"While both films aim to stick to the gritty reality, cheesy happy endings for our two protagonists have no toehold in either, I'M LIVIN' IT falls prey to a lousy script, the faux-utopian camaraderie created by the have-nots is an airy-fairy contrivance, Bowen's tenuous romance with lounge singer Jane (Yeung) is anything but plausible, chemistry is wanting between Kwok and Yeung, Hong Kong's two superstars, whose mutual familiarity gets in the way. Most maddening is the subplot pertaining to Mama (Liu),a young widow, besides rearing her undocumented pre-teen daughter (Gaga Wong, formulaically precocious and cutesy) all by herself, who also voluntarily works her butt off around the clock to shell out the gambling debts of her dead husband's mother (a fierce cameo by Miao),who condemns her as a jinx, and what awaits her is a flagrant poverty porn wielded to extract audience's tears, a self-defeating machination much owing to the ill-conception of soliciting compassion out of abasement, plus a huge waste of Cya Liu, a talented actress from mainland China, who deserves better roles."

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What a joke spend money see this recycling plot in theatre while there's a better story plot in Netflix. In movie using smart phone, but the story telling is like pager times. Character personalities all the way from start to end give u same emotion.No interaction between the actor. The ending also twist of fate, the lead actor die then suddenly everyone happy ending like fairy tales. Come on, director and writer, please use this (Shoplifters) movie from Japan and compare to see how terrible u done as this have the same story concept as u.Director didn't make use of veterans actor in a good way making the story scattered in pieces.

I do not deny there are a part of poor ones that stay overnight in chain restaurant in hk. But the situation is way too unbelievable and non sense in many aspects. An ex-financial talent get bankrupted and live on a street. An single mum works days n nights pay for his dead husband mum gambling debt. The love part of the singer and the ex-financial talent is totally non sense and unreal. The story just want get audience sympathy but be honest, too much and not natural the way the storyline planned. Poor.