Review: viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm 's performance 
Sentiment: negative

Review: engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese ` cultural revolution . ' 
Sentiment: positive

Review: losing his touch 
Sentiment: negative

Review: like most of jaglom 's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: as a classic movie franchise