This movie was OK. Not good not great not awesome. It was just OK. First of all the character Liam Wu is creepy. He's 28 years old and dating a high school student! That's gross. Technically he's a pedophile. Even if he didn't kiss her or have sexual intercourse, he's still a pedophile. And looking at all the reviews I'm guessing you guys missed that? Anyway the movie was fine and it went smoothly but it was lacking something. I mean it was funny but Liam's sarcastic and pessimistic personality made watching the rest of the movie tedious. Then there was the fact that when he first came back from China to get his stuff, he was acting all high and mighty and told his friend not to call him Liam because that was his "slave name". That's kind of insulting, and I get that he was trying to be funny but that didn't make any sense at all. Oh and one more thing! The DVD picture that had a huge close up of Hayden? One question. Why? The movie wasn't about her it was about Liam.

This movie is terrible. I had a long and very thorough list of reasons why it is terrible. Unfortunately, the guidelines are so strict that most of my words are apparently too profane to use here.I'll summarize, then. Bad writing, bad acting, bad everything. No redeeming qualities. No wait, you see a boob. One redeeming quality. See it for the boob. Support boobs. It happens early enough, anyway.I need to hit my quota of ten lines here, so I'll follow it up by saying that this sort of movie has the sort of stilted dialogue that would make a first-year cinema major cringe with embarrassment, and the kind of utterly unlikeable caricatures that would make a creative writing major rend his/her garment and thrust his/her fists in the air in a show of dramatic flair far more effecting than anything that happened in this movie.Incidentally, this site doesn't acknowledge "dialogue" as a word. They prefer a spelling almost no one uses. Just a side note.

I saw this film at an independent movie night on a campus bar in Calgary, and I must say, it was one of the best movies I have seen this year! Everything in this film is great; great actors, great cinematography, great locations, great writing, great directing, great editing. I can't believe this didn't get picked up more mainstream! Cudos to every talented person involved in this film. A really wonderful story and an unlikely protagonist.The lost in translation scene with the taxi driver was seriously one of the best scenes I have watched in a long time.Really recommend checking this one out if you get the opportunity.

Much has been made by other reviewers about how "Shanghai Kiss" breaks away from the unflattering stereotypes that dog Asian men in American popular culture. And to be sure, I'm glad to see these folks playing roles other than martial artist or math geek. But in its relentless quest to show that, yes, an Asian guy can indeed sleep with white chicks, this movie gives us an entirely unsympathetic main character and throws him into completely implausible situations.Nowhere do we see why it is that Ken Leung's character is such a babe magnet. Instead, we get someone who is shallow, egotistical, moody, immature, and just plain annoying. And he's not even especially handsome, either (though he does have a sort of boyish cuteness). In short, there's nothing particularly desirable or appealing about this guy. Yet, inexplicably, the ladies just can't get enough of him.And as if the fact that the protagonist is totally irritating isn't enough to detract from our enjoyment of the movie, there's also the rank implausibility of the storyline. I mean, how often do attractive women (of any race) blatantly throw themselves at random strangers (again, of any race) on public buses? Or, when someone just steps off a trans-Pacific airline flight, how likely is it that they are immediately going to go someplace where -- you guessed it -- women are eagerly waiting to pleasure him? To me, the whole thing smacked of the film makers shouting out as loudly as they can, "Hey, look at this! Asian guys can get some action in bed!" Well, OK, that's swell, I guess. But somehow, I don't think that making our "hero" out to be as unappealing and unsympathetic as possible, while putting him into completely implausible and unbelievable situations, advances the cause of Asian male de-stereotyping.Full disclosure: I hit my limit and stopped watching the movie about a half-hour into it (right after the main character arrived in Shanghai). So that's why I'm giving it two stars, because maybe it got better after that. But as for me, I'm afraid I'll just have to keep hoping that maybe someday I'll find a non-stereotypical Asian guy in the movies who's actually worth spending some time with.