Lost in Editing?

Rating: 3/10 (7 May 2004)

** Here be spoilers ** (and I really mean it, do not read this if you plan to see the movie)
Now, there has been a lot of praise for Lost in Translation. Hence my disapontment is greater. Bob Harris (Murray) comes to Japan for some commercial photo-shoots. He is bored and dull, and seem to have some sort of personal crisis. In the hotel where he is staying he meets Charlotte (Johansson). She is unhappy and alone because her husband is out working (?) all the time. In their combined unhappiness they enjoy each others company and some sort of relationship starts to form as they hang out in the Japanese night-life. There, I'm sorry, is the complete movie, as I see it. Nothing really happens and everybody just seem to be more or less unhappy. And soon I really lost interest in the movie.
In addition to the poor story, there was some very peculiar editing. The movie runs at only 102 minutes (fortunately), which I reckon might be considered rather short. Still the movie contains a lot of small scenes that is completely pointless, which was either cut short or should be cut out entirely. There is no real (as I see it) development in either character, and interesting potential conflicts, issues and characters that appear throughout the movie simply disappear, never mentioned again to make absolutely sure nothing ever happens.
I cannot see why this is praised, I found it very dull, but that was the whole point, heh?
3/10