Yet another clinical, artificial Netflix rom-com, one of those cookie cutter copy/paste jobs they churn out on a weekly basis and disguise as "films".
A shame since any production wanting to showcase Vietnam and it's magical beauty has an advantage. Shame the screenplay is predictable, corny and at times just plain boring. Even with the Vietnam hook.
Yet like a lot of Netflix productions, the need to inject diversity is too pandering - I mean the black lesbian couple with the daughter - way too on the Netflix nose. Supporting cast are all just cliches- dorky white boy, successful black lesbian moms, old funny English couple... yawn. None resemble a soul.
Rachel Leigh Cook is the poor woman's Natalie Portman. Not necessarily her fault, she's talented but had a bad agent back in the day. Portman went onto an Oscar, Cook well ... Netflix rom coms. Life never went on after "Shes All That". She isn't too bad here.
A shame since any production wanting to showcase Vietnam and it's magical beauty has an advantage. Shame the screenplay is predictable, corny and at times just plain boring. Even with the Vietnam hook.
Yet like a lot of Netflix productions, the need to inject diversity is too pandering - I mean the black lesbian couple with the daughter - way too on the Netflix nose. Supporting cast are all just cliches- dorky white boy, successful black lesbian moms, old funny English couple... yawn. None resemble a soul.
Rachel Leigh Cook is the poor woman's Natalie Portman. Not necessarily her fault, she's talented but had a bad agent back in the day. Portman went onto an Oscar, Cook well ... Netflix rom coms. Life never went on after "Shes All That". She isn't too bad here.