Where the Hollywood is going to?

Rating: 7/10 (12 January 2005)

This is pretty fair movie, Sofia Coppola is young promising filmmaker, good acting, etc etc. But, this movie brings absolutely nothing new to cinematography. Everything it's saying has been already said many times. Take 3 Woody Allen's movies, cut them in pieces, glue together and you get Lost in Translation. A man in middle age crisis has already solved all his dilemmas regarding younger woman in "Manhattan". They have already been lost in strange country in "Everyone Says I Love You".
Besides, all other characters except the two leading ones are linear and totally made up. All Japanese characters are clichéd, I've never been there, but I really doubt that people there are really like that.
I mean, the movie is OK but Hollywood should stop and think for a minute where it has come to is when this is one of the best movies of 2003.