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Yashua Kimbrough (jimniexperience) "Chungking Express No. 2"Ultra cool, punk, rock hard; with intimacy, sentimental, with tales of partnership and love. Follows two tales: The Assassins: A cool couple (with hidden intimate motives) rob domino tournaments - one scouts the place the other shoots it up. But the man wants out the business and a true partner of love - and runs into a former flame, Blondie, who ignites his inner soul . Of course , this doesn't sit well with Lady Assassin, and now somebody has to pay …..Prisoner 223: An escaped convict spends his days of freedom running after-hour businesses without the owner's permission, and "rubbing shoulders" with the locals of land in hopes of making friends or confidants. He has a regular customer, and falls in love with a dating helpless woman using him for a shoulder to cry on. He makes a home video for his sick father and has random encounters with Lady Assassin from time to timeTwo men who are opposites: one is lazy one is active, one needs others to make his decisions and one makes his own choices, one is popular with the ladies and one struggles with the girls, one is a killer and the other is gentle-heartedFilmed the same way as 'Chungking' ;; up close, hand-held, bright colorful lighting and palettes, freeze frame editing .. sexy .. but a slower pace7.5/10

sljohnson12 Beneath the seemingly superfluous violence, cool imagery and stage persona inherent within Wong Kar Wai, lies a deep character study between five people: A hit-man and his partner, an old classmate of the hit-man, and a mute with an eccentric woman. However, like the previous film that was supposed to be included with Fallen Angels, titled Chungking Express, what the director is more than likely intending is a clever romance film, despite the former being of much more traditional standards.This film is recommended for those who like the concept and genre of hit-man films, though by no means does this fall in the cookie cutter cliché of such better known films as The Godfather, Goodfellas, The Professional, and The Untouchables. While not mainly focused on the actual killings performed, the relationships are where the real substance lies.With amazing cinematography (as should be expected by Wai) and a soundtrack that adds to the flavor and ambiance of the film, fans of Hong Kong cinema, foreign cinema, and even those who have never been exposed to this niche within films, will more than likely enjoy it.| Plot 7.8/10 - While not extremely gripping, the plot adds as a vehicle to move the story along. | | Script 9/10 - Filled with mildly humorous | dialogue, the meat of the script lies in character interaction and occasional philosophical contemplations upon the human condition. | | Characterization - 9.8/10 The characters, as Wai is wont to establish, are eccentric and memorable. | Soundtrack 8/10 - A stellar soundtrack, used well in conjunction with the cinematography. Some songs are used to establish themes, which is always effective though rarely used in the majority of films | | Cinematography 9.9/10 - Simply amazing, colourful and aesthetically pleasing, the cinematography helps in enmeshing the viewer and also in building the already stellar development of characters. | Overall 9.2/10 - An enjoyable film. Fans of his work have absolutely nothing to lose! Score not based on average of hitherto listed scores. |

DICK STEEL I've got a strange affinity with Wong Kar-wai's movies, and they seem to somehow present themselves in reverse order to me, where often I find myself visiting his earlier works backwards. Like watching 2046 first before In the Mood for Love, or right now, watching Fallen Angels before Chungking Express, where I have both movies on DVDs sitting on the shelves, but decide to pick Angels before Chungking, knowing jolly well that this one came after, and was like the film that expanded itself so much that it had to break away and stand alone on its own two feet.Deciding between Chungking Express and Fallen Angels also boiled down to pure laziness on my part to want to pop a Region Free DVD into my default player, hence the latter. And I can't help but to chuckle at how Leon Lai's killer character Wong Chi Ming paralleled this laziness of mine, in wanting things on a sliver platter, of getting the preparation work all set out for him, and he just enters the scene with his swagger as the executioner. And the woman behind him acting as his agent and cleaning lady, is played by Michelle Reis.As his agent, she gets the contracts, does the legwork to draw up plans, and with time as she hangs out at his apartment to clean it up, she nurses an aching heart, knowing that perhaps in their profession, to fall in love would spell doom. And it doesn't take one too long to identify with such longing, of being so near yet so far, and she exorcises her unrequited passion by either visiting the places he visits just to hang on to his lingering presence long after he's gone, or by pleasuring herself on his bed. Kinda kinky, don't you think?While Chungking Express dealt with the relationship issues that two cops had to experience (from my fuzzy knowledge of it anyway), Fallen Angels seemed to be its evil twin, again dealing with relations of the heart, but now from the viewpoints centered on two criminals, one in Lai's character, and here the other in Takeshi Kaneshiro (who was also in Chungking Express) with his mute He Zhiwu, who breaks into shops and plays plenty of make belief. In his story arc, his unrequited love stems from his chance encounter with Charlie Young's Charlie, who too suffers a broken heart, but goes over the bend. In fact, I would have thought that Eating Air took a huge leaf out of certain aspects of their courtship, especially with the lovers on a bike careening through Hong Kong's underground highways. And Charlie Young I thought did substantially more than the flower vase roles she's more famous for perfecting.While Zhiwu can't speak, it is perhaps this arc that has a lot to say about love in classic WKW pathos. We listen in to the thoughts of Zhiwu as he narrates them in Mandarin voiceovers, such as topics of relationships having their expiration date, and the keeping of someone's memory alive. With Chi-Ming, he consciously rejects someone who takes an extreme liking of him, to go for a random, temporary lover in the form of Karen Mok's Blondie, who again might be another throwback to a similar character back in Chungking Express. But being cautionary here, is yet again the tale of not incurring the wrath of the wrong woman, though I chose to interpret the events in his story thereafter as being one of a set up, or a fix, versus just being a case of coincidental bad luck.And you cannot get away with not talking about frequent WKW collaborator Christopher Doyle's cinematography in this film, with its obtuse angles like a fish eye twitching all around with plenty of kinetic energy, boasting of shots within shots with its use of captured mirror images. Time lapse also gets used quite frequently, giving it a sense of broad fast forwarding motion, with the devil in the details treated quite casually. With a variation of Massive Attack's Karma Coma by Roel Garcia featured in an eclectic soundtrack, it already bowled me over with its collection of songs featured, whereLove stories that don't go anywhere except to serve as personal reminders, familiar pathos as presented by WKW, a star studded cast and excellent visuals and music, easily make this film one of my firm favourites. I suppose I shouldn't waste too much time before embarking on my journey onboard the more illustrious Chungking Express.

RainDogJr Is a shame that here in Mexico city the cinemas are full of American films, i love a lot of American films but i prefer a film like Fallen Angels or Chungking express than films like The day after tomorrow or Rocky Balboa. Here is very difficult to find a film of Hong Kong in the cinemas and also is a little difficult to find it on a DVD store.But i have the luck to buy Fallen Angels and i consider myself a very lucky person because i have the chance to watch a film like this.Fallen Angels is perfect.........for my is the best of Wong Kar Wai (i haven't see all his films but by now i think that this is the best).Fallen Angels is the story of a couple: a hit-man and his girlfriend, the other character is a mute and a girl that he meets in a store and finally there's another character that is a young lady that spend some time with the hit-man.This film is about love and also about relationships.There are two stories: the one of the hit-man, that show to us that he only see his girlfriend for work and also show to us the lonely life of the two....the hit-man meets this young lady and spend some time with her but nothing serious.Finally the hit-man gets killed.The other is about the best character of the film and maybe the best character in a Wong Kar Wai film : a young mute that in the night have a lot of different jobs like sells ice cream or a work as a barber but the problem is that this aren't his business so he enter like a criminal to this places. Later he meets a girl that always is fighting with her boyfriend and the mute fells in love. He has very good times with the girl, goes to a soccer match and also his hair has become blonde because of the love. Finally the girl never come to the other soccer match because she never love him.Also show to us his relationship with his dad, and how he spend most of the time recording to is dad.......Great character and awesome played by Takeshi Kaneshiro (Chungking Express).Finally his dad die and he spend a lot of time watching the tape of his dad........finally he meets the hit-man's girlfriend and he starts to hanging around with her.Well this is a great story but i love a lot all the characters and for me that is the best part of the film.If you want to see one of the greatest love stories and one of the best films ever you must see Fallen Angels...another masterpiece of Wong Kar Wai.Also the best scene in the film is when the mute is watching the tape and remembering his father and also when he meets a boy in the barbershop and later he meets the same boy with his family in the ice cream truck.FALLEN ANGELS 10/10