Definitely not empty. Definitely boring

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2004)

Lost in Translation starts really well. A movie about an actor that once enjoyed a lot of popularity, but now he is aging and must settle for a job in Japan advertising a new wine brand. A movie about a woman whose marriage is shallow. Her husband doesn't really care about her. Then during the movie she meets the aging actor and their lives suddenly become exciting.

Lost in Translation is about how people are the same no matter what language or culture they have. It is a movie about two people whose lives are empty, but they find in each other what they need despite their differences.

This film, although it may seem great, could have been put in a short story. The plot can be summed up in less than fifty lines. You could study any tourist that goes to any country and make a movie about the experiences of that person, and it would be as good as this. After the first twenty minutes, Lost in Translation becomes a boring episode of anyone's life during a trip to any country. Even the funny moments aren't special at all. The things we see in Lost in Translation can happen to anyone during a week.
One thing this movie has that makes other people like it is the fact that they identify themselves with the characters having fun. However if your idea of having fun is not, and I repeat myself "is not", going to bars, playing video games, singing karaoke songs and having an affair, Lost in Translation is as entertaining as fixing a broken chair.