Film
Sunday, 20 September 2009 03:09
Written by JFK Miller

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Mother always said if can't say something nice don't say anything at all. Fortunately that wasn't my mother so I'll just let rip...

This is Zhang Ziyi's first romcom but the term is misapplied because it's about as romantic as Kramer vs. Kramer and about as funny as Schindler's List.

The plot: Zhang plays Sophie who's trying to win back her surgeon boyfriend, Jeff, who has skanked off with Fan Bingbing's character Anna, a famous movie star. Sophie wants to get Jeff back before their wedding day in two months. Not sure why she just didn't cut his genitals off. Must be love. I won't recount the rest of the plot because it would be too traumatic and you can read it here anyway - no spoilers (you won't need them, the storyline is as predictable as a sunrise). Zhang does that gamine thing that Audrey Hepburn used to do so well and Anne Hathaway/Calista Flockhart/Audrey Tautou do sort of well if you didn't know any better. She is impossible not to like which means I really can't slam this film entirely. Quite irritating really. So, five stars for Zhang. Zero stars for the film.

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