A Tourist's Guide to Love

Name: A Tourist's Guide to Love
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Released: April 21, 2023
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 49
Cast: Alexa Povah, Andrew Barth Feldman, Ben Feldman, Glynn Sweet, Jacqueline Correa

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): April 21, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexa Povah, Andrew Barth Feldman, Ben Feldman, Glynn Sweet, Jacqueline Correa, Missi Pyle, Morgan Dudley, Nondumiso Tembe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Scott Ly

Summary: After an unexpected breakup, a travel executive (Rachael Leigh Cook) accepts an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. Along the way she finds adventure and romance with her Vietnamese expat tour guide (Scott Ly) when they decide to reroute the tour bus in order to explore life and love off the beatenAfter an unexpected breakup, a travel executive (Rachael Leigh Cook) accepts an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. Along the way she finds adventure and romance with her Vietnamese expat tour guide (Scott Ly) when they decide to reroute the tour bus in order to explore life and love off the beaten path. [Netflix]… Expand

Director: Steven K. Tsuchida

Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Courtney Howard

Apr 21, 2023

Funny, poignant and simultaneously progressive and regressive, it may not add up to five-star escapism, but it’s a jovial jaunt worth taking. Read full review

IndieWire Samantha Bergeson

Apr 21, 2023

A Tourist’s Guide to Love is a road map for how to love adventure abroad, with dashes of Vietnamese trivia and spiritual facts along the way. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

Apr 25, 2023

A Tourist’s Guide to Love is as harmless as its blandly forgettable title would suggest. It’s not quite a Movie to Fold Laundry To, because the scenery is quite lovely, so you’ll actually want to pay attention. But it is a pleasant escape if you’re seeking lazy Saturday afternoon viewing. Read full review

Noel Murray

Apr 27, 2023

Though the movie’s leads are undeniably charming, director Steven K. Tsuchida and screenwriter Eirene Tran Donohue don’t give them much to do that hasn’t been done many times before. What does distinguish their film is its setting Read full review

Tara Bennett

Apr 21, 2023

If Eirene Donohue’s script gave us more scenes to really get to know Amanda and Sinh as fully formed people, maybe A Tourist’s Guide to Love could have been memorable. But there’s really no chemistry, heat, or wit between Cook and Ly. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 25, 2023

A Tourist’s Guide to Love is a lovely Vietnamese travelogue in search of a romantic comedy that would transform the trip into a movie. Read full review

Elisabeth Vincentelli

Apr 21, 2023

A rom-com that so scrupulously fulfills every cliché of the genre, it might as well have been devised by ChatGPT. Read full review

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MovieReviewMave

Aug 31, 2023

IN A NUTSHELL:
A female executive at a travel agency goes through an unexpected breakup, and then travels to Vietnam on an assignment to go undercover and learn about a specific travel company for sale there.
The film was directed by K. Tsuchida, and written by Eirene Donohue. On a personalIN A NUTSHELL:
A female executive at a travel agency goes through an unexpected breakup, and then travels to Vietnam on an assignment to go undercover and learn about a specific travel company for sale there.
The film was directed by K. Tsuchida, and written by Eirene Donohue.
On a personal note, I’ve been invited by a travel company that wants me to host some of their upcoming tours, and I’m super excited about it! Right now, we’re working on a Christmas Markets trip to Europe for either November or December! As soon as I get more details on the itinerary, I’ll let you know. If you’d like to be added to my list of people who’d like to tour great places with me, shoot me a note about when and where at trinaboice@gmail.com

THINGS I LIKED:
We get to travel to Vietnam in the movie! I always love seeing new places in films because it gives me ideas for my Bucket List. We get to see their ancient buildings, delicious food, beautiful countryside, fun markets, traditions, entertainment, music, and more. We also get to learn about the Vietnamese Tet celebration. This is the very first Netflix original movie to be shot in Vietnam!
Because of all the gorgeous scenery, this isn’t one of those movies that play in the background of your home while you do other things; you’ll want to actually watch it.
Rachael Leigh Cook is instantly likable in all of her films. All of her outfits were super cute on her. When is she going to start aging?
Fun fact: She and Missi Pyle starred together in the movie Josie and the **** Other cast members include an always amusing Missi Pyle, Ben Feldman, Andrew Barth Feldman, Nondumiso Tembe, and more.
Beautiful cinematography by Jon Keng.
We get to see a lot of character growth in the leading lady. As someone who has lived and traveled abroad, I know it’s actually hard to travel and not be changed by the experiences.
Lovely music and lyrics.
There are several running jokes threaded through the story that are tied up in a nice bow in the end. (“I know a guy…”)
There are a lot of lessons we can all learn from the wise Sinh Thach character (except he should have visited his grandmother more often).

THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:
Filled with rom-com cliches.
The entire plot is super predictable and formulaic.
It seems odd that someone who works in the travel industry would be so averse to trying new things, right?
Sadly, there wasn’t much chemistry between the leading man and the leading lady. TIPS FOR PARENTS: No profanity.
An unmarried couple lives together.
Two of the tourists are a lesbian couple with their daughter.
We see a shirtless guy coming out of the water in slow motion.
A couple kisses.… Expand

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hiepthai11315

Apr 28, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Enjoyed this movie. Many details are handled very well such as Sinh does not try to avoid the fact that he has a large portion of Americans or that he also feels pressure to bring the beauties of Vietnam to tourists. Amanda has a lot of worries and doubts, very reasonable, the broke up scene at with John at the end is also very good, gentle and civilized.… Expand

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Rajeev139

May 18, 2023

same old story nothing new, the film only promote one country and travelling

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MetacriticOnur

Apr 23, 2023

bad
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not good in any manner or degree.

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WatchinMovies

May 10, 2023

The story in these Hallmark-style movies is pretty irrelevant, as they are normally stupid. But the virtue of them is the chemistry between all the actors. This movie has no chemistry, which makes it a bad movie. The WOKEness makes it even worse, so our recommendation is: "don't waste yourThe story in these Hallmark-style movies is pretty irrelevant, as they are normally stupid. But the virtue of them is the chemistry between all the actors. This movie has no chemistry, which makes it a bad movie. The WOKEness makes it even worse, so our recommendation is: "don't waste your time or even turn it on."… Expand

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Exceladeogun

Apr 28, 2023

A tourist's guide to love

A splendid display of the tourism in Vietnam, and nothing more. This flick is bland, poorly acted and riddled with cliches. There's no form of chemistry between the leads, and this is especially bad seeing as it's a romcom. The movie fails as a romcom, it isn'tA tourist's guide to love

A splendid display of the tourism in Vietnam, and nothing more. This flick is bland, poorly acted and riddled with cliches.

There's no form of chemistry between the leads, and this is especially bad seeing as it's a romcom. The movie fails as a romcom, it isn't romantic and it's far from being comedic. The supporting characters are boring and poorly fleshed out, the same also goes for the leads.

The pacing was slow and the dialogues were stifled, and because the movie had no flair to it, it resulted in a boring snoozefest. The only good thing from this movie is the scenic exploration of Vietnam and the soundtrack. The movie should have been titled A tourist's guide for visiting Vietnam.

3/10… Expand

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lexys

Apr 21, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The storyline was forced. The story about a person who just had a breakup then she/he travels to another country/place and eventually founding love there is just too cliche. There’s no chemistry between Amanda and Sinh. If the goal is to showcase the tourism of Vietnam, I think they weren’t able to do it well. Sinh is too anoying, he keeps on repeating the full name of Amanda, even asks what’s her wish like what?? And keeps on interrupting her alone time. They also weren’t able to establish why we should hate John. Why she should Sinh over John. Lastly, the part where they announced that the company was already sold? In front of their clients? Really? It was a waste of time.. CRINGE.… Expand

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