5/10
Pleasantly emotional but everthing else is bad, bad, bad.
17 January 2020
This is a child's drawing of a movie: Sentimental but, objectively, not very good. I'm not sure who the target audience is as this appears to be a children's movie yet the story and subject matter are unlikely to be of interest to any child while the writing, acting, and directing are too juvenile to appeal to adults. Nevertheless, each clunky scene of the movie does convey genuine emotion which may appeal to anyone who appreciates feeling over substance, and for that reason I give this moving a just-passing grade.

Be warned, however, that native English speakers, particularly those from the U.S., may have a hard time tolerating the heavy accent and poor English (Google translated bad) of the main character who is supposed to have been born and raised in New York and it's not until about a half-hour into the movie that she mostly abandons her broken English in favour of Malay and Mandarin.
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