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Summary: A visual tour de force
Review: Who said Quintin Tarantino could not pick them? This movie, part of his collection of videos that form part of his collection is a visual stunner. Forged around an unconventional approach to romance, Chunking Express is really not the kind of movie you watch one time then walk away. Much like The Vertical Ray of the Sun (also available at Amazon.com) I was left stunned and wondering what I had just experienced. Anyway, I highly recommend it for its almost Trainspotting quality - the pace that is. Enoy it - I did.Miguel Llora
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Summary: Obsession,love,isolation,and some humour
Review: I first saw this film in the theater upon its release and It didn't stike a chord with me at the time.Five years later i rented this film not knowing i had seen it before.This time i was in awe.
ChungKing Express is very much in tune with the french new wave aesthetics.There are many beautiful camera shots and off kilter angles that provide the film with a distinct atmosphere reminiscnet of godard.The film features two stories about the search for love,obsession and lonliness.The characters of this film are wonderful imaginative people that have such unique idiosyncracies.One character goes jogging when he's heart-broken in order to sweat.His logic is,if he sweats enough fluid out his body there wont be enough left to produce tears.Anouther character talks to items in the house,he asks a wet towel "why are you crying?".
This film has both a frantic pace and a slow moody vibe.I love this film and recomend all cinema fans to take note of this masterpiece.Quentin Tarrantino is featured before and after the film providing some wonderful insight into the director and cast.
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Summary: Arthouse flick that might not be for everyone's taste
Review: Chungking express has some bizarre yet interesting group of characters.
A lonely, heart-broken cop talks about pineaples, expiry dates on cans and jogging to get rid of his excess body of water so he can't shed tears. he falls in love with an attractive chinese drug smuggler who thinks about liking pineapples one day and liking something else the next.
Another lonely, heart-broken cop talks to his household items like a wet towel, for example. Some girl, who listens to california dreamin' too much and too loud, falls for him and decides to go clean his house, without his consent, and play tricks on him like flooding his apartment.
One goofy movie, but you kind of like the those people just for their eccentric behaviour. alot of beautiful imagery and very "stylish" camera work dominated by fluorescant lighting, rotating compact discs in a jukebox, and time lapse photography to give that "post-modern" attitude.
Not for everyone, but worth a look. rent it first.
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Summary: Fabulous! Terrific! Dynamite! The Very Best!
Review: Wong Kar-Wai is far & away the most gifted & imaginative film-maker alive. ChungKing Express is funny, sexy, exciting, inventive & gorgeous to look at. What Haruki Murakami is to the novel, Wong Kar-Wai is to film. Both should get the Nobel.
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Summary: fantastic!
Review: I'm so happy this has been released on DVD Region 1! It's a nice transfer too, but there isn't much in the way of extras on the disc apart from a gushing Quentin Tarantino extolling the virtues of Wong Kar-wai. But who can blame him? Wong Kar-wai could possibly be one of the greatest directors alive today, and Chungking Express is a beautiful movie. It's wonderfully filmed and full of touching moments, humor, and a unique vision and atmosphere rarely encountered in mainstram cinema.
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Summary: Delight
Review: This is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. It's got all the right ingredients: creativity, humor, romance, beautiful camera work, superb acting, unconventional film making. This one is a winner. Don't miss it.
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Summary: IT SHOULD CHARM YOU ---
Review: --if it doesn't i feel sorry for you. It's all there. Danger & intrigue and sappy romantic comedy, drenched in style. the last two-thirds are the best but the whole movie is good. it's like they took adventuresome, indie filmmaking & shot 'resovoir dogs' & 'pretty woman' at the same time. I had a version of this on a DVD from HK but the new release is far superior, cleaner, widescreen, & no corporate logos burned into the film. and that bigmouth Tarantino give his 2ยข as well. you can't go wrong.
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Summary: A unique experience
Review: I liked this movie on many levels. Highly recommended for foreign film enthusiasts. I can hardly wait to see Quentin Tarantino's other picks!
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Summary: funny and very human!
Review: I watched this whilst staying at a hotel in London, and it was so good, that I've wanted to buy it on dvd for 2 years now (finally got around to it!).
to those arty critics, this film is what it is. I loved it because it was simply human.
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Summary: This snoozer is a loser!
Review: For those of you deciding whether or not to rent this movie and are reading these comments for personal insight, I can help you with these four words: Don't waste your time!
"Chungking Express" was shoddily filmed, slapped together quickly, and gives one the impression the plot could have been conceived by someone standing in line at a Hong Kong Burger King. I can't recall ever watching a film with such an insipid collection of characters! I almost dozed off several times as I watched the one-dimensional cast plod their way through the mundane script.
This embarrassment is an absurd effort with philosophically ridiculous dialogue (a man wanders into his flooded apartment and offers the stunning revelation that "tears can be dried with a tissue, but water takes time to mop up.) The same character is also seen carrying on a deep, meaningful rapport with his towels, soap, stuffed animals, dirty laundry, etc. The shaky, wandering, hand-held camerawork was another annoying feature I could have done without, but the most unbearable part of this artistic disaster is a long, drawn-out sequence where "California Dreaming" by the Mamas and Pappas is played over and over ad nauseam.
Quentin Tarantino was responsible for bringing this loser to America through his Rolling Thunder Productions company, though I can't for the life of me figure out why a man with his vision would bother. He was known to have remarked, "I'm happy to love a movie this much." A lot of us, though, hope he will concentrate on making his audiences happy with more worthy discoveries in the future.
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