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What Women Want: More Than" Remake of a U.S. Movie"Although it brings lots of profits sometimes by reproducing the U.S. movies, not all these remade movies by Asian filmmakers can defeat the original edition. With What Women Want, an official remake from the Mel Gibson-Helen Hunt\'s opus which made in 2000, the boot is on the other foot-and it\'s a much better fit. In his third feature, Mainland writer-director Chen Daming sticks pretty closely to the plot of Nancy Meyer\'s over-rated rom-com and makes many tiny course corrections and tigBy Derec Elleyhtenings as well-including a better transformation scene and less larking around in travesty-that smoothen the original\'s bumps and provide a much more compelling emotional arc for the whole movie.
Rather than just being "a remake of a U.S. movie", Chen\'s film makes the material as its own, with a convincing setting in the high-flying end of Beijing society and social manners that don\'t seem transplanted artificially. With super-slick widescreen photography by Max Wang, a smooth score by Christopher O\'Young and seamless editing by Nelson Quan, it slides along like any top-notch Hong Kong rom-com of the past decade, and leaves a small but satisfying lump in the throat at the end.
Chen can\'t quite solve one of the original\'s biggest structural problems (how to bring the excess of character strands together), and a further trim of some 10 minutes would tighten the second half. But the role of the lead\'s father is better integrated thanks to some brief flashbacks and veteran Wang Deshun\'s charmingly light performance; other supporting roles like the lead\'s daughter are less intrusive than in the original are genuinely amusing.
The Chinese title is translated as more romantic as I Know Women\'s Hearts. The extensively re-written dialogue, which includes local puns and naturalistic exchanges, merits more than the mealy-mouthed "adaptation" given in the English credits.