Very pretentious director Wong Kar-wai, spent over a year in production on this wuxia film which is probably the key to understanding what went very wrong with this film. Apparently Wong Kar-wai improvised the film and it sure shows it. There is not one bit of sense to be had or understood throughout the film.
Throw in lots of "artistic" camera work (shadows on faces, ocean waves in slow motion etc) and actors spouting indecipherable and incoherent dialog which seem to be completely made up of poor man's epigrams and what have you got, critics to stupid to see when the wool is being pulled over their eyes.
In 2008 Wong Kar-wai reworked the film and called it Ashes of Time Redux. Kar-wai shortened the film by about 7 minutes. He must have finally gotten around to watching this mess.
100 minutes.
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