Reviews

I went to the theater with high expectations of this film, hoping it to be an epic disaster themed sic-fi film. But what I got was a horribly plotted, old, and visually abysmal sic-fi money grab of a film. Many parts of the story felt scattered and the logical aspect of the sic-fi just fell apart with non-sense. It felt like the work of some half-baked director/script writer straight from a bad art school. The spaceships look like junkyard put-together. The constant flashing of the scenes hurt your eyes, not entertain. Compared to something like "Avatar", this film should not even be released, it is a total disaster itself. The story tried very hard to create a sense of war heroes, but ended up feeling like repenting and fulfilling personal grudges in a paradox. The visual aspect of this film is unbelievably bad. The most realistically created elements includes the grenade, the machine guns and the smoke. The aliens are a joke, if they have such high technology, why can they not even aim and they shoot machine guns too...

Following the profit-successful first "If You are the One" film, Feng brings us this half-baked mess of a mixture once again depicting GeYou's contemporary Chinese drama style. For someone who lived in China through the most recent 20 years of fast Chinese economic evolution, the film does represent some of the satirical elements that most Chinese viewers and many who have a good understanding of reality Chinese culture would find negatively plausible. But it is getting really old and over saturated already after the first film, making this extended story totally scattered and unnecessary. The worst part of this film being the ending, the pre-death funeral that took place before the suicide of the character depicted by the wrong chosen actor Honglei, a long and unnecessary ending killing the story with nonsense. Other than the ending, many satirical moments which could have been great in the movie ended up being very shallowly plotted. This is a failure of a fast money-grab feature, lives barely on the inertia of the success of the first "If You are the One" film.