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- 2023
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 34 m
- 2023
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 34 m
Summary After an unexpected breakup, a travel executive (Rachael Leigh Cook) accepts an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. Along the way she finds adventure and romance with her Vietnamese expat tour guide (Scott Ly) when they decide to reroute the tour bus in order to explore life and love off the beate...
Directed By: Steven K. Tsuchida
Written By: Eirene Donohue
- 2023
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 34 m
- 2023
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 1 h 34 m
A Tourist's Guide to Love
49
4.6
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Summary After an unexpected breakup, a travel executive (Rachael Leigh Cook) accepts an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. Along the way she finds adventure and romance with her Vietnamese expat tour guide (Scott Ly) when they decide to reroute the tour bus in order to explore life and love off the beate...
Directed By: Steven K. Tsuchida
Written By: Eirene Donohue
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
49
38% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
49
38% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Funny, poignant and simultaneously progressive and regressive, it may not add up to five-star escapism, but it’s a jovial jaunt worth taking.
A Tourist’s Guide to Love is a road map for how to love adventure abroad, with dashes of Vietnamese trivia and spiritual facts along the way.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 User Ratings
4.6
25% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
42% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
33% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 User Ratings
4.6
25% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
42% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
33% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
IN A NUTSHELL:
A female executive at a travel agency goes through an unexpected breakup, and then travels to Vietnam on an assignment to go undercover and learn about a specific travel company for sale there.
The film was directed by K. Tsuchida, and written by Eirene Donohue.
On a personal note, I’ve been invited by a travel company that wants me to host some of their upcoming tours, and I’m super excited about it! Right now, we’re working on a Christmas Markets trip to Europe for either November or December! As soon as I get more details on the itinerary, I’ll let you know. If you’d like to be added to my list of people who’d like to tour great places with me, shoot me a note about when and where at ****
THINGS I LIKED:
We get to travel to Vietnam in the movie! I always love seeing new places in films because it gives me ideas for my Bucket List. We get to see their ancient buildings, delicious food, beautiful countryside, fun markets, traditions, entertainment, music, and more. We also get to learn about the Vietnamese Tet celebration. This is the very first Netflix original movie to be shot in Vietnam!
Because of all the gorgeous scenery, this isn’t one of those movies that play in the background of your home while you do other things; you’ll want to actually watch it.
Rachael Leigh Cook is instantly likable in all of her films. All of her outfits were super cute on her. When is she going to start aging?
Fun fact: She and Missi Pyle starred together in the movie Josie and the **** Other cast members include an always amusing Missi Pyle, Ben Feldman, Andrew Barth Feldman, Nondumiso Tembe, and more.
Beautiful cinematography by Jon Keng.
We get to see a lot of character growth in the leading lady. As someone who has lived and traveled abroad, I know it’s actually hard to travel and not be changed by the experiences.
Lovely music and lyrics.
There are several running jokes threaded through the story that are tied up in a nice bow in the end. (“I know a guy…”)
There are a lot of lessons we can all learn from the wise Sinh Thach character (except he should have visited his grandmother more often).
THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:
Filled with rom-com cliches.
The entire plot is super predictable and formulaic.
It seems odd that someone who works in the travel industry would be so averse to trying new things, right?
Sadly, there wasn’t much chemistry between the leading man and the leading lady. TIPS FOR PARENTS: No profanity.
An unmarried couple lives together.
Two of the tourists are a lesbian couple with their daughter.
We see a shirtless guy coming out of the water in slow motion.
A couple kisses.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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A Tourist’s Guide to Love is as harmless as its blandly forgettable title would suggest. It’s not quite a Movie to Fold Laundry To, because the scenery is quite lovely, so you’ll actually want to pay attention. But it is a pleasant escape if you’re seeking lazy Saturday afternoon viewing.
Though the movie’s leads are undeniably charming, director Steven K. Tsuchida and screenwriter Eirene Tran Donohue don’t give them much to do that hasn’t been done many times before. What does distinguish their film is its setting
If Eirene Donohue’s script gave us more scenes to really get to know Amanda and Sinh as fully formed people, maybe A Tourist’s Guide to Love could have been memorable. But there’s really no chemistry, heat, or wit between Cook and Ly.
A Tourist’s Guide to Love is a lovely Vietnamese travelogue in search of a romantic comedy that would transform the trip into a movie.
A rom-com that so scrupulously fulfills every cliché of the genre, it might as well have been devised by ChatGPT.
It is not enough to be well done if what you propose is nothing more than a copy of everything that has been seen to the point of exhaustion in this genre.
You know the whole story the moment they meet at the airport. This game of predictability holds no thrills or surprises.
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The story in these Hallmark-style movies is pretty irrelevant, as they are normally stupid. But the virtue of them is the chemistry between all the actors. This movie has no chemistry, which makes it a bad movie. The WOKEness makes it even worse, so our recommendation is: "don't waste your time or even turn it on."
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A tourist's guide to love
A splendid display of the tourism in Vietnam, and nothing more. This flick is bland, poorly acted and riddled with cliches.
There's no form of chemistry between the leads, and this is especially bad seeing as it's a romcom. The movie fails as a romcom, it isn't romantic and it's far from being comedic. The supporting characters are boring and poorly fleshed out, the same also goes for the leads.
The pacing was slow and the dialogues were stifled, and because the movie had no flair to it, it resulted in a boring snoozefest. The only good thing from this movie is the scenic exploration of Vietnam and the soundtrack. The movie should have been titled A tourist's guide for visiting Vietnam.
3/10
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not good in any manner or degree.
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Production Company
Cook and Muse Entertainment,
Head First Productions,
Muse Entertainment LLC,
Radius Squared Media Group
Release Date Apr 21, 2023
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating TV-PG
Awards
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 1 Nomination
