It's difficult for me to express how utterly disappointing Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights is. It's not lacking in talent, considering that it features Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Nathalie Portman, and, in her first role, Norah Jones - and it's directed by Wong Kar-wai - but it's just an uninspired and uninspiring mess. Norah Jones isn't terrible, but she's also fairly limited, as one expect in a singer tackling her first acting role. The problems are more profound than her limitations as an actress, however. It's like, everything that Wong Kar-wai got right in his sublime In the Mood for Love he gets wrong in this misfire. It feels like an extended Norah Jones music video filmed with a CSI episode aesthetic. There are too many other interesting Wong Kar-wai films to waste time with this soulless effort.
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