Another one of the myriad of recent movies starring the TWINS, this film is actually much better than the presence of the manufactured Cantopop duo would lead you to suspect. In fact, Just One Look is a rather nostalgic, sweet story of young people growing up on one of the less populated HK islands in the 60s and 70s, presented through the prism of the movies of the time, complete with hilarous parodies of some of these classic titles.

The story is rather episodic, driven more by the characters and their interaction than by a tight plot, and since the characters are well-written, this works quite well. Anthony Wong stands out in particular as the local bad guy, but it's mostly an ensemble cast of young and relatively unknown actors (with the aforementioned TWINS playing the two love interests, known as "Ghost" and "Heroine", respectively). The tone of the film is kept quite realistic, although some of the scenes are pretty humourous, and at one point the movie quite inexplicably ventures into choreographed wirefu territory. All in all, a well written, intelligent effort with quite a few similarities to the Italian film Cinema Paradiso.

Cameos by Sam Lee and Shu Qi (the latter one being rather surprising, and quite effective).

Recommended.