Lucky Stars Falling from the Sky (2025)

So difficult to explain what I just watched...

Let's just start off with "it was basically terrible" and get that immediately established. Mkay.

So you got Jesse Ren. But this is not the Jesse Ren you are thinking. This is some Saved By The Bell version of Jesse Ren. And I suspect without any evidence, that this was filmed a while back and only released now. How can this be a sequential acting performance? I could see him doing this kind of acting in 2025 maybe if it was like at an airport while waiting for a layover flight... It's either beginner acting, or it's unconscious, phone-it-in acting. You-get-what-you-pay-for acting.

Because also, why would he decide to do this, of all things.

The fashion used in the show is mainly Esprit. Either that or the wardrobe person just really really likes Esprit and their aesthetic. It literally looks like Saved By The Bell. It's so kids-at-the-local-mall. Weird to see someone dress Jesse Ren like that.

The story is basically the cliffnotes version of My Girlfriend Is An Alien. But only Jesse Ren plays the alien. And I truly mean that --> there aren't any basic plot deviations from MGIAA here.

It's stripped down to only it's most basic elements, the writing is terrible, the production value is lo-budget, the bgm is kinda dorky, but it is mercifully minimalist as well, so at least there's that.

Jesse Ren's fellow co-actors on this one are - it pains me to say - terrible. I want to like them, they seem like sweet promising young people. But this is beginner level acting, on everyone's part. Nothing is convincing. Nothing. ML and FL are not into eachother, and script is written literally like Saved By The Bell, so there's just the tamest PG kiss scene type stuff and nothing more at ALL.

It actually started off kind of amusing and sweet, but the farther you go into it, the harder it is to keep your attention focused. Even so, it was an ok way to pass a few afternoons between shows. Because at least nothing was overwhelmingly cringe or annoying.. So it had that going for it.

I would mildly recc this to anyone who wants to watch "everything Jesse Ren has ever been in". I would also recc this to someone who has had trauma or stress, and needs to mentally "check out" and just watch something that's sweet and mellow and brainless that's just sort of 'on'. Like the way you might watch the cat channel.

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