You know, after Drive, I was really thinking Nicholas Refn was on his way to the top. To follow it up with something like this was the biggest disappointment in movie history.
I am not sure what his plan was, but when you make a top notch blockbuster, with an A-list up and coming star, what drives you to follow it up with a disjointed art-house melodrama.
The film îs ok. It is nicely acted and very well shot. Some of the cinematography is amazing. What it really drives home is the shallowness, emptiness and lack of morals of Western planet earth (England and America) . If you look at the world, from Romania to Taiwan, you will never find a more shallow, non-cultured, one language only group of people. I think this movie delivered that point in a very strong way and I enjoyed that about it.
Would I watch it again? Probably, yes. It's just not one that I think has much merit.
I am not sure what his plan was, but when you make a top notch blockbuster, with an A-list up and coming star, what drives you to follow it up with a disjointed art-house melodrama.
The film îs ok. It is nicely acted and very well shot. Some of the cinematography is amazing. What it really drives home is the shallowness, emptiness and lack of morals of Western planet earth (England and America) . If you look at the world, from Romania to Taiwan, you will never find a more shallow, non-cultured, one language only group of people. I think this movie delivered that point in a very strong way and I enjoyed that about it.
Would I watch it again? Probably, yes. It's just not one that I think has much merit.