A cute romcom drama
Story - the story is wonderful and slightly complicated because of the time travel. But if you keep watching it, you can slightly enjoy it.Also, i think the story plot was great. but there were some parts that were either a little too cliché or doesn't make logical sense.
Acting - both ryota and anna did a good job.
I very happy for their presentation. Good job to you two!
Music - it was set for a beautiful song, and my fav was Snowstorm (the opening song) that was sing by my idols zhou yanchen and zhang Xin (that I never thought she can sing like an angel) .... MY EARS ARE BLESSED!!
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All this said (and consider it a public explanation of why you're most probably bound to see many more C-reviews from poor old me in the future ^__-), this "My Assassin Girlfriend" also showed a coupla drawbacks (hence my vote - good but not perfect).
But let's start with its (many) good points: I chose to watch it 'cause I had really loved Xu Jie aka Jelly in "Waiting for You in the Future", and indeed she was good and funny in this one as well (so much so that I wonder why she hasn't done anything else! >__<). The rest of the cast was also brilliant! I've developed a huge crush for Chen Hao Lan aka Anna Hollen, who's gorgeous to look at *and* a pretty good actress! Ryota (weird name for a Chinese actor, LOL) was also extremely good, I'm gonna keep an eye on him too. But seriously, they all did great, even the minor roles were played well.
The music (see my considerations above) was also nice and catchy, particularly the opening credits song!
The cinematography was beautiful, both in the modern and in the ancient settings (my personal preference going to the latter...ah, those colorful silky costumes! Made my crush on the FL even bigger, LOL).
The script was mostly well done, though (here come the afore-mentioned drawbacks) I have to confess it gave me the impression that some parts were missing, as if they had planned it to be made of more episodes and had to cut some parts off eventually. This (which is totally a personal idea, so pardon me if I'm wrong!) might explain a coupla plot holes (which I might address in a comment later on so as to avoid spoilering anything in this review). Another (minor) problem I had was that I would've changed some small things at the end (just a matter of personal preferences, though).
All in all, a solid, funny time-travel rom-com graced with endearing main characters and some nice humor here and there. Not a masterpiece, but a pleasant watch nonetheless!
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Super light rom com for background viewing
My Assassin Girlfriend is a very light, uncomplicated time traveling romcom drama that you can watch in the background. Almost all of your usual romcom tropes are in it: 1) enemies to lovers, 2) time travel to future, 3) amnesia, 4) love triangle, 5) evil brother, and 6) cute second leads. Being 24 eps long, I felt that the conflict in the story was not enough to fuel interest on the drama and that there were definitely some episodes that can be considered as filler, fan service episodes.Acting wise, the actors did ok for their characters. But I’m not sure if it’s because of the script or because of their acting, but I found that the chemistry between the two leads (Ryota and Anna Hollen) was not as sincere as you would expect. Sure they looked cute together, but they didn’t have the same intense chemistry as in other romcom dramas like in My Perfect Mrs. Right or Legend of Huarong.
Watch this drama if you just want to past the time and want time traveling series. But don’t expect too much of anything (ex. chemistry, action scenes, conflict, plotwise, etc.).
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