boon's log 2605.02 (Supplementary A): Three... Extremes

Managed to watch Three... Extremes (Box/Dumplings/Cut) last weekend. Apparently, the movie received pretty good reviews and also awards. But for IL and I, we did not find it THAT good and really, nothing to shout about. Among others, it received the following awards:

* 2005 Hong Kong Film Awards
Winner, Best Supporting Actress: Bai Ling
* 2005 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Winner, Film of Merit
* 2005 Golden Horse Awards
Winner, Best Supporting Actress: Bai Ling
* 2005 Catalonia Film Festival
Winner, Best Make-up

Well, in a nutshell, the movie pretty much grossed us up - that's for sure. If that is the intent of the Writer/Director, then I guess they've pretty much succeeded - especially with "Dumplings". Then again, perhaps we were not that artistically-inclined to appreciate the movie.

"Box" was a little shallow and confusing at times, jumping from reality into dreamworld until one does not know whether it is a dream or reality (again, this may have been the original intent... Clap! Clap! Clap!).

And finally, "Cut" - IL gave up watching and went to take her shower at this point of time... while I still watched on - thought I give it a final chance of being a moderate movie. Again - shallow and the ending was horribly anti-climatic. Sigh, totally wasted my time. I think the first installment of Three was much better than this. I'd give it a 3/10.

According to another write-up, "Dumpling" has also been released separately as a 90-minute film on it's own. Read more about these three horror-ible stories here. This write-up gave the movie-combo a big 8. Wow... amazing.

boon out...