Chungking Express

Pros: cinematography, attractive leads
Cons: the way the female leads get away, pacing, plot

Wong Kar-Wai is the (Shanghai-born) Hong Kong director other than directors of high-octane action whose movies make it to America and Europe. The three Wong movies that I have seen (Happy Together, Chungking Express, In the ...

Pros: Stylish, artsy, interesting camera techniques, attractive performers
Cons: Flimsy and opaque narrative, difficult to absorb in one viewing

Hong Kong cinema. Chances are that what those words conjure up for most Americans are associations with martial arts, Jackie Chan, John Woo action films, or tough-girl action films like the “Angel” series or Naked Killer. The overheated ...

Pros: Kar-Wai's Direction/Script, Cinematography, Location, Music, Editing, & Cast.
Cons: None.

Before such moody masterpieces like 2000's In the Mood for Love and 2004's 2046, Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai was just another director from Hong Kong trying to get international attention. Earlier films like As Tears Go By ...

Pros: Good acting from all. A nice feel good movie (by the end).
Cons: You'll probably hate "California Dreaming" by the end of it!

This review is based on the South Korean region 0 DVD release of the film. This review with screen grabs, along with other reviews of Asian films, can be found on my website at www.darkdragonstyle.com . The Film Pop quiz: What do you do ...

Pros: Multiple narratives which are intelligently woven together showing experiences of love and loss.
Cons: If you don't like having to read subtitles then this film is not for you.

Chungking Express is a film which is set in Hong Kong, showing the fast paced culture that is present here and presenting the lifestyles of three main individual; the characters of Faye, Cop 223, and Cop 663. The lives of these three key individuals are ...

Pros: Entertaining Film, Great Editing
Cons: Simple Plot

"Chongqing Senlin" "Chungking Express" (94)PG-13 102 minutes Subtitles
Director Kar-wai Wong, Starring Takeshie Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Tony Wai, Faye Wong.

"Chungking Express" is a film I saw recently in my...

Pros: Freakish masterpiece; a lovely, sad, goofy movie about love and bad habits
Cons: Not for beginners - "arty" style may put off the uninitiated

When I first saw Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express a year ago, on video, I wasn't sure what to make of it. Seeing again recently on the big screen, a midnight showing of a badly scratched print at Seattle's Egyptian Theatre, didn't really help much...

Pros: Excellent cinematography, fine dialogue
Cons: Disjointed plot is a turn-off to some

Chungking Express, directed by the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai in 1994, is a wonderful film now widely available on video thanks to Quentin Tarantino's efforts to bring it State-side. It stars a bevy of Asian pop culture icons, including Takeshi...

Pros: SUBLIME piece of visual art
Cons: not for the run-of-the-mill viewer, or even the Tarantino fan

Wow, some people have really missed the train when it comes to Chungking Express. This is a beautiful, beautiful film, one of my favorites in a long time. PEOPLE! Don't pick up every film and then say it sucks because it doesn't present you with a...

Pros: Box says "acclaimed director" but remember, they mean from Hong Kong's view
Cons: A football field's worth...want to waste some time, turn it on!

This "Express" train never pulls out of the station. Okay, I admit that I fell for it, the old "highly recommended by Quentin Tarantino" -- indeed, it's the beginning of his Rolling Thunder films where he is so impressed that he...

Pros: Faye Wong, Faye Wong, Faye Wong, unique story...
Cons: Faye is not on the screen 100% of the time...

I stumbled across this film when I was changing channels on cable when I was 17 or so (A long time ago...), and just started watching. This is one of my favorite movies, and I gladly bought it when I had the chance. This movie got me into Asian ...

Pros: It was culturally different
Cons: It was a bunch on nonsense and highly confusing

I had rented this movie a while back and I must admit it was the most confusing movies I have ever watched in my whole life. The story line is hard to follow, not to mention you have to read the whole movie unless you speak Japanese. It was interesting...

Pros: Aesthetically pleasing, eclectic and fabulous
Cons: Takeshi-the-hottie Kaneshiro is only in the first part of the movie!

It was in 1997 when I first discovered this film.
I was watching a French [L'argent de poche] movie that I had rented and this film was one of the previews at the start of the movie. I was intrigued because I'm interested in all kinds of foreign...

Pros: Entertaining script, beautiful acting, amazingly filmed on a low budget
Cons: none

Chungking Express was shot in a marathon 21-day shoot with no professional lighting and no permits. They were literally standing on street corners filming with folks keeping an eye out for the Hong Kong police.

It's tidbits like this that...

Pros: Intriguing, fascinating, warming, artistically brilliant
Cons: none at all. awesome movie

Seriously -- this is a great movie, I'd say possibly the best foreign film of the year it came out. I'm constantly telling other folks to rent it (those that haven't seen it -- those that have agree with me.)

Chungking Express -- the film and...