The film revolves around the future bride who meets with her high school classmate who will soon become her husband, the name of her esteemed lover. This girl appears to be foretold by a fortune-teller in her youth, and she is eager to make sure that she is not making a mistake with her current fiance, who faces a strange fate.
Only You is mostly engaging for the ways in which it shows that prophecies reveal more about the receiver's interpretive biases than they do about the secrets of the universe.
"Only You" is served very well by Ms. Tang (a star of Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution"). Whether playing elated, sorrowful, coy or petulant, she consistently provides the spark the movie could use more of.
The romance is built on deceit, implausible coincidences, a lot of sulking and montages that tell us things are going swell. That leaves no room for the two stars to actually charm each other - or us.
Seattle Times
July 23, 2015
This 2015 Chinese remake about real and perceived destinies mostly challenges one's patience.
