A good movie

One of my previous colleagues had this movie on DVD so that’s how I ended up watching it. Anyway, it is such a weird movie… Personally, I thought its weirdness was actually quite appealing but I can imagine that it was really alienating for some of the audience, above all for the European audience. The first interesting aspect about this flick is that it was visually quite impressive. Along ‘Immortel (ad vitam)’, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ and ‘Sin City’, it was one of the very first movies produced completely with blue screens with all backgrounds added later during the post-production. Nowadays, it sounds rather common but, 10 years ago, it was quite revolutionary and it added to the mesmerizing qualities of the movie. Still, like I mentionned before, the whole thing was definitely weird and it was above all because of a terribly murky and obscure plot. In fact, it was so obscure, it was almost impossible to follow the whole thing and I lost track of what was going on a couple of times. Still, even though I might be quite generous with my rating but I still liked it in spite its flaws and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Asian movies.

7/10