My Sassy Girl (2001)

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This is most definitely a roller-coaster ride if I ever saw one. It's really a shame the quality varies as much as it does, because there's a truly amazing movie hidden within all the mediocre or even worse than mediocre stuff.

The only reason a movie can survive those lows and still come up with a strong score is some amazing highs, and this one truly got some amazing highs spread through its long running time. Most of them thanks to Gianna Jun as the unnamed girl. A noteworthy performance by the actress from her opening sequence all the way to her final one. I'm not as impressed by the male lead.

Too many Chaplinsque comedic failures and too many cheap melodramatic solutions, but it makes up for its failures with other qualities above and beyond what the genre usually produce.