X
- 2002
- Not Rated
- Media Space
- 1 h 27 m
- 2002
- Not Rated
- Media Space
- 1 h 27 m
Summary A young Chinese woman leaves her small village to seek a better life and finds herself in New York.
- 2002
- Not Rated
- Media Space
- 1 h 27 m
- 2002
- Not Rated
- Media Space
- 1 h 27 m
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Summary A young Chinese woman leaves her small village to seek a better life and finds herself in New York.
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
27
17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
0% Mixed
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0 Reviews
83% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Meng's film, which uses a fairly sophisticated flashback structure to reveal the secrets of Ah Na's past in China, touches on a number of very serious subjects: the business of illegal immigration, the exploitation of "aliens" and the treatment of people with AIDS in China. But it's also filled with touches of humor.
Earnestness is the primary appeal of Meng Ong's clumsy melodrama.
A baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise.
As genre comeuppance, this might have been nasty fun, but the movie barely makes sense, with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks.
The director has fallen into the common first-timer's trap of biting off more than he can chew, stitching together an unwieldy, disorganized story out of subplots and flashbacks, without paying enough attention to the basic requirements of character and narrative.
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