Warner Home Vidoe does good by Cloud Atlas’s technical skill.
It offers a great deal, saturated with characters, plotlines, and, above all, set pieces, but it never seems overstuffed.
Painted Skin does have the distinct advantage of starring three vibrant, distinctive female leads.
No one watches martial-arts movies to learn lessons.
Director Ann Wu means for the film to be opulent and woozy, but it mostly registers as a stilted dream state.
The film succumbs to the dull, sloppy obviousness it had previously worked so hard to skirt.