Chunking Express

"Chunking Express" is directed by Wong Kar Wai and was made during Hong Kong's film movement, where Hong Kong films where being made left and right. But this one was not a good one. The movie was like "Crash" in the sense that everyone lives affect one another but it is poorly done.

The first story we come across is about Cop 223 who is not that good of a cop because he has not arrested someone in a while. He is trying to get back his old girlfriend who broke up with him on April Fools Day so he thinks she was kidding and he is waiting for him to come back. One day he comes a across a women in a blond wig and falls in love with him. What you learn about this women in a blond wig is that she is a dealer and looking for her drug mules that ran away. The one good thing is in the beginning of the film you see Cop 223 and the women in a blond wig running in slow motion, the whole screen is semi blurry while they run, which is "Matrix" like but that is the only good thing about this part.

Let me start off by saying the second part is much better than the first part. It is too about another Cop, Cop 663 who also broke up with his girlfriend and wants her back. He usually goes to this fast food restaurant to get food and one day comes across a girl named Faye. Faye always plays the song "California Dreaming" by the Mamas and the Papas, which is a good song but that movie made that song annoying fast. Faye and Cop 663 like each other but none of them take the first step to talk to each other. Until one day Cop 663 ex-girlfriend comes in to the restaurant to give Cop 663 a letter because he is always at the restaurant. He is not there and leaves the letter with Faye. Everyone reads the letter including Faye. When Cop 663 comes by for food he is told about the letter but does not want it. So he keeps it there. So one day Faye takes the key to Cop 663's apartment from the letter and goes to his apartment.

This is where story two gets bad. She starts stalking him in a sense. She basically breaks into his apartment and starts eating his food, lying in his bed, fixing the place up, and many other things. She is basically a weird person. He walks on her one day in his apartment and confronts her. They talk and plan to meet later for dinner but she leaves him to go to California, here is where "California Dreaming" comes into play. She becomes a flight attendant, like Cop 663 ex-girlfriend. A year later they meet up at the fast food joint that Cop 663 has now bought and they basically live happily ever after.

I have to tell you how these stories relate. Cop 223 also ate at the fast food restaurant where Cop 663 went. Cop 223 story ended when he bumped into Faye when she first started working there. That is how the stories switched, that is hands down the dumbest way to switch stories. I would not recommend it, it was an hour and forty minutes of my life I would certainly like back. I would give it a 4/10.