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The filmmakers must have expected a miracle if they thought this
would become a big hit, because it absolutely stinks. It is reminiscent
of those 80s romantic comedies that was so horrendous it was actually
a good laugh, but you'll be lucky if this even makes you snigger.
Song (Joey Yung) has just graduated from a Western
university and begins her first job as a supply teacher in a Hong
Kong school. In her spare time, she uses the internet to correspond
with a male called Deep Blue - practically her only friend in the
world.
Besides working as a teacher, her wish is to become
a model, so she goes for an audition, and fails to impress the photographer,
Jet (Daniel Chan). After some sentimental scenes Jet lets her have
another go at modelling, and before you know it, they both fall
in love with each other. But wait for it, there are more coincidences
here than you can shake a stick at. Jet has a younger sister called
Apple, but she is not really his sister (his mum married her dad).
Apple is in the same class that Song is teaching, and has a classmate
called Chan Kar Cheung, who is living with Song. Chan is going out
with Ah Ching, a hairdresser who happens to be a good friend of
Apple, and Apple has fallen in love with Jet, who actually is Deep
Blue, and only realises later that Little Angel is Song all the
time.
Now I don't know about you, but this is one of
the most implausible and coincidental romantic comedies I've seen.
Everyone seems to be related or friends with another, and the situations
are so barmy that it leaves you scratching your nuts in discontentment.
The script is truly awful, and the plot is as irritating as piles.
Not once is the film is in anyway intelligent, but then again, the
film is marketed as a teen comedy. Sorry if I fail to catch the
punchline. Trust me, it is not funny at all. And you won't be laughing
if you spent money on this piece of drivel. (I borrowed this copy,
so I haven't wasted anything besides ninety minutes of my life).
One of the biggest problems with the film is that
it tries to create situations out of thin air. For example, Apple
and Jet have known each other for a good number of years, but she
only finds Jet attractive now, when she hated him before? In my
opinion, this scenario is a complete rip-off of the same situation
in Clueless, when Cher fell for her step-brother, but sans style
and humour. Apple is such a spoilt brat that she doesn't deserve
any sympathy anyway.
The email plot is also a rip-off of You've Got
Mail, but since the Tom Hanks film was shite anyway, I won't hold
it against the film. But the problem is that Little Angel and Deep
Blue have been communicating to each other about their lives - for
example, she uses an idea by Deep Blue to trick Jet; how come then,
that Jet doesn't even realise his own idea when it happens upon
him? You'd have thought that an intelligent guy like him would figure
it out. This is just one of the examples of why this film fails
so tragically.
The other subplots are also amazingly dull, with
emphasis on a schoolboy being suicidal after his mother had died
of an illness, when everyone thought he was just trying to shirk
responsibility when his girlfriend becomes pregnant. Also the typical
bad students trying hard to get good grades scenario have been done
countless of times before, most recently in My Schoolfriend, the
Barbarian.
Overall, Expect a Miracle has laziness stamped
about it, without an ounce of wit and consideration put into the
script. Let me be bold: This film is a turgid mass of stinking turd,
with a capital T. Watch it at your peril.
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