‘A Tourist’s Guide to Love’ Review: A Wearyingly Familiar Trip

The very first thing we find out about Amanda (Rachael Leigh Cook) in “A Tourist’s Guide to Love” is that she works for a high-end company known as Tourista World Travel. But no person on this Netflix movie even feedback on the truth that “turista” is slang for vacation-wrecking diarrhea. That puzzling selection and its utter lack of penalties are the one shock in Steven Tsuchida’s movie, a rom-com that so scrupulously fulfills each cliché of the style, it’d as nicely have been devised by ChatGPT.

Amanda is dispatched to Vietnam to take a look at a small tour firm that Tourista is contemplating shopping for to develop its market within the space. The project can also be an excellent distraction: She was not too long ago dumped by her boring accountant boyfriend, John (Ben Feldman). Going undercover as an everyday vacationer, albeit a particularly well-prepared one, she’s instantly drawn to the floppy-haired information, Sinh (Scott Ly). He is the form of dreamboat who has each abs and sensitivity, and may present Amanda not simply his nation’s magnificence, however methods to take pleasure in life.

Sinh finally doffs his shirt on the seaside and emerges from the water in resplendent gradual movement, as a result of the clichés listed below are as tightly packed in as tchotchkes in a traveler’s suitcase: Amanda is a perky American Type A; village elders are cute as buttons and sensible as Yoda; avenue meals is tantalizing; jaded Westerners rediscover themselves as they ditch their telephones and take pleasure in a rural expertise made solely sweeter by the data that it’s short-term. The soundtrack’s catchy Vietnamese songs present the one fizz on this in any other case flat concoction.

A Tourist’s Guide to Love
Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes. Watch on Netflix.