Asian Stories (Book 3)

That "Asian Stories (Book 3)" won an audience award at the 2006 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival says more about the paucity of leading roles for Asian American actors than it does about the quality of this mediocre movie. Jin (James Kyson Lee) has lost his fiancee to their wedding teacher two weeks before their marriage. Distraught and in debt, Jin turns to his pal Alex (Kirt Kishita), a gourmet cook and professional hitman, to kill him. But at the mountain resort where his assassination is to take place, Jin meets Amanda (Kathy Uyen), an attractive painter who has just been similarly jilted. It would take lots of energy and wit to make this familiar premise work, but writer Ronald Oda and his co-director Kris Anthony Chin have come up with an uninspired picture that's draggy, overly talky and rarely amusing. Lee, Kishita (who has considerable presence and personality) and the lovely Uyen, however, are capable actors deserving of better opportunities.
Da The Los Angeles Times, 25 luglio 2008