Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018) by Wael — 10 Sep 2018

"Crazy Rich Asians" is a good rom-com movie about a NYU economics professor who goes to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family, and- as the title suggests- they turn out to be extravagantly rich. Now the story doesn't put forward anything new or widely creative in the rom-com genre: our two main characters are in love, they are living it up, some ups and downs occur, come the climax and the eventual short-lived break-up, to the final sequence of apologies and confessions of true love. However, the whole project felt more about the style than about the story and the events: the esthetics in this film are astonishing, the picture and the representation of Singapore is just breath-taking, all building up to the esthetics-climax (rather than the events climax, once again), which is the absolutely magnificent wedding taking place in the second half. The performances from the whole cast are pretty good as well.

"Crazy Rich Asians" may not be the rom-com movie of the year, story-wise, but it is undoubtedly a timeless, stylish piece of eye-candy.