First of all, I must say that I wasn't sure as to what I was getting into when I sat down to watch the 2003 movie "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" (aka "Bu san"). I knew it was a Taiwanese drama, but that was essentially it. So director Ming-liang Tsai had every possible shot at impressing me with this movie.
So I sat down here in 2021 to watch "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" without ever having heard about it. And the result was atrocious. Oh dear lord, this movie was unfathomably slow paced and uneventful. It was without a doubt one of the most boring and pointless movies I have ever watched and sat through.
The storyline told in "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" was simple enough, but the fact that virtually nothing happened throughout the course of the entire movie was just beyond me. Sure, this is alledgedly artsy and all, but come on. I don't sit down to watch a movie to watch absolutely nothing on the screen.
Every scene and segment in this movie was prolonged to the point where it became painstakingly boring and a battle to sit through. I even dozed off two or three times along the way. Good thing that "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" is the type of movie where you can leave at any time and come back and pick up the story without having missed a single beat. In fact, you can leave shortly after the movie starts, then come back for the ending, and you will be up to speed with the storyline.
I am not familiar with the actors and actresses in the movie, though it was a very small cast. And keep in mind that the dialogue was minimal, a whole staggering single sentence was uttered I think. I will say, though, that actress Shiang-chyi Chen was actually the one standing out as the best performance in the movie.
While I managed to sit through the entire ordeal that is "Goodbye, Dragon Inn", then I was by no means entertained, and this is by no means a movie that I will return to watch a second time. Nor is it a movie that I will recommend to anyone to sit down and watch.
My rating of "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" lands on a one out of ten stars. This was seriously the most boring and pointless movie I have ever stumbled upon.
So I sat down here in 2021 to watch "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" without ever having heard about it. And the result was atrocious. Oh dear lord, this movie was unfathomably slow paced and uneventful. It was without a doubt one of the most boring and pointless movies I have ever watched and sat through.
The storyline told in "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" was simple enough, but the fact that virtually nothing happened throughout the course of the entire movie was just beyond me. Sure, this is alledgedly artsy and all, but come on. I don't sit down to watch a movie to watch absolutely nothing on the screen.
Every scene and segment in this movie was prolonged to the point where it became painstakingly boring and a battle to sit through. I even dozed off two or three times along the way. Good thing that "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" is the type of movie where you can leave at any time and come back and pick up the story without having missed a single beat. In fact, you can leave shortly after the movie starts, then come back for the ending, and you will be up to speed with the storyline.
I am not familiar with the actors and actresses in the movie, though it was a very small cast. And keep in mind that the dialogue was minimal, a whole staggering single sentence was uttered I think. I will say, though, that actress Shiang-chyi Chen was actually the one standing out as the best performance in the movie.
While I managed to sit through the entire ordeal that is "Goodbye, Dragon Inn", then I was by no means entertained, and this is by no means a movie that I will return to watch a second time. Nor is it a movie that I will recommend to anyone to sit down and watch.
My rating of "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" lands on a one out of ten stars. This was seriously the most boring and pointless movie I have ever stumbled upon.