thumbs up for the director, thumbs down for the writer of the adaptation

Rating: 8/10 (22 January 2007)

The goodness of the film and the director doesn't need me to emphasize any more. Just want to look down upon the writer of the adaptation screenplay. The movie is recently banned in China, which make me to watch the movie again. Because when the first time I saw it, I was pretty much enjoying the movie as an art, the Chinese government sequence didn't really bother me though, as a Chinese, I felt uncomfortable with it. When I watch it again last night, I was very angry about how they portraited the Chinese government though I can even tolerate the stupidity of the Chinese gangsters. I just don't understand why they took the excellence of the original Chinese story and set up some unnecessary plots to humiliate the Chinese government and Chinese in general. It is a shame and dishonorable. It is just not right.