She fooled me once with her debut, "The Virgin Suicides", but Sofia Coppola has brought me to the end of my tether with regards to this highly overrated tripe of a movie, "Lost In Translation". Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice..... well, you get the idea.

I was reading about how one of the negative critiques of this film stemmed from the frustration that Sofia showcased a very poor portrayal of Japanese folk. I tend to agree with this assessment. In this film, what we are asked to believe is that Sofia, who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and is the spawn of perhaps the single-most overrated director in the history of cinema, can somehow relate to the human condition in a meaningful way and then translate that onto the screen.

She can't.

Quite simply, it was..... lost in translation. There is no emotional burdening, no character depth, and very sparsely trite dialogue to carry on the film. Only the Coppolas can succeed at turning a 90 minute movie into a test of patience and endurance. I'm done with them. There are MCH better directors out there who can actually write a coherent story.