Genre: Romance
Starring: Andy Lau, Shu Qi, Zhang Han Yu, Ella Koon, Denise Ho, Lam Ka Wah
Release year: 2009
Language: Cantonese/Mandarin
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
Sam (Andy Lau) is the most eligible bachelor in town - he's young, smart and rich. However, every success has its price. Sam has already divorced three times and finds himself crawling back to the game of love sooner than he has expected.
It is love at first sight when Sam chances upon Milan (Shu Qi) at a Macau casino. She is a part-time poker dealer and a full-time cabaret dancer, seemingly not the perfect match with Sam's life. While Milan is being groomed into a society woman by experts galore, Sam is starting to have cold feet. He takes his lawyer's advice and signs a prenuptial agreement without consulting Milan. This time, he is gravely mistaken, as this woman has a heart of gold and is looking for real love rather than fame and fortune.
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" ...Even though the Sam-Milan romance takes center stage, the relationship between Lin Jiu and Jo is actually the most involving. The romance strips away much of the Cinderella fantasy of the former and actually creates a romance by developing characters worth caring about. While Zhang Hanyu's Lin Jiu is straightforward as a stereotypical nice guy construction worker, Denise Ho gives a charming and surprisingly self-deprecating performance as a self-conscious woman trapped between her pride in her social status and developing feelings for a regular Joe. Their back-and-forth interactions actually make up some of the more enjoyable moments during the first half of the film, and that plot is also where the film's themes are effectively conveyed without being overly didactic.
But it all goes back to stars Andy Lau and Shu Qi. Even though the two certainly have more chemistry than their last pairing in Wesley's Mystery File and make a believable couple, the plot holes make some of their early conflicts too contrived to care about. For one, if Sam is so famous that his love life, which includes three divorces, can end up on the covers of tabloid magazines, how can Milan have no idea who he is? Fortunately, the mistaken identity contrivance is ultimately shoved aside, bringing the central class difference romance theme front and center. However, unlike the effective delivery of the themes in the Lin Jiu/Jo storyline, the conflicts occur at the expense of the subplots' development, effectively bringing the film to a halt.
Look For a Star culminates in a silly finale that's as cheesy as it is awkwardly embarrassing. In a convenient device that quickly resolves the three plot lines, all the characters resolve their differences on a live television show hosted by a jerk of a host (Cheung Tat-Ming, not overacting here). Not only does the scene have some of the most obvious technical goofs in recent cinema history (what are those film cameras doing at a live TV shoot?), it also painfully wraps up every plotline in monologues of self-realization that only serve to emphasize the central theme of the need to seize happiness on one's own (At least it's better than its lame English translation of “follow your heart”). The conclusions are too easy to reach, and smack of lazy writing.
However, this is also an easy fault to overlook because Look for a Star never takes itself too seriously. Like all holiday films, it has a ton of star cameos; appearances by Maria Cordero, David Chiang, George Lam, and even Rebecca Pan help make for a good game of "spot the star". The film has a generally light tone that makes for an enjoyable sit, and even the extremely cheesy parts are good for a laugh, regardless of their intentions. Despite all of its weaknesses in plot, direction, and character development, Look for a Star undoubtedly entertains in the way that only polished, commercial romances can. It's all a little artificial, but the enjoyment one can get from it may end up being genuine. (Kevin Ma, 2009) "
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