A film for all ages and speaking to all ages, Peter Chan scored another UFO hit but it's a wildly inconsistent work. Buried under unconvincing make-up, Anita Yuen is still very good as Lam who haven't treasured her time enough and even manages to buy a few days more just to achieve proper closure. Her home still has children, despite their adult age (Jordan Chan's character is the most puzzling here, carrying with him a paper doll of Kelly Chen who also turns up for real of course), and time has come to send all on their way (emigration in this case). Great material looking at the template but Chan's blend of heavy-handed sentiments with interludes of otherworldly magic doesn't gel. Frankly, it's Chan thinking he's being more poignant than anyone has ever been before. Some reality within the magic lurks in a few scenes and interactions but The Age Of Miracles frustrates and falls very much short of its goals, despite the frame trying to convince us otherwise. Eric Tsang and Christine Ng co-stars.