A string of cliches and implausible coincidental encounters

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2003)

Come on now. Who could seriously take this for anything but a sophomoric first attempt at writing (that failed)?
Are there any cliches about travel that the author hasn't dragged into this dreary, weary waste of time? And the runaway stair-stepper instead of a runaway treadmill? Tallest guy in the elevator? Very long phrase in Japanese is translated into one word--ha ha.
And let's see...what are the odds that two people are going to be watching the same TV programs at the same time, get dressed and go to the same bar at the same time or that someone in a car might happen to recognize someone else in a crowd in Tokyo? The writer-director is the same daughter of Francis Ford Coppola who was injected into Godfather III as an untalented, unattractive movie spoiler. Now he's produced her untalented, uninteresting efforts in a bad movie that is being over-hyped by Hollywood