Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

If you are looking for one of those happy and feel-good movies, then this one is not for you. However, if you are up for a different experience, knowing it might not end well(who knows!), then you are in for a beautiful ride. Its a simple story. No complications there. Its just the chemistry between the lead guy and the girl is precious. It just goes on to prove that all you need are few dedicated minutes with a person to know if you like them. And sometimes, it helps not to look too far down in the future. Live today - for all you have. The movie is a treat if you want to watch a relaxing movie on a lazy Saturday night. I loved it!

Picture: Anna gets out of prison for 2 days after 7 years on falsely charged crime of killing her husband, because her mother passed away. She returned home to her brother asking for her signature to sell the house; she sees young nephews and nieces that she has never seen before. As family members argue with each other over logistics of the funeral, she walks to the backyard and attempts to make friend with a cat, who led her to see her lover - a man who grew up with her, left her, came back to ask her to divorce her husband, and later killed her husband and never left Anna in prison, with his new wife and a baby. He said, how are you doing, it's good to see you, you still look like a child, and squeezes her cheeks. The film then shows Anna shopping, buying and putting on a dress, earrings, make-up. Throughout the movie Tang Wei does not say much, except in a few outbursts where her emotions accumulates (she did this before in Lust, Caution). You think in this scene, she want something, just a little bit, for herself now. This is a movie where if you put in enough empathy, you might shift uncomfortably in your chair during a few scenes. I walked away thinking, how long will that one kiss, or the one promise, lasts for her in prison? With her understated and unspoken acting, Wei's character appears to be of almost limitless will - and I think she will wait in that cafe for forever. It's a superb script, with brilliant surprises that make emotional sense that superb script has. I think it asks: stripped of all the superficial necessities and orders that make our lives make sense, what happen to us? What would you do if you are Chinese American on a Portland to Seattle bus attending your mother's funeral and need to go back to prison in two days, with the persons you loved leaving you in prison, bumping into a handsome Korean gigolo, who might be the only person in the world that cares about you?

This movie was pretty bad. I hadn't planned on writing a review for this ever because there was just too much to say but I guess I'll write it anyway. I usually love Korean movies and watch them all the time so I know the format.. they can be overly long and overly sentimental. I digress.The movie started out interesting. However quickly got WTF when Anna was let out of jail on so-called "compassionate leave" WITHOUT an escort OR ankle bracelet not to mention she was in jail for a VIOLENT CRIME. All they gave her was a cell phone to keep track of her (which they only called her twice). so that bothered me.why did they get such bad actors for Americans? all of them sounded like English wasn't their first language... that scene at the bumper cars.omg such bad acting... the scene went on WAYY too long and then that random dance that they did?! it was beautiful, and how it was edited but it had NO place in that movie and made NO sense what so ever! so they ran and were in some meat shop where it was bothering me that they had left the meat sitting out like that and the doors open?!and then, when anna was telling her story to hyunbin, he kept saying hao and hwey and was TOTALLY making everything she said "unserious" and i didn't feel bad for character. everyone in this movie fell flat... that kiss in the end WAS TOO LONG OMG. WTF was that! It was LITERALLY, over a minute long kiss scene. i kept looking at my watch waiting for that movie to be over.i could say more but who will read it? anyway. they tried to shove a comedy a drama and an indie art film into one movie and it DID NOT work.

Man chu | Late Autumn Director: Kim Tae-Yong Republic of Korea (South Korea), Hong Kong, China, USA 2010 English, Korean, Mandarin Cast includes Tang Wei (Anna), Hyun Bin (Hoon).A young woman waits in an empty diner outside a lonely bus stop. Pie and a cup of coffee. She touches neither. Every sound of footsteps, she turns. She smiles. "Hi. It's been a long time."Man chu opens with Anna staggering down a suburban street, bloodied, face bruised, clothes torn. We learn that she has killed her abusive husband. Seven years later, serving out the sentence for her crime, Anna is given two days' compassionate leave to attend her mother's funeral in Seattle, tied to prison by a cell phone that rings periodically and which she must answer, giving her location.As Anna's bus pulls out of a station, Hoon, a young dandy and rent boy, jumps aboard. He doesn't have enough money to pay for his ticket and asks to borrow money from Anna. He is Korean, Anna is Chinese – he seems to assume a bond? Deciding whether to give a stranger 30 bucks.Thus two unlikely misfits meet and fall in love, despite all odds.Man chu, a remake of a 1966 Korean film of the same name, is ravishingly filmed with a RED camera transferred to D-Cinema Cinemascope, featuring deeply affecting lead performances by the Chinese actress Tang Wei and South Korean actor Hyun Bin and strong supporting performances, including two white dancers who silently act out a beautifully composed break-up scene choreographed by Dayna Hanson and dubbed by Anna and Hoon in a brilliant sequence filmed in a derelict amusement park.Anna and Hoon speak to each other in English, when Anna decides to speak at all. (Tang Wei achieves the lion's share of her unforgettable performance in silence.) In one emotionally devastating scene, Anna tells Hoon her story step by step in Chinese. He interprets by her face and responds to each sentence "Hao" (good) or "Huai" (bad). Though it is evident he does not understand, his responses reveal deep empathy, which Anna recognizes in an extended sequence of acting without words – one among many in this profoundly actorly film.One slow dissolve on Anna's beautiful face is destined for the annals of film history, I think.