"Chinelet" is the best way to describe this latest film by director, Feng Xiaogang. It is Hamlet, Chinese-style (minus the ghost). Stars the uber-pretty (if vacant) Ziyi Zhang as Lady MacBeth, Daniel Wu as Hamlet, Xun Zhou (ex-Perhaps Love) as Ophelia, the oh-so-handsome Xiaoming Huang as Laertes, and You Ge as Claudius, roughly speaking of course. This film is ravishing and sumptuous and gorgeous and beautiful and stunning, thanks to the expert eye of Zhang Li behind the cameras. Storywise, it is a poor telling of Hamlet to say the least. I had no connection, whatsoever, to any of the characters (Huang aside but that was solely sexual). This film is certainly worth seeing just for the sheer lavishness of the on screen images. And "GO BIG" as the folks at Cineplex Oden are so fond of telling us when you do go see it.
All style, no substance but oh-my, such style! My rating: 7 out of 10.
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