dullest Asian movie ever

Rating: 3/10 (7 February 2005)

Yeah, there are some great scenes in it, but they don't do enough to compensate for the frustrating narration and crap special effects. I don't mind "Rashomon", or "the Usual Suspects" showing different peoples' opinions of the same event, but I can't stand being deliberately lied to. Maybe this happened, Maybe that happened, maybe it happened a different way - I don't care. There's a real story in there and two guys arguing about the details. It seems more that the movie is contradicting itself than different versions of the same story. Why doesn't anything actually *happen*? So we get to the point where there's 2 guys drinking tea, and still don't know what really happened in the past, but the guys stop drinking tea and something does actually happen - so why not just show that bit? I could have sworn it wasted 3 hours of my life, but the info says it's only about 100 mins - that's about 90 too long.