Reviews of Plastic City
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Law
1Dec09
This review attempts to emulate the form of Plastic City.
A pretty incomprehensible gangster film about nothing really by Yu Lik-wai, renowned for his cinematographic work with Jia Zhangke. Alas, this film is much of moments a let down. Moving camer. Colours and the CGI was just ug. The story was (perhaps deliberately) nothing fresh either which. Lots of incoheren. All in all adds up to a disappointing effort. ot worth the effort.
- Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
ryan
9Sep09
Saw this at TIFF08. Visually, it’s stunning and highly experimental. In terms of plot, it’s unforgivably flawed in pacing and lacks any semblance of coherency. Forcing Anthony Wong to speak Portuguese was a terrible idea; it broke any kind of suspension of disbelief I may have had.
As a side note, Anthony Wong accompanied the director to the screening at the Toronto Film Festival and he seemed embarrassed to be in the movie, making for a truly awkward Q&A session.
- Currently 1.0/5 Stars.
Ben Cho
5Sep09
Saw the Venice cut of this last year (from memory it clocked in at around 120mins) but I don’t think that’s ever going to be released. I thought the DVD may have both versions but I recently got the HK disc and it only had the 90 min version and the trailer. Dunno about the Japanese DVD though…
I like the film, it has obvious flaws in pacing and plotting, but the atmosphere Yu conjures up is dazzling and the cinematography is stunning. My comments apply to the longer version I saw until I sit down with the shorter version on DVD.
- Currently 3.0/5 Stars.