OKINAWA Rendez-vous (a J!-ENT DVD Review)

October 1, 2002 by Dennis Amith

CAST: Faye Wong, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Kai-fai, Gigi Lai and more.
DIRECTED BY: Gordon Chan
HK MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://www.hkmdb.com/db/reviews/show_review.
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DURATION: 99 minutes
TYPE OF MOVIE: Comedy
NOTE: Reviewed Mei Ah DVD version with removable English subtitles (All Region)

JENNY wakes up one morning and decides to leave her lover. He is triad boss SATO. She takes a bag of Sato’s money, which is the ransom money to TANG, a thief who has a diary with explicit details of Sato’s triad activities. Tang is deeply in need of cash. By chance, he meets a cop LO and his girlfriend who are vacationing in Okinawa. Lo is eager to catch Tong. In the process of planning for the robbery, both Tang and Lo fall in love with Jenny. Lo even breaks up with his longtime girlfriend for her. As for Tang who has never given anything to women, suddenly finds himself playing a dangerous game of love with Jenny….

DVD EXTRAS:

* English/Chinese removable subtitles
* “Miles Apart” Trailer

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

DVD REVIEW:

I was so excited to get this DVD because it’s been a long time since I saw Faye Wong in a movie. Well, for those who are wondering if the movie was worth the wait, I hope to disappoint you but it’s not.

I literally didn’t care for any of the characters and I felt I was watching and trying to enjoy this movie because of Faye. There are just too many things going on in this movie. You have two thieves, one ex-girlfriend of a thief, one ex-girlfriend of a cop with her friend, one friend that works with one ex-girlfriend of a thief who later becomes the girl of a thief…you get the picture.

If there is one thing beautiful is where the movie was filmed. Okinawa looks beautiful in this movie. The places they go to is pretty cool too. The classic music from the 50’s was cool but the storyline was to disjointed. Everyone in this movie wants something from someone and they are all connected. Sounds like a 12 episode drama series trying to fit into 2 hours.

The movie is ok but not anything that makes me want to see it again and I’m not sure what I was expecting but I was disappointed. It’s a shame because this movie has a few talented individuals in it.

As for the DVD, the subs have plenty of bad typos, the video quality was typical for Mei Ah and not much else.

Faye does look beautiful in this movie though!

THE MOVIE: C-
THE DVD EXTRAS: C-
THE DVD OVERALL: C-