Millennium Mambo
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Movie Reviews of Millennium Mambo
Movie Review: Smoke Cigarettes, Say Nothing in an Artful Manner
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie got some rave reviews from film critics when it was first shown here in New York. As a result, I began watching the DVD with high expectations, and, boy, what a letdown!
I found the film hard to follow. There isn't much dialogue and it is often hard to tell what's really going on. The film is about a young woman named Vicki who smokes cigarettes, smokes cigarettes, and then smokes more cigarettes. Besides smoking cigarettes, she lives with a real loser who is unemployed, smokes dope, and abuses her. (He looks a bit like an Oriental Christopher Walken.) But, you see, every time she leaves him, he finds her and begs her to come back, and, instead of telling him to take a flying you know what, she...goes back to him! In between her live ins with the loser boyfriend, the film almost becomes interesting for a brief moment when she ends up dating a member of a Triad who perhaps (it is unclear but implied) kills someone and flees to Japan.
Because of the lack of dialogue, there is no character development and so it is difficult to care about the characters in the film. Vicki ends up seeming to be quite a pathetic creature - albeit a fairly sexy pathetic creature.
I thought there at least might be some interesting sex scenes, since Vicki is played by former soft core porn star Shu Qi, but you can forget about that.
All in all, the film is a real snore. I'm giving it two stars instead of one, however, because of the artful cinematography, and because Shu Qi looks really sexy with all those cigarettes hanging out of her pouting lips. As another reviewer noted, the film has style but almost no substance. This film artfully states nothing in particular.
Movie Review: Overrated
Summary: 2 Stars
I have to say when I bought this film I was very excited for Shu Qi's performance because I absolutly fell in love with her movie THREE TIMES. I figured same director same actor it would be a knock out. But I was waiting for something to happen to make all of the hype true but it never came. Which is sad. Anyway, the attempt at filming in a club went horribly wrong, the scenes were difficult to decipher the images because it was all unfocused in one color.. I was hoping they would go more indepth with the relationships that Shu Qi had but it barely touched on them. It was just odd scenes strung together (which is okay) but if they don't have a basis to them, there's no point. Plus her second relationship just comes out of nowhere. This small idea of a man who takes care of her; but there is hardly any scenes with him to make it believable. Honestly, the best part of the film is the ending (not because its the end)but, because it basically left Shu Qi to her own vices and when that happens she can pull a viewer in and never let them go.
Personally, there wasn't enough in this film to make it a smash hit. If you are going to buy this film I highly recommend you do your research and make sure the actual plot is enough to tempt you. I bought it because of Shu Qi, if that's your reasoning for buying this film I'd opt for something else.
Movie Review: Good Acting But The Story Is So Dry
Summary: 2 Stars
It's hard to review Millennium Mambo and explain the disappointment it gave you. It truly feels like your watching a surveillance tape of some girl and her troubles that don't appear to be that bad due to the lack emotion and feeling that the story is full of . It's so slow and like another reviewer said it does takes you days to force yourself to watch it. The first ten minutes of partying and pacing from the characters make you want to find something else to do. There's no real plot or conflict in the film to make it a story and by the end of it you just wasted your time. There literally is no excitement or any emotion to make you feel it so all that stuff on the DVD case like the words Deeply Moving is a lie. I don't think it was the acting but more the directing and story were too dry, trust me when say it's not worth watching even once.Movie Review: Unbelievably boring, pointless and tedious
Summary: 1 Stars
This film is unbelievably boring, pointless and tedious. Just stupefyingly bad. Some young losers in Taiwan have aimless lives. We watch them smoke cigarettes. That's about it. Oh yeah, they play in the snow on one occasion. There is no story. There is no development. A waste of one hour and forty five minutes of your life. That the Cannes Film Festival voted this self-indulgent dreck a winner simply boggles the mind.
The real mystery is where pretentious film critics get their adoration for this movie. "Deeply moving" says Christian Science Monitor. Yes, moving me to tears. "An amazing film." says the New York Post. Amazing that anyone actually went through with this project.
I could point a camera at a wall for six hours and some candypants film critic would no doubt write a profound essay about it. "Transcendently beautiful. Deeply symbolic of our entire human condition. A watershed in cinema history."
Is it that the critics are afraid to look stupid if they say a famous director's movie is a dud? Maybe film school students should reread the The Emperor's New Clothes? The one where all the officials of the kingdom, in their eagerness to curry favor and be politically correct, fall all over each other oohing and aahing about the king's unusual new wardrobe choices... until a ten year old says, hey, the king actually has no clothes on this time.
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