's the case, still it was VERY irritating. The first story is boring and unreal. I couldn't relate to the characters,nor their lines. Peopel here say/do things normal people wouldnt say/do in real life. To me it was one of the main reasosns I couldn't enjoy it. The drug dealer looked more like a cross dresser or a man wearing a wig. This character had no weight (and most of the other ones too). The cop.. well.. I never believed he was really a cop. More like a soft, heartbroken high school student.
Why should I care at all for him if he decided to fall in love with the first woman (man wearing a blonde wig) that enters the bar? Am I supposed to care about the 2 of them (one of them is a drug dealer and we r given no reason to like)?

I liked some scenes and metaphors, though. The scene were we first see the air hostess at his place, with the instruction in the background. The metaphor of the flat crying (when it was flooded with water) or jogging to lose water so as not to cry.
I wonder if 3-Iron was influenced by that film. The idea of visiting flats when no one is there, cleaning and changing things around.. and playing the same song over and over.
Anyway I'm glad that Wong Kar-wai made better movies after. It shows how he grew along the way.. and if In The Mood, and 2046 are his last movies, then he is going on the right track. Of course they all feel like one long movie, all with the same idea, more or less, but he was able to present those ideas in a much better, solid and engagging way in the last 2.

Normally I'm very patient with films, I try to find good elements in films that don't immediately appeal to me. But this film annoyed me so much I felt the need to throw things at the screen. The music is cheesy and the motion blur effect is very annoying. The film is obviously character driven rather than plot driven, which I usually find a good thing, but in this blatant A bout de Souffle rip-off the main characters are too shallow and their monologues too bland.

Though less annoying, every time "In the Mood for Love" shows on TV I tell myself I'm going to concentrate and watch the film until the end, but I get bored and distracted after about 20 minutes. I think it's the blatant Godard influence combined with the heavy focus on relationships (or lack of them) that turns me off WKW's films.

I watched this movie yesterday and after a good night sleep I still don't know what to make of it. I was aspecially annoyed by the lack of connection between the two different stories.

The first one just ended without an ending. By the end of the movie I had already forgotten about it. I knew to little about the woman to get involved in the story. I expected an impossible-love-story about a policeman and a criminal woman, who is chasing some lost drugs. Instead, the movie went nowhere. Maybe because my dvd-box says "Quentin Tarantino presents", I expected more crime than drama. The first part of the movie shows fast images of the policeman and the woman in several chases, so my expectations rose. Than suddenly it stopped ...

I like emotional movies with weird love stories, but this was just to little to become interesting.

I thought the second story had much more potential to become a great movie. The theme of breaking in to a home and redecorate it, is a nice idea for a movie and Kar-Wai Wong should have focussed more on the emotional part of this theme instead of showing us a slightly-retarded woman. Ki-Duk Kim did a better job on this in "Bin-Jip" (aka "3-Iron").

If Kar-Wai Wong had left out the first part and made the second part into a complete movie, it might have been a lot more interesting.

i agree that it is really disapointing.i dont understand why its over rated.

I saw it some years ago (will see it again soon) and I thought it was very charming, a superbly conceived mix of comedy and drama. It obviously owes a great deal to French nouvelle vague films, especially early Godard: almost nothing is _stated_ as important, things unfold and happen in the moment, but it also develops those traits. Tony Leung's pineapple can business and his sometimes awkward encounters with people are so touching and convincing.

I loved the scene when the grocer tells him off "Take all this out-of-date fruit and these potatoes too, young man! I'm giving them away. Do you like stale food, son?" and he replies "You don't respect the efforts of the working people! Do you realize how much work it takes to produce good pienapples?" - that exchange effortlessly suggests the difference between countryside morals and a modern commercial big city, or even between old and new China.

And of course, the photography is amazing.



You are a lunatic, Sir, and you're going to end up on the Russian front. I have a car waiting.

this is a reaction that many have after watching any wong kar wai film...

defo a unique style...


love them all.