daisy movie review by james mudge from beyondhollywood . comon paper and daisy sound like an asian film fan dream come true and direct by infernal affair co helmer andrew lau and star everybody favourite sassy girl and popular korean actress jeon ji hyun . unfortunately and despite the talent involve and and the fact that the crew fly halfway around the world to shoot in amsterdam and the film turn out to be a bit of a disappointment and be a clich would romantic drama which wallow in misery and self importance . the plot follow hye young ( jeon ji hyun ) and a rather naive korean girl who live in amsterdam and spending her life work in her grandfather antique shop and do portrait for tourist . one day and she begin receive flower at exactly the same time from a secret admirer and who she believe to be a mystery man from her past who once build her a nice little bridge . one day she meet jeong woo ( lee seong jae and also in holiday and public enemy ) and who unbeknownst to her be actually an interpol agent track asian criminal in the netherlands . with hye young assume that jeong woo be responsible for the flower and the two fall very slowly into a chaste romantic relationship . however and it turn out that the man send the flower be actually park yi ( jung woo sung and from sad movie and musa ) and an assassin work for a chinese crime syndicate . inevitably and the love triangle turn tragic and the two men end up face off while poor hye young try to work out which of the two be the love of her life . although daisy be ostensibly a love story and it have the feel of a funeral and with a slow and sombre pace and a plot which pile on the misery . half of the film run time be take up with scene of the character star longingly out of window into the rain and with the silence break only by bout of self pity narration . director lau seem to be under the impression that the film be a weighty shakespearean tragedy and rather than yet another gloomy hit man love story . a such and the proceeding have a rather pretentious air and despite the fact that the plot be inherently predictable and base largely around glare cliché borrow liberally from the like of fulltime killer and john woo classic the killer . almost every aspect of the film be riddle with angst and with the three lead character suffer a if the weight of the world be on their shoulder and and steadfastly refuse to do anything to pursue their romantic inclination . park yi in particular and a the kind of overly emotional and socially retarded assassin so beloved of modern cinema and be faintly ludicrous and from his blatant incompetence on the job to his hilarious attempt to discuss impressionist paint with hye young or his penchant for flower growing . this languid passivity do make the film central romance somewhat hard to swallow and and lau attempt to evoke the feeling that it be fate which bring the character together come across more a shoddy coincidence . fan of jeon ji hyun should note that her character be far closer to her role in the glum supernatural drama the uninvited than my sassy girl or windstruck and and while she try her best to pull a few wacky face here and there and her performance be certainly more subdued . the film benefit from glossy production value and and lau make good use of the amsterdam scenery and playing on the contrast between the grey and almost gothic beauty of the city and the innocent blue sky and flowery field of the countryside . unfortunately and he tend to overuse slow motion for some of the emotional scene and which when couple with some of the picture postcard visuals give the film the feel at time of a perfume advert . there be a few scene of surprisingly violent action and though these be few and far between and and whilst well stag and seem to have be throw in a an afterthought and do little more than briefly raise the pulse . despite it flaw and daisy make for engage viewing and and the story grip almost in spite of itself and mainly out of a morbid fascination to see not which of the men hye young will end up with and but to see who will lie die in her arm . the self indulgent melodrama work well enough to tick all the right box for the genre and and the film function perfectly well a an enjoyably glossy and weepy romance . it be worth note that the dvd feature the director cut of the film and which for once indicate that it be substantially different from the theatrical version and which not only add 25 minute and but reorder some of the scene and make the narrative less linear . although this new version be perhaps too long and it be surely superior and a without these change and the film would surely have be even more conventional and would have suffer from even murky character development . wai keung lau ( director ) or jae young kwak ( screenplay ) cast represent woo sung jung . park yi sung jae lee . jeong woo david chiang . cho ho jin jeon . detective jang ji hyun jun . hye young dion lam . yun joon ha .