"Shopping" feels like a long, low-budget music video. It fails to tell any kind of story, and none of the characters register at all, despite the presence of luminaries such as Johnathan Pryce, Sean Bean, Sean Pertwee and Jude Law in his first film role.
I got that the movie was about young people who steal cars so that they can drive them into shop windows and steal whatever they can get their hands on. We don't see too much of that in the movie, though.
There are scenes that would introduce characters in a better movie, but here just kill time. And the movie is so washed out looking it's almost black and white, hence the music video comparison. But in a music video, you would only have to look at the lack of colour on screen for a few minutes. Here it's feature-film length.
Indeed, this was also the first movie of one Paul WS Anderson, the guy behind all those "Resident Evil" movies nobody watches. I think he was a music video director before he became known for feature films. He should have stayed one.
I got that the movie was about young people who steal cars so that they can drive them into shop windows and steal whatever they can get their hands on. We don't see too much of that in the movie, though.
There are scenes that would introduce characters in a better movie, but here just kill time. And the movie is so washed out looking it's almost black and white, hence the music video comparison. But in a music video, you would only have to look at the lack of colour on screen for a few minutes. Here it's feature-film length.
Indeed, this was also the first movie of one Paul WS Anderson, the guy behind all those "Resident Evil" movies nobody watches. I think he was a music video director before he became known for feature films. He should have stayed one.