menotyou

Ok, so you have two dudes that are in love with Ziyi Zhang...one of them has known her for a very long time, and has become a very important undercover agent. For three years he doesn't see her, but essentially the work he is doing is for her. Whatever. So anyway, she falls in love with this other dude and tells the undercover guy. Undercover dude gets pissed so he fucking kills her. ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Ooook. So then the dude she loves comes back and immediately begin painfully long fight scene. Oh, let me also explain that for some totally unknown reason the world goes from fallish straight into a god damn blizzard. Why?! Why a blizzard!? So anyway, they fight for awhile....but then Ziyi Zhang sits up! She's not dead!! At this point I accidentally exclaimed, "Fucking Hell! wherein I discovered much to my amazement that other people (stupid people) in the theater seemed to be enjoying this part. So...she gets up, and the dude that killed her pulls out a knife and plans on throwing it at the dude she loves. So the chick is like, "If you throw your knife I will pull this one out of my chest and nail you". So the dude she loves freaks out. He knows that if she pulls out the knife she will bleed onto the snow and die (again). In an effort to save her, he walks closer to the psycho lover and tells her, "I'm too close...even if he throws his knife; you can't save me...so leave the big blade in your chest". Ok, this is where the fuckedupedness gets really bad. You see the undercover lovesick psycho flick his wrist and throw something. As a result Ziyi Zhang pulls the shiv out of her chest and throws her knife in an attempt to knock his knife out of the air...then in slow motion you see her blade pass in front of the man she loves face....and a single drop of blood hits her blade. He didn't throw the fucking knife at all...so basically the sick fuck that supposedly loves her killed her again. So she dies, the psycho drops his knife and walks away....WITHOUT KILLING THE MAN SHE LOVED. I simply don't get it. The movie up until this point was fantastically paced with the potential for a great climax, and instead we get this abortion ending. Keep in mind that everything I explained is stretched over thirty minutes. Essentially my beef is that THIS ISNT A LOVE STORY. The first three quarters of the flick have nothing to do with a love triangle so basically the plot takes and uncomfortable 180 degree turn for seemingly no purpose.