The film is so talky, repetitious, visually stuttery, and slackly paced that sitting through it once is like seeing it twice.

NEWYORKER: Chungking Express

The film, which is slackly edited, takes its time reaching this point.

ECONOMIST: Italy��s Charlie Chaplin

Today's worst programmes should be measured not against the best products of yesteryear but the worst: so slackly plotted, vapid and slow-moving that they are now almost unwatchable.

ECONOMIST: Warnings to parents