Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Movie Review: Ah-Sou

I saw this movie last Thursday, starring Karena Lam, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Alex Fong and several other well known actors.

But this movie doesn't need a review. Its a 90 minute movie, and I felt like I was sitting through a 3 hour montage of scenes. It was THAT agonizing, I'm sorry to say. And to think I was kind of anticipating this movie for some time already.

I dont know what the heck the director was thinking, but I'm sure he must've been high on booze and nicotine when he edited this movie. It had useless, non continuous and indecipherable flashbacks, ( I cant even tell between what's happening real time and flashbacks) a sketch dream sequence that supposed to be better off in a 1 minute music anime video, and a lot of loooooOOOOoong fade in and fade outs conventionally used to represent passage of time, but instead he's using this technique to cross between cuts and point of views. Yes, this is what made the movie feel so long. And you can tell he did it very liberally all throughout the movie, making it feel like a 3 hour movie instead on 90 minutes.

And the dialogue. Lets not forget the dialogue.

There WAS NONE.

The first 5 minutes started out fine, but went straight downhill from there. Lots of nice picture-poses, nice 3 second "grand" sweeping shots, lots of useless, senseless crying, some dialogue, and a whole lot of B.S. Characters that were never fully developed (what the heck is the guy with the red cap supposed to signify? Who the heck is the bodyguard and what the heck did he have to do with the overall storyline?) story lines that could've made the movie better but never will be, many of the good actors whose talents were never used.... think of a movie failure reason, I'm sure this movie would be applicable to all of them.

This is the worst movie I've ever seen in my whole life. Nobody could get THIS low and still release it to the public. My grandmother can make a better movie than this.

@#$@#$%@#$^!!!

1 Comments:

Blogger Sean said...

Movies like this most likely break one of the fundamental rules of storytelling: If you're telling a story (assuming that that's what a movie does to begin with), then you have to tell the audience the story, and not yourself. At the moment, it sounds as though the editor / director was the only one playing the plot out in his/her own head.

9:25 AM  

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