In this bifurcated crime narrative, a disillusioned hitman attempts to escape from his violent lifestyle against the wishes of his partner, who is infatuated with him, and an eccentric mute repeatedly encounters, then subsequently falls for a depressed woman looking for the prostitute who supposedly stole her ex-boyfriend's affections.
A densely packed suite of zany vignettes that have the autonomy of pop songs or stand-up comic riffs.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Wong brings tremendous vigor and audacity to the effort, asking us to question the most basic rules of storytelling and commercial filmmaking.
– Edward Guthmann,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
I felt transported back to the 1960s films of Jean-Luc Godard. I was watching a film that was not afraid of its audience.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
An exhilarating rush of a movie, with all manner of go-for-broke visual bravura that expresses perfectly the free spirits of [Wong's] bold young people.