Shanghai Kiss (2007)

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

A Brilliant Conflict

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This movie was OK. Not good not great not awesome. It was just OK. First of all the character Liam Wu is creepy. He's 28 years old and dating a high school student! That's gross. Technically he's a pedophile. Even if he didn't kiss her or have sexual intercourse, he's still a pedophile. And looking at all the reviews I'm guessing you guys missed that? Anyway the movie was fine and it went smoothly but it was lacking something. I mean it was funny but Liam's sarcastic and pessimistic personality made watching the rest of the movie tedious. Then there was the fact that when he first came back from China to get his stuff, he was acting all high and mighty and told his friend not to call him Liam because that was his "slave name". That's kind of insulting, and I get that he was trying to be funny but that didn't make any sense at all. Oh and one more thing! The DVD picture that had a huge close up of Hayden? One question. Why? The movie wasn't about her it was about Liam.

This movie is terrible. I had a long and very thorough list of reasons why it is terrible. Unfortunately, the guidelines are so strict that most of my words are apparently too profane to use here.I'll summarize, then. Bad writing, bad acting, bad everything. No redeeming qualities. No wait, you see a boob. One redeeming quality. See it for the boob. Support boobs. It happens early enough, anyway.I need to hit my quota of ten lines here, so I'll follow it up by saying that this sort of movie has the sort of stilted dialogue that would make a first-year cinema major cringe with embarrassment, and the kind of utterly unlikeable caricatures that would make a creative writing major rend his/her garment and thrust his/her fists in the air in a show of dramatic flair far more effecting than anything that happened in this movie.Incidentally, this site doesn't acknowledge "dialogue" as a word. They prefer a spelling almost no one uses. Just a side note.

Firstly, I liked this movie. I liked it for the fact that it explored a lot of ideas that I myself have seen and experienced. Yes I'm Asian, but that doesn't make me automatically like this movie. I took a step outside the confines of who played what role and looked at it from a spectator and movie goer experience, and I found that it was a very interesting movie. I think that if you look beyond the Asian element of this movie, it can be applied to anyone. This is a movie about finding oneself and coming to terms with oneself, and I think this movie does it very well.Acting wise I think that everyone did very well. I've never seen Ken Leung in a non-action movie before so I'm glad that I'm able to see a different, more realistic, side of him.All in all, this is a good movie to see. I would definitely say rent it if you would like to see it.

I did not know about this film before I rented it on a whim. It was very entertaining and the acting was great. I especially liked the male lead, Ken Leung. I have only seen him acting as a bad guy in action films. He carried this movie as a leading man (a woman's opinion). I will look for him in movies in the future no matter the genre. Hopefully more Asian's will be seen in mainstream movies. I thought the commentary on the DVD was interesting. It opened up my mind on the meaning behind some of the scenes that I had not considered. I especially enjoy films that keep me thinking about them after they are over. I would watch this movie again just to take it to another level.