Couldn't disagree more. I voiced my displeasure in this film elsewhere on this site, but boring, safe, and typical Hollywood nonsense. The film tries to hard to convince us that it's a great work of art, that it never bothers to wonder if it actually is a good movie. Far too self conscious. The Chinese as Japanese actors got to be a problem as well, I mean couldn't one of the females have at least been the right nationality? Plus I just think Ken Watanabe is a little too old to pull this off. I mean not exactly the raging charisma machine that can sustain an obsessive love like that for so long, but well Hollywood has next to no Asian actors not named Jackie Chan, at least they got a Japanese man for that part.