johnhomicidal Review of Better Luck Tomorrow

Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)

Pointless MTV-produced film about overachieving Asian students

[3/10 · 8 November 2005]

This film had potential. Lots and lots of potential. But sadly, like most MTV productions (save for Napoleon Dynamite), it falls flat on its face toward the midpoint. There really is no direct plot (except something about an academic decathalon), and the characters offer no sympathy whatsoever--they're all snotty Dawson's Creek-esquire rich brats. And for the record, there is one big, huge continuity error in the beginning of the movie: two of the main character discover a dead body in the backyard of a house and one of the character's voice-over declares, "It was the first time either of us had seen a dead body." Bull. Bull. Bull. You put the body there, moron! At the end of the film, they murder a fellow Asian student and put his body in that exact same spot! It's a shame that they didn't try to make a better Asian teen-oriented movie. See Attack the Gas Station! instead.