Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018) by Viniciusbrito — 02 Jan 2019

"I can't make you something you are not".

A professor, Rachel Chu, from a college in New York, falls in love for a boy, Nick Young, from Singapore that she doesn't know much about, in one day he invites her to met her family back in his country, wich she didn't knew that he belongs to a crazy rich and very influential family that can be really hard to deal with, the boy will be the best man of his friend marriage and that will give a chance to Rachel to meet the people around there better. Directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim.

The story of this film isn't much original, neither interesting in many ways, it is like that narrative where two persons have fallen in love, but the boy's mother don't like the girlfriend and a lot of his friends mock the girl because they are envious, this plot isn't good for me at all, this is so generic, is not my kind of thing. The romantic comedy genre, in my opinion, don't change much from movie to movie and in here it keeps the same formula. Normally this kind of movie are very generic and stuff, in here in some moments it does give a little hope that it is going to be different in some way, it may have some plot twists that works, but at the end they just bring back like it didn't matter and they end is exactly what you think is gonna be at the first five minutes watching this movie. I think that this movie started well, it first presented me the situation, the people, I got on this story, but it took so long for they to present the problem and put it in the works that I got bored, just so bored, there is like 40 minutes or more until you can have an better clue of what the problem in their story could be. There is so many moments in this movie that for them to work, you gotta really care about the characters, and I gotta say that they really failed in making me care about the characters, I could care about the two main ones, but they do such of a situation for a marriage about two people that I didn't even knew their names, like they may had some dialogues, but there is whole scene about it and I just didn't give a damn, I didn't even knew them. The presentation of the Young family and how they live, I found it good, you got to know a lot of them, giving some side story, that in some way gave pillars to it's narrative, it is good. There a lot of bad jokes in here, some work, most from Awkwafina, she can be funny. I found some weak things, like how the character of Nick leave Rachel completely by her own to deal with her mother or even his ex, that was dumb, he should have spoken with her about some of these stuff.

I think that this movie is way to long, a movie that is so predictalbe and does have a story that you can tell what is happening at the end for sure, you don't really care about many characters, the narrative gotta work fast, in here there so many unnecessary scenes, scenes that are in herer just to be cool, the problem is that it just don't add anything to the story, so as isn't cool, so don't really work.

One good thing about this movie is how well it shows the culture of Singapore, it does not just got you a really good idea of how the whole city state is, the really creative buildings, the atmosphere, the landscape around there, all of that is so beautiful, as also the culture by the families, at leas the one that they showed, wich I believe that is like how many ones are around there, since this is a movie about them, it is really interesting to see how much they care about their name and how important is the family in their eyes, so as the reputation that it could cause.

The actin by some parts works. Constance Wu is really nice, she could truly convince me that she not just loved him, but also in a lot of other emotions, she does have some moments of monologues that I truly liked and she really won me there, more at the end in the conversation with Eleanor, the way that she talked and stared, that was really nice. Henry Golding felt like a nice guy, but nothing really that special, no great moment. Gemma Chan does have a ok arch, her character have some nice moments, being friend of Chu and with her partner. Michelle Yeoh is very nice in here, she is a demander and dominant, but at the same time with some doubts. Ken Jeong have a small participation, he is funny as always. So as Awkwafina, she is nice in here, her character is funny and her acting is looking good.

Even that this movie have some nice moments, you can get some good things from this movie, I found the narrative really bad, some dumb moments and anti sympathetic.