A grandiose production and stellar cast doesn't help this overly ambitious mix come together in a coherent movie. The series of different stories isn't set up well in the beginning so it feels confusing for a while. Then when they sort of come together it isn't clever or convincing. Maybe this story was unfilmable. It just felt like a mix of bad movies shredded and mixed up together. It tries to have a common theme about standing up to oppression of some sort or other via corporate corruption, musical composition, the slave trade, science fiction etc but in the end it wasn't worth the effort.
The white actors acting as Asian and vice versa are distractingly comical although I understand there is a reason for it.
It's easy to see why it wasn't a box office success and didn't receive any major nominations.
Skip it.
The white actors acting as Asian and vice versa are distractingly comical although I understand there is a reason for it.
It's easy to see why it wasn't a box office success and didn't receive any major nominations.
Skip it.