Review: director douglas mcgrath 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and 
Sentiment: positive

Review: distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me 
Sentiment: negative


Review: the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ... it 's at least watchable .