2046 Reviews

It's like a sketchbook. These are images, tones, dialogue and characters that Wong is sure of, and he practices them, but he does not seem very sure why he is making the movie, or where it should end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The stilted dialogue and a mostly stagnant story line gum up the works.

More stunt than substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Tematicamente óbvio e pouco ambicioso, 2046 é um filme que enche os olhos, mas que não tem muito a oferecer à mente e ao coração.

| Original Score: 2/5

The editors of Mad Magazine could have had a ball satirizing Wong Kar Wai's gaseous cavalcade of pretentiousness, 2046, if the filmmaker hadn't gotten there first.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Major points for ambience, but it's as if somebody took several complete scripts, ripped pages from each, threw them together and tried to make sense out of what's left over.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Wong...is a naïf stylist, a director who always stays on the lush surface of things.

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Like In the Mood for Love, 2046 is gorgeous through and through, intoxicating even, but not necessarily in a good way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai fell into self-parody.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

"2046" feels like a lot of half-finished ideas all bound together with fancy ribbon.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Wong's admirers, like those of Stanley Kubrick, thrill to his visual dictatorship, but in both instances the inquiry into passion can seem a weirdly impassive affair.

A handsome enigma that offers little to reward the viewer's patience.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

What we seem to have here in 2046 is a meditation on past loves, not to mention missed communication, bad love affairs, bad timing, roads not taken and the passage of time itself. It all sucks, doesn't it? Great soundtrack, though.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

While 2046 looks absolutely radiant, its deliberately choppy structure and mannered style make it very heavy going...like watching a brilliant paint job dry in a storm.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Some directors wouldn't know a true love story if it smacked them in the face like a big sloppy kiss.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The result is almost fetishistic, come-hither doodling of Wong's own making. He is a craftsman mumbling to himself in a language only he understands.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Sometimes muddled and confusing but beautiful-looking follow-up effort.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Richly layered and at times harebrained, it is more a beautiful failure than a genuine masterpiece, but it is nevertheless something to see.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Admittedly, there is something intoxicating about the film that keeps you going.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

In a film that likes teasing mysteries, the greatest revelation is Ziyi Zhang.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4