A Major Disappointment

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I love this movie, it made me cry. But one thing i think they should have done was add more to the story because it falls in to place to fast and you get it even before it starts. I wish they would have done more sorrow and pleasure . But thats just my opinion.( I'm not going to add 10 lines so I'm just gonna copy and paste )I love this movie, it made me cry. But one thing i think they should have done was add more to the story because it falls in to place to fast and you get it even before it starts. I wish they would have done more sorrow and pleasure . But thats just my opinion.I love this movie, it made me cry. But one thing i think they should have done was add more to the story because it falls in to place to fast and you get it even before it starts. I wish they would have done more sorrow and pleasure . But thats just my opinion.I love this movie, it made me cry. But one thing i think they should have done was add more to the story because it falls in to place to fast and you get it even before it starts. I wish they would have done more sorrow and pleasure . But thats just my opinion.

Co-writer/director Jieho Lee had four good enough stories to make four different films. He tried to be "daring" and shoved them all into the one movie. It didn't work; he dished out an hour-and-a-half of undeveloped plots and characters instead.I would have preferred it if Jieho Lee had just picked one of his main characters and made a whole film about them. The fact that he didn't is a pity because the standalone story lines are intriguing enough without being muddled in with such a gratuitous and improbable intertwining plot involving a bag of stolen money.I know 'The Air I Breathe' is highly concerned with the Chinese proverb about happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. It should have been more concerned with the film making proverb about a beginning, middle and end.

I really loved this movie. I started to watch it with no expectations at all and it really surprised me. I think it's a very well written script and the performances are outstanding. All of the actors are great. It reminded me of other movies such as Crush and Babel; a set of separated stories that seem to be completely different from each other, but end up having more in common than we might think. The ending is totally unexpected, full of deep emotions. It leaves you thinking about situations which may seem to be random, but are actually not. It makes you wonder about destiny and an already written future for everyone. It could be a little bit slow at the very beginning but give it a chance. It's worth it.

Four inter-related episodes examine life in terms of what a Chinese proverb says are the four basic emotions: happiness, pleasure, sorrow, and love. However, the only emotion the viewer feels is regret - from having wasted 95 minutes of one's life on this garbage. It follows the formula of films like "Short Cuts" and "Crash," except that this film is atrocious on every level. The script is superficial and contrived, the score is loud and obnoxious, the direction is laughably incompetent. Lee's talents are better suited to MTV. The acting is so uniformly bad that it's difficult to single out any performances, but Garcia and Hirsch are perhaps the most annoying.