Everyday is Valentine (a J!-ENT DVD Review)



CAST: Leon Lai, Cecelia Cheung
DIRECTED BY: Wong Jing
PRODUCED BY:  Wong Jing
TYPE OF MOVIE: Romance
DURATION: 100 minutes
HKMDB:http://www.hkmdb.com/db/reviews/
show_review.mhtml?id=4688
NOTE:  Reviewed Universe DVD version with removable English subtitles (All Region).

OK Lai, good at twisted bluffing, and wonderful who needs a man who can treat her truthfully, meet each other a their lowest points of lives. Wonderful is convinced that OK is a wealthy guy. However, when his true identity is revealed, she leaves him for lying to her. OK learns that lesson and eventually becomes successful in his career development. In Nepal, he finds Wonderful …

DVD EXTRAS:

*  English/Chinese removable subtitles
*  Synopsis and cast info. + trailer + Trailer for Hit Team, Lavender and another trailer.  + 8-minute making of (Chinese only)

KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None that I know of

DVD REVIEW:

The movie features OK (Lai) and Wonderful (Cheung).  OK is a property manager who lies for a living.  Wonderful is woman who found out that one of her sisters screwed her boyfriend for since childhood and has enough of liars.   She wants a boyfriend who never lies.  OK will lie to get anything done.

The storyline features cameos by a few of the guys (minus Ekin) from “Feel 100%” as OK’s “brothers” who help him when he is in need and Eric Kot has a cameo as a guy who believes one of OK’s lies.

The first half hour shows promise and looks great on DVD and the music sounds great but somewhere along the line, the areas where they filmed the movie are beautiful but even though they film the movie in Macau and Nepal, something is lost.  The music is hardly played and the movie in the second hour begins to get dumber.  The transition of OK’s feeling for Wonderful goes to quickly (I know, HK movies tend to do that).  But you can understand Wonderful’s perspective and see why she falls for OK but not the other way around.  The pacing is a little off.

As for DVD special features, you get the typical Universe offering and an eight minute making-of which has no subtitles. Why is it that Universe sometimes decides to offer us the subtitles and most of the time they don’t?

The movie is not bad at all.  It is enjoyable to watch but unfortunately I felt there were holes in the storyline because you literally feel that you are missing something.

THE MOVIE: C
THE DVD EXTRAS: C+
THE DVD OVERALL: C



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