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Fallen Angels could have been so named due to its dropped origin as part of director Wong Kar Wai's previous film Chunking Express, emerging afterwards as a follow up. To hear the critics tell it, 'Express' is his masterpiece, regularly making the 'best movies ever made' lists along side such exalted company as your Citizens Kane's and Casablanca's. But for me Fallen Angels is, to date, the daddy of the Wong Kar Wai canon.

Fallen Angel tells of a not quite burnt-out hit man, Leon, who begins to tire of the whole 'gun for hire' malarkey and decides to quit on account of his burgeoning feelings for the female operative who he has never met, but who plans his jobs for him. The female operative, Michelle, also emotes for our existential assassin but somehow they both realise that if they ever did come face to face the fantasy would evaporate. The unrequited love thing is Kar Wai's forte but here it is more a case of "As long as you don't look at it, it won't disappear." So their love continues on the basis of ensuring that it never really exists. Anxious to avoid an inevitable unprofessional encounter, our navel gazing killer goes off on an adventure into the Kowloon night where he crosses paths with a series of likable reprobates before embarking on that fatal "one last job." This takes us not so neatly into a 'mad as a hatter' subplot about a petty criminal who was rendered mute as a boy by a can of 'out of date' pineapples. He goes out at night and gets up to a range of activities such as massaging a dead pig and kidnapping a family and forcing them to eat ice cream. He too falls in love, with a girl who believes she has been beaten to the altar by someone called Blondie. He helps her go in search of the usurper of her affections resulting in a hilarious beating up of a blow up doll! Cinematographer and Kar Wai regular Christopher Doyle engages a warped and gaudy neon look throughout; something of a trade mark in Kar Wai films. This is the world from inside a Wurlitzer juke box – or, at least, through the eyes of a tranquilised goldfish and this, incidentally, is not a complaint. The other thing I like about this film is that it walks the line between the art house 'heart warmers' of the best of European cinema and the 'Glock Opera' pyrotechnics of John Woo and Ringo Lam.

Genre clash – it's the future.

This film came as a big surprise!! I wasn't expecting much from a quaint Asian film, but it is a beautiful piece of cinema. There are some scenes that I have still not seen equaled in any other film.

For example there is the shoot-out in the bar at the beginning of the film, a scene which Tarantino himself could only dream of doing. I strongly advise anyone to see this film.

I came upon this movie while flipping channels. It was on the Independent Film Channel. Once I started watching, I couldn't stop. The visual images were captivating and the cinematography superb. This film deserved any awards it received. It's a story of a lone professional killer and his partner who never see each other. He comments throughout the film about his deepest thoughts while he performs his "service for hire". The dialog is awesome and his partner is equally intriguing. You must see this film.

Wong Kar-Wai captures the urban aesthetic perhaps better than any other director today that comes to my mind. In fact, the only other director who makes films as visually stunning as Wong is David Lynch. In "Fallen Angels" Wong's aesthetic is in full effect, and I felt the story is stronger than the earlier "Cheung King Express" (please forgive spelling). "Fallen Angels" is a must see for anyone who loves visually driven films or the style of the French New Wave directors of the '60's like Goddard and Truffaut.

This film is as visually rich as they come. If you love films for the images then I wouldn't hesitate to see this film (along with its superior sister- 'Chungking Express'). The camerawork by Chris Doyle is really something else, and that is where my main appreciation for this film lies.

Others will argue that it is also a touching account of inner city loneliness, and it is to an extent- but in the end the narrative content doesn't do enough to carry the weight of the film. The film starts promisingly but even fans of the film will probably concede that after the initial introduction to the films themes and style, it fails to take this anywhere spectacular. Instead, the viewer has to settle for the images, which in a film of this beauty isn't that hard to do.

To sum up: Pretty, but Pretty empty. (Of the other two Wong Kar-Wai films I have seen- Chungking Express is more highly recommended- but 'Happy Together' even more so. 'Happy Together' is not quite as flashy but in my opinion- just as beautiful but a fuller, more profound foray into Wong's predominately visual cinema.)

I stumbled across this one night when flicking through the channels and thought id stick with it. I am so glad that I did, in recent times no film has made me think about so many different things at once. Life, existence,love....and many more. It was a birage of imagery that has left me truly inspired. If you haven't seen this film I cannot recommend it more.

Unbearable, boring, and waste of actors. The characters created by Wong Kai-War were unbelievable and totally contrived. The actors did the best they could with the crap fed to them. I was not so enthused by the video effects ... a style that Wong wasn't totally pleased with either since he hasn't made any further films with the same video effects. I understand Cantonese so it's not like I was confused by the plot.

To be frank, I couldn't watch the whole movie and had to just take it back to Blockbusters. My roommate went into deep sleep after watching 30 minutes. This film is for diehard fans only.