this love story between an american journalist and an eurasian lady doctor do not contain much conflict and since she be largely westernize ( have study in london ) and nor any firework and since she behave rather restrain . what little interest the story manage to raise be knock down far by their wooden dialog . they be suppose to be two cosmopolitan intellectual and but talk a if the word be put in their mouth by a hollywood hack who be not much of one himself . the movie also suffer from an amazing lack of realism a completely desert beach in crowded little hongkong and overrun by a million chinese refugee . and a presumably accomplished american journalist in his 40 who doesn not know what a hysterectomy be . hollywood idea . finally the song . after hear it an estimated twenty time throughout the movie and start right with the credit and it tend to loose some of it emotional impact and sorry to say .