Lost in Editing

Rating: 8/10 (6 March 2005)

I must start by saying that I'm surprised that I'm the first one to create this thread... This movie was more then deserved to be seen when was released in theaters and now when it's released on DVD. Oh, well.
Tokyo looks amazing in this movie, as a comperission I can say that it looked sort of like LA looked in Colleteral. Amazing! And the movie starts with the best thing in it, you can feel how lost the two main characters or at least Sharlote are in this huge insane city.
The directing is superb, everything feels right, but the script that gave Coppola her Oscar (probebly not her last one) is not what I expected it to be. Tlost characters meet each other and get lost together in that crazy city and in the end they must break up. Not the most original or brilliant of scripts but works well. Unfortunately, for me at least, the movie is way too short. I didn't feel the sorrow of "leaving" Tokyo which I should have if the movie was long enough for me to start loving or hating that city. For me it was not long enough so I felt nothing and that makes the movie feel a little empty to me.
The acting was of course superb, Murrey is a well known actor but Scarlett is a fresh face (and I must say beautiful in a most refreshing way) and she will become a great actress in the future.
So all in all it's a worth watching movie but there is a great chance that in the end you would ask yourself "what the hell that was all about?!".