Luckily I have a copy of the review at filmwurld.com

The movie features three shorts, linked by Lorenzo Mattotti's drawings and by Caetano Veloso's song:
-- Wong Kar Wai (The Hand) (hereafter abbreviated as WKW) 
-- Steven Soderbergh (Equilibrium) (hereafter abbreviated as SS) 
-- Michelangelo Antonioni (The Dangerous Thread of Things) (hereafter abbreviated as MA) 

An overall comparison ...

(1) MOST EROTIC??? NUDITY???

** Well, I think this category is the most important because they are supposed to be shorts that convey the movie theme ...

-- Amazingly and ironically, WKW has the least amount of nudity, but it is the MOST erotic and compelling. 
-- SS has nudity only in the beginning and end (i.e., dreams); but frankly, the segment is NOT really erotic ... except "maybe" for the dream (which is helped by the really nice soundtrack ... which I like very much ... hee hee)
-- MA is interspersed with more nudity; unfortunately, the least erotic of them all!

Moral of the story: You do NOT need to depict nudity to be erotic ... ha ha ha


(2) THE PLOT ...

-- WKW : it is the simplest to understand and the most compelling. their relationship is so fragile and yet so dependent. audience will be interested to know what happen next! there are 4 scenes that I really like ... 
* pardon me for being terse so as NOT to reveal any spoiler *
(i) when they first met ... WOW!!!
(ii) when they met in a motel, and he said he knew her measurements ... watch it and you will know ...
(iii) when they met again when she was too sick and claimed she had nothing to offer him ... except ...
(iv) and the last scene ... (frankly, I think the ending is open to interpretation ... does anyone want to discuss the ending?) 
-- SS : it is rather cryptic for most to understand ... fortunately, there is a mild sense of humor ... but does it suffice? 
-- MA : unfortunately, not very compelling ... there are however a few good lines ... 
e.g., "You're always looking for purity and end up in sh*t."
e.g., "I hope you can handle my chaos." "What kind of chaos?" "Total chaos."

Food for thought: it is a generalization ... but ... are asians more melancholic/subtle? and americans more humorous/neurotic? and europeans more graphic?

(3) Cinematography

-- WKW : With Christopher Doyle ... how can it go wrong? ha ha ha ... ... however, some may lament that it is too similar to other WKW's movies, e.g., Days of Being Wild, In the Mood of Love, 2046, etc ... 
-- SS : It is predominantly filmed in black and white, with the beginning and ending scenes (i.e., dreams) in really cool color. 
-- MA : Only the scenery is nice ...

Hmmm ... question of the day: is originality from earlier movies important (even though it is from the same director and cinematographer)? or is the consistency of personal style more important?


IN CONCLUSION, WHICH DO I LIKE BEST?
-- UNDOUBTEDLY, WKW's The Hand !!! 
-- Followed by SS's Equilibrium ...

PS: I happened to watch TV over the weekend and heard Ebert and Roeper's critics ... you can listen it here ... 
tvplex.go.com/buenavista/ebertandroeper/today.html

hmmm ... Roeper actually like Equilibrium best ... and I guess a few other critics too ... maybe they can decipher the codes better?! ...