Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

dy158 It was four years ago I saw this at school. I remembered my Chinese language teacher brought the DVD or something for the class to watch. I know some of my classmates at that time were not interested in watching.Maybe a clash of East meets West is at times...a little surreal and weird for some of us. To admit, I was one of those before the movie rolled in because given Mandarin is my mother tongue (and English is my first language), trying to watch it playing it out on Hollywood...is kind of funny for me. I mean, trying to watch people attempting to have Chinese accents in the movies especially the foreigners...I don't even know whether to laugh at them or shake my head.But I saw it anyway. And I realised that satire is practically everywhere in the movie. Comedy is involved at the same time as well.For someone like me who have to always brace herself for anything on the screen which may be a bit over the hill in terms of how others view the Chinese language except for those who had been exposed to the language throughout their entire lifetime (I am one of those), I can only say satire is all around in this movie.

justina-5 First, I enjoyed the movie. It's funny. It's farce. Go in with low expectations and come out with a few good chuckles.It's tasteful and it's not the Asian cinema generally imported to our Western sensibilities. No martial arts. No hot chicks with swords. But it's a very clever comment on Buddhism's own problems with financial corruption and a nod to foreign filmmakers' influence on us westerners.Second, why does this site say "If you like this, you'll like....The Last Emperor"??? It is EXACTLY like the Last Emperor....except the Last Emperor is TOTALLY DIFFERENT.But hey, good news, if you like Lucy Liu, you may think I'm her.

evanhitc Years ago my high school economics teacher held up a tin toy car with wooden wheels. It was the typical Japanese product of its day. "Beware of people who can do this," he told us. The class did not understand his words until he turned the car over to reveal that it had been made from a Schlitz beer can. The rest of Japanese ingenuity and production is history.The movie Da wan (Big Shot's Funeral) carries a similar message. Though they may be behind, the Chinese can catch on quickly, particularly to the world of Madison Avenue as illustrated by this hilarious movie where hype and commercialism run amok. This movie reminds me of the 50's si/fi novel "Space Merchants" (Gravy Planet) by Pohl and Kornbluth in which an ad agency gets the exclusive rights to advertise products on the planet Venus. The unconscionable excess on both Venus and in China say much about us as consumers who would rather be entertained than informed.Sutherland, always good, is excellent here. I am confident the low rating for this film is because of its subtitles, but they are not a bother and are part of the humor.

maros612 I read here how hillarious was this movie, but I don't share this opinion at all. It had some nice scenes, but that was it. Maybe people who say if you're not Chinese you won't understand this are right. Well for me, this movie didn't have any plot, any content and any sense. It was contentless. It looked to me like some low budged european movie. I'm talking for myself here, and I need to tell I was fairly disappointed, because this comedy wasn't funny to me even for a single moment.