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Allan I know you're a huge
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kiwan yes he won the Oscar for
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everything everywhere all at once he is
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beloved and he was cheated by not being
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in the recent Indiana Jones movie dial
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of Destiny I think if he was in it and
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reprised his role a short round would
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have added some weight to that story
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they made a huge mistake
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by um they made a huge mistake they
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should have had him in the movie he is
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starring in this film it's an action
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movie called love hurs um in which he
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plays a real estate agent with a dark
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past involving his brother doing Shady
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things he now loves what he does as a
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agent but his past comes to haunt him a
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woman from his past played by Arian on
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um and and some hidden money that was
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skimmed off the books by people involved
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in this bad organization and now e Quan
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is fighting all these assassins Allan
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tell me tell me more about love hert uh
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tell you more beyond that uh let's see
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so he uh he is living the life of a real
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estate agent uh his past comes to haunt
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him uh Rose played by AR deos start
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sending Valentine's letters to him and
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various members of the uh the mob there
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uh it's a threat she is supposed to be
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dead in fact uh Marvin Kwan's character
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was supposed to kill her and bury her
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but he didn't he let her go and so uh
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and let's Also let's also mention that
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uh this movie is Valentine's Day themed
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and so not only are there Valentine's
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Day cards but there are many love story
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subplots in this movie that just makes
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this movie so much better uh and then of
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course there's the action uh Marvin is a
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great assassin uh can use uh all weapons
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and uh various forms of martial arts
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specifically too and uh tries to survive
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and tries to find love at the
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end how's that how does he do like look
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I'll just say this um I like his
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character Marvin Gable is the
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character's name he's a real estate
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agent he has a rival real estate agent
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that's like a martial artist um this
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movie was fun but disappointing really
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disappointing and a lot of it has to do
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with not Ki Quan he's very likable he
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has zero chemistry with Ariana de bose
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like it takes place during Valentine's
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Day and there's supposed to be something
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romantic they are not a match they have
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zero chemistry I would say they have
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negative chemistry in addition um
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like I thought the action was fine but a
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lot of the action sequences take place
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in really boring track homes in car
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California I've been to those homes like
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an action scene in a kitchen an action
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scene in a model home it's like it the
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locations are really boring and it looks
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like everything was on a set I was
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really disappointed in this movie um I I
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for me it's a pass and um it's I don't
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know I was just like colossally
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disappointed because I like Ki Quan now
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the one thing is the action scenes
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themselves are kind of fun but there the
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there's a sameness about them it's
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say it's like and you know they're doing
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it in slow motion it's like take the
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frying pan do this throw this thing a
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knife goes here in your hand like it's
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like it's just so Cor red it's over
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choreographed to not be believable it's
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like I I just was really underwhelmed
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and the third act just you're just not
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invested so this is a pass for me and it
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takes place during Valentine's Day kind
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of surprising but I don't know what' you
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think Alan okay so uh three things well
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yeah three things one it's a romance two
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it's a mob story and three three it's an
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action film so what that means is uh
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you're bringing three genres together in
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hopes of creating a super genre and what
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winds up happening is rather than
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getting a great movie because you did
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three genres you're getting a movie with
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three week genres um you know on its own
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this should have been a better love
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story but because it's a mob film and an
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action film there's really not a lot of
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time to spend on the romance which is
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why key and Ariana have no chemistry
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what it because it's a a mob story but
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then you have the action and the uh the
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romance behind it it's a standard mob
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story with an embezzlement skimming
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scheme and the problem is is that in
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order to enjoy it is you must have seen
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previous mob films to fill in the gaps
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that it can't bring into this movie um
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the action I I will say I like the
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action better uh but it wasn't enough to
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push it over to a recommendation uh it's
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pretty bloody it's pretty gory uh it's
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very violent and brutal um but because
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this is also a comedy it's very done
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it's done in a very light-hearted way
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which kind of it just doesn't work you
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have the tones all over tone is wrong
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yeah well the tone is comedic when it
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really needed to be a mob so when when
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uh when uh Alvin Key's brother uh you
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know tries to be the bad guy you know
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you you don't get the depth of it
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because everyone else is playing it as a
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comedy uh and you know the other thing
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is you know I like I like the fact that
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k k is in the movie I like the fact that
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his brother is also Asian but you know
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his name is Marvin Gable uh which is not
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exactly an Asian name uh and uh you know
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it's kind of like if you're gonna cast
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an Asian why not be a little more
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authentic to it um the other thing is uh
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uh what was I G to say here the oh yeah
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so this romance between him and Ariana
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deos it reminded me of the Marvels
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remember when Captain Marvel goes to the
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singing planet and there her Asian
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husband is you just get the sense that
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this is the same relationship that she's
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in love with an Asian man who she has no
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intention of ever kissing or having sex
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with right and um never you know and it
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I I just find that really insulting uh
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because at the end I I I don't remember
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them hugging and I definitely never saw
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them kiss so what kind of romance is
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that exactly exactly it just doesn't
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it's it's not believable I just it's sad
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because I like he Quan he deserved
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better and really it's I really think
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it's the director's fault he had all the
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elements couldn't get the tone right it
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doesn't work and not only that it looked
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cheap it looked like it was all shot on
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a set and it looked bad well the
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director is a stunt man and so I think
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that was you know I think he was more
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focused on the the action well was the
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only part that worked but even then it
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got tired right but the thing is you
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know if if action's your thing your
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movie better be about action and it was
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there was not enough action in it um and
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he just wasn't capable of keeping or
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finding that balance between comedy and
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drama and then also didn't know how to
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and so it just falls apart along the way
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and so I I just remember thinking to
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myself uh there's too much Exposition
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there's too much story you know you're
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you're good at action give me more
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action there should have been twice as
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much of action in this movie than there
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was all right a pass from both of us yep
