Crazy Rich Asians Film Criticized By Direk Matti, Calls It "Lumaers"

Direk Erik Matti criticized the Crazy Rich Asians film.

CRAZY RICH ASIANS – The Pinoy director Direk Erik Matti criticized Kris Aquino’s Hollywood film “Crazy Rich Asians” calling it “lumaers”.

Kevin Kwan‘s book, Crazy Rich Asians, was adapted into a Hollywood film, and a blockbuster hit both in the United States and in the Philippines. The local actress Kris Aquino was one of the casts of the film playing the character of Malay Princess Intan.

The film has a whopping budget of 30 million USD or P1,617,000,000.00. Some of the casts were Constance Wu, newcomer Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Harry Shum Jr., Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, comedian Ronny Chieng, Sonoya Mizuno, and Remy Hii.

And now, the Pinoy director Erik Matti has criticized the film as per his post on Instagram saying that the film was just hyped up. Matti is known for his films such as On The Job, Honor Thy Father, Seklusyon, Buy Bust, Mano Po 2, Rigodon, Rounin, and among others.

The director has said in a post:

No matter how successful this #CrazyRichAsian movie is, it’s still just a piece of old-school 90’s style TV movie. Caricature acting, white man’s view on Asians, cliche insights wrapped in flashy modern parties, Tita sensibilities, bad direction. This is no Pretty Woman! Far from it. But who can argue with success? That’s why everyone here I think wants to make a version of this here.

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Even the veteran actor John Arcilla also reacted to this and in the comment section of the particular post, he indicated, “I have not watch it yet Direk. Americans daw are laughing with the idea. When i saw the trailer its just the typical plot naman of a Cinderella Story diba? kaya parang feeling ko nga Cliche’… yun lang… my two cents heheheehe!”