Hot Summer Days (2010) Chuen sing yit luen - yit lat lat (original title): Hot Summer Days is a romantic comedy which takes place in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shenzhen, consisting of seven intertwined love stories in the middle of the hottest summer on record ever. (6.4)
Directors: Tony Chan, Wing Shya
Stars: Nicholas Tse, Jacky Cheung and Rene Liu
Language: Mandarin | Cantonese (w/ English subtitles)
A romantic comedy with a considerably less romance and marginal comedy plus quite a bit of bad acting. I'm not sure why Netflix recommended this with a 3.9 score. Yeah, the intertwined stories try to find some meaning with some soapyness towards the end, but falls far short of something like Ju Dou in romance, sentimentality and pure emotions. The only saving grace for this movie, at least for me, was that it had a lot of modern day scenes of Hong Kong and Beijing. My Rating: 5.5
