Love Is Not All Around

I have a pile of movies that I didn’t have a chance to watch since I was previously too preoccupied with my Korean dramas. Since I’m waiting patiently for the subbed versions of K-dramas, I killed my time with these movies. Starting with the one I had the lowest of the lowest expectation: Love Is Not All Around (HK).

Love Is Not All Around Synopsis (from Yesasia)
Stephy Tang takes center stage in Love Is Not All Around as Bo, a gorgeous girl with plenty of guys at her beckoning. She comes across her ex-boyfriend Ryan (Alex Fong) whom she dumped three years ago for another guy. Apparently Ryan still likes Bo, but she remains haunted by a series of post-break up misfortunes, which she suspects to be Ryan's doing. Meanwhile, her friend Wing (DJ Sammy) is cheating on his wife (Linda Chung), and she gets pulled into their domestic problems.

My comments:

Alright, the Chinese title of this movie is 十分愛 and my rating of this movie is: 十分爛. Okay, it wasn’t that extreme but I found it overall bad. I might be biased because I find the combination of Alex Fong and Stephy Tang super boring as it’s really done to death whether in singing or in acting. There was a very interesting message in the movie but it was ruined by mediocre acting, annoying characters and random awkward situations (frankly I haven’t seen something as ridiculous as that detergent spraying scene for such a long time…). I only give my thumb up for the last 15 seconds or so because it’s a nice twist to what we expected. So what do we learn from this movie? Love is only a game, and it’s full of deception and betrayal. Ouch…