LOL. Your reviews are great.

As much as I agree with your review, for me watching this film was a refreshing experience to an extent. I say that because 99.9% of the films I've watched from Hong Kong have been about Triads, Kung Fu monks, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat as a triad, Jackie Chan fighting triads, Jet Li as a Kung Fu Monk or high flying ghosts with kung fu skills. It was somewhat of a refreshing experience not seeing a Hong Kong movie with triads, kung fu or Jackie Chan. However, my friend I saw the movie with, who has a more broad experience HK cinema than I informed me that there's 1000's films just like this one and most of everything they show on TVB is exactly like this movie as well. So I might have been the one person in Hong Kong to find this movie a refreshingly new experience. My huge crush on Tang Wei probably made the movie overall much more watchable for me. But I do admit it was hard not to rip my hair out of my head with watching the character of the guy's Mother, who basically took over the entire story with her scenery chewing performance. I actually found her character to be a positively wretched depiction of a human being and at one point I literally said out loud, "will someone please drop an anvil on this woman's head?" And sure enough 2 minutes after I said that, The Mother character has a heart attack. I very audibly cheered. (Spoiler Alert) Which made it all the more disappointing that the Mother survives in the end. Argh! ; (