A stunningly beautiful mess

Rating: 1/10 (25 February 2013)

OK, so I haven't read the book. But that shouldn't be necessary, I paid to watch a film after all, so I shouldn't have to read a book to understand what is going on.
So. What we have here is 6 separate stories. And that's the crux of the problem, they are just that, 6 completely separate stories, there is no connection between them, no tying up of loose ends, no sense of closure or completeness. The film makers try to link the stories together by utilising the 'ingenious' mechanism of having the main actors play different parts throughout the 6 stories but really, come on, Doona Bae for example is a beautiful South Korean woman but made up as a white woman she just looked plain weird. I would rather have had 6 interconnected stories played by 6 different sets of actors and have some kind of ending that actually connected the 6 stories than this pile of steaming crap. Yes, I get the reincarnation angle, the repeating cycle of good versus evil and oppression of the good, blah, blah, blah. But did it really need 3 hours of boredom to convey this simple message. I actually felt sorry for the actors, there's nothing wrong in their performances it's just that frankly you can't polish a turd and that's what this is...a big old turd dressed up to be something more than what it is! Shame really.