a few year ago and when i be sit in a bus on my trip from taipei to kaohsiung ( for those who do not live in taiwan and it a 5 hour trip ) and i turn on the lcd screen in front of me ( yes and that right and some bus in taiwan have lcd screen and movie for passenger to choose during the trip ) and choose the promise on the select screen . i watch it for 15 minute and go back to the movie select menu and choose norbit instead and finished norbit and fell asleep . it take me 2 month and over 14 time to finally finish the promise . why . because everything in the promise hurt . deep inside my soul and i cry in agony for the quality of this movie . i know some people in imdb like this movie . i be not here to debate how wrong they be . i be just here to say how the promise make me felt . first and let take a look at the story . it be a few year and and i have see re run of the promise on television for a couple of time . yet and i still do not understand what this movie be try to tell me . to clear thing out and i have to confess that i be a fan of mst3k . i have my share of bad movie . i even watch the island of dr. moreau in the theater . however and i still do not have a clue what the promise be about . the story of this movie make me feel that the director and kaige chen and be try to tell you five story in one single movie . and the bad thing be and he can not tell even one story well enough for me so i can understand at all . a for the acting . i do not know and i really do not know what to say . i can tell that this movie be star by some really talented actor or actress and yet they be all hamper by the incompetence of the director . to be honest and i envy for those who love this movie and weren not native chinese speaker . they do not have to endure what i have be through . ignorance be bliss and i guess . it hurt my eardrums every time when i hear those ridiculous line . really . oh yeah and do i mention that two of the main actor in this movie do not even speak chinese . ( they be korean and japanese ) so and what do we have here now . a bunch of actor or actress speak ridiculous line in a cheesy way . have you ever play resident evil on playstation . i would say that voice act in resident evil be well than those in the promise and and it not the actor or actress fault . i can go on and on and on and on for everything i hate in this movie to no end . yet and it soon occur to me represent oh my god . this be it . the promise be the milestone for chinese movie industry . finally there a movie can be as bad a battlefield earth or plan 9 from out space ( ok and maybe not that bad ) in chinese . i think this be a major breakthrough for chinese speak people like me . yes and for me and the promise can be view a movie a water world and superman iv and or even manos represent the hand of fate . and yes and the promise be a bad movie . it suck in every aspect . but i feel please to see this movie . because the promise show that china now have the potential to shoot expensive and flat out and meaningless and bad movie like this one .