Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Knight & Day

Released Year: 2010
Directed by James Mangold

Casted by:
Tom Cruise as Roy Miller
Cameron Diaz as June Havens
Viola Davis as Director George
Story:
Knight and Day follows the adventures of Roy Miller whose real surname is Knight - and June Havens. After literally bumping into Miller twice at the airport on the way home from Wichita to pick up car parts, Havens is told she has been bumped to a later flight. Meanwhile, Agent Fitzgerald, believing Havens is working with Miller, puts her back on the plane. Completely taken with Miller, Havens goes to the restroom; and the remaining passengers all attack Miller. Miller kills them all and props the bodies up in their seats. Havens emerges from the restroom, where she has been freshening up in the hopes of a sexual encounter with Miller. Having heard nothing, she is totally unaware of the attack on him. After a forward moment where Havens kisses Miller, he calmly informs her that everyone on the plane is dead, including the pilots. Believing it a joke, Havens plays along until Miler enters the cockpit and the bodies of the passengers begin to shift around the plane. Crashing into a corn field, Miller delivers Havens home after drugging her and explaining that other agents will visit and that, if they constantly repeat that she is being taken somewhere "safe and secure", they are planning to kill or imprison her.

Waking up at home, Havens struggles through a day fitting a bridesmaids dress for her sister April's wedding, and is shocked to learn her sister would like to sell their father's car, which Havens had planned on finishing as a wedding present. Havens is then picked up by a group of intelligence agents. Miller arrives and, through a long gunfight on the highway, kills several agents and reclaims Havens. Havens flees at the first opportunity and contacts Rodney, a firefighter and former boyfriend. Believing Havens is merely stressed and is playing out a fantasy, Rodney tries to comfort her until Miller arrives and kidnaps Havens, handcuffing her and shooting Rodney in a specific non-vital area ,telling him this will all make him a hero and virtually guarantee his promotion to lieutenant.

Miller explains that Havens is safer with him; and Havens agrees to follow him as they go to pick up Simon Feck, a genius inventor who created a perpetual energy battery called the Zephyr. Miller arrives at his safe house where he left Feck, only to find him gone, and the two are ambushed by men belonging to Antonio, a Spanish arms dealer. After Miller again drugs Havens, she drifts in and out of consciousness between their capture and escape from Antonio's men, and Miller brings her to an island that is off the grid, which Miller uses as a safehouse. Accepting a call from her sister after leaving in frustration, Havens accidentally leads the CIA straight to the hideaway. They try to kill Miller and Havens with a remote drone.

Again knocking out Havens, Miller transports them to a train heading through the Alps, which Feck left as a message in code for Miller. Havens, missing a message from Miller, leaves to get dinner and encounters Danny, a German assassin. Using tricks learned from Miller, Danny is knocked from a window and killed by a train. Miller, after leaving Havens and Feck in a hotel in Spain, heads to a meeting with a mysterious beautiful woman with whom he is apparently willing to make a deal, and is followed by Havens, who is heartbroken to learn that Miller is apparently planning on selling the Zephyr to Antonio. After being picked up by the CIA and meeting the director of counter-intel, she uses a pen transmitter to notify them when Miller returns with the Zephyr, which is showing signs of overheating. After leading the CIA agents on a chase, Miller is apparently shot and falls into a canal.

Returning home, Havens heads to an address she remembered from Miller's iPhone, where she finds his parents and learns that his real name is Matthew Knight. They believe their son, a former Army sergeant and Eagle Scout, is dead; but they are fabulously wealthy from winning lotteries and sweepstakes they don't remember entering. Leaving a message that she has the Zephyr, she is captured by Antonio's men and taken back to Spain. She is drugged with truth serum before being rescued by Miller, who was tracking Fitzgerald, who was delivering Feck to Antonio. Chasing Fitzgerald, Miller saves Feck from a bullet wound after handing over the Zephyr in a small satchel. Feck comments that the battery is unstable. The battery explodes, killing Fitzgerald; and Miller collapses from a gunshot wound. After waking in the hospital, Miller receives an apology from the director, who tells him that Havens has returned home and claims that Miller can't be distracted.

Miller is later given medication by a nurse, who turns out to be Havens. After Havens breaks Miller out of the hospital, he awakes as she drives away in the rebuilt GTO that belonged to Havens's father. After Miller asking what day it is, Havens kisses him and says it's someday. This is a reference from the start of the movie that they both have things they want to do someday, and Havens begins to drive towards Cape Horn.
L² Scored: 3.5/10

L² Comment:
Basically i yawn through the whole film. Diaz looks old, Cruise looks old, Davis is not as good as she is in DOUBT. The whole film is so damn boring. The only interested part is when they are on bike being chase along by bulls in Spain.

This is a movie which u will never remember its story after one week, or maybe a few days later. Nothing much to mention about. I even got the movie preview frm wiki....

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Date Night

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Shawn Levy

Casted by:
Steve Carell as Phil Foster
Tina Fey as Claire Foster
Mark Wahlberg as Holbrooke Grant
Story:
After being married for a long time, both Phil & Claire is worried that their marriage will end like their best friend. To steam up the relationship, they went out for a date night. Phil brought Claire to a high class restaurant without a reservation. They took over somebody's reservation when nobody is answering for that table. But things happened when they are enjoying half way.

They were brought out by 2 gangster who thought they are the triple horn couple and asked for the flashed drive who they believe has been stolen from the mobster head. Phil brought them to the central park and pretend to get back the flash drive and escaped with Claire. They went to police station for report but discovered the 2 gangster are actually police who work for the mobster. They ran, worrying about their kids at home, they call the nanny to bring their kid away.

Claire decided to steal the client information from her office to look for a client, Holbrooke who can help them with all the security things. Holbrooke is hot and Claire is flirting with him. They got the information and went to look for the real triple horn couple. Triple horn couple realise big trouble is coming, left Foster the flash drive and flee away. To settled all this, Phil and Claire went to look for the mobster for a deal. They end up dancing for the mobster head and finally tell them the purpose of coming. While struggling between 2 parties of mobster for the flash drive, the NYPD came and arrested them.

Finally the Foster is safe and went home loving each other more...
L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:
The casts are not strong, Carell + Fey is just ok for a small production. Basically Wahlberg is nothing in this movie but showing off his nice body. Tat's all....

Storyline kinda interesting, a bit funny and make u wanna see more of what will be going to happen to this 2 couples... I like Fey, she's quite pretty :)

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Mike Newell

Casted by:
Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan
Gemma Arterton as Princess Tamina
Ben Kingsley as Nizam
Alfred Molina as Sheik Amar
Richard Coyle as Prince Tus
Toby Kebbell as Prince Garsiv
Story:
Dastan, an orphan in the Persian Empire, commits an act of courage in a public market place and is adopted by the king because of it. Fifteen years later Dastan, his royal-blooded foster brothers, Tus and Garsiv, and his uncle, Nizam are planning an attack on the sacred city of Alamut, which is believed to be selling weapons to Persia's enemies. Despite his doubts as to whether they should attack a sacred city, and orders to avoid the front-line of the fighting, Dastan leads the way in breaching the walls of Alamut. In the confusion, the princess of Alamut, Tamina, instructs one of her guards to take a dagger from a shrine to safety. During the fight, however, Dastan defeats this guard, and steals the dagger. Alamut falls to the Persians and Tamina is captured. In order to pacify the captured city, Tus suggests that he and Tamina marry, which she agrees to only upon seeing that the dagger has fallen into Dastan's possession.

When the king of Persia arrives at Alamut, he reproaches Tus (the eldest son) for having made the decision to attack the city. He suggests that Dastan, rather than Tus should marry Tamina. Prince Dastan unknowingly presents a poisoned robe, given to him by Tus, to his father, King Sharaman who dies upon donning it. Dastan is blamed for the king's murder and flees Alamut with Princess Tamina. In their first camp, Tamina attempts to kill the prince and recover the dagger, during which Dastan finds out what the dagger is capable of and believes that Tus framed Dastan for their father's murder in an attempt to seize the throne and the Dagger. During their journey, the duo meet an ostrich racing-organizer and tax-averse shady entrepreneur Sheik Amar, with his knife-throwing African friend Seso. Dastan offers Tamina up as a slave in return for supplies, however Amar betrays him because he recognizes him as the murderer of the king, for whom there is an "obscene" price being offered. Dastan and Tamina escape and return to Persia for King Sharaman's funeral; here, Dastan attempts to convince his uncle Nizam that he did not kill his father. Dastan discovers that Tamina has taken the Dagger; however, he then notices Nizam's hands are burned. Garsiv and the city guards appear and attack Dastan and he is forced to escape.

Dastan catches up with Tamina and explains that the villainous brother of the King, Nizam, was behind the murder. He wanted the Dagger of Time to use it with the massive Sandglass to go back in time and undo saving Sharaman from a lion so he can become king: however, opening the hourglass would trigger a sandstorm that would end the world. He fabricated the false allegations that Alamut had been dealing weapons to Persia's enemies so that he would have the opportunity to search the city for the Sandglass. The pair put aside their differences and agree to work together to protect the Dagger. Meanwhile, back in Persia, Nizam tries to convince Tus and Garsiv that Dastan is trying to overthrow them and must be killed. When this fails, Nizam hires the Hassansins, a group of highly skilled warriors who once served as hired killers for Persian royalty, to slay Dastan.

Dastan and Tamina are again captured by Sheik Amar and Seso, seeking to rebuild his ruined business by turning them in for a bounty. But that night, when everyone is asleep, the Hassansin leader attacks the group by controlling a number of vipers. Many of the group die, but Dastan uses the Dagger to rewind time and foreseeing the attack, manages to kill all the snakes and saves everyone. The Hassansin leader then leaves in a sand dervish. The next day, the pair accompanied by Sheik and Seso travel to the secret sanctuary in the mountains near India, where it is possible to seal away the Dagger. However, they run into Garsiv's men. Dastan manages to persuade his brother that he is innocent, only for Garsiv to be fatally wounded by a Hassansin. The Hassansins attack, killing many of the group, while their leader manages to snatch the Dagger of Time from Tamina. However, Dastan is saved from the last Hassansin by Garsiv, who then dies of his wounds.

The group returns to Alamut to reveal the truth about Nizam and the Dagger to Tus. Seso duels to the death with a Hassansin and is mortally wounded, though he manages to kill the Hassansin and get the Dagger to the others before dying. Dastan confronts Tus and explains the Dagger's mechanics to him and then kills himself; Tus brings Dastan back to life by rewinding time and realises his brother has been innocent all along. Soon after, however, Nizam arrives and kills Tus, leaving his Hassansin guard to kill Dastan. The Dagger is once again in Nizam's hands, but Dastan manages to defeat the Hassansin with Tamina's help. Nizam goes to the Sandglass caves beneath Alamut, as Dastan and Tamina take a more secret route. After a short battle with the Hassansins' leader, fatally wounding him and sending him plummeting to his death in a chasm, Dastan and Tamina kiss. They then reach Nizam before he can pierce the Sandglass with the Dagger, but he knocks Tamina and Dastan over the edge of the chasm. Dastan holds on to Tamina but she reveals that it is actually Dastan's destiny to stop Nizam, not her's, and releases her grip on his hand; Tamina professes her love for Dastan and then lets go, falling to her death. Driven to fight on, Dastan manages to pull himself up. Nizam stabs the Sandglass with the Dagger, but Dastan grabs a hold and opens the Dagger, rather than activating it, causing the Sands of Time to flow through freely, reversing time to when Dastan first obtained the Dagger, fully aware of all that occurred since. Dastan stops the siege of Alamut, revealing Nizam's treachery. Nizam attempts to kill Dastan, but is killed by Tus. After apologizing for the ransacking of her city, Tus suggests that perhaps Tamina should become Dastan's wife as a sign of good will. The Prince returns the Dagger of Time to her. The two take a walk together and Dastan expresses his feelings for her.
L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:
Due to time consuming, i got the story review from wikipedia. What do we expect a film based on a video game? Storyline? Nope, coz its predictable. What i look at is the effect and graphic. Obviously its good and nice. Jake Gyllenhaal still being hot, never wonders Gemma would be this hot :)

Wonder whether there will be a sequel for this prince of persia...

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Phobia 2 ห้าแพร่ง 2 (Ha Prang 2)

Released Year: 2009

Story:
1. Novice
Directed by Paween Purijitpanya

Casted by:
Jirayu Laongmanee as Pey

Pey is a naughty boy who went around with his friend and throw stones at passer by car's windscreen. In one incident, he killed his own father. To prevent him from sending to hell, the mother sent him to become a monk. But his guilt is too strong, unable to stand in a peaceful life in the temple, Pey ran away and was haunted by the father in the forest. After realizing his own fault, he has been cursed and transform to become a tree in the woods.
2. Ward
Directed by
Visute Poolvoralaks

Casted by:
Worrawech Danuwong as Arthit
Gacha Plienwithi as old man

Arthit was send to hospital after an accident. Though he request for a single room but he was placed next to an old man who's going to pass away soon. At night, spirit of the old man attacked him. Arthit asked help from nurse and hope to transfer to another ward but was rejected. Finally the horrible old man spirit took over Arthit's body. And this was plan by the old man's family and the nurse was into this too.
3. Backpackers
Directed by
Songyos Sugmakanan

Casted by:
Akiko Ozeki as Jap Girl
Charlie Trairat as Joi
Sutheerush Channukool as Driver
Theerneth Yuki Tanaka as Jap Boy

Young Japanese couple hitch-hiking from Samui to Bangkok and managed to get a truck. During the journey, weird sound came behind the truck. Driver and Joi went check out. Seems like Joi is a drug dealer who forced other to swallow plastic of cocaine and sell to the drug buyers. Behind the truck was a whole bunch of dead body with the cocaine inside their body. Jap boy found out and pointed them with pistol. But the dead body become zombie and attack and killed Jap Boy. The rest of them run but in the half way, driver was killed. Joi and Jap girl escape but Jap girl was fooled by a zombie boy and killed Joi. When Jap girl drove to the town, she realise the boy is a zombie too. Unable to killed the zombie boy, Jap girl was killed and zombie boy attack the city.
4. Salvage
Directed by Parkpoom Wongpoom

Casted by:
Nicole Theriault as Nuch
Peeratchai Roompol as Teoy

Nuch is a greedy 2nd car dealer. She bought over accident cars and remake them and sell it out. She lied to her customers about the origin of the cars. One night while guarding the shop, her son Teoy disappeared. Nuch gone crazy to look for him, but later on she realize all the car become damaged again. she met ghost who is burst of stomach, roll under the wheel and fall on to the top of the car. Nuch freaked off and escape by a car only she realised her son was stuck into the bonet and spin by the engine and died.
5. In The End
Directed by
Banjong Pisanthanakun

Casted by:
Phijitra Ratsameechawalit as Kate
Nuttapong Chartpong as Ter
Kantapat PermpoonPatcharasuk as Aey
Wiwat Krongrasri as Shin
Pongsatorn Jongwilas as Puak
Marsha Wattanapanich as Marsha

Ter, Aey, Shin & Puak are working for film shooting. Marsha is acted too over and cause everything to lack. Kate acted as the ghost was very sick but the director said the shooting must go on. Kate cannot stand it and fall unconscious. When Aey sent her to hospital, doctor told him that Kate is dead. In the shooting scene, Kate came back for her shot. But when they received Aey's call regarding Kate's dead, all the crew ran away and left them alone. To fulfill Kate's wish, they shot the film by themselves and ran away. They met Aey on half way and get him inside too. But just when they pass by a highway, they saw Aey's car in accident and was badly damaged. They thought Aey was dead too but it was a mistake. Kate appeared and told them she's not dead, but the doctor in hospital is twins and wrong information was given. Just when they thought everything is fine, Marsha driving sleepily and accidentally crashed into them and kill them all.
L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:
Basically a good horror film. Each story is about half an hour, so the storyline is not that important but the scary effect take the most important part in PHOBIA 2. Especially love the 4th story - Salvage. It really does bring out the scariness and spookiness of it.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

I Love You Philip Morris

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa

Casted by:
Jim Carrey as Steven Jay Russell
Ewan McGregor as Philip Morris
Rodrigo Santoro as Jimmy
Leslie Mann as DebbieStory:
Steve Russell has been marrying his wife Debbie for a few years with kids and always been living in a stable life as a good man. But deep inside his heart, he knows that he is gay and he likes man. On a car accident, Steve knows he has to live for his own. He came out to his wife and live his gay life in fullest.

He has a boyfriend name Jimmy whom he loves a lot. But being gay has been a high expenses life for him. Therefore, Steve started to become a conman and earn a lot of money to make Jimmy happy. But Jimmy does not know what Steve has been up to all the while until he was arrested. Jimmy was angry and sad about Steve. Steve in the meanwhile saw Philip in jail.

Philip the good looking blond has attracted Steve, but Philip was place in another group of cells. Steve tried very hard and finally able to impress Philip and move to stay in the same cell with Philip. Funny Steve has win Philip's heart straight ahead and both couple living happily together in the small little cell until Steve's has set free from jail.

Unable to forget Philip, Steve con again and help to get Philip away from jail. To let Philip stayed in a happy life, Steve con again and earn bunch of money to make their life a superb. But this does not last long as the con was found and Steve was once again put into jail. When he was in the police car, memory flashed back of Jimmy who's in hospital told him to make Steve's new lover a better guy and love him more. Steve wanted to love Philip more and he stab himself with drug. Sending to hospital instead of jail, Steve tried to escape but failed.

Philip same as Jimmy was frustrated with Steve's con life and ran away. Steve has to see Philip again, he pretended he is sick by vomiting out food everyday and become as thin as a skeleton. He con a worker to submit a sick report and stated that he has AIDS. He was then send to a lab for experiment purpose and announced his death to police station. Philip got the news and was sad but surprise to see Steve again. But Steve's con action failed and police came and arrested both of them.

Steve was put into jail for the rest of his life, 23 hours in a cell and only 1 hour for exercise and shower purpose. And Philip was released after a few years. This has ended the love affair of them.
L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:
OMG~ Jim Carrey & Ewan McGregor kiss!!! That's hot. Its not something new for McGregor coz i think he acted in a few gay character before, but this is definitely something new for Carrey. But if compare to acting, McGregor is much more better than Carrey as Carrey's acting style is very over all these while.

Bravo to Carrey for purposely slim down so much just for the film. Its a real legend which i found quite weird. If that man is so clever in con, he must be really really enjoying a superb life all these while.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Quarantine

Released Year: 2008
Directed by John Erick Dowdle

Casted by:
Jennifer Carpenter as Angela Vidal
Jay Hernandez as Jake
Steve Harris as Scott Percival
Story:
Angela and Scott is making a news regarding the life of the fire fighters. They followed Jake in the fire fighting car and went into a building. They bang a door of an old lady, she answered the door and started to attack. The residents begin to panic as the CDC quarantines the building.

Meanwhile, Angela interviews a little girl named Briana who lives with her mother and dog in the building. Briana is ill, and says that her dog is at the vet because he appeared to be sick as well. A health inspector, wearing a hazmat suit, arrives and attempts to treat the injured people who were bitten, but they too become fiercely violent.

The health inspector reveals that the previous day, a dog with an illness was taken to a local veterinarian. The dog became violent, and killed or infected the other pets at the clinic, later having them euthanized. The CDC used the dog's collar to trace his home back to the apartment building. The inspector tells the distraught residents that this unknown but virulent disease is infecting people and causing them to turn into bloodthirsty savages. More people in the building become infected, leaving Jake, Angela, and Scott to fight them off as they search for a way out.

Jake is eventually killed, and Angela and Scott appear to be the only human survivors, everyone else being either dead or infected. The two are forced upstairs to the attic-apartment, where they lock themselves in. They search the apartment and discover that the owner was charged with researching and isolating a suspected Armageddon virus for a cult. Unfortunately, the virus managed to mutate and become contagious, infecting the man.

The attic-apartment's tenant, now a ghoulishly emaciated figure, begins searching around, unaware of Angela and Scott's presence. They try to escape, but are viciously attacked by the man, leaving Scott dead. Angela tries to escape the room, but is attacked by the infected man and knocked down. As she crawls away slowly on the ground, she is suddenly dragged into the darkness, leaving her fate unknown.
L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:
This movie really make my nerve goes goosebump when i watched this in cinema 2 years ago. Watched it in DVD still freaked me out as well. Just imagine you're inside that building, trapped inside with infected zombies and blocked by polices from outside with no way to run.

Fuck, i would kill myself then~ 2 thumbs up. A must watch film for horror movie fans.

p/s: i jusr wrote part of the review, as i was so tensed and can't be able to write all of it. haha~

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Forbidden City Cop 大內密探零零發

Released Year: 1996
Directed by 谷德昭 Vincent Kuk & 周星馳 Stephen Chow

Casted by:
周星馳 Stephen Chow as 零零發 00 Fatt
刘嘉玲 Carina Lau as 嘉玲 Ling
李若彤 Carman Lee as 琴操 Kam
张达明 Tat Ming Zheung as 皇帝 Emperor
罗家英 Kar Ying Lo as 佛印 Yan
Story:
00 Fatt is under the special cop for the forbidden city. He together with 00 Kong, 00 Hei & 00 Choy is in one team serving the emperor for security problem. 00 Fatt worked as a doctor for woman illness. But 00 Fatt doesn't know any martial art which is the reason why he is shoo away by the emperor.

Ling as 00 Fatt wife is always gentle and soft, she listen everything to her husband. But 00 fatt who is only good in inventory is unable to tell his wife about this secret society which protect the emperor. All doctors are invited to a dissection of alien. The emperor went but suddenly was attacked by the evil gang. 00 Kong, 00 Hei & 00 Choy was killed and the emperor was caught. 00 fatt brought Ling over as well. During the dissection, a lot of doctors were killed, and they discover that the emperor was there too. 00 fatt used his inventories to save everybody including the emperor.

The emperor took 00 fatt back to the forbidden city again. He was gave a mission together with Yan to buy over the famous hooker Kam. Kam was a foreigner and very sexy and exotic. 00 Fatt almost fall for her too, but later discover she's pretended by one of the evil gang too. The evil is too strong and nobody can defeat her. Luckily a fake woman (emperor's spy) appeared and beat down the evil.

00 Fatt is very happy with his inventory and live happily together with Ling.
L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:
Continuous 2 films from Stephen Chow, this one is not as fantastic as "When Fortune Smiles". Though it is on top 3 of the Hong Kong Box Office, but the comedy is too lame. Not everything u can really laugh on. Basically the 2 actresses Carina and Carman is not good for comedy if compare to Sandra & Miu Siu Wai.

The storyline is kinda empty as well. Its ok, but definitely not gonna watch it again.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

When Fortune Smiles 無敵幸運星

Released Year: 1990
Directed by 陳友 Anthony Chan

Casted by:
周星馳 Stephen Chow as 幸運星 Lucky Vincent
吳君如 Sandra Ng as 垃圾鳳/曹飛飛 Rubbish Feng / Faye
黃秋生 Anthony Wong as 曹大 Chou
成奎安 Sing Kui-An as 曹二爺之子 Yee
梅小惠 Miu Siu Wai as 大嫂 Chou's wife
陳友 Anthony Chan as 黃幹探 Investigator Wong
Story:
Chou is angry on his father for not giving him even a penny on his will. All the money is arrange to give to his sister Fei Fei who's coming back from France soon. Chou force his father to change his will but his uncle came and shoo him away.

The uncle's son, Yee also planned to take a glance on the wealth. Chou arrange Rubbish Feng to pretend as his sister while Yee find Vincent to steal the will. Unable to work by himself, Vincent find Wong to work with him. But the mission failed, Vincent pretend to know Fei Fei (fake) by mistake. Feng forced to pretend too. And later on, both of them know each others are fake and they still willing to love each other and continue on this.

Chou buy over all Yee's gangster and betrayed Yee and his father. They are trapped in the fire, but luckily Chou's wife hint them the way to escape. Finally, Vincent and Wong managed to take down Chou and sent him to police.

Feng went back to her life as a rubbish collector, but Vincent still love her as always.
L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:
A very good comedy to laugh on Saturday night if you're not going anywhere, but just sit along with the one you love. Making it on top 10 in Hong Kong box office during 1990, one of Stephen Chow's hit movie that i love.

This time Stephen teamed up with his 2 favorite partners: Sandra from the cinema screen and Miu Siu Wai from his various TVB partner. Though Miu Siu Wai doesn't have much scene here, but enough to make u laugh out loud :)

Monday, June 14, 2010

Hantu

Released Year: 2007
Directed by Adrianto Sinaga

Casted by:
Oka Antara as Gali
Dwi Andhika as Ray
Dhea Ananda as Rinjani
Andhika Gumilang as Indra
Monique Henry as Maya
Story:
5 teenagers, decide to look for Telaga Setra Wingit inside a forest. They get lost in the journey when the bus driver abandoned them on the way. They make their camp in the forest and stay overnight. Indra and Maya is making out in the woods while Maya saw Rinjani accompanied by Gali out to the woods. In the meanwhile, Ray feel itchy for not being shower and went bathing in the river nearby.

While bathing, Ray saw a demon staring at him. Freaked out, Ray ran back and told Indra and Maya who has finish having sex. Indra told Ray to go back to the camp and sleep. The next morning, Gali was shocked Rinjani disappeared. Maya said she saw Rinjani and Gali was together the night before, but Gali declined the fact. Gali and Ray went out and searched for Rinjani almost and hour but then realize they got Rinjani just next to the camp.

The gang was arguing to went down the hill immediately, but Gali insisted to let Rinjani rest for a night first. But Rinjani suddenly laugh weirdly and pushed everybody away in an extremely strength and ran away. Gali and and Ray decided to look for Rinjani while Indra and Maya went down the hill and look for help.

Maya was suddenly possessed by the demon and try to kill Indra, while struggling Indra accidentally killed Maya. Gali and Ray went to a part and saw the Telaga which they are looking for. They are stunned by the beauty of it, but it was just an illusion from the demon. They suddenly saw the demon and ran away separately. Gali bumped into Indra who just killed Maya, both fight and fall into a dry hole. Inside the hole was full of skeleton, the demon appeared and Indra was killed by the demon on the spot while Gali was saved by Rinjani who appeared suddenly.

Rinjani brought Gali to a house nearby and let a granny take care of him. Ray in the meanwhile went to the dry hole too, he saw Indra was dead at there. Surprisingly, Rinjani's dead body is there too, unable to respond, demon strike and killed Ray too. Finally, Gali woke up from his sleep and the granny told him he was alone when he reached the house, seems like Rinjani's spirit has helped Gali to escape from the dry hole.
L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:
Its kinda spooky at first, not a bad movie. The director used the illusion style of the demon spirit in this movie, kinda has the chinese mythology feel. The whole movie's storyline is nice but its a bit confusing throughout the whole movie of which character has died or still alive.

Though i'm a Malaysian and this is an Indonesian film, but the indonesian slang is too strong, i didnt managed to get their words, so i need to read the malay subtitle along the whole movie... lolz~ not a bad one

Sunday, June 13, 2010

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Tom Six

Casted by:
Dieter Laser as Dr. Heiter
Ashely C. Williams as Lindsay
Ashlynn Yennie as Jennie
Akihiro Kitamura as Katsuro
Story:
Dr Heiter is sad of losing his great job of forming a Siamese triplet at his dog. He decided to use human beings as his experiment. He aimed at his first target, a truck driver and gave him a shot.

Lindsay and Jennie are New Yokers who travel around with a rented car in Europe. They wanted to attend a party but get lost in woods after their car tyre's broke down. They happened to bump into Dr Heiter's house and the psycho surgeon doctor decided to used these 2 beautiful girls as her experiments too. But the fat truck driver is no match for the 2 beautiful ladies, that why Dr Heiter killed him and replace a japanese guy on it.

Dr Heiter explained how the surgery will go. Three of them will sealed together to form a human centipede. The 2nd person will has he/her mouth sealed to the 1st person ass while the 3rd person will has he/her mouth on the 2nd person's ass. 2nd and 3rd person will be feed by the 1st person shit to survive. Before the surgery, Lindsay struggled and escape, she tried to take Jennie who is unconscious away, but finally she was caught too. After a few hours of surgery, the human centipede was formed.

The japanese guy is the head while Lindsay being the center part and Jennie on the end. Dr Heiter try to trained them to obey but Katsuro (jap guy) disobey him and all of them get beat up. While checking how the human centipede health, Dr Heiter found out Jennie is not doing well, and might find a replacement for her.

2 police officers arrive at this time, they questioned Dr Heiter regarding the rented car nearby. Dr Heiter tried to drug the 2 officers just like how he did it to Lindsay and Jennie but they gone away to get warrants back. Dr Heiter got freaked out and tried to remove the human centipede away and discover they are not in room. Katsuro appeared beside doorways and stabbed Dr Heiter's foot and leg. The 3 poor things crawled and tried to ran out but Dr Heiter get them back. Feeling insulted, Katsuro cut off his throat and died.

The 2 police officers are back and try to catch Dr Heiter after discovering the human centipede. But the drug get to the brain in time, one of the police officer was shot by Dr Heiter. When the another police officer reached, he was shot to death while firing a gun shot through Dr Heiter's head and cause him to die on the spot.

Jennie's getting weak and die, leaving poor Lindsay in the center part of the human centipede while Katsuro die in the front and Jennie die at her back.
L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:
Urrggghhh... i really don't know how to talk about this film, it is such a sadistic thingy. It makes me feel so horrified, and just imagine if you're in one of the centipede part, eww... i rather die !!!

But yes, it definitely shows what a horror film should be. Good work to the Six family for producing such a nice film for a horror movie fans like me... definitely looking forward on the sequel :)