It is akin to watching the ponderous antics of amateur actors who think they are doing "intellectual" stuff just because they are pausing in all the "right" places as they struggle through the bare script down at the local y. Poor showing Wang, his previous sucess at making intelligent films hinges on not being so self aware...and Jeremy Irons has done this before just better and in more substantial movies. It is almost as though the non event of the actual handover stunted the artistic juices when they were creating the virtual handover - if that is the case I would prefer to not see art imitate life quite so closely...it just leaves me bored and in drastic need of reinspiration from other sources. Wang himself must have needed to eat a bowl of tea after this impotent showing.
Review of Chinese Box
