So racist and so Boring that it is actually entertaining

Rating: Null/10 (9 April 2004)

This movie was so boring and so racist that it actually develops its own charm. Nothing new. A boring character, briliantly casted, comes to Tokyo to shoot a $2mil advert for whiskey. He is so depressed that his depresion is contageous and it plagues the whole movie. He has one mission: kill time. One of the first things that surprises him in Tokyo is that Japan too is subject to late-modern capitalism. So what is this movie selling? Aparently it is paradoxical that Japanese people eat McDonalds, listen to rock-n-roll, drink whiskey and have ultra-agressive advertisement. But what is supposed to be funny is that Japanese people speak Engrish with Dzapaneeze accent. That's pretty much all that there is to this movie. Of course there is a female as well - Johanson. She is a bit different - at least she gets out of the hotel, but only for the purposes of cultural tourism. But still this movie has its racist value. It is not a movie about the Japaneese, but about how two ignorant Yanks would read Japaneese consumer society. From the earliest scenes we learn about the superiority of the arian man (the scene in the elevator). So the value of this movie: to record. The movie progresses in the most boring fasion. Not briliant. Though it is obvious that the intentions of Sofia Coppola were diffferent then to bore, she achieved quite the opposite effect. To put the final declaration of boredom there is the final scene of the car entering the same tunnel and comming out, just like in Solaris (Russian Tarkovski version) - I'm pretty sure it was a coincidence, for IF Copolla was to go on to pay tribute to Tarkovski we would have spent at least 1 minute in that tunnel. In short, this movie is worth watching for those who are interested to have the following question answered "How much worse can Holliwood get?"