I'm going to avoid spoilers or going into any major detail (but others can feel free to talk about the movie in general in the comments!). But I was so, so annoyed with the way they chose to make the white actors look Asian. It looked awful, they did NOT look realistically Asian at all, it was just really difficult to watch.

I think this article made some excellent points:

MANAA’s members are upset not only because of the lack of Asian actors in dynamic roles, but also because the only thing the makeup artists changed was the eyes—as if that’s the only difference between a Caucasian person and an Asian one, as opposed to facial shape and complexion.

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MANAA also took exception to the reverse racial makeup in the film. In one timeline, Halle Berry pops up as a white woman, and honestly, she’s almost unrecognizable.

Aoki pointed out that the attention paid to detail means that it “obviously took more care to make them look convincingly white. The message the movie sends is, it takes a lot of work to get Asians to look Caucasian, but you can easily turn Caucasians into Asians by just changing the shape of their eyes.”

However, I do think that it would have been rather impossible to use different actors given how the film was set up. Without everyone playing parts in all the different times/settings, the whole premise of the movie would have fallen apart. However, I think how they chose to deal with that is problematic as best and straight up racist at worst.

Anyone else seen it yet? Thoughts?