“Only You” is served very well by Ms. Tang (a star of Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution”). Whether playing elated, sorrowful, coy or petulant, she consistently provides the spark the movie could use more of.
This movie doesn't have a whole lot going for it, but there are many, many less solid foundations for a romantic comedy than Tang Wei's beauty and charm. She's easily the best thing about this movie, whether slipping into the bedside manner she uses for her four-legged patients while bandaging "Kunming" or fuming over his lies later on, and that's in spite of her playing a character who at one point actually declares that chasing after a man based upon the words of oracles almost two decades earlier is her rebelling against how other people have been making decisions for her all her life. She still comes off as funny, smart, and eventually mature enough to realize what chasing the idea of Kunming halfway around the world is actually about. She's also able to build a nice chemistry with Liao Fan, which is good, because his Feng Dali doesn't really work that well on his own.