![]() ![]() The drama is set in the present day and tells us about their love story repeating itself. Yet, they met a tragic end due to the greed of their enemies around them. Except Lee Min Ho is not an alien but a regular human, and Jun Jin Hyun is not an actress but a mermaid.įlashing back to the history, we learn that the human and the mermaid were deeply in love with each other in the past. One more similarity is that they both follow two storylines: one in the modern time and another happening a long time ago. ![]() This was not the brightest moment in Chinese cinema.Do you remember My Love From the Star, the fantasy melodrama about a centuries-old alien with superpowers and his human girlfriend? The Legend of the Blue Sea is written by the same writer, Park Ji Eun. And because of that, then I am forced to rate this movie a less than mediocre four out of ten stars. "Xia You Qiao Mu" had potential to be a memorable movie, but the turn of events to the story at the hands of director Jin-gyu Cho just didn't sit well with me at all. And I especially enjoyed Shu Ya Wang, because she carried the movie quite nicely. ![]() ![]() The movie does have some good acting performances in it. From thereon the movie just nosedived and became a farce. So I will just say that I found the movie to be rather enjoyable up to the point where that terrible event happens to Shu Ya Wang. I will not give away any spoilers at all here. Right, well the story was good, up to a certain point. But when something terrible happens to her, Xia Mu steps up and takes revenge, seeking to right the wrong. It is a story that follows a troubled boy named Xia Mu (played by Kris Wu) whom is taken into foster care, where he grows up falling in love with his foster sister Shu Ya Wang (played by Shan Lu). But it turned out to be quite something else this was a drama. And because of the title, I though this was going to be a romance or a romantic comedy. First of all, I don't understand the English title "Sweet Sixteen", because it makes absolutely no sense in terms of what this movie is about. "Sweet Sixteen" (aka "Xia You Qiao Mu") is a movie that I hadn't heard about, but happened to come across by random luck and got the chance to sit down and watch it. ![]()
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