Wong Kar-Wai

Fallen Angels is better than Chungking Express. More effort is put into having the disparate stories connect to each other both literally and thematically. As a wandering city romantic I wanted to like this more than I did, but Wong Kar-Wai’s excessively quirky characters drag down the genuine emotion in the narrative and make the… (read more)

The weakest thing about Chungking Express is that the first (much shorter) part of the movie is far superior to the second. Takeshi Kaneshiro has more charm and is much funnier than Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who is often expressionless. Kaneshiro is much more sympathetic due to his personality and his pain feels more real.… (read more)