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I LOVED this movie. It is not your typical Chinese commercial romance. It is clever, different, and sophisticated. This is the best movie I have ever seen. However, despite it being brilliant, I did not find Faye Wong's acting brilliant or even good. The performance by Masaya Kato (Sato) was brilliant--but I am a big fan of his, so it would seem biased, nevertheless great casting. I would really recommend this movie to anyone who wants to just chill and relax to a good movie. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| | | | | Everybody is relaxed; they socialize with and fall for each other in a complex web of love affairs, because they are on holiday. Okinawa is such a wonderful resort paradise that they just neglect all their troublesome business. This film may have drawn its inspiration Kitano Tekashi's Sonatine (1993,HK). This film has the most relaxing and enjoyable feeling of any recent films. While watching this film, it simply feels like you're on holiday. This film does not really seem to be cohesive, but it is still not loose in content. The feeling and atmosphere are the most important elements in a film, but this film present them so well the maturity and proficiency of the technique cannot be questioned. There are rooms for improvement, but I really like the feel of the film, especially the walk along the beach, which is so wonderful that it makes you even more devoted to the movie. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| | | | | "Okinawa: Rendez-vous" starts out with some promise, but ends up going nowhere. The film had the makings of a screwball comedy with Leslie Chueng and Tony Leung vying for Faye Wong in a love triangle. Unfortunately, the trio's interactions are tepid at best and there isn't much romance or comedy to speak of. Gordan Chan films have a habit of sagging in the middle without any relief to fend off the boredom. This film fell victim, too. Since Chan also wrote the screenplay, it's surprising how timid it is, without any madcap or zany elements to liven up the mixture. Instead everything plays too neatly. Vincent Kok steals the scenes that he's in and is the only refreshing aspect to the film. Chan's romantic-comedy is a disappointing effort given the talent he has in "Okinawa: Rendez-vous." | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| "Okinawa: Rendez-vous" offered a very bad taste to the audience. Even with the strong cast to support but failed to deliver a good movie. The main problem of this movie perhaps should be the scriptwriter himself. After watching this movie, I asked myself a very important question, "What's the main plot of the story?" In result, I found out that my question can't be answered since characters were scattered around everywhere in the plot which made a very bored and slow-paced storyline. The setting looks good but it doesn't really matter where the story takes place. It could be anywhere, for example, Hong Kong. As to the performance, all the main cast were at their acting standards. However, there is nothing much more you can expected from them due to the bad direction and script the movie has. To conclude, this movie is very boring that I think not much "Romantic Comedy" (as stated) fans may want to watch it. It's just a plain slow-paced romantic(?) movie. |
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| | | | | This is a good film and those who disagree obviously had expectation which were unreasonable or they can not cope with something new in terms of style, content and genre - you people should just stick to Andy Lau style romantic comedy or cheapo badly directed action films. The story revolves around several characters and shows their love interests and one of the guys is a cop and the other a robber. Tony Leung Ka Fai does a brilliant job as the cop and does not over do it as is easily possible. The director makes good use of the locations and the shots and camera angles are very reminiscent of japanese films - good natural lighting and minimal decorative complacations as to illuminate the main characters and not the set. Highly recomended. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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