Indonesian Movie hasn't resurrected yet, not until the teenager romantic drama What's Up With Love? and the artistic drama Whispering Sands & A Courtesan. For quite a long time, we haven't made a pure romantic comedy and Andai Ia Tahu as known as Wish He Knew was one pure and relaxing romantic comedy.
Unfortunately, for the sake of Indonesian Cinema, Andai Ia Tahu hasn't got a pure and original story due to its high similarity with the romantic comedy Serendipity about Love, Faith & Destiny. The ending was almost the same, except that it is just slightly different. It's one thing that annoyed me because Indonesia just can't create a whole movie with original story and screenplay too.
Other than the baddies, it has good soundtracks and definitely good looking people too. Rachel Maryam has a very very interesting and unique face. She can act but can't sing. I am glad they didn't put Rachel as the singer in the movie. But yes, she was a good actress and I'm looking forward to her upcoming project. Marcellius Siahaan was OK. He may have a great voice to sing, but he did OK. As a newcomer, I think it's a good start for him.
I agreed with the comments on IMDB about the editing of the movie. Gosh, why can't they just re-edit this movie, mix the sound with Dolby Digital Surround Sound and they should've used a better camera to make the image quality better because sometimes the picture blurred and not clear enought for the audience to see.
Go Indonesian Cinema! This movie has some potential on the directing. The camera angles and movement were really really good. Sometimes they're kind of not in the right place and in some scenes, they could have done better. Anyway, Andai Ia Tahu is a 7/10 movie.
