Love O2O (2016) Reviews

• Love every scene

  charlotte_duerre_jelly2018-05-25

  What a chemistry the two main characters have. I so love this movie that made me decide to watch its drama version.

• One of the best Gamer movies I've seen

  Snootz2016-10-02

  This movie is enjoyable from the first scene to the last, surprising considering that most "gamer" movies tend to fizzle out about half way through. The main character Bei Weiwei (Angelababy / Angela Yeung Wing) could not have been played better. Angelababy is cast in a very feminine and cute role, but brings out the strength, character and competence of both the real life and game life of Bei. Boran Jing does a good job of playing the reserved and stoic role of Xiao Nai, the #1 player in the game. Both players and their avatars are realistically portrayed in a splendid mix of fantasy and reality. Although cliché, I enjoyed the special way this movie often combined the real world with the game world (although one scene featuring portals on a bridge jumped the shark a bit). Despite the gamer/fantasy setting of the virtual world, the fantasy characters and "real life" character both are played very well. The supporting characters are somewhat cliché as well, though acted well enough. The fact that the movie requires the supporting characters mostly as comic relief and moral support is the one weakness of the story-line, although that is forgivable considering the genre. An Asian movie without such characters would be somewhat of an unexpected let-down. The story-line is not strong, but strong enough to both keep the viewer entertained and present a morality play as well. It's nice to see a movie that doesn't take tired, over-used side-trips during the main plot. The developing romance between the online avatars and the unwitting Weiwei is enjoyable to watch from the spectator's seat. Much in this is predictable but enjoyable nonetheless. It's not a perfect film, nor a tear-jerker or film of the year. It just a very enjoyable romantic gamer film with excellent special effects and a script that for once succeeds in an over-used and often-abused genre. If you can understand the concept of mixing gaming and romance I fully expect you will enjoy this film very much.

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• Too Embarrassed To Watch

  ElliesWonder2017-10-19

  This movie is too embarrassed to watch for me. The movie edited completely different from the original novel, they took away the character's personalities, conflicts and hilarious dialogues, changed the plots into a cheesy romantic story. Weiwei supposed to be a exceedingly beautiful girl with great humor and good personality, not the one who has blink blink big eyes but lacking facial expressions. And not to mention the lead guy, his character setting is so embarrassingly ugly, what a terrible hair color and bang.

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• Absolutely fabulous!

  morebon2019-04-07

  Wonderful cast, awesome story! The world building is out of this continuum!

• Tried to Do Too Much

  nishera2019-04-03

  Anytime you take a complex story full of iconic moments and try to condense it down to 2 hours, you're just asking for trouble (Avatar: TLA anyone?). I knew up front not to get my expectations too high, but I had still hoped for a bit more than I got. Caricature characters, throwing out glib and rushed lines, a barely coherent storyline (which scarcely resembled the novel) and chaotic action sequences, just for starters. That being said, I blame the director more than the cast, since I did feel the actors could have delivered better performances if they weren't in such a hurry. If this film had any redeeming points at all, it would be the adequate cinematography and CG (both were decent, considering the film's budget). Lines aside, the actors also did a reasonable job of acting to green screen, which is notoriously difficult. There were also a handful of scenes overlaying the game world with reality, which were creative and did a surprisingly good job of conveying the feeling of belonging to both the 2-d and 3-d world. Kiss scene rating: 7/10. There was only one kiss scene, but it was fairly long and the actors had reasonably good chemistry. Bear in mind that while the scene did feature A door, it is not THE iconic office door from the novel. In summary, I'm sorry to say this movie was weak in almost every way. Fans of the novel will certainly be disappointed and newcomers are unlikely to develop any further interest. Not recommended. HOWEVER, if you have to choose between this film and the drama, I probably would choose this, mainly because, as others have mentioned, Angela Baby and Boran Jing have acceptable chemistry whereas Yang Yang and Shuang Zheng do not.

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