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An average movie

Posted : 8 years, 10 months ago on 10 May 2015 01:54

Since I had this dvd already for a couple of years, I thought it was really time to watch the damned thing. Honestly, I had no idea what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Hayden Panettiere, I thought I might as well give it a try. Well, first of all, even though Panettiere was displayed prominently on mosf of the promotional material, she wasn't in fact the main character. No, the whole thing was about some American-Asian guy and even though the story and this character had some potential, it was a rather weak feature eventually. First of all, what was all about with this relationship with a 16 year old girl?!? I mean, the movie was clearly about something completely different so why did they choose to add such an awkward romance on top of that? Then, there were also some details that didn't add up. For example, the fact that the guy was supposed to be poor but yet he kept going back and forth between Los Angeles and Shanghai and he even went to New York at some point as if he was taking a bus. The character played by Kelly Hu (I didn't even recognise her) was also poorly developped. How come that she could talk so well English? Above all, she was first introduced as some kind of sophisticated high-class lady, then suddenly she became someone totally different, some kind of poor innocent girl. To conclude, since I'm half-Dutch and half-French, I thought that this theme about the struggle to find your cultural identity was interesting and Ken Leung gave a decent performance but the whole thing was wasted with some poor choices and decisions and it's too bad because this movie actually had some potential.


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