Lumsdal
Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
ChampDavSlim
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Helllins
It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
boni-nika
I love everithing in this movie, the music, beautiful places, acting, flowers..
www-sri
Like the summery suggests, this movie works like a slow poison. The pacing of the movie is really slow but that didn't stop me from liking it. After the end of the movie i sat down on my chair thinking about the movie for an hour. And after a week i decided to write the review of this movie. Well, i won't call it a review, these are my general thoughts regarding the movie. So, i warn you there will be minor spoilers. Daisy is a tragic love triangle between a cop, a painter and an assassin. Hye-young(ji-hyun jun) is a 25 years old painter living in Amsterdam, who looks after her grandfather's antique shop. One day she meets Jeong-woo(Lee sung-jae), an Interpol cop whose job is to put an end to the Asian mafia in Amsterdam, both fall in love with each other, but one day a gun fire happens in the middle of the street. Hye-young and jeong-woo both got hurt. In this tragic accident Hye-young looses her voice and Jeong-woo got shot in the arm and sent back to Korea. Enter park yi(Woo-sung Jung), an assassin by profession. He tries to steal the heart of Hye-young and also helps her to forget the sad past. After his relentless effort Hye-young accepts his love. Everything was working well for Park Yi but suddenly Hye-young finds Jeong woo standing at her doorsteps. Thus, we have our movie.The plot of the movie is really good and it had the potential to turn into a great romantic movie, the only thing matters is the Execution and that is the greatest problem i have with this movie. The screenplay of the movie is really slow. The first 50 minutes were really enjoyable. But after that this movie really drags on. There was no chemistry between JI-Hyun jun and Woo-sung jung. We don't feel the romance between those two. We see Hye-young as a mute girl fighting with her own feelings and park yi trying really hard to appease her but we don't get to see how he does that and director introduces the time gap of one year. And after one year the situation is slightly changed, Hye-young and park yi are now couples but we don't see how that happened. And it is replaced by some gangster and mafia plot. And then the whole thing is turned into a convoluted mess. But the last 15 minutes of the movie really worked for me and the ending was something i didn't expect at all. The ending of the movie was really tragic and completely turns the table.Performance wise, all three lead actors did a fine job. Woo-sung jung's role as an assassin is perfect, Sung-jae lee also did a good job but the performance of ji hyun- jun wasn't up to the mark. No offense, i liked her acting in My sassy girl and wind struck and even in this movie she did a fine job at first but after she loses her voice i lost interest in her character, but again i feel she did an OK job but the actress of her caliber could've done better. The movie is set in Amsterdam which is really weird because i haven't seen any Asian movie filmed outside the continent. Maybe they thought filming the movie in Amsterdam will give the movie a romantic feel to it and i guess it worked, at least for the most part.Daisy is a good romantic movie but it's no way comparable to other Korean romantic classics such as A moment to remember, my sassy girl and the classic. But the great plot, solid performance and a good climax made it a must watch for all Asian movie lovers and also for anyone who want to watch a good tragic romantic story. Sorry for my bad English.I Am a south Asian and English is not my forte but i tried really hard keep this review understandable to the general English speaking people.
webmaster-3017
Simply unconvincing… Love is all about timing and it's no good meeting the right person at the wrong place and the wrong time. Well, at least for a good 100 minutes of Daisy it seems to be heading towards that way, but then all of a sudden director Andrew Lau takes a complete U-turn and goes for anything is possible – "the future can be changed". The result is weird, confusing, unbelievable and a tad too long. Running at 110 minutes, Daisy is at least 20 minutes too long, and the effect on the audience is straining and dragging on and on, which isn't exactly the right type of emotions to have. Without doubt, this is an Andrew Lau film, the director who helmed a production called Infernal Affairs, but somehow, it plays more like a typical melodramatic Korean film and adding some spices of Johnnie To's Fulltime Killer. The end product isn't original and the overall feeling is pretty much unconvincing and when the only pros are the beautiful backdrop of Amsterdam, the pretty painter and good production values, you can tell that a lot of things are heading the wrong direction.The movie goes like this: "Daisy" is a story about the inevitable showdown between a detective and a killer who fall in love with the same woman. In the story, Jeon plays a street artist who dreams of opening her own exhibition someday, while Jeong portrays a killer who loves her but cannot confess his love to her because of his profession.Sometimes, you wonder how the hell a director like Andrew Lau can co-direct films like Infernal Affairs and Young and Dangerous, and then go on and create crap like The Park, Wesley's Mysterious Files when left alone.Whatever the case, in Daisy, Lau isn't just unconvincing, but also disappointing. It is extremely unfortunate that the bright spot of Korean cinema is now resorting to cliché and Lau does nothing new, but reinforces that fact. Adding to the wound is the casting of hugely popular Jeon Ji-Hyun from My Sassy Girl, further enhancing the fact of how the hell did this movie turned out so boring.Jeon Ji-Hyun is alongside, Ha Ji-won and Song Hye-kyo as Neo's favourite Koreans and while her performance here is hugely different from her loud mouthed fame from My Sassy Girl. She offers nothing new or fresh to the mute role and frankly it is a role that can be done by any other actresses. Muting a talkative girl is as much a pain for her to stop talking, let alone for the audience to endure through it. Nonetheless she is an extremely likable character and possessing pretty face to go with it. Lee Sung-Jae performs far better than the Andy Lau wannabe - Jung Woo-Sung. Lee shows some good acting chops and his chemistry with Jeon is romantic to watch. Perhaps it is the moment that he disappears from the screen that the movie becomes a tad too long and leaning towards boredom. In some way, his eyes resemble a Tony Leung Chiu Wai with a Korean flair and in an ironic contrast, Jung parallels an Andy Lau. Perhaps it is Andrew Lau's fault in filming them as if they are HK superstars, rather than letting them be themselves, but nonetheless, it is a shockingly crap performance from Jung and his encounters with Jeon is stupid and utterly unbelievable.As I mentioned before, there is a spice of Fulltime Killer within this film, and certainly Jeon's role is not unlike Kelly Lin and Jung being the Andy Lau and Lee as the cop. However, despite Fulltime Killer being flawed itself, it was still highly enjoyable and utterly and stylishly cool, but Daisy is just far too uneven and more importantly unconvincing. Sure, there are bits and pieces in the first 90 minutes that is worth watching; especially the scene where Lee encounters Jeon in the middle of the beautiful backdrop of Amsterdam, their awkward moment of romance is a beautiful moment to endure. Unfortunately those moments are far and in between and the rest is just predictable and unconvincing.All in all, Daisy isn't bad movie, but it is utterly unconvincing. Even typing this review, right now, I realise that I have been typing one word over and over again – unconvincing. It is rare that I keep using the same word over and over again to describe a movie, but it is exactly the reason why the movie didn't work. Andrew Lau has yet to prove that he can handle a movie by himself, and if it takes a co-director for him to have any success, then he should stop directing alone. Sometimes, a director really needs to know what the hell he is aiming to achieve, so that the audience can understand the message that he is trying to put across. It is no good, emphasising the point of missed opportunities and meeting the person at the wrong time and place for a good portion of the movie, then all of a sudden turning 180 degrees saying that it doesn't really matter. The effect is that of leaving the audience feeling stupid and more unbelievable than believable. Perhaps one word can sum up the whole film and you probably already know what word it would be – unconvincing… I rate it 6/10www.thehkneo.com
Lester Mak (leekandham)
Daisy (데이지) Jeon Ji-hyun, Jung Woo-sung, Lee Sung-jae Dir: Andrew Lau - 2006 - Korea / Hong Kong / NetherlandsHye-young (Jeon Ji-hyun) is a painter in Amsterdam who looks after her grandfather's antique shop during the week and earns extra money by being a street painter during the weekend. It's through her painting that she meets Jeong-woo (Lee Sung-jae), an Interpol cop who is chasing a criminal, but keeps Hye-young in the dark about his real work. Meanwhile, Hye-young is dying to meet the man who leave flowers on her doorstep every day, and built a bridge over a stream for her when she once fell in. Little does she know that he's really a contract killer, Park-yi (Jung Woo-sung), and a shy man, who has fallen for her.If I were to super-critical, Daisy unfortunately didn't carry the strongest script for me, despite what appeared to be a fantastic concept. A few plot flaws spoilt the cleverness of some of the scenes, and generally, it lacked some of the sophistication I'd expect from a Korean melodrama. This was compounded by some over-acting, which left a feeling that much of the realism was lost from the movie. However, that would be the super-critical view, as there were some positives.This is one of the rare romantic movies for acclaimed director, Andrew Lau, who famed for his fantastic thriller, Infernal Affairs. With that background, much could be expected from Lau, and this was one challenge that would test his versatility as a director. One of the outstanding features of Infernal Affairs was the cinematography, and Lau has transferred it to this movie using some superb camera angles to add to the visual beauty and mood of the film.Overall, I did enjoy the film, although I did think that it could be better, given the brilliance of Lau's previous film. However, Lau has done well with a different script and I think he has proved himself as one of the best directors in Hong Kong mainstream cinema at the moment. One with some nice flowers.6/10
