Tet movie season is poor in ideas and controversial

This year's Tet movies set new box office records, but sadly, the themes are quite poor, telling about love triangles but exploiting superficial psychology, lacking messages.

Characters in the movies The Four Guardians, Love by Mistake and The Billionaire Kiss - Photo: Producer

More controversy surrounds the film The four defenders , many artists responded to each other with bad behavior.

Peak week Tet movie 2025 ends, the winner and loser are quite clear when The Guardian Quartet big win, Billionaire Kiss is making a comeback because of the audience's support and the opportunity to profit while Love the wrong best friend Hold the hole tight.

All is love but it slips away

With the same theme of love triangles, the three films have very different appeals to the audience because the content of the films is not the main factor that makes the audience remember this Tet holiday.

With The Four Guardians , the main story revolves around the love triangle between Quynh Anh - Quoc Anh - Karen (played by Tieu Vy - Quoc Anh - Ky Duyen). Quynh Anh and Quoc Anh have been together for six years but the differences are getting bigger. In the meantime, the third person, Karen, appears. Karen is more beautiful, powerful and confident than Quynh Anh, making Quoc Anh waver.

The sisterhood storyline "saved" the movie Billion Dollar Kiss while the love storyline was quite old - Photo: Producer

With The Billion Dollar Kiss is a story about the modern-day Thuy Van and Thuy Kieu sisters (played by Thien An and Thu Trang). Because her sister pushed her into debt, Thuy Van (Thien An) had to abandon her self-respect to find a way to love a rich man, and then unexpectedly fell into a love triangle.

Each of them had their own lovable points that made Van's heart flutter, but unexpectedly they had a bet to see who could flirt with her.

In Love the wrong best friend , the main characters are Binh An and Bao Toan (played by Kaity Nguyen and Tran Ngoc Vang), but the love triangle is also quite strong when Binh An falls in love and wants to get married with Vu Tran (Thanh Son), while his best friend Bao Toan falls into the "friend zone".

The Guardian Quartet There is a pretty good idea when building a couple of lovers who love each other for a long time but become bored, one person moves forward quickly, one person stops and becomes more and more distant from each other. The third person is portrayed as having multiple personalities and scheming.

The problem is that the film builds characters very hastily, the psychological lines are sometimes unclear and lack logic, making it difficult to stay in the audience's mind. The film is commented to be easily forgotten after watching.

And the love story of Billionaire Kiss nothing new rom-coms have done a lot.

The attraction of the film is not the unusual or surprising story but the close storytelling, the characters have some conflicts and feelings that evoke sympathy, but these details are not related to love but to sisterhood.

Love the wrong best friend is a remake, warning that remakes are losing their appeal in the Vietnamese market. There are scripts that are effective in foreign markets but when brought to Vietnam, they are unfamiliar and lack local character.

Kaity Nguyen needs roles more worthy of her acting ability - Photo: MI LY

New record and controversy

With the brand "Tran Thanh's Tet movie", The Guardian Quartet continuously set records such as Vietnamese film with highest first-day revenue, highest one-day revenue (41 billion VND), fastest to reach 100 billion VND and 200 billion VND, as well as fastest to reach 2 million viewers ever.

According to Box Office Vietnam (including pre-booked tickets for the coming days), on the afternoon of February 4, the total revenue recorded The Guardian Quartet is 230 billion dong.

With so many records, The Guardian Quartet will bring more complete joy to Tran Thanh If the film is rated positively for its quality like Tomorrow of last year.

But revenue The Guardian Quartet The higher the rating, the more negative comments from viewers who have seen the film increase. Even artists have spoken out to criticize it and faced controversy from the film's actors and cameos.

Outside The Guardian Quartet controversial about quality, Billionaire Kiss The new "trick" is to have several different endings in each theater to make the audience "blindly tear their bags", but because the love story in the movie is not too dramatic, the female lead's choice does not cause controversy or go viral.

Still Love the wrong best friend involved in an unrelated controversy. It was the surprise kiss between Tran Ngoc Vang and Kaity Nguyen at the "wedding" on the night of the movie's premiere.

The surprised and confused expression of "bride" Kaity Nguyen has caused a heated debate on TikTok, with some viewers even claiming that she was "sexually harassed" and criticizing Tran Ngoc Vang. However, in the face of the controversy, both actors affirmed that the kiss was arranged by the crew and hoped that the audience would support the film.

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