Turn Left Turn Right

Turn Left Turn Tight is based on the best-selling illustrated love story of the same name by renowned Taiwanese author/artist, Jimmy Liao.

The story revolves around dashing John Liu (Takeshi Kaneshiro), an inspiring violinist and Eve Choi (Gigi Leung), a professional translator. Like millions living in a large city, John and Eve lead lives of solitude. Despite staying in the same apartment building, their paths never cross. One day, while walking around a fountain in the park, they finally bump into each other... and it's love at first sight! Unfortunately, a sudden shower cuts the encounter short. They manage to exchange telephone numbers but the rain renders the phone numbers illegible.

Aside from the sappy and kind-of idiotic coincidental encounters that the two main-characters have gone through with and also from those cringe worthy ending scene where they finally found out that they live right next to each other with the help of a freaky earthquake that magically breaks down the wall of their apartment that separates them; the story was humorous in my view. Humorous in a sense that I just laugh at the scenes and not go “awww”, because honestly… The movie was really… too corny in a sense?

First is with that “Rain” incident; they wrote down and exchanged phone numbers on a piece of paper but then it got smudged by the rain. They ended up getting sick and ordering the same food, from the SAME restaurant… I mean… Seriously? YOU GUYS LIVE NEXT TO EACH OTHER. There is over 90/100% possibility that they could have seen each other when going out or something. Another thing are those “supporting” characters; June and Dr. Hu… Seriously? They were just really annoying. I found it funny that they ended up together though, that was actually expected.

I’m not biased or anything since I love watching movies… but this movie… If I had to choose watching any drama love movie, I’d never choose this or even include this in my list of options.