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Such a pleasure to watch a film about a young boy being inspired by his hard-working Father who was challenged many times without giving up and taught this valuable lesson to his son! Loved it!!

I think if you saw this movie on a plane, it would be far more emotional, but I saw it in my lounge. Anyway, Looking Up is ambitious but also has some repetitious and lagging parts. Still, its heart is in the right place for sure. The usual plot devices are there, with the inspiring ending that will restore your faith in home-school education combined with state schooling.

If Americans remade this movie, I'd imagine Will Ferrell would play the father.

The movie is extremely relatable for Chinese, both raised in the Western world and those raised in Asia. I highly highly recommend it.

Expectations of parents, role of father figure, what it means to grow up and pursue our own dreams... this movie is easily the best movie of 2019. Throughout the film, the director inspires, relates, and motivates the audience to become better a better Chinese, and shows the work in China towards making Chinese peolp

This movie had great relationship themes between a father and son The extremes of the child being young and beholden to his talented father to becoming a mission saving hero and the father being a talented but flawed engineer trying to recover was excellent Sure there were probably some big flaws and stereotypes but it was a story of love and devotion and growing up and giving hope. The scene of Chinese nationalism, portraying the different parts of the country as one, were grating but lasted for a couple of minutes, certainly not enough to spoil the tale being told Loved it

The movie confuses me. It is alternating between reality and fairy tale throughout, without convincing me with either. I agree with the other reviewers, the father character, with all good intentions both from the film maker and in the story, is not real, at all, almost felt as if he had multiple personality. He promised things clearly impossible, which was the tale; while his story with the jail and all, was reality. I am not saying this cannot work, but the film did not pull it off. The son character was rather bland, yet making strange moves that did not fit the character. The story is weak with non-impressive acting.