Slow, boring, empty

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2004)

This movie really has nothing redeeming. The acting is fine, but nothing is demanded of the actors. The movie is filled with mundane conversation, (e.g. "'where are you from?' - long pause - 'New York'") and already dated cultural slapstick "humor".
It is basically the story of a slow, uninteresting, and depressing intergenerational romance, except without any compelling dialogue or believable interactions. We are forced to watch the inside of Tokyo night clubs and late night apartment karaoke - scenes which interesting only if you have spent the last 10 years reading Chaucer in a coffee shop. I found myself admiring the fantastic theater I was sitting in to amuse myself.
There are two reasons I can imagine it has received positive reviews: 1) It was written by the daughter of a powerful Hollywood figure. 2) It appeals to the Oedipal fantasies of the post-middle-age reviewers.