55
Metascore
14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanLee pushes this joyride into stimulation overdrive, playing with colors and film speeds and surfaces and shadows until it makes perfect sense that a movie should be all about energy, rather than -- well, about anything else at all.
- 63USA TodayStaff [Not Credited]USA TodayStaff [Not Credited]The script's clichés have nowhere to hide.
- 60The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThis crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together.
- 60SalonStephanie ZacharekSalonStephanie ZacharekLee can't tell a story to save his life, but he's something of a visual magician, laying out glittering piles of goodies that you instinctively want to follow.
- 60Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorImages about imagery can be diverting, even insightful, but this painterly 1999 feature piles up studies in elaborately choreographed motion that are their own reason for being.
- 58Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldThe characters are uniformly repulsive, the cliche-ridden script builds no real tension or psychological interest, and the bottom line is that Lee's innovative but ultimately tedious and even ludicrous MTV-style visuals add absolutely nothing to the story dynamics.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA Korean film that takes an American genre and gets fancy with it.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe action of this South Korean melodrama is fast and furious, but its emotions and ideas don't manage to keep up.
- 40Village VoiceDennis LimVillage VoiceDennis LimLee's trickery is dazzling in flashes but also monotonously strenuous -- the derangement factor is high but there's little evidence of authentic lunacy.