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Polaris
12 people found this review helpful
May 20, 2017
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Overall 9.0
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 10
It, once again, proves China's knack on normalizing weird plots. They don't deal much on explaining how or why things happen; instead, they give you a good story after the "what if". They throw subtle twists and blow your mind with their classic sad endings. But, what I love about this movie is how it reminded me that sad endings aren't always bad... in fact, this one's made me smile.
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Raz Muza
3 people found this review helpful
Jan 10, 2018
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
Now this is what I call a highly watchable movie, with a beautifully crafted plot and a commendable cast. True, the ending could have been different (in other words better) with the two leads living happily after, but that was what everyone was hoping for anyway, but the scriptwriter/director had preferred to deliver something more melancholic, less predictable. Still, we are shown that the younger man was happy, as was the older man, although they 'lost' each other as lovers. It would have been nice if they had used Carlson Cheng's "Love is shaking in the world" in the end scene :)

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Marija Dolly Milosevic
1 people found this review helpful
Dec 27, 2021
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Overall 9.0
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 7.5
Music 4.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
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Bittersweet

I watched this movie a few days ago and I let the impressions settle in. I enjoyed the story, because it is really original one. I kinda felt sad watching it. The whole story missed some intimacy and I wanted more. But this didn't ruin the movie for me. Lately I felt that growing older triggers me, so this might be the reason I felt the sadness while watching it. I am highly recommending this movie, specially for older audience. It might speaks to us more. If I could review this movie with one sentence, it would be - bittersweet love story, family story and the story about the effect of making wrong and right choices. It is life story with a Sci-Fi twist. Could be longer and could be more detailed, but overall not bad at all.

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Joanna_uW
1 people found this review helpful
May 20, 2017
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Overall 9.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 10
This is really good movie, ending is a little bit sad, but still worth watching! :)
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Laurasia
1 people found this review helpful
Dec 6, 2019
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Overall 6.5
Story 5.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 6.0
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Histoire cruelle, acteurs excellent et rires... Avis mitigé

L'histoire est cruelle car on fini par se demander à la fin du film "A quoi bon tout ça? "... Finalement il aurait mieux fallu qu'il ne se soit jamais rien passé de cette histoire fantastique pour que tous les personnages s'en sortent mieux.

A quoi bon devenir jeune si c'est pour finir triste, malheureux et rendre tout le monde triste?

C'est une torture... Dès le début du film, la fin est annoncée. Donc, on sait! Mais on regarde pour tenter de trouver une logique. Je n'en ai pas trouvé.

Je pense que l'idée de départ était bien, mais alors fallait-il que ça serve à quelque chose. On a pas besoin de comprendre le comment, mais il me semble que le pourquoi est important. Si c'est juste retrouver sa jeunesse pour sauter et aller à la salle de sport... C'est comme ça qu'on fini le film. A se dire, belle idée mais à ça n'a mené à rien.


Le gros point positif sont les acteurs. On ne voit pas assez Zhang Xiao( que je trouve excellent de manière générale). Les acteurs sont à leur place, on rit... J'ai apprécié une majorité d'acteurs dans ce film. Jing Le a un très beau jeu de regards... On comprend ce qu'il tente de nous faire comprendre. Et son langage du corps est aussi explicite.

Autre point positif: l'humour... Evidemment, un vieux qui devient jeune, on fait face à des situations cocasses. Mais ça e répondra pas à mon attente du "pourquoi ? ".

"Spoiler"??
On fini le film en pleurs car finalement pauvre grand père qui n'a jamais su avoir un amour aboutit (à peine un vrai baiser), son amour fini seul et malheureux...

Le film a tout de même un attrait motivationnel : profitons de notre jeunesse car malheureusement on ne pourra pas revenir en arrière. Les regrets c'est bien beau, mais ça n'efface pas le passé.

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