The World
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Movie Reviews of The World
Movie Review: A great location in search of a movie
Summary: 2 Stars
Zhang Ke Jia's The World is a great location in search of a movie. Set in a Chinese theme park recreating the major cities of Europe dominated by a one-third scale replica of the Eiffel Tower and dealing with the employees and their friends, it's really just comes over as a whole lot of nothing. Scenes may be true to life but they're trivial and, like the characters, never really go anywhere. That may well be the point, but that doesn't make watching it easy going. There's possibly something about the globalization of Chinese culture lurking in their somewhere and the contrast between the glamorous face of modern China vs the poor quality of life for migrant workers, but nothing really comes through because the characters are so univolving. Instead it's like watching people out of a bus window on a rainy day while waiting for the traffic lights to change, images washing over you inoffensively but without leaving any lasting impression as you move on.
Be aware that some Asian releases of this title are the much shorter 105-minute Chinese theatrical version rather than the international 139-minute version presented here on Zeitgeist's DVD.
Movie Review: A Mishmash
Summary: 2 Stars
This film is extremely confusing to watch largely because there is no clear narrative thread, the characters are virtually interchangeable and, worse, it is difficult to develop much empathy with any of them so that trying to keep them straight takes just too much effort. Further, I wasn't very interested in the events depicted. They all seemed so pointless and trivial. The only character I cared anything about -- the young man nicknamed 'Little Sister -- got killed. I was relieved when the film was over.Movie Review: Deserves NO STAR at all!!
Summary: 1 Stars
This is worse than a high school student's project. You call this a movie? Was this so-called director ever presented himself while shooting this whatever-you-call-but-definitely-not-a-movie, not a documentary movie is even close. There's no screenplay here either. Those actors and actresses are so bad to a degree beyond your imagination. I've never seen any Chinese movie so bad so far until now. I want my money back but I know it's impossible.
If all the movies turned out to be so bad and could still be called 'movie', then the movie business might not survived another 3 months.
But one good thing might happen though if all the movies turned out being so bad:
The movie piracy business would also come to an end, because nobody would buy anything anymore from the black market.