I am surprised I didn't see negative reviews as the film is surprisingly bad. The storyline is like an Asian teenager's nightmare. You spend minutes of your life watching teens stressing out over multiple choice tests and filling in A B C D. This is maybe 15-20 minutes of the movie right there. Characters are one dimensional, the ending is stupid (granted I did not finish the movie but my wife told me how it ends)
There is a point at which what could have worked as a movie simply falls apart and never comes back together. It happens when Lynn flies to Australia to take an exam and the guy who welcomes her to the "test center" is a Russian with the most obvious Russian accent ever. He takes a rather prominent role from there on and its impossible to watch him without laughing. At this point the acting and the plot turn so bad that only The Room by Tommy Wasseu matches it.
Actual dialogue: Russian Terminator: Are you OK? Lynn: No I'm sick Russian Terminator: Doesn't matter. You must come with me to the exam center.
Just two plot holes: 1) Lynn is a math genius who hardly speaks any English at all. How does she manage to even pass an English exam when she yells for the doors of the Australian Subway to open in Thailandese?
2) She charged 3000 baht per exam at the school which suddenly rises to 600 000 to pass the English University entrance test. That's 200 times higher.
3) Passing an entrance exam via cheating means absolutely nothing if you're going to fail University because you speak no English.
There is a point at which what could have worked as a movie simply falls apart and never comes back together. It happens when Lynn flies to Australia to take an exam and the guy who welcomes her to the "test center" is a Russian with the most obvious Russian accent ever. He takes a rather prominent role from there on and its impossible to watch him without laughing. At this point the acting and the plot turn so bad that only The Room by Tommy Wasseu matches it.
Actual dialogue: Russian Terminator: Are you OK? Lynn: No I'm sick Russian Terminator: Doesn't matter. You must come with me to the exam center.
Just two plot holes: 1) Lynn is a math genius who hardly speaks any English at all. How does she manage to even pass an English exam when she yells for the doors of the Australian Subway to open in Thailandese?
2) She charged 3000 baht per exam at the school which suddenly rises to 600 000 to pass the English University entrance test. That's 200 times higher.
3) Passing an entrance exam via cheating means absolutely nothing if you're going to fail University because you speak no English.