"One Perfect Day" is despite the title a South Korean Korean-language movie from 2013, so this video release will have its 5th anniversary next year. It is among the more recent efforts by writer and director Jee-woon Kim, one of the country's more successful filmmakers and he also managed a successful transition to Hollywood with his Schwarzenegger/Knoxville film. But just like his cast of actors here, especially the two first-credited, he is a much bigger star in Korea than internationally. With this 35-minute short film we got here, he gives us is take on romance and makes a seemingly strange connection between love and the game Rock, Paper, Scissors. But could it work out? I would say no sadly and it never felt somewhat natural to me to be honest and the bizarreness of the entire idea also hurts the otherwise somewhat beautifully looking final scene. The flashback scenes with his father certainly weren't enough to justify this crucial plot component. It's a negative deal breaker for me sadly. I guess how much you end up liking the movie will also have to do with how much you like the lead actor and his character here and this is another area where the movie came short to me as I did not once cheer for him finding happiness and maybe that is a reason why I just didn't make a connection. Besides I felt that he was so different comparing the date and the final scene as if it wasn't the same character. Perhaps this is why I felt the ending was a forced happy ending that did not have much authenticity and it is certainly style over substance. It's not deep or anything, more like for-the-sake-of-it, maybe even pretentious here and there. Overall, this short film lacks strong writing and focus on many occasions, so that it feels overlong at 35 minutes already. I give it a thumbs-down and suggest you skip this one. Not recommended.
Review of One Perfect Day
