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The Bodyguard from Beijing 中南海保鑣

2012-02-02T09:27:00.002+08:00

Released Year: 1994
Directed by 元奎 Corey Yuen

Casted by:
李連杰 Jet Li as 許正陽 Allan
鍾麗緹 Christy Chung as 楊倩兒 Michelle
鄭則仕 Kent Cheng as 肥波 Charlie
倪星 Collin Chou as 王建軍 Wang Weng Jun
梁榮忠 Leung Wing Chung as 阿強 Ken
伍衛國 Ng Wai Kok as 宋世昌 James
Story:

Known by few, there exists an elite corp of international bodyguards based in China. Allan Hui Ching-yeung is one of their most promising members known for his highly unorthodox methods, such as pointing a gun at a client's head. Although his methods are anti-trust building, his decisions are usually right.

When a wealthy man's girlfriend, Michelle Yeung becomes the only surviving (of three) witness of a mob murder, Allan is hired to deal with the many attempts on her life. After isolating her completely in her penthouse with her young nephew and two Hong Kong policemen, Charlie Leung Kam-Po and Ken, he has to deal with her anger at being sequestered.

Meantime the mob boss becomes desperate to off this last witness to her murder before his upcoming court date. He hires a deadly Chinese assassin Wang Wen Jun and calls in sick to postpone the court date. All the while Michelle goes berserk as she is not allowed any freedom (such as going to the mall) with Allan being equally fed up at not being able to join the Chinese Premier's bodyguard detail in Southern China. Michelle eventually storms out of the estate. This turns ugly as the mall is crawling with mob assassins dressed as mall clerks, custodians, patrons, and police officers.

After a massive shoot-out inside the mall killing all would-be assassins, they manage to get out to the car. However, an assassin posing as a police officer comes to shoot her with a pistol in his jacket pocket. Fortunately, Charlie stops him and is shot twice in his bulletproof vest. In response, Allan fires several shots from the car killing the perpetrator. The plot gets ugly as the "police officer" turns out to be the younger brother of the Chinese Assassin, who helped save him from a bullet while they were both serving in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He abducts the body from the police morgue killing five forensic centre guards with a tri-bladed bayonet. Burying the body and tossing paper money into the flames, he swears vengeance against the bodyguard.

Meanwhile back at the penthouse, Michelle finally begins to understand that her bodyguards care for her. After apologizing to Allan, she finds that she is falling for him and tries to seduce him. Allan also has some feelings towards Michelle as she tries to seduce him, but held his feelings. Finally, things come to a climax when the a group of assassins and Jun storm the house. Fighting in the house, Allan holds the advantage of being familiar with the house's layout. He takes out most of the assailants leaving only Jun standing but not before they severely wound the two policemen.

With no one left to stop them, Jun and the bodyguard engage in a long hand to hand fight, trashing most of the house. During the melee, the boyfriend enters the house just as Jun recovers his gun. Michelle breaks cover to hold up a stumbling Allan who had been bayoneted in the left lung. Jun points the gun at all three of them asking her to choose who should die first. The boyfriend makes an offer to double whatever he was being paid for the hit in exchange for her life which the assassin refuses. He says his brother was shot seven times, and he intends to put seven bullets into somebody as retribution but then adds, "Perhaps you could pay someone to take the bullet for her?". Allan steps forward as Jun fires a shot at Michelle.

The shot hits Allan in the chest causing him to fall back into Michelle's arms. "One down, six more to go." Jun says and fires again. Impossibly Michelle tries to shield Allan with her body only to have him struggle up pushing her away. The bullet hits him in the back spinning him around. As he spins toward Jun, he uses the last of his strength to pull the bayonet from his chest and throw it into the assassin's neck. The scene ends with Michelle holding the convulsing Allan and crying inconsolably.

With the danger over and the court concluded, we see Michelle and her boyfriend driving to the Chinese/Hong Kong border. The boyfriend, James, was given a note by Allan stating that he needs to be there for her. At the border they try to get Allan to stay in Hong Kong with them. However they are barred from setting foot on Chinese soil pass the checkpoint. As per his wishes, two items were left for them in Hong Kong. The first was the trunk full of money paid by James to Allan which he wills to the police chief. In it is a note, that the money is for his son's education and that the chief shouldn't gamble anymore. Lastly there was a small box for Michelle. The box had his watch which were usually swapped between persons as mementos of the person. Michelle remembers and cries 'Allan' as his car drives away from the border checkpoint back into China.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

This is a good film, no matter how many times i watch it, i still like it a lot. The scene that i like the most will be the one in shopping mall when Jet Li rescue Christy from being assassinate. I got so gan cheong everytime~ lol... And the scene when Christy try to seduce him on bed~ phew, that one is good too. But too bad our super action star Jet Li never has any bed scene before in all of his movie, what a waste~

Old Dogs

2012-01-31T08:54:00.001+08:00

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Walt Becker

Casted by:
Robin Williams as Dan Rayburn
John Travolta as Charlie Reed
Kelly Preston as Vicki Greer
Seth Green as Craig White
Ella Bleu Travolta as Emily Greer
Conner Rayburn as Zach Greer
Story:

Dan Rayburn and Charlie Reed are best friends and co-owners of a successful sports marketing firm. Seven years prior, Dan, recently divorced, married Vicki after being whisked away by Charlie for a tropical vacation. The wedding, however, is short lived. Seven years later, Vicki resurfaces to tell Dan that their short marriage resulted in something he never suspected: twins Zach and Emily.

Vicki, facing jail time for her work as an environmental activist, asks Dan to take care of the kids while she does her time. Thinking this might be his chance to get back with Vicki, Dan agrees, but only if Charlie will help him since neither have any experience taking care of kids. At the same time, the two must finalize a huge marketing deal with a Japanese company; something they've always dreamed of, but will take all of their talents to clinch.

Because Dan's condo does not allow children, he has to board with Charlie. Whilst this is happening, Charlie and Dan are close to securing the biggest account in the history of their careers with a Japanese corporation. Charlie and Dan's attempts to take care of the kids are well-intentioned, but very misguided. On a trip with the kids to an overnight camp, a hard-nosed camp instructor becomes convinced that Dan and Charlie are homosexual partners. The trip ends with a bang after Dan accidentally sets a beloved statue of the camp's founder on fire. The kids then proceed to spill and replace Charlie and Dan's prescriptions, mixing them up in the process. Dan then must play a game of golf with the Japanese executives while experiencing extreme side effects and Charlie tries to woo Amanda with a face frozen by the pills.

Desperate to help Dan communicate with the children despite his inexperience with children, Charlie recruits his friend Jimmy Lunchbox, a flamboyant children's entertainer, who is famous around the world. Jimmy comes by and straps Dan and Charlie in motion control puppet suits so Charlie can help Dan make all the right moves with his daughter while having a tea party. The suits malfunction, but Dan speaks from the heart, winning over Emily but his speech makes Jimmy emotional. Everything is great with Vicki as she returns home. However, the guys have sealed their Japanese deal, sending junior associate Craig to Tokyo. When Craig goes missing after arriving there, Charlie and Dan must fly to Tokyo themselves to work. Dan must leave the kids and Vicki despite his (and their) desire to be a family.

Once in Tokyo, Dan realizes that what he really wants is to be a good father. He leaves the meeting without sealing the deal, rushing with Charlie to Vermont for the kids' birthday party. They aren't able to get into the Burlington Zoo in time and are forced to break in with the help of Craig. However, they mistakenly wind up in the gorilla enclosure. Though Dan and Charlie escape, Craig is captured by the gorilla (which takes a strong liking to him). Dan then pays a birthday party performer hired by Vicki to use his jet pack and suit, flies into the ceremony and wins his kids back over. When the jet pack stops working in mid-air, he is taken to an ambulance on a stretcher. One year later, Dan and Vicki are together, Charlie has married Amanda, and Craig has become like a new "uncle" to the kids.

L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

A film tribute to John Travolta's son who passed away & Bernie Mac who has his final movie before he passed away too. But seriously, the movie can only be consider ok. Nothing special about this and Robin Williams is definitely too old to make us laugh anymore :( I just feel pathetic watching these 2 old man trying to do something which totally not funny at all~

Love Is The Only Answer 人約離婚後

2012-01-30T09:16:00.003+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 葉念琛 Patrick Kong

Casted by:
佘詩曼 Charmaine Sheh as 寶 Bou
方力申 Alex Fong as 強 Ryan
羅仲謙 Him Law as 世傑 Kit
傅嘉莉 Kelly Fu as 曼麗 Lei
陳嘉寶 Anjaylia Chan as 蘇麗珍 Christy
陳智燊 Jason Chan as 威 Jason
Story:

One month before Bou & Ryan's wedding, Bou discovered Ryan's love making film and decided to show it in their wedding and call it off. One year later, Ryan still on and off need Bou's help to get rid off his one night stand lover.

Once, Ryan request Bou to participate the "Changing Partner" function and they met another couple Kit & Lei. Ryan is luring at Lei and have sex with her while Bou storm away from the function. Kit happened to went to Bou's fruit stall and met her, both of them enjoy each company of having desert. But Bou discovered Kit still miss his ex girlfriend instead of Lei. Later on as time goes by, Ryan get jealous of Bou being so close Kit. In the meanwhile, Ryan's staff Christy loss her baby.

Kit asked Bou to attend a function with him, and it seems like its Kit's elder brother's wedding. Bou was shocked when she realize Lei is not Kit's wife but sister instead. They fake as a couple to participate the "changing partner" event earlier on. In the wedding, Jason announce to call off the wedding and said that Ryan has steal Christy away. In the end, they realize this is only a beautiful mistake. In hospital, Ryan and Bou finally make up. Bou broke off with Kit by telling him that he's not bad enough for her to love him.

The story ends as Kit become a bad guy and try to cheat every woman he met...

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

This is not bad, quite new to me. Though most of the actresses/actors are from tvb, but acting in a drama series and big screen can be quite different. Of course Charmaine has used to it, but surprisingly Him Law is not bad too. Beside showing his good-good-guy image, he was not naked!!! i thought that the production will request him strip to earn more viewing for this movie~ lol... And Alex Fong as a playboy is a new thing on movie (though not in real life :P)

The Smurfs

2012-01-27T09:22:00.003+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Raja Gosnell

Casted by:
Neil Patrick Harris as Patrick Winslow
Jayma Mays as Grace Winslow
Hank Azaria as Gargamel

Voiced by:
Jonathan Winters as Papa Smurf
Anton Yelchin as Clumsy Smurf
Katy Perry as Smurfette
Fred Armisen as Brainy Smurf
Alan Cumming as Gutsy Smurf
George Lopez as Grouchy Smurf.
Story:

As Smurfs get ready for the Blue Moon Festival, Papa Smurf sees in his cauldron a vision of Clumsy Smurf reaching for a dragon wand and the Smurfs in cages while Gargamel laughs. Not wanting this vision to come true, Papa Smurf refuses to allow Clumsy to pick Smurf Roots, but Clumsy disobeys Papa Smurf and ends up unintentionally leading Gargamel and Azrael to the village. The Smurfs all flee for their lives while Clumsy unknowingly runs towards the Forbidden Falls, with Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Grouchy, Brainy and Gutsy running after him. They find him at the edge of a cliff, and while trying to help him up, they are sucked into a gigantic vortex that spirits them to present day New York City. To make matters worse, Gargamel and Azrael follow and the Smurfs end up in the apartment of Patrick and Grace Winslow, a married and expectant couple and their Basset Hound Elway. After clarifying things, the Winslows befriend them and allow them to stay in their apartment. The next day, needing to find a "star gazer", the Smurfs follow Patrick to his work place at Anjelou Cosmetics before he calls Grace to pick them up.

However, having extracted "Smurf essence" from a lock of Smurfette's hair, Gargamel also arrives and ends up being treated by Patrick's boss Odile upon using most of his acquired magic to turn her mother young. But Gargamel resumes his search upon recognizing Patrick and following him to the toy store where the Smurfs ran into after finding their star gazer, a telescope. The Winslows manage to save the Smurfs from both the children wanting them and Gargamel, who ends up being sent to jail before he manages to bust out with the aid of house flies. By that time, Papa Smurf manages to calculate the night he and the others can get home. But first, he must figure out the spell to do so. Patrick tells them that there is an old book store in the city near Anjelou Cosmetics as he bonds with the Smurfs after sending what he believed to be his finished advertisement to be published. However, the next day, Patrick learns that Clumsy accidentally attached a blue-moon themed side project and he loses his temper before walking out on both the Smurfs and Grace to save his job.

Forced to search on their own, the Smurfs find the store and find the book L’Histoire de Schtroumpfs by researcher Peyo, containing the spell to turn the moon blue. But learning of their location, Gargamel sneaks into the book store and finds the dragon wand from Papa Smurf's vision, transfering his magic into it as he uses it to capture Papa Smurf as he sends the others to safety. Though the Smurfs promised Papa Smurf that they won't try to save him and return home, Clumsy and Patrick, having saw the error of his actions, convince them to plan a rescue. At Belvedere Castle, after increasing the dragon wand's power with bits of Papa Smurf's beard, Gargamel finds himself facing all the Smurfs that were summoned to New York by Brainy conjuring the blue moon. As the Smurf army battles Gargamel, Smurfette fights Azrael and saves Papa Smurf before they join the fray. Though Gargamel attempts to break the Smurfs by killing off Papa Smurf, Patrick save him while Gutsy knocks the dragon wand out of the wizard's hand. Clumsy tries to catch it, and to Papa Smurf's surprise, manages to catch it and send Gargamel flying into a trash can and being hit by a bus with the advertisement "Blue Moon" with it before Papa Smurf breaks it. Soon after, the Smurfs take their leave as Patrick receives a call from Odile that he still has his job. Later, while Patrick and Grace have a baby boy, whom they name Blue to honor them, the Smurfs rebuild their village in the style of New York, where the Winslows reside. Meanwhile, Gargamel and Azrael are still trapped in New York.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

La la la la la la, this is a happy song :) I smurf this movie so much since i was small, i remember i smurf the comic & i smurf the cartoon... there was non stop smurfing smurf smurf until i go into high school. I know i smurf this movie when it was on the big screen, its because i'm so damn smurf, i dont have time to smurf in the cinema that time... When i was smurf, then only i realize the smurf was not smurfing on the cinema anymore!!! How smurfty sad...

Oh well, i don't know what i m smurfing now... do u smurf understand what smurf language i'm smurfing now? :P

Doghouse

2012-01-26T09:26:00.002+08:00

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Jake West

Casted by:
Stephen Graham as Vince
Danny Dyer as Neil
Noel Clarke as Mikey Mouse
Lee Ingleby as Matt. Character
Keith-Lee Castle as Patrick
Emil Marwa as Graham
Neil Maskell as Banksy
Terry Stone as Sergeant Gavin Wright
Story:

Vince is depressed over his divorce. Six of his friends, all faced with their own women problems, decide to take him on a trip to a village called Moodley where the women are meant to outnumber the men "4:1" for a "boys' weekend".

Arriving at the town, the boys find that it seems way too quiet and still. An exploration around the town reveals that something is amiss - "Where are the women?". The boys decided to head back to the bus and look for another joint. Along the way, they notice a hooded girl , they reach for change to give to her but she is suddenly tackled by a man in military uniform. They rush to her aid and in the confusion of the moment, the hooded teen takes the soldier's knife and stabs Neil through his hand and the friends begin to realize what is happening. They run for the bus dragging the unconscious soldier with them but Candy, their once-hot bus driver has already become infected and blocks their escape.

More infected women appear and begin to attack them as they retreat to Mikey's nans's house. They conclude that the virus only affects women, Neil puns it must be "bird flu" and airborne since Candy had not even left the bus. The soldier admits that the town has been infected by a biological agent that turns women into man-hating cannibals.

The men make another attempt to get on the bus, the group nominate Neil to lure Candy away since, quoting himself, "women love him". They manage to distract Candy long enough to get on the bus but only to be scared down from it by two more of the infected. They scatter about the village, hiding in a toy store, a clothes shop, and the butcher shop. Patrick gets trapped on a billboard. Neil runs into a house after having outsmarted a couple of women-things, thinking he is safe but is knocked unconscious. He awakes, the prisoner of a morbidly obese woman who cuts off his little finger and eats it, all in the spirit and symbolism of castration.

Eventually our boys are chased into the village's Church and ironically, discover a military command centre. Matt, the resident geek, powers up the computers and they talk briefly to local politician Meg Nut. They realise Meg Nut had been involved somehow in the distribution of the toxin disguised as biological washing powder. The soldier finds a control box and explains it is a sonar device designed to emit a high pitched sound only women can hear and only works on Phase 2 monsters leaving them stunned. The clock chimes and all the infected turn into "Phase 2" monsters which are faster, more intelligent and weirder. Apparently, the device did not work as the soldier is killed by Mikey's nan who wields a pair of gardening shears. Matt bludgeons the monster-nan to death with a golf club as the friends hold back a protesting Mikey. Traumatized by what he has done, Matt walks off to 'cool it off' and is killed by a "Phase 2" monster which had appeared from the basement of the Church.

The boys decide to try the basement as a route of escape only to stumble into the 'Nest' of the infected where the bodies of men had been piled up for food storage. The group is chased out of the basement and onto the Church's roof. Banksy eventually arrive at Moodley. Oblivious to what has been happening, he believes his friends to be high on drugs. They send him to fetch a ladder to help them escape from the church roof. Noticing the infected for the first time, Banksy finally understands the seriousness of the situation. Graham is knocked off the ladder to the ground by the obese woman, who then proceeds to jump off the roof, onto him. Banksy leads the surviving group to his vehicle but the ride turns out to be a buggy or a small Smart car, definitely not big enough for all of them. Tempers flare and Patrick tries to get all of them to see bigger problem. As he speaks he is attacked and dies a messy, bloody death.

Banksy is killed at the minibus. The remaining three Vince, Neil, and Mikey, finally got aboard the minibus. There, Vince has an epiphany and begins a speech. He berates Neil and Mikey who treat their women poorly but get away with it when men like him and their dead friends, behave how women say they want, only to be discarded or killed. He has had enough of it and from then on, his life is going to be "what you see is what you get". As they finally escape the town, the voice of Graham crackles over the walkie-talkie. He had been dragged to a pile of bodies and left for dead in the 'Nest' under the church. The boys are determined to go back for him. As Graham makes his way out from the church he discovers the control box and machine behind the stun device and reconnects the power. With the working stun device the men are able to stop the women in their tracks. Neil plays around with it for a bit and throws the device to give the Vince a turn at it, but he missed and it breaks. The infected are once again unleashed and pushing the injured Graham in a shopping trolley, the four make a run for it, laughing.

L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

This is quite a nice UK film to watch, but the reason of these woman become zombie was not told in the movie; the reason why they attacked man was not told; why they get stunned when they heard some frequency tone was not told... For the sake of all these, giving 4.5 for such movie, i felt that i'm kind... :P

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

2012-01-25T09:14:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2010
Directed by David Slade

Casted by:
Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan
Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen
Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black
Bryce Dallas Howard as Victoria
Xavier Samuel as Riley Biers
Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale
Story:

Riley Biers is attacked and bitten by Victoria, in order to begin creating an army of newborns set to destroy Bella Swan. Back in Forks, Edward Cullen and Bella discuss the complications of becoming an immortal vampire. At 18 years old, one year older than the age Edward was when he became a vampire, Bella expresses her aversion to the idea of marrying so young, though Edward refuses to turn her until they are married and she's had various human experiences she would otherwise miss. While Charlie Swan investigates the disappearance of Riley Biers, Edward suspects his disappearance was caused by the newborn vampires. Furthering his suspicions is the intrusion of Riley into Bella's room.

Although Edward fears for her safety, Bella insists that Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) and the rest of the werewolf pack would never harm her, but Edward is still not convinced. Bella goes to La Push to see Jacob, and returns home unharmed. During one of her visits, Jacob confesses that he is in love with Bella, and forcefully kisses her. Mad, she punches him and breaks her hand, and Edward later threatens to break Jacob's jaw. Bella even revokes the invitations of Jacob and his pack members to her graduation party, but when Jacob apologizes for his behavior, she forgives him.

Meanwhile, Alice sees a vision that the newborn army is attacking Forks led by Riley Biers. Jacob, accompanied by Quil and Embry overhear this, which leads to an alliance between the Cullens and Wolf pack. Later, the Cullens and the wolves agree to a meeting place and time to train and discuss strategy. During the training Jasper explains to Bella that he was created by a vampire named Maria to control a newborn army. He hated his original existence and upon meeting Alice, joined the Cullens with her. Bella sees the true bond between a mated vampire pair and begins to understand Jasper better. Despite her reluctance to marry, Bella realizes that spending eternity with Edward is more important to her than anything else and agrees to marry him. Edward and Bella camp up in the mountains to hide Bella from the bloodthirsty newborns. During the night, Bella overhears a conversation between Edward and Jacob, in which they temporarily put aside their hatred towards each other. In the morning, Jacob overhears Edward and Bella discussing their engagement and becomes very upset. Before he can run off to get himself killed in the fight with the newborns, Bella desperately asks him to kiss her, and she realizes that she has fallen in love with him. Edward finds out about the kiss but is not angry, as Bella says she loves him more than Jacob.

Victoria eventually finds Bella's hiding spot, and Edward kills her while Seth kills Riley. The Cullens and the Quileute wolves, meanwhile, destroy her "army", though Jacob is injured saving Leah Clearwater from a newborn. Several members of the Volturi arrive to deal with the newborn army. They also see that the Cullens are guarding the newborn, Bree Tanner, who had refused to fight and surrendered to Carlisle. Jane tortures Bree to get information, then instructs Felix to kill her, despite the Cullens' efforts to spare her. When Jane notes that Caius will find it interesting that Bella is still human, Bella informs her that the date for her transformation has been set. Bella visits the injured Jacob to tell him that even though she is in love with him, she has chosen to be with Edward. Saddened by her choice, Jacob reluctantly agrees to stop trying to come between her and Edward.

Bella and Edward go to their meadow, where she tells him she has decided to do things his way: get married, make love, then be transformed into a vampire. She also explains that she never has been normal and never will be; she's felt out of place her entire life, but when she is in Edward's world she feels stronger and complete. At the end of the story they decide they need to tell Charlie about their engagement.

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

Well well, what do we have here? This 3rd movie is worse than the first 2 twilight movie. I know i should have watch it in the cinema as how i promised u guys in 2010, but i didn't coz i really not attracted to Kristen Stewart. For me, her acting is still suck in this movie, expresionless and helpless...

I thought that Dakota Fanning is gonna appear more in this movie, but she did not :( The only exciting part was when the 3 vampires fighting on the snowhill, the rest~ yawn!!!

Flypaper

2012-01-22T09:23:00.004+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Rob Minkoff

Casted by:
Patrick Dempsey as Tripp
Ashley Judd as Kaitlin/ Alexis Black
Tim Blake Nelson as Peanut Butter
Pruitt Taylor Vince as Jelly
Octavia Spencer as Madge Wiggins
Matt Ryan as Gates
Jeffrey Tambor as Gordon Blythe/ Vercallious Drum
Mekhi Phifer as Darrien

Story:

A man named Tripp is caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank. One crew is more professional (Gates, Darrien & Weinstein), the other crew consists of two men who call themselves Peanut Butter and Jelly. Tripp desperately tries to protect teller Kaitlin with whom he is secretly in love. When a man is found murdered, the two crews deny any involvement which causes Tripp to believe they are all getting ambushed by a higher power. Both crews, Tripp, and the hostages all try to stay alive on their own terms.

During the robbery, a FBI agent was shot by Weinstein. To find out the truth, Tripp try to solve the reason and lead out a lot of mysteries behind the truth. Seems like Mitchell (the security system advisor) has sold out the upgrading security system time (this time the bank will be out of security system protection) to Weinstein but Peanut Butter & Jelly just happened to come and rob at the same time. Being silly and clueless how to rob a bank professionally, they pissed off Darrien and Weinstein almost killed Jelly (just shot his earlobe). When things get even messy after Weinstein and Mitchell was found to shot each other to death in a room & the swiss miss (a hot lady who work as a swiss bank spy) was killed too. Darrien fed up with this and try to burn down the gold storage but accidentally burn himself to death.

Later on, Tripp & Kaitlin found out a night mask in the gent's toilet and set a trip to catch the Vercallious Drum who they believe will kill all the hostages after he got the money. After switching off the light, the gunshooting started and Gates was killed. The lights on and everyone discovered Gordon (The banker) is actually Vercallious Drum, all the others shot him although he offered money to share with them. After that, they offered Peanut Butter & Jelly the money so that they can left.

The movie ended when the police officers help to send all hostages out, including Kaitlin & her wedding gift. But Kaitlin found Tripp inside her car and discover her deep secret. Seems like Kaitlin is Alexis Black, the criminal of robbery (ranked top 4 in the FBI's side) and all her wedding gifts are full of cash (Alexis put all the money in when the lights are off). Tripp & Kaitlin both fall in love with each other and decided to share the money together.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

I can't stop myself but give lots of credits to the script writer & producers of this film :) The whole storyline is damn complicated yet i find it so interesting and fun to watch. Of course the acting of Dempsey & Judd is not to be doubt, but i quite like Matt Ryan. He's so cute and his slang is absolutely sexy :) Love this Welsh actor a lot~

The Ghost Must Be Crazy! 鬼也笑

2012-01-18T08:26:00.004+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 李国煌 Mark Lee & Boris Boo 巫培双

Story:

1. 鬼才给你off
The Ghost need a leave

Casted by:
鍾耀南 John Cheng as Nan
王雷 Wang Lei as Lei
周崇庆 Dennis Chew as Chan
蔡恩来 Tsai En Lai as Sarjan

Nan, Lei & Chan are recruited back for the national service for the last time. Nan & Fei use a lot of stupid excuses to get out from the training but was rejected by the Sarjan. But Chan has internal injury and was rejected too. Nan & Lei heard that the Encik who incharge for the dorm was dead in a horrible accident but it was a fake.

During the night training, Encik met ghosts (faked by Nan & Lei) and reported to Sarjan. This scared Chan and he fainted. Encik send Chan to medics and met accident, Encik saw Chan is dead and ran back to report to the Sarjan. While Sarjan is scolding Encik, Chan's spirit return and take revenge on Sarjan who force him to training.

Encik told Nan & Lei about the accident and the three of them dry downhill. They saw the accident, and found out Encik was also passed away in the crucial accident as well.

2.鬼才嫁给你
Ghost only marry you

Casted by:
程旭辉 Henry Thia as Hui
李国煌 Mark Lee as Hai/Juan

Hui was in bad luck, he met Hai and Hai bring him to borrow some luck from the spirit. Hai promise to the spirits that he will burn back something to the spirit if he get rich. On the cemetery, Hui saw an angpow. Being greedy, he picked it up even though Hai warn him not to. Inside the angpow, there's a jade bracelet and together with 2 4d numbers. And Hui say this is fate for him.

Striking the first and second place on 4d, Hui was rich but he spend all his money on woman and gambling. After a gamble, Hui was attacked by the spirit because he did not do what he has promise the spirit. Hui asked Hai to help, Hai told him the jade bracelet he picked actually belongs to a woman ghost name Juan. Hui promise to marry Juan who will help him to strike rich again. But it turn out Juan is a nyonya transexual ghost (it was Hai). Under no help, Hui married Juan and have sex with Juan.

On the street, Hui was knocked off by a car and dead. His spirit has to follow Juan away.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

For me, this is quite a good black comedy film to enjoy. Though a lot of Singaporean themselves doesn't like the second story, but for me its quite good. "Don't ever make a deal with the devil, you will need to pay off"~ this is so real. Though a lot of people don't believe the exist of spiritual, but we have to pay them respect anyway~ beware :P

Sleeping with the Dead 枕边凶灵

2012-01-17T09:17:00.003+08:00

Released Year: 2002
Directed by 郑伟文 Wei-wen Cheng

Casted by:
陈小春 Jordan Chan as David
林熙蕾 Kelly Lin as Cindy
陈敏之 Man Chi Chan as David's wife
雷宇扬 Simon Loui as Detective Cheung
Story:

David is stress out from his work as a doctor and was depress after his beloved mother passed away. He met Cindy in a bad and have sex with her. 2 man fall from tall building, Detective Cheung went for investigating and discover these 2 man is his long lost friends.

Actually, Detective Cheung, David, Cindy and the 4 other man are best friend. The 4 guys rape Cindy in one event and killed her and buried her behind a brick wall. Cindy was back for revenge which include David & Detective Cheung. David and Detective Cheung went back to the scene and discover Cindy's corpse. The spirit came out and explained her reason for revenge.

In the meanwhile, David thought his wife is fooling around with his friend, but actually the wife has already passed away. Her spirit is back just to take care of David.

L² Scored: 0.5/10

L² Comment:

The title of this movie attracted my attention, but the movie is lame. The pace is slow and the scene is not scary/horrible. Just a plain boring horror movie, yawn~

Mr. Deeds

2012-01-16T09:10:00.003+08:00

Released Year: 2002
Directed by Steven Brill

Casted by:
Adam Sandler as Longfellow Deeds
Winona Ryder as Babe Bennett alias Pam Dawson
Story:

Preston Blake started out in his career hoping to be a disc jockey as a young man, slowly working his way up through the ranks to found Blake Media, a corporation running hundreds of television and radio stations and with 50 thousand employees. After Blake freezes to death at the summit of Mount Everest with a triumphant smile on his face, a search for his heir begins.

When it is found that he has a living nephew named Longfellow Deeds who runs a pizzeria in New Hampshire, Deeds is contacted and brought to New York City by attorney & businessman Chuck Cedar. Plans are made for Deeds to sell his shares in the company to Cedar and return home $40 billion richer, but he must remain in New York for a few days as all the legal details are worked out.

The story is major news, and reporter Babe Bennett, who works for a tabloid show called Inside Access, has a friend pretend to steal her purse in sight of Deeds, because their research indicated Deeds wanted to meet a girl by saving her, the same way his father had met his mother. Deeds rescues her (as well as mercilessly beating her "robber") and she continues to go out with him under the disguise of Pam Dawson, a school nurse from Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa (a town she made up on the spot when asked where she was from, which later turns out to be a real place (Syosset, New York).

Though Pam initially hopes to just get a good story on the new heir, she eventually falls for the unfailingly kind-hearted Deeds, and decides to tell him that she's not who she says she is, but Inside Access, in concert with Cedar (fed the truth by the "robber", still suffering from the effects of Deeds "saving" Bennett) reveals it to Deeds first. Heartbroken, and upset, Deeds decides to return home to Mandrake Falls after giving $40 Billion of his money he inherits to the United Negro College Fund (much to the surprise of the chairman, who has a heart attack). After returning to Mandrake Falls, he learns from Crazy Eyes that Chuck Cedar intends to sell off the company, which will cause thousands of people to lose their jobs. Babe visits Deeds in Mandrake Falls and tries to win him back. He rejects her saying he doesn't really know who she is.

At a shareholders meeting, Cedar has everyone convinced to sell the company, until Deeds (who has bought a single share) arrives and manages to convince everyone to not sell. But Cedar has control of a majority of the shares and the sale is approved. Babe arrives, and reveals that Blake's butler, Emilio (John Turturro), is Preston Blake's illegitimate son (at one point he had told Deeds that Blake treated him "like a son"), and the true heir.

As a result, Deeds' sale of his shares to Cedar is not legal. Emilio immediately takes control and fires Cedar, as well as the entire top brass at the company, with the exception of Cecil Anderson , a good-hearted executive who had befriended Deeds (when he asks to remain, Emilio leaves the decision to Deeds, who quickly says yes). Babe reveals herself to Deeds and apologizes for tricking him, and they reconcile and Deeds falls in love again. As they're leaving, Emilio thanks Deeds for his support and asks how he can repay him. Deeds says that all he wants is his friendship. Emilio ends up giving Deeds a billion dollars, some of which Deeds spends on Corvettes for the entire town, and he returns to Mandrake Falls with his new wife Babe, where he learns that Hallmark Cards has bought one of his cards, the one he wrote for Babe.

The film includes several references to the novel (or its resultant movie) To Kill a Mockingbird. For example, Pam Dawson invents a story about falling out of old Boo Radley's apple tree and breaking her arm. Dawson also greets a woman as "Mrs. Finch" and her dog as "Atticus"; Atticus Finch was the father of Scout and Jem in To Kill a Mockingbird. Dawson also claims to become sexually excited by fire, which may be a reference to the burning of Ms. Maudie's house in the novel.

L² Scored: 2/10

L² Comment:

Sorry to say that, i don't really like this film. Though Adam Sandler has been always be my favorite comedian, but this movie is so boring and predictable. The funny point is a bit lame and not exaggerate much enough to create any laughter for me. And... Ms Ryder, u look like a mess in this movie :(

Moulin Rouge!

2012-01-11T09:24:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2001
Directed by Baz Luhrmann

Casted by:
Ewan McGregor as Christian
Nicole Kidman as Satine
Jim Broadbent as Harold Zidler
Richard Roxburgh as The Duke of Monroth
Story:

The film opens in the year 1900, where a suffering and depressed writer named Christian is mourning the loss of his true love: Satine. Determined to have her story written, Christian sits at his desk and begins to type it out on a typewriter.

In 1899, one year before, Christian moves to the Montmartre district of Paris to become a writer among the Bohemian culture. He encounters performers led by Toulouse-Lautrec; his writing skills allow them to finish their proposed show, "Spectacular Spectacular", that they wish to sell to Harold Zidler, owner of the Moulin Rouge. The group arrives at the Moulin Rouge as Zidler and his "Diamond Dog Dancers" perform for the audience (Lady Marmalade/Zidler's Rap (Can Can)/Smells Like Teen Spirit). Toulouse-Lautrec arranges for Christian to see Satine, the star courtesan, in her private quarters to present the work, unaware that Zidler is promising Satine to the wealthy and unscrupulous Duke of Monroth, a potential investor in the cabaret ("Sparkling Diamonds" medley).

Satine mistakes Christian for the Duke, and dances with him before retiring to her private chamber with him in order to discuss things "privately" (Rhythm of the Night) but soon learns that he is just a writer; by this time Christian has fallen in love with her ("Your Song"). The Duke interrupts them; Christian and Satine claim they were practicing the lines for the Moulin Rouge's new show, "Spectacular Spectacular". With the help of Zidler, Toulouse-Lautrec and the rest of the troupe pitch the show to the Duke with an improvised plot about an evil maharajah attempting to woo an Indian courtesan who is in love with a poor sitar player ("The Pitch (Spectacular Spectacular)"). The Duke agrees to back the show on the condition that only he is allowed to see Satine. Meanwhile, Satine contemplates on Christian and her longing to leave the Moulin Rouge to become "a real actress" (One Day I'll Fly Away). Christian later goes back to Satine to convince her that she loves him ("Elephant Love Medley"). As the cabaret is converted to a theater, Christian and Satine continue seeing each other under the pretense of rehearsing Satine's lines. The Duke becomes jealous and warns Zidler that he may stop financing the show; Zidler arranges for Satine to dine with the Duke that evening, but during practice she falls ill (Gorecki). That night, Zidler makes excuses to the Duke, claiming that Satine has gone to confession ("Like a Virgin"). Zidler learns that Satine is dying from consumption. Satine tries to convince Christian that their relationship endangers the show, but he counters by writing a secret love song into the show to affirm their love ("Come What May").

As the Duke watches Christian rehearse lines with Satine, Nini, a jealous performer, points out that the play is a metaphor for Christian, Satine and the Duke. Enraged, the Duke demands that the play ending be changed so that the courtesan ends up with the maharajah; Satine offers to spend the night with the Duke to keep the original ending. While at the Duke's quarters, Satine sees Christian on the streets below, and realizes she cannot go through with this ("El Tango de Roxanne"). The Duke tries taking her forcibly, but she is saved by Le Chocolat, one of the cabaret dancers, and reunited with Christian, who recommends they run away together. The Duke tells Zidler that he will have Christian killed if Satine is not his. Zidler reiterates this warning to Satine, but when she refuses to return, he finally informs her that she is dying (The Show Must Go On). Acting on the threat to Christian's life, Satine tells Christian they can no longer see each other as she will be staying with the Duke. Christian tries following her, but is denied entry to the Moulin Rouge, and falls into a state of depression, even though Toulouse-Lautrec insists that Satine loves him.

On the night of the show, Christian sneaks into the Moulin Rouge, ready to pay Satine to return his love just as the Duke has paid for her (Hindi Sad Diamonds). He catches Satine before she steps on stage, and he demands she tells him that she does not love him. Suddenly they find themselves in the spotlight; Zidler convinces the audience that Christian is the disguised sitar player. Christian reviles Satine for her perceived betrayal and walks off the stage. From the rafters, Toulouse-Lautrec, cries out, "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return", spurring Satine to sing the secret love song Christian wrote to express their love. Christian returns to the stage, joining her in the song. The Duke's bodyguard tries killing Christian but is thwarted by Toulouse-Lautrec and Valeria (a dancer in the Moulin Rouge), while the Duke's own attempt is stopped by Zidler. The Duke storms out of the cabaret as Christian and Satine complete their song ("Come What May (Reprise)", "Coup d'État (Finale)").

After the curtain closes, Satine succumbs to her illness. She and Christian affirm their love before she dies. A year later the Moulin Rouge has closed down, and Christian is writing the tale of his love for Satine, a "love that will live forever" (Nature Boy (Reprise)).

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Oh Lord, if this is the first time i watch this movie, i'll definitely give it a score below 5 because it's quite confuse at the beginning of 20 minutes. Luckily this is my 3rd time watching this movie and i like it a bit better each time i watch it :)

There's really not much acting on the actors/actresses side, though there's a lot of nomination in multiple awards, and though they win some, but not on all the main category anyway... But this is quite new during 2001, that's why a lot of musical style film come out later~ :)

Serenity

2012-01-10T08:25:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2005
Directed by Joss Whedon

Casted by:
Nathan Fillion as Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds
Gina Torres as Zoe Washburne
Alan Tudyk as Hoban "Wash" Washburne
Sean Maher as Simon Tam
Summer Glau as River Tam
Morena Baccarin as Inara Serra
Adam Baldwin as Jayne Cobb
Jewel Staite as Kaywinnit Lee "Kaylee" Frye
Story:

In 2517, humanity has moved to another star system, due to overpopulation on the Earth. The inner planets are controlled by the Alliance with frontier justice among the outer planets. A young girl, River Tam, is being mentally and physically conditioned by Alliance scientists. She is rescued from them by her brother, Simon and the two seek refuge aboard the Firefly-class transport ship Serenity captained by Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds. An Alliance agent, the Operative, is tasked with eliminating River as she has been observed by Alliance politicians and may have learned certain secrets due to her psychic abilities.

Aboard Serenity, Mal brings River on a bank raid against her brother's wishes. They are attacked by Reavers, animalistic humans who savagely mutilate, rape, and murder their victims. They escape, but Simon decides to leave Serenity at the next port. While Mal meets fences Fanty and Mingo, River becomes entranced by a TV commercial and begins attacking everyone. Before she can attack Mal, Simon arrives and shouts a "safe word" which causes her to fall asleep. Mal then picks River up and carries her back to Serenity. The crew contacts a reclusive hacker known as Mr. Universe who analyzes the commercial and discovers a subliminal message being broadcast across the Alliance designed to trigger River. He notes that River whispered the name "Miranda" before attacking.

Mal receives a call from Inara, a former passenger. Suspecting a trap but realizing that she is in danger, Mal visits Inara and is confronted by the Operative. The Operative offers to let Mal go free if he turns River over, but thanks to Inara's quick thinking she and Mal escape. After another of River's outbursts, the crew learns about Miranda, an outer rim planet thought to have been rendered uninhabitable as the result of a terraforming accident. Serenity travels to Haven, a mining colony and home of Shepherd Book, a former passenger and friend of the crew. They discover the outpost has been destroyed by Alliance forces. The Operative has ordered the deaths of all of Mal's contacts to deny him a safe haven and promises that he will continue to pursue them until River is turned over.

Mal orders Serenity modified to resemble a Reaver ship so they can reach Miranda. After sailing through a fleet of Reaver vessels, the crew discovers a normal planet, with its cities empty and laden with corpses. They discover a log recorded by an Alliance survey team explaining that the Alliance administered a chemical designed to suppress aggression, which killed off the populace. However, one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of the population instead became hyper-aggressive and unstable. The Alliance is responsible for the creation of the Reavers.

Mal contacts Mr. Universe's transmitter to arrange to have the log transmitted throughout the verse, but the Operative is already there. Serenity departs Miranda, but as they leave Reaver territory, they open fire on one of the ships. The Reavers pursue Serenity to Mr. Universe's planet where they engage the waiting Alliance fleet. The Operative's ship is destroyed but he survives in an escape pod. In the confusion, Serenity manages to crash land, but pilot Wash is killed by a pursuing Reaver ship. Finding Mr. Universe dead, Mal learns from a recorded message of a second transmitter. The crew sets up a last stand against the pursuing Reavers, buying Mal the time he needs to send the message. The crew find themselves overwhelmed by the Reavers and retreat behind a set of blast doors, but find they will not close. Zoe and Kaylee are injured, but Simon discovers he has left his medical kit at their prior position. As he rises to retrieve it, he is shot. He apologizes to River for failing her, but she announces that it is her turn to take care of Simon. She charges through the blast doors, triggering the closing mechanism and throws the medical kit to Simon before being dragged away by Reavers.

Mal finds the transmitter, but The Operative reveals himself and the two begin fighting. Mal disables The Operative and restrains him next to a railing, forcing him to watch the recording from Miranda. Mal returns to his crew finding them safe. The blast doors open to reveal River has single-handedly defeated the Reavers. The wall behind her explodes and they are surrounded by Alliance troops. The Operative, realizing he has been lied to by the government, gives the order for Alliance operatives to stand down from executing the Serenity crew.

After the crew buries their dead friends on Haven, they patch up Serenity in a repair yard on Persephone. Kaylee and Simon consummate their relationship. The Operative tells Mal that the Alliance has been weakened and that Mal and his crew are safe for the moment. Serenity returns to space with Mal at the helm and River acting as copilot.

L² Scored: -2/10

L² Comment:

What a bullshit!!! If not for the cute guy there, i've totally score it a -10. What a disaster to watch a horrible movie~ a waste of time.

The Thing 2011

2012-01-09T09:18:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.

Casted by:
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Kate Lloyd
Joel Edgerton as Sam Carter
Ulrich Thomsen as Dr. Sander Halvorson
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Derek Jameson
Eric Christian Olsen as Adam Finch
Trond Espen Seim as Edvard Wolner
Story:

In 1982, an extraterrestrial spaceship is discovered beneath the Antarctic ice by a Norwegian research team: Edvard, Jonas, Olav, Karl, Juliette, Lars, Henrik, Colin, and Peder. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd is recruited by Dr. Sander Halvorson and his assistant Adam Finch to investigate the team's discovery. After viewing the ship, Kate, Sander, and Adam are informed that the group has also discovered a survivor of the crashed ship buried in the ice.

The alien is transported to the Norwegian base in a block of ice. Sander orders the retrieval of a tissue sample from the creature against Kate's warnings. That evening while the team celebrate their find, helicopter co-pilot Derek observes the alien burst free from the ice and escape the base. The alerted team search for the creature and discover Lars's dog mutilated. Olav and Henrik find the alien which kills Henrik. The rest of the group arrive and set fire to the alien. An autopsy of the scorched alien corpse reveals that its cells are still alive and are consuming and imitating Henrik's own.

Derek, fellow pilots Carter and Griggs, and Olav prepare to leave the base by helicopter to seek help. In the base Kate discovers bloody, metal, tooth fillings near a blood-soaked shower. Kate runs outside and flags down the helicopter, but when it attempts to land Griggs transforms into the alien and attacks the crew, causing the vehicle to crash land in the mountains; the crew presumed lost. When Kate returns to the shower, she finds the blood has been removed. The base team agree to leave to find help but Kate confronts them with her theory that the "Thing" is capable of imitating them and has likely already done so. The team dismiss her claims, but Juliette confesses that she saw Colin leaving the bloodied shower. Juliette takes Kate to secure the vehicle keys to prevent the others leaving. While Kate searches, Juliette transforms into the Thing and attacks Kate. Kate flees, running by Karl whom the creature consumes instead. Lars arrives with a flamethrower and burns the Thing.

Carter and Derek return to the base, but the team refuse to believe that they could have survived the crash. Kate convinces them that Carter and Derek be isolated until a test can be prepared to check if they are still human. Adam and Sander develop a test, but their lab is destroyed in an apparent act of sabotage when both men momentarily leave. Kate proposes another method of eliminating some of the team as the Thing: Believing it cannot imitate inorganic material she inspects the team and singles out those without metal fillings: Sander, Edvard, Adam, and Colin. Lars and Jonas go to retrieve Carter and Derek, but discover they have broken out of isolation. As Lars leans inside a building in search of the pair, he is grabbed and pulled inside.

Jonas returns to Kate and Peder, begging for help. The group hear Carter and Derek breaking into the building and rush to intercept them. Edvard pressures Peder to burn both of them. Peder takes aim, but Derek shoots him multiple times, killing Peder and rupturing his flamethrower's fuel tank. The fuel ignites causing an explosion that knocks Edvard unconscious. While he is being carried for treatment, Edvard transforms into the Thing, infecting Jonas and killing Derek before assimilating Adam. Kate torches the infected Jonas and Derek before she and Carter pursue the Thing. While the pair search, Sander is found and infected by the Thing. After the pair separate, the Thing corners Carter in the kitchen but Kate arrives and burns it to death before it can attack him. Kate and Carter observe Sander drive off into the blizzard and give pursuit in the remaining vehicle.

They arrive at the now-active spaceship. Kate falls into ship and is confronted by the Sanders-Thing. She destroys it with an explosive grenade with the ensuing damage deactivating the ship. As Kate and Carter return to their vehicle Kate realizes that Carter is a Thing as he is no longer wearing an earring and Carter, when prompted on the issue, indicates the incorrect ear on which it was worn. Kate burns Carter and then retreats to her snowcat; she stares blankly out of the window.

The following morning helicopter pilot Matias arrives at the base. Colin is shown to have retreated into the radio room and committed suicide. Lars appears and shoots at Matias, ordering him to show his fillings to prove he is human. The Thing, in the form of Lars's deceased dog, escapes from the building and runs away. Lars and Matias give chase in the helicopter.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

Well baby, this is superb, the movie before ALIEN (Sigourney Weaver's version). I love the way how they present the movie in a way that you will never know who is the next victim. Beside the main actress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), all of them died either attack by aliens or burned by their own kind.

This is a remake of the 1951 & 1982 movie, hmmm... i wonder where can i find these 2 old movies, any idea?

You Are the Apple of My Eye 那些年，我們一起追的女孩

2012-01-06T09:02:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 九把刀 Giddens Ko

Casted by:
柯震東 Ke Zheng Dong as 柯景騰 Teng
陳妍希 Michelle Chen as 沈佳宜 Yi
敖犬 Owodog as 曹國勝 Sheng
郝劭文 Steven Hao as 謝明和 He
蔡昌憲 Chai Chang Hsien as 廖英宏 Hung
鄢勝宇 Yan Sheng Yu as 許博淳 Chun
胡家瑋 Hu Jia Wei as 胡家瑋 Wan Wan
Story:

Beginning in 1994, Shen Chia-Yi is popular among teachers and her classmates as an outstanding student and a girl to date. Only mischievous Ko Ching-Teng claims has no interest in her, despite being her classmate since junior high school. One day, the class teacher changes Ching-Teng's seat, placing him in front of Chia-Yi after he is caught masturbating in class.

In an English class, Chia-Yi forgets to bring her textbook. Pitying her, Ching-Teng slips her his and confesses to the teacher that he did not bring the textbook. Ching-Teng then endures a long lecture and is punished. Chia-Yi, moved by his behaviour, prepares a practice paper for Ching-Teng in return to encourage him to work hard in his studies. She also convinces him to stay after school to study with her. Since then, their relationship grows and Ching-Teng's grades are improved gradually.

Upon graduation, Ching-Teng manages to enroll at the National Chiao Tung University. Yet, Chia-Yi doesn't feel well during examinations and enters the National Taipei University of Education as a result of her poor performance. Chia-Yi, depressed by the result, is consoled by Ching-Teng. Chia-Yi also receives long-distance phone calls from Ching-Teng almost every night at university. During the Christmas season that year, the two of them go for their first unofficial date.

Ching-Teng believes that men should show their "strength" to women, so he decides to organize a duel and invites Chia-Yi to spectate. However, Chia-Yi thinks Ching-Teng is childish to hold the duel and risk injuring himself, which upsets Ching-Teng and causes a quarrel between them.

After their break-up, Ah-He dates Chia-Yi for a short time. But they break up five months later. In the two years after their break-up, Ching-Teng does not have any contact with Chia-Yi. In the meantime he qualifies for a research course at Tunghai University upon graduation, where he starts to write web novels. Ching-Teng manages to regain contact with Chia-Yi after the 921 earthquake, when he calls her to find out if she was injured.

Years later, in 2004, Chia-Yi calls Ching-Teng to tell him that she is getting married. All of her old friends gather at the wedding, making jokes trying to embarrass the groom. Nevertheless, they are finally surprised that their past emotions have transformed into a profound friendship and ever calmness in their hearts. Ching-Teng begins to work on a web novel about his experiences with Chia-Yi.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

Bravo to this film :) I always love to read Giddens' novel, especially the psycho horror fiction. Never thought that this movie is so good which i have miss it in the big screen. But well, if i watch it in the cinema, definitely i won't able to see the scenery of ass :P

But this movie changes a lot from the fiction... Well, since Giddens is the novelist and also the director of this film, no doubt he has to change some of the storyline to spice up the movie, but i really hope he can film the movie based on the original novel version.

A good try for Giddens, and i definitely hope to see more from him.

Right By Me / Rainbow Boys

2012-01-05T09:02:00.003+08:00

Released Year: 2005
Directed by Thanyatorn Siwanukrow

Casted by:
Jackie as Tat
Palat Ananwattanasiri (Tae) as Ek
Pimphong Isarasena na Ayutthaya (Boat) as Nat
Wijitra Wijitwonagon (Took) as Da
Story:

Tat a nerd with his queen friend Nat went to a gay & lesbian support club "Right by me", they were surprise to see the sportboy Ek turn up at there who is admired by Tat. But Nat has always fall in love with Tat and started to jealous about Ek.

Ek born in a poor family and his father caught him touching with his boy-friend during his 10 years old. Ek has a girlfriend Da who is pretty and Ek avoid himself from admitting that he like man. In another hand, Tat is still in the closet from his parents but his father dislike Tat to befriend with Nat who happened to be sissy.

Tat gave Ek tuition on his stats subject, slowly the both build up trust and friendship. Ek was afraid his straight friend laugh at him and turn away from Tat. Nat try to kiss Tat one day and was rejected. Ek feel weird about leaving Tat and finally told Da on a break off that he is gay. Ek has a fight with his father and spilled out he is gay in front of the parents. Tat came to visit him, they finally have sex for the first time.

In the next session of "Right by me", Ek appeared and hold Tat's hand.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Kinda love this film, the youth of gay life and the way of coming out from closet is always exciting and scary. The movie totally show all of this and i bet all of you will enjoy it. And btw, Jackie is so cute, with or without glasses :)

Pantasya

2012-01-04T09:02:00.003+08:00

Released Year: 2007
Directed by Dante Mendoza

Story:

1. Byahe

Casted by:
Arthur Estrella
Rov Roxas

A straight taxi driver decided to move on with his life after being dump by his girlfriend. He happened to fetch a student who feel lonely. Both of them have sex in the taxi on roadside, fetching the student home everyday has been the fantasy for the taxi driver.

2. Linya

Casted by:
Mark Dionisio
Harold Montano
Kiko Montenegro

A richman's phone line went dead, he call for help. 2 hot wiremen came and help out, the richman has fantasy to have sex with both of them in a threesome.

3. Laro

Casted by:
Kervin Castillo
Dexter Castro
Brent Lorenzo
Nicco Taberna
Kyle Zenorio

A young boy love basketball so much, he always went to see the match nearby. He even sneak in to see them shower. The basketball team masturbate in the shower room and the peeper went excited. He fantasy to have sex with one of the basketball player in the toilet.

4. Bilis

Casted by:
Justin de Leon
Trent Allan

Pizza deliverman, Robert was late for his delivery after his motorcycle stalled. He was late and the client wouldn't wanna pay him and punish him through sex. Is this a fantasy or truth?

5. Bantay

Casted by:
Kyri Baldemor
Jon Eric
Rhyme Rodriguez

Security guard see a sad guy crying, after comforting him, they have sex in the security house. But this is only a fantasy which broke off after the guy's boyfriend came to fetch him home.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

A 5 stories which tell the fantasy of gay in Philippines. I feel that this is a cheap production, but well, who cares? A lil bit of dicks has been show in the movie, but the boys were not that good looking actually~

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

2012-01-03T08:24:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Guy Ritchie

Casted by:
Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes
Jude Law as Dr. John Watson
Noomi Rapace as Madame Simza Heron
Jared Harris as Professor James Moriarty
Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes
Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan-Watson
Story:

In 1891, Irene Adler delivers a package to Dr. Hoffmanstahl—payment for a letter he was to deliver. Hoffmanstahl opens the package, triggering a hidden bomb which is prevented from detonating by the intervention of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes takes the letter and disposes of the bomb while Adler and Hoffmanstahl escape. Holmes later finds Hoffmanstahl assassinated. Adler meets with Professor Moriarty to explain the events, but Moriarty poisons her with fast-acting tuberculosis—deeming her position compromised by her love for Holmes.

Some time later, Dr. Watson arrives at 221B Baker Street, where Holmes discloses that he is investigating a series of seemingly unrelated murders, terrorist attacks, and business acquisitions, that he has connected to Moriarty. Holmes meets with the gypsy Simza, the intended recipient of the letter he had taken from Adler, sent by her brother Rene. Holmes defeats an assassin sent to kill Simza, but she flees before Holmes can interrogate her. After Mary and Watson's wedding, Holmes meets Moriarty for the first time. Moriarty informs Holmes that he murdered Adler and will kill Watson and Mary if Holmes' interference continues.

Moriarty's men attack Watson and Mary on a train to their honeymoon. Holmes, having followed the pair for protection, throws Mary from the train into a river below where she is picked up by Holmes's waiting brother Mycroft. After defeating Moriarty's men, Holmes and Watson travel to Paris to locate Simza. When she is found, Holmes tells Simza that she has been targeted because Rene is working for Moriarty, and may have told her about his plans. Simza takes the pair to the headquarters of an anarchist group to which she and Rene had formerly belonged. They learn that the anarchists have been forced to plant bombs for Moriarty.

The trio follows Holmes's deduction that the bomb is in the Paris Opera. However, Holmes realizes too late that he has been tricked and that the bomb is in a nearby hotel; the bombing kills a number of assembled businessmen. Holmes discovers that the bomb was a cover for the assassination of Meinhart—one of the attendees—by Moriarty's aide, Sebastian Moran. Meinhart's death grants Moriarty ownership of Meinhart's weapons factory in Germany. Holmes, Watson, and Simza travel there, following clues in Rene's letters.

At the factory, Moriarty captures and tortures Holmes, while Watson enters a firefight with Moran. Moriarty reveals that he owns shares in multiple war-profiting companies, and intends to instigate a world war to make himself a fortune. Meanwhile, Watson uses a large cannon to destroy a lighthouse in which Moran is concealed. The structure collapses into the warehouse where Moriarty is holding Holmes captive. Watson, Simza, and an injured Holmes reunite, and escape aboard a moving train. Holmes deduces that Moriarty's final target will be a peace summit in Switzerland, creating an international incident.

At the summit, Holmes reveals that Rene is the assassin and that he is disguised as one of the ambassadors—having been given radical reconstructive surgery by Hoffmanstahl to alter his appearance. Watson and Simza search for signs of the assassin while Holmes and Moriarty-also in attendance-retreat outside to discuss their competing plans. Watson and Simza find Rene and stop his assassination attempt, but Rene is himself assassinated by Moran. Outside, Holmes confesses that he stole Moriarty's personal diary in Germany—the only record of his plans and finances—and replaced it with a duplicate. The original was sent to Mary in London who decrypted the code using a book that Holmes had noticed in Moriarty's office during their first meeting. Mary passes the information to Inspector Lestrade who seizes the bulk of Moriarty's assets, financially crippling him. Holmes and Moriarty anticipate an impending physical confrontation which both men realize Moriarty will win due to Holmes' injured shoulder. Holmes instead grapples Moriarty and forces them both over the balcony and into the Reichenbach waterfall below.

Their bodies are not found. Following Holmes' funeral, Watson and Mary prepare to have their belated honeymoon when Watson receives a package containing a breathing device of Mycroft's that Holmes had noticed before the summit. Realizing that Holmes is still alive, Watson leaves his office to find the delivery man. Holmes, having concealed himself in Watson's office, reads a fresh eulogy on Watson's typewriter and adds a question mark after the words "The End".

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

Same as the first movie 1 year ago, i fall asleep in the cinema on the beginning part :P The movie is so heavy to watch in the weekday after a day of tiring work. So i advice u guys better watch it when you're relax :)

I only start enjoy the movie when Jude Law has his wedding after the fight. Same as first movie, Robert Downey dress up like an ugly lady AGAIN!!! Why? Why they use the same idea again in the second movie? Nothing else to think of? Or An ugly-Robert-lady is attractive for the big screen? And this Noomi Rapace is so damn ugly, why? Can't they choose Penelope Cruz instead?

Awwww!!!!!!!!!

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 龍門飛甲

2012-01-02T08:41:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 徐克 Tsui Hark

Casted by:
李連杰 Jet Li as 趙淮安 Huai
周迅 Zhou Xun as 凌雁秋 Qiu
陳坤 Chen Kun as 雨化田 Yu & 风里刀 Dao
李宇春YuChun Li as 顾少棠 Tang
桂綸鎂LunMei Kwai as 鞑靼首领 Tribal princess
范曉萱 Mavis Fan as 素慧容 Rong
樊少皇 Louis Fan as 馬進良 Liang
Story:

The story begins after the East Bureau was defeated by Huai and his gang, the leader of West Bureau Yu took over the job and try to vanish Huai's gang. Yu was actually an eunuch who managed to be the blue eyes boys of the emperor's concubine.

Huai discover someone who portrait him to save a lot of people including Rong who ran out from the palace after discover she is pregnant. Rong was running away from the capture of the West Bureau and was save by a guy who call himself as Huai. Apparently, this is Qiu who dress up like a guy and try to attract Huai's attention and force him to meet her. Qiu and Huai was actually having a love affair when they met in Dragon Inn few years back.

At the dragon Inn, a gang of people appear, one of them (Dao) look like Yu. Tang and the tribal princess is aiming to get the ultimate treasure in the dessert. At the same time, Qiu bring along Rong to hide underneath the Dragon Inn and have a fight with the gang. Qiu was hurt by Tang's weapon and finally Huai appear to see her. Huai requested Rong to help him to act to distract Qiu and let her go off but they failed.Finally they come to a deal to trick over the West Bureau who's coming to attack soon. Dao pretend to be Yu and order the West Bureau to go further away from the Dragon Inn. But Yu was back and the war finally begin. Huai challenged Yu to fought with him in the sandstorm.

The sandstorm has exposed the palace under the dessert. The gang went into there and discovered Yu & Huai fainted in there. After both of them awake, all of them agree to get all the treasure out after Yu defeat Tang. Qiu, Tribal Princess, Dao & Rong moved the treasure out but Rong suddenly use a knife to stab Qiu and ran back inside the palace. The rest were shocked that Rong know martial arts but were unable to ran back in because Rong has set traps to block their way. They moved the treasure up the roof of the palace and try to save Huai & Tang from above.
Another sandstorm is coming bu after a harsh fight, Yu & Rong was defeated while Huai feel unconscious.

When Huai woke up, Qiu was gone. Huai ride along a horse and try to win Qiu back again.

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

Hmmm, how would i comment on this? Of course i love Tsui Hark's movie and Jet Li, but this is not really as good as i thought, or maybe i have too high expectation on it? The whole movie is related to the one which have been shoot earlier on at 1992 "New Dragon Inn". This is the part which make me loss my direction of the movie...

Beside the storyline, the actors & actresses are not bad especially Yu Chun Li in this movie. she look so marvelous in this movie, and her character martial's is the best among the rest.

We Bought a Zoo

2011-12-27T08:58:00.001+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Cameron Crowe

Casted by:
Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee
Scarlett Johansson as Kelly Foster
Colin Ford as Dylan Mee
Maggie Elizabeth Jones as Rosie Mee
Elle Fanning as Lily
Thomas Haden Church as Duncan Mee
Desi Lydic as Shea
Patrick Fugit as Robin Jones
Story:

Benjamin loss his job and bring along his son Dylan & daughter Rosie move to a new house, which is also a zoo that they have bought. At the zoo, they met Kelly and others who take care of the zoo. In the same time, Dylan meet the beautiful Lily who is the niece of Kelly.

Benjamin is having problem dealing with Dylan who hates staying in the zoo and having no friends at here except Lily. Benjamin also have financial trouble to maintain the zoo's expenses while having argument with Kelly who care a lot about the zoo. Having a conversation with Kelly outside the house about Dylan, Dylan overheard and have a big fight with Benjamin. But a sick tiger "Spot" has bring them together. With the huge money left over by Benjamin's dead wife. After getting the license of the zoo done, they open their zoo on 7th July and make a lot of promotion about it.

But raining season came and all of them were worry nobody will come to visit the zoo. On 7th July, a sunny morning greet them. The Mee was happy but nobody came for the opening. Dylan doubt about the absent and ran along the path while the other follow. They saw some big tree fell along the road which block the visitors. They help out the visitors to cross and finally the zoo is full of people.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

This is a very nice film to watch in cinema based on a true story. Though the storyline is a bit different from the true story but it is still nice. What a brave family to buy a zoo :) But Matt Damon look so old in this movie :( Where's the sunny good looking guy been? And Scarlett Johansson, omg~ she look so ugly in this movie!!!

Mission: Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol

2011-12-26T09:06:00.006+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Brad Bird

Casted by:
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
Jeremy Renner as William Brandt
Paula Patton as Jane Carter
Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
Story:

On assignment in Budapest to intercept a courier working for a person of interest code-named "Cobalt", IMF agent Trevor Hanaway is killed by an assassin named Sabine Moreau. Hanaway's team leader, Jane Carter, and newly promoted field agent Benji Dunn extract Ethan Hunt and Hunt's source Bogdan from a Moscow prison. Hunt is recruited to lead Carter and Dunn to infiltrate the secret Moscow Kremlin archives and locate files identifying Cobalt. Partway through the mission, someone broadcasts across the IMF frequency, alerting the Russians to Hunt's team. Although Hunt, Dunn, and Carter escape, a bomb destroys the Kremlin, and Russian agent Sidirov accuses Hunt of masterminding the attack.

The IMF extracts Hunt from Moscow. The Russians have called the attack an undeclared act of war, and the US president activates "Ghost Protocol", a black operation contingency that disavows the entire IMF. Hunt and team are to take the blame for the attack, but they will be allowed to escape from government custody so that they may operate to track down Cobalt. Before Hunt can escape, the IMF's secretary is killed by Russian security forces led by Sidirov, leaving Hunt and intelligence analyst William Brandt to find their own way out. The team identifies Cobalt as Kurt Hendricks, a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist who believes the weak must die for the strong to survive, so he plans to start a nuclear war to initiate the next stage of human evolution. Hendricks bombed the Kremlin and acquired a Russian nuclear launch-control device, and now needs its codes from the Budapest courier in order to launch a nuclear missile at America.

The exchange between Moreau and Hendricks's right-hand man, Wistrom, is due to take place at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. There, Hunt's team-members separately convince Moreau and Wistrom that they have made the exchange with one another. However, Moreau identifies Brandt as an agent. While Hunt chases Wistrom—only to realize that Wistrom is actually Hendricks in disguise, escaping with the codes—Carter detains Moreau. Moreau attempts to kill the inexperienced Dunn, and Carter throws her out a window to her death. Brandt accuses Carter of compromising the mission for revenge against Moreau, but Hunt accuses Brandt of keeping secrets from them, as he has displayed fighting skills atypical of an analyst. While Hunt seeks more information from Bogdan, Brandt admits he was assigned as security detail to Hunt and his wife Julia while on assignment. Julia was killed by a Serbian hit squad, prompting Ethan to pursue and kill them before he was caught by the Russians and sent to prison.

Bogdan and his arms-dealer cousin inform Hunt that Hendricks will be in Mumbai. Hendricks facilitated the sale of a defunct Soviet military satellite to Indian telecommunications entrepreneur Brij Nath, which could be used to transmit the order to fire a missile. While Brandt and Dunn infiltrate the server room to take the satellite offline, Carter gets Nath to reveal the satellite override code. But Hendricks has anticipated Hunt's plan and takes Nath's servers offline before sending a signal from a television broadcasting tower to a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific. The submarine fires on San Francisco. Hunt pursues Hendricks and the launch device while the other team-members attempt to bring the broadcast station back online. Hunt and Hendricks fight over the launch-control device before Hendricks jumps to his death with it to ensure the launch. Dunn kills Wistrom, allowing Brandt to restore power to the station and enabling Hunt to deactivate the missile. He is confronted by Sidorov, who sees Hunt has stopped the missile, proving the IMF is innocent in the Kremlin bombing.

The team reconvenes weeks later. Hunt issues them new assignments. Brandt refuses to accept the mission, but Hunt reveals that Julia's death was staged, as he knew he could not protect her and used her death as a pretext to infiltrate a Russian prison and get close to Bogdan, an IMF source on Hendricks. Relieved of his guilt, Brandt accepts his mission while Hunt watches Julia from afar. They share a smile before he goes off on his next mission.

L² Scored: 9.5/10

L² Comment:

Oh gosh, love this blockbuster a lot!!! Though Tommy boy is old but he still look stunning. of course Jeremy Renner is a super hottie too~ The storyline is cool and nice, love the scene where Cruise climb out of the tallest tower in Dubai. So gancheong, i almost shout when i watch that scene...

Paula Patton is new for me, she's a bit old but she's quite hot. Love her fighting scene and how she kick off the model-actress out of the window + the way she cruise with the indian guy in mumbai :)

The Muppets

2011-12-23T08:21:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by James Bobin

Casted by:
Jason Segel as Gary
Amy Adams as Mary
Chris Cooper as Tex Richman
Rashida Jones as Veronica

Voiced by:
Peter Linz as Walter
Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog, Link Hogthrob,
The Muppet Newsman, Rizzo the Rat, Beaker and Statler
Eric Jacobson as Miss Piggy, Animal,
Fozzie Bear, Sam the Eagle and Marvin Suggs
Dave Goelz as Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew,
Zoot, Beauregard, Kermoot the Frog and Waldorf
Story:

Walter, portrayed primarily by a muppet, lives with his brother Gary, a human, in Smalltown. The two became Muppet fans when they watched The Muppet Show in their youths. As adults, Walter and Gary continue to live together in Smalltown. Gary plans a vacation to Los Angeles with his girlfriend Mary to celebrate their tenth anniversary, and he invites Walter along so he can tour the Muppet Theater. Gary is pleased to spend time with both Mary and Walter, though Mary feels that Gary's devotion to Walter detracts from their relationship.

In Los Angeles, the three visit the Muppet Theater to find it derelict. During the tour, Walter sneaks into Kermit the Frog's office and discovers Statler and Waldorf selling the theater to Tex Richman, an oil magnate, and his cohorts Bobo the Bear and Uncle Deadly. Waldorf explains that if The Muppets can raise $10 million they can repurchase the theater. Once Statler and Waldorf leave, Walter learns of Richman's true intentions: to destroy the Muppet Theater and drill for oil underneath.

Walter recounts the conversation to Gary and Mary and appeals to Kermit at his mansion. Kermit is distressed to learn the news, and realizes he must organize a show to raise the money, which the Muppets have not done in years. Walter convinces him to try, and they set off to reunite the group. Fozzie Bear is performing with the Moopets, a group of uncouth Muppet impersonators, in Reno, Nevada, and Kermit persuades him to leave Reno. Meanwhile, Gonzo has become a plumbing magnate. Despite his initial objection, Gonzo decides to perform, destroying his business and joining them. Animal is in a celebrity anger-management clinic; he rejoins them, but his sponsor, Jack Black, warns him to avoid drums. In a montage, the other primary Muppets are located and rejoin. In Paris, the group finds Miss Piggy working as Vogue Paris's editor for "plus-sized" fashion. Unable to convince Miss Piggy to return, the group replaces her with her Moopet counterpart Miss Poogy.

The Muppets pitch their telethon idea to several TV networks, but are turned down. Due to a popular show's sudden cancellation, Veronica eventually gives the Muppets a two-hour opening in her network's schedule on the condition that they find a celebrity guest. The Muppets repair the theater, but their rehearsal fails and Kermit cannot find a celebrity guest. Miss Piggy returns and forces Miss Poogy out. Kermit persuades Walter to perform and find his talent, while Mary goes sight-seeing alone.

Realizing there is not yet a guest host, Kermit entreats Richman to return their studio, but he refuses and reveals he will give their rights to the Moopets. Miss Piggy organizes the Muppets to kidnap Jack Black as a celebrity guest. Mary returns to Smalltown after Gary forgets their anniversary dinner. Gary and Walter each want each other's help with their problems and they have a falling out. Gary realizes he must improve his relationship with Mary, while Walter realizes he was meant to be a Muppet. Gary reconciles with Mary, while the telethon succeeds with celebrity support and Black as host. Richman cuts the power to the theater, but Gary and Mary rush back and repair the wiring. Uncle Deadly turns on Richman and stops him from destroying the transmitter antenna.

With the telethon running short, Walter finds his talent, performing a whistling act to the audience's acclaim. When calls are stopped by Richman, a glitch is discovered when it is revealed the Muppets only got $99,999.99. Kermit states that they tried and will start over, together as a family. The Muppets, Walter, Gary, and Mary walk out of the theater and discover a vast gathering of fans. With Gary's encouragement, Walter greets the crowd with the Muppets. Gary proposes to Mary, and Richman gives the Muppet Theatre back to the Muppets after suffering a head injury from Gonzo's bowling ball.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

The original series started in 1955, on & off there are various other series & movies about the muppets on air. This is a very good movie, i love it so much, especially Miss Piggy, she's so diva~ The muppets totally steal the spot light of Seagel & Adams. But having Whoopi & Emily Blunt in the movie as cameo is a total surprise :)

Husk

2011-12-22T08:36:00.003+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Brett Simmons

Casted by:
Devon Graye as Scott
Wes Chatham as Brian
C.J. Thomason as Chris
Tammin Sursok as Natalie
Ben Easter as Johnny
Josh Skipworth as Corey Comstock
Nick Toussaint as Alex Comstock
Story:

The film follows five friends (Natalie, Scott, Brian, Johnny & Chris) on a weekend holiday who become stranded in a secluded farmland after wild crows attack their SUV. The friends soon realize that the cornfields are inhabited by reanimated, vicious human scarecrows who produce their offspring by killing anyone they get a hold of and force their undead victims to join their ranks.

The scarecrow attacked related to the Comstock Brothers. Alex was envy of his own brother Corey who is the apple of the father's heart. Alex then capture Corey, slashed him to death and put him in the cornfield as a scarecrow. Come back with grudge, Johnny was first to attacked after the teenager's car crash nearby. Natalie then was attacked follow by Brian when he wanted to save Natalie. Each time, the teenager will sit in front of the sewing machine and sew their mask after being attacked.

Scott & Chris decided to vanish the scarecrow by burning off the whole cornfield. But both of them were attacked, Chris sacrifice himself to allow Scott to run away. But due to his injury, Scott did not run far and collapsed. Scarecrow get on and kill those who came to save Scott.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

This is not bad overall, but the storyline seems a bit "expectable". As usual, this kind of movie is not in our country's big screen so i have to get the DVD just to watch it. The only thing i dont understand is, why they have to make their own mask everytime when they go out to kill? lol~ i'm just being grumpy... old man :(

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 雪花秘扇

2011-12-21T09:11:00.005+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 王穎 Wayne Wang

Casted by:
李冰冰 Li Bingbing as 妮娜/百合 Nina/Lily
全智贤 Gianna Jun as 苏菲亚/雪花 Sophia/Snow Flower
邬君梅 Vivian Wu as Aunt
Hugh Jackman as Arthur
Archie Kao as Sebastian
姜武 Wu Jiang as Butcher
Russell Wong as Bank CEO
Story:

In the 19th century in China, two girls named Snow Flower and Lily are bonded together for eternity. They are paired as laotong by a matchmaker who is also responsible for arranging their marriages. They are isolated by their families and communicate by writing in a secret language, Nu shu.

Snow Flower was from the rich family while Lily is from the poor, due to their laotong bonding, Lily manage to marry into a rich family while his husband precious her small foot a lot (at oldern time, woman are known to be precious if they have small foot). But poor Snow Flower marry to a butcher when her family gone poor in a year later. Lily's mother in law restrict Lily to communicate with Snow Flower until the mother in law passed away. Lily visit Snow Flower in her village but they met a strike, they hide at a far off place but Snow Flower's son was froze to dead, the butcher get angry and slap Snow Flower. Lily ask Snow Flower to leave the butcher but was rejected. Snow Flower feel that she has been a burden to her sister.

Cousin of Lily & Snow Flower get marry, both of them went back to Hunan. Snow Flower brought a lot of friends with her and cause Lily thought their sister bonding broke. Few years later, Snow Flower's daughter came and beg Lily to visit Snow Flower as she was seriously ill and miss Lily. Lily went and hug Snow Flower while she passed away.

Meanwhile, in the present day Shanghai, their descendants Sophia and Nina struggle with the intimacy of their own childhood friendship. As teenagers, Sophia and Nina were introduced to the idea of laotong, and they signed a traditional laotong contract. Then, they must understand the story of the ancestral connection, hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan, or lose one another.

In 1997, Nina was Sophia Chinese Tutor and they love Faye Wong's music a lot. But Sophia's stepmother restrict them to be friend. Though Nina and Sophia can't meet each other at Sophia's house but they love to hang out together with Nina's aunt. They even use the traditional laotong way to bond their sisterhood. But Sophia's father investment make the family broke and he passed away. Sophia's stepmother said that she will send Sophia back to Korea if she failed her final exam. Nina took the exam while Sophia flee from the exam hall. Out of idea, Nina wrote Sophia's name on the paper but was found out. Nina was restricted to took exam for 3 years. But three years of hardwork, Nina finally got a good result and get a good work in a bank, and even get the handsome Sebastian as her boyfriend.

Nina and Sebastian was offer to work in New York; Sophia met an Aussie guy name Arthur. But Sophia is actually using Arthur to comfort Nina so that she can move to New York with Sebastian. But an accident of Sophia has cause her in coma, Nina left Sebastian and stay back in Shanghai. Nina found out Sophia has been living poorly by herself and plan to write a novel of the laotong story, and Arthur has been a trick in this. Nina lie beside Sophia in the hospital and Sophia finally wake up from her coma.

L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

OMG~ this is so fine. I was shock when i finished this international screen yesterday night. It really took my breath away, so i score it a 10/10 :)

Storyline was great, though a mix of the 2 generations, but the laotong(sisterhood) of these 2 woman is shown well and kinda touching. I really feel Li Bing Bing's acting has gone into the next level and she look so pretty as well. Vivian Wu and Hugh Jackman has actually brighten up this whole film, i really miss Vivian's film :( And the way Jackman sang the chinese song is so funny~

Iron Man 2

2011-12-20T15:12:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Jon Favreau

Casted by:
Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man
Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts
Don Cheadle as Lt. Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes
Scarlett Johansson as Natalie Rushman / Natasha Romanoff
Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer
Mickey Rourke as Ivan Vanko
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
Story:

Russian television shows Stark Industries CEO Tony Stark revealing his identity as Iron Man to the world. Ivan Vanko, whose father, Anton Vanko, has just died, sees this and begins building a similar weapon.

Six months later, Stark has used his Iron Man armor to help maintain world peace. He re-institutes the Stark Expo in Flushing Meadows to continue his father Howard's legacy. Senator Stern demands that Stark turn over the Iron Man technology to the government. Stark refuses, claiming that foreign nations and business competitors are decades away from successfully recreating his achievements, and that the armor is in fact his own property.

The palladium core in the arc reactor that keeps Stark alive and powers the armor is slowly poisoning him, and he has failed to find a substitute. Growing increasingly despondent and reckless due to his impending death, and choosing not to tell anyone about his condition, Stark appoints his personal assistant Pepper Potts CEO of Stark Industries, and replaces her with Stark employee Natalie Rushman.

Vanko attacks Stark while racing at the Circuit de Monaco, using an arc reactor of his own powering whip-like energy weapons. Stark defeats Vanko with the aid of his portable briefcase armor. He learns that Vanko is the son of his father's old partner, Anton Vanko. Anton collaborated with Howard on the first arc reactor, but was deported to his native Soviet Union following his attempts to profit from the technology and died in poverty, explaining Vanko's desire for revenge on the Stark family. Rival defense contractor Justin Hammer fakes Vanko's death and recruits him to perfect a line of armored combat suits to upstage Stark. At what he believes is his last birthday party Stark gets drunk while using the Iron Man armor, forcing his friend, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, to intervene. Rhodes dons Stark's Mark II armor and after battling him, delivers the armor to the military. Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D., approaches Stark, revealing Rushman as undercover agent Natasha Romanoff and that Howard Stark was a S.H.I.E.L.D. founder that Fury knew personally. Fury gives him some of his father's old material; a hidden message in the diorama of the 1974 Stark Expo proves to be a diagram of the structure of a new element. With the aid of his computer J.A.R.V.I.S., Stark synthesizes it. Vanko reveals to Stark that he is still alive and seeking revenge so Stark uses the untested element, removing his dependency on the palladium.

At the Expo, Hammer unveils Vanko's armored drones, led by Rhodes in a heavily weaponized version of the Mark II armor. Stark arrives in his new armor to warn Rhodes, but Vanko seizes control of both the drones and Rhodes' armor and attacks Iron Man. Hammer is arrested while Stark's bodyguard Happy Hogan and Romanoff attempt to capture Vanko. He escapes, but Romanoff returns control of the Mark II armor to Rhodes.

After defeating his drones Stark and Rhodes confront Vanko himself, now in a new, very powerful suit of armor. Neither can match Vanko, but Vanko is ultimately defeated when they fire repulsor rays at each other, causing a large explosion. With his suit too damaged to continue the fight Vanko ignites his suit and his drones' self-destruct mechanisms, apparently killing himself in the process. Stark saves Potts from the exploding drones' remains. Potts quits as CEO, but she and Stark kiss.

At a debriefing, while news footage of the Hulk's rampage plays, Fury informs Stark that while Iron Man is a suitable candidate for the "Avengers Initiative", he himself is not. Stark agrees to be a consultant if Senator Stern presents himself and Rhodes with medals for bravery. In a post-credits scene, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson reports the discovery of a large hammer at the bottom of a crater in a New Mexico desert.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

I'm not really an Iron Man's fans, did not watch the first movie. However, since my friend lend me the DVD, i might as well watch it coz Paltrow is inside it :) The whole movie is not bad, the way Downey acted in those arrogant way is quite good.

Heard that Johansson is getting her own movie from this character, Black Widow. Hopefully its good~ Let's pray for her ;)

Cinderella

2011-12-19T08:59:00.002+08:00

Released Year: 1950
Directed by Clyde Geronimi,
Hamilton Luske & Wilfred Jackson

Voiced by:
Ilene Woods as Cinderella
Eleanor Audley as Lady Tremaine
Jimmy MacDonald as Jaq, Gus, and Bruno
Luis Van Rooten as Grand Duke and the King
Lucille Bliss as Anastasia Tremaine
Rhoda Williams as Drizella Tremaine
Verna Felton as Fairy Godmother
William Phipps (Mike Douglas, singing) as Prince Charming
Betty Lou Gerson as Narrator
Story:

Cinderella is the much-loved only child of a widowed aristocrat. After deciding that his beloved daughter needs a mother's care, Cinderella's father marries a proud and haughty woman named Lady Tremaine. She too has been married before, and has two daughters from her first marriage, Anastasia and Drizella. Plain and socially awkward, these stepsisters are bitterly envious of the beautiful and charming Cinderella.

The family lives in happiness for several years, until the death of Cinderella's father. After that, Lady Tremaine's true nature is revealed, and she and her spiteful daughters take over the estate, and begin to abuse and mistreat Cinderella, envious of her beauty. She is forced into becoming a scullery maid and made to wait upon her jealous stepsisters and even their sadistic cat, Lucifer. As Cinderella blossoms into a beautiful young woman who is kind despite her hardships, she befriends the animals living in the barn and many of the mice and birds who live in and around the chateau.

At the royal palace, the King is distressed that his son does not intend to marry. The King is determined to see grandchildren, so he and the Duke organize a ball for Prince Charming in an effort to enable his son to fall in love and marry, with every eligible maiden in the kingdom requested to attend.

When the invitation to the ball arrives, Cinderella asks her stepmother if she can attend. Her stepmother promises her that she may attend to the ball, as long as she finishes her work and can find a suitable gown in time. To consume her time, her stepmother sets Cinderella with a mountain of chores. Her mouse friends Jaq and Gus use Cinderella's stepsister's discarded sash and beads to fix an old gown that belonged to Cinderella's mother. When Cinderella wears her dress just before departing, Lady Tremaine sarcastically complements Cinderella's gown, subtly pointing out Drizella's beads and Anastasia's sash. The angered stepsisters catch on to their mother's implications and tear the gown to shreds before she stops them, leaving Cinderella to run to the back of the garden in tears while her stepfamily leaves for the royal ball without her.

Cinderella's Fairy Godmother appears to her in the garden. She bestows upon Cinderella a beautiful blue dress with glass slippers, and transforms a pumpkin and various animals into a carriage with horses, a coachman and a footman. Cinderella departs for the ball after the godmother warns her that the spell will break at the stroke of midnight, meaning that her dress and everything else will change back to the way they were.

At the ball, the Prince rejects every girl, until he sees Cinderella, with whom he is immediately captivated by. The two dance alone throughout the castle grounds until the clock starts to chime midnight. Cinderella flees to her coach and away from the castle, accidentally dropping one of her glass slippers. After the Duke tells the King of the disaster, they plan to find Cinderella with the slipper they recovered during her exit.

The next morning, a royal proclamation is issued, stating the Grand Duke will visit every house in the kingdom to find the girl who fits the glass slipper, so that she can be married to the Prince. When this news reaches Cinderella's household, her stepmother and stepsisters begin hurriedly preparing for the Grand Duke's arrival. Cinderella, overhearing, begins dreamily humming the song from the palace ball the previous night. Upon realizing that Cinderella is the girl who danced with the Prince, Lady Tremaine follows Cinderella up to her attic bedroom and locks her inside.

When the Grand Duke arrives, the mice steal the key to Cinderella's room from Lady Tremaine's pocket and laboriously drag the key up the stairs to her room. They are ambushed by Lucifer, but are then rescued by Bruno, Cinderella's bloodhound, who scares Lucifer out of the house. As the Duke prepares to leave after the stepsisters unsuccessfully try on the slipper, Cinderella appears and requests to try it on. Knowing that the slipper will fit and that Cinderella will marry the Prince, her stepmother trips the footman over while he is carrying the slipper, causing it to drop and shatter into hundreds of pieces. The Duke laments over the broken slipper, but Cinderella then reveals she has kept the other glass slipper, much to her stepmother's horror. Delighted at this indisputable proof of the maiden's identity, the Duke slides the slipper onto her foot, which fits perfectly.

At the wedding, Cinderella and the Prince descend the church's staircase, surrounded by confetti tossed by the King, the Grand Duke and the mice, now in uniform apparently as part of the Royal Guard. The film ends on a scene of the two newly-weds kissing.

L² Scored: 9.5/10

L² Comment:

This used to be my most favorite cartoon from Disney when i was small, because the rats can talk!!! Lol~ Rewatching the whole film, the storyline is ok, the rats still talk (yeah)... The whole movie is focus on cinderella only. The Americano girl who is vanity and always dream of getting a rich guy :P

I mean, come on, when they produce this cartoon, it was 1950. Not all the American is wealthy (even though now), which blondie doesn't wanna marry a rich guy and get fuck in the nice palace? If Cinderella can marry the king instead of the prince, i think she'll go for it :)

And fyi, the prince in this film doesn't have a lot of lines, so does the fairy godmother who look fat and silly~

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 臥虎藏龍

2011-12-16T09:19:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2000
Directed by 李安 Ang Lee

Casted by:
周潤發 Chow Yun Fatt as 李慕白 Bai
楊紫瓊 Michelle Yeoh as 俞秀蓮 Lien
章子怡 ZiYi Zhang as 玉嬌龍 Long
張震 Chang Zheng as 羅小虎 Hu
鄭佩佩 Pei Pei Cheng as 碧眼狐狸 Jade Fox
Story:

The film is set in the Qing Dynasty during the 43rd year (1779) of the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. Li Mu Bai is an accomplished Wudang swordsman. Long ago, his master was murdered by Jade Fox, a woman who sought to learn Wudang skills but was rejected due to her gender. Mu Bai is also a good friend of Yu Shu Lien, a female warrior. Mu Bai and Shu Lien have developed feelings for each other, but have never acknowledged or acted on them. Mu Bai, intending to give up his warrior life, asks Shu Lien to transport his sword, also referred to as the Green Destiny, to the city of Beijing, as a gift for their friend, Sir Te. At Sir Te's estate, Shu Lien meets Jen, the daughter of Governor Yu, a visiting Manchu aristocrat. Jen, destined for an arranged marriage and yearning for adventure, seems envious of Shu Lien's warrior lifestyle.

One evening, a masked thief sneaks into Sir Te's estate and steals the sword. Mu Bai and Shu Lien, with the assistance of Sir Te's servant Master Bo, trace the theft to Governor Yu's compound and learn that Jade Fox has been posing as Jen's governess for many years. Bo makes the acquaintance of Inspector Tsai, a police investigator from the provinces, and his daughter, May, who have come to Beijing in pursuit of Jade Fox. While the three are eating lunch, Jade Fox fires a dart with a written message attached to it, challenging them to a showdown that night. Following a protracted battle, the group is on the verge of defeat when Mu Bai arrives and outmaneuvers Jade Fox. Before Mu Bai can kill Jade Fox, the masked thief reappears and partners with Jade Fox to fight. Jade Fox resumes the fight and kills Tsai before fleeing with the thief (who is revealed to be Jade Fox's protegée, Jen). After seeing Jen fight Mu Bai, Jade Fox realizes Jen had been secretly studying the Wudang manual and has surpassed her in skill. After finding out that Tsai was a police officer, a guilt-ridden Jen returns the Green Destiny to Sir Te's estate but is intercepted by Mu Bai. Mu Bai easily defeats her and asks her to become his pupil. Jen angrily rebukes his offer and flees. When she returns home, Jen confronts Jade Fox and banishes her from the Governor's compound.

That night, a desert bandit named Lo breaks into Jen's bedroom and asks her to leave with him. A flashback reveals that in the past, when Governor Yu and his family were traveling in the western deserts, Lo and his bandits had raided Jen's caravan; Lo took an heirloom comb from Jen and she pursued him to get it back, but succumbed to exhaustion in the desert. Lo took her to his cave hideout, where after an escape attempt and Lo's kind hospitality, the two fall in love. Lo eventually convinced Jen to return to her family, though not before telling her a legend of a man who jumped off a cliff to make his wishes come true. Because the man's heart was pure, he did not die. Lo came to Beijing to persuade Jen not to go through with her arranged marriage. However, when Jen refuses to leave with him, he returns the stolen comb and leaves.

After the wedding, Jen runs away and steals the Green Destiny again. Mu Bai, Shu Lien, and Lo are ordered to find and retrieve Jen. Jen visits Shu Lien at one of her dojos, who tells her that Lo is waiting for her at Wudang Mountain. After an angry dispute, the two women engage in a duel. Wielding the Green Destiny, Jen gains the upper hand by destroying every weapon that Shu Lien uses. However, Shu Lien finally uses a broken two-handed straight sword, jian, to her advantage, surprising Jen by managing to press its broken but still sharp edge to her throat. However, rather than acknowledging her defeat and handing over the Green Destiny, Jen injures Shu Lien when she lowers her broken weapon. Mu Bai arrives and pursues Jen into a bamboo forest. A duel ensues where Mu Bai overcomes a challenge Jen sets before him (to determine whether she will be his pupil), regaining possession of the Green Destiny. But when Mu Bai succeeds and Jen continues to refuse, Mu Bai realizes that she is without honor, thus unworthy of becoming his pupil despite her skills and throws the sword over a waterfall. In pursuit, Jen dives into an adjoining river to retrieve the sword, and is then rescued by Fox. Fox puts Jen into a drugged sleep and places her in a cavern in which later Mu Bai, Shu Lien and Bo discover her. Fox suddenly reappears and attacks the others with poisoned darts. Mu Bai blocks the needles with his sword and avenges his master's death by mortally wounding Fox, only to realize that one of the darts managed to hit him in the neck. Fox dies, confessing that her goal had been to kill Jen, because she was furious that Jen hid the secrets of Wudang from her.

As Jen runs off to prepare the antidote for the poisoned dart, Mu Bai prepares to die. With his last breaths, he finally confesses his love for Shu Lien, and dies in her arms as Jen returns too late to save him. The Green Destiny is returned to Sir Te. Jen later goes to Wudang Mountain and spends one last night with Lo. The next morning, Lo finds Jen standing on a balcony overlooking the edge of the mountain. In an echo of the legend that they spoke about in the desert, she asks him to make a wish. He complies, wishing for them to be together, back in the desert. Jen then flies over the side of the mountain and into the clouds.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

Multiple awards winner, believe to be the best Asian & proudest film in year 2000. Every Asian see this as a great thing and open a lot of opportunity for Asian to get into Hollywood, this also make us proud and intro our Asian's martial arts to the whole world (after Bruce Lee's success).

The whole film is quite good and the style of fighting is exciting at that period, especially the running on wall thingy. This also bring Ang Lee, Chow Yun Fatt & Ziyi Zhang some fame in Hollywood (Michelle Yeoh already got her when she was in 007 few years back).

A big bravo to them, Ang Lee still continue to produce a lot of good film after this. Hope to see more from him soon :)

The Sword Stained with Royal Blood 新碧血劍

2011-12-15T08:23:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 1993
Directed by 张海靖 Hai-Jing Zhang

Casted by:
元彪 Yuan Biao as 袁承志 Zhi
张敏 Sharla Cheung as 阿九 Jiu
李修贤 Danny Lee as 夏雪宜 Xue
袁咏仪 Anita Yuen as 何铁手 Tie
吴孟达 Man Tat Ng as 归辛树 Mr Gui
李美凤 Elizabeth Lee as 温仪 Yi
徐锦江 Xu Jin Jiang as 温堡主 Wen
叶全真 Quan Zheng Yi as 夏青青 Qing
马海伦 Helen Ma as 归二娘 Mrs Gui　　　
Story:

Jiu is the naughty princess who came to the martial's world being guided by Mr Gui, her master. But Mr Gui has to take care of the mental disorder Mrs Gui, therefore he has not take good care of Jiu. Jiu then met Zhi who treated her as a thieve. Zhi brought Jiu along to the Wen's house for a martial competition between Xue and the Wen's family.

Along the journey, they met Xue who is a good hearted warrior and also Tie who is the leader of the "5 poisonous society". Tie hide her real identity and follow them on the journey after she knows that Zhi accidentally suck all the poison blood of the precious snake of Tie. When they reach the Wen's place, Jiu saw that Xue is actually meeting up Yi, who is the Wen's wife.

During the fight, all the Wen's family request Wen to kill Yi but he rejected. Wen get injured and become insane. Zhi also met his beloved Qing. Later on they discover Wen fake himself and Xue together with Yi was killed. In the end, Zhi defeated Wen.

L² Scored: 3/10

L² Comment:

Sorry to say that, this should be the worst kam yung movie ever!!! The storyline has been twisted so much from the original and yet the movie is not even nice. Though Sharla carry much more comedy side in this film, but i think its sucks.

Yuck, too much Sharla Cheung's movie make me wanna puke now :(

Devil's Vindata 妖魔道

2011-12-14T08:42:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 1991
Directed by 张海靖 Hai-Jing Zhang

Casted by:
张敏 Sharla Chang as 敏儿 Mun
冯淬帆 Stanley Feng as 丘处南 Nan
周慧敏 Vivian Chow as 彩衣 Yi
倪震 Joe Nieh as 廖震 Zheng
邱月清 Swdrr Yau as 邪姬 Demon
楼南光 Billy Lou as 邓天光 Guang
司马燕 Michelle Shi as 燕儿 Yan
Story:

500 years ago, the Demon betray the monk and lie that she will be good after the monk took out his heart. After the monk took out his heart, Demon killed him but was punished by Buddha. 500 years later, Demon needs to combine herself with the 7 star devil girl to be more powerful so that it can rule the world.

Mun's beloved Yi is the 7 star devil girl, Yi would need to marry the sunshine boy so that her evil spirit will be vanished. Zheng happened to be the groom but he ran away and become Nan's apprentice. Nan fall in love with Mun while another apprentice Guang love Yan. Failed to get marry, Yi returned back to Mun. After some incidence, they realize that Zheng is the sunshine boy and hope that Zheng managed to vanish Yi's devil spirit by taking her virginity.

Demon came and try to capture Yi, Mun used the holly pearl to strike on Zheng's forehead. Zheng became the monk and managed to defeat the evil Demon.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

This is the most funny film i think as a black comedy in HK during 1991. Though the movie look silly and kinda stupid in certain part, but it definitely make you laugh. The funniest part would be when Billy turn himself as a soap and moist himself over Michelle's body~ lol... what a stupid idea but fuck yeah, so damn funny!!!

White Vengeance 鸿门宴

2011-12-13T08:39:00.001+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 李仁港 Daniel Lee

Casted by:
黎明 Leon Lai as 刘邦 Liu Bang
张涵予 Hanyu Zhang as 张良 Zhang Liang
冯绍峰 Shaofeng Feng as 项羽 Xiang Yu
刘亦菲 Yifei Liu as 虞姬 Yu Ji
黄秋生 Anthony Wong as 范增 Fan Zhen
陈小春 Jordan Chan as 樊哙 Fan Fan
安志杰 Andy On as 韩信 Han Xin
Story:

Bang & Yu team up to roll over the Qing Dynasty, they received instruction from the Huai King and state that who ever get the Xian Yang City will be able to announce himself as king in the city. Bang together with Fan and gangs always work as vanguard in the war while Yu took over the fame and crown.

Bang success to invite Liang to be his war consultant while Yu has always been help by Zhen who is very talented at strategizing in war. Bang was instructed by Yu to send Yu's beloved YuJi back to her hometown to avoid from getting hurt in the war. Fan feel like Yu purposely do that to get Bang away from Xian Yang City. Liang consult him to take another way and take over the Xian Yang City first while having Yuji with them. Yu was pissed off, Zhen told Yu to set up a Hong Men Banquet and invit Bang over. After some strategic arrangement, Bang brought along his army and Liang to the Hong Men Banquet. Zhen set up 5 chinese chest to compete with Liang, whenever Liang lost one chest, one of their army will be punish. Things go on and Liang lost 4 out of 5. Fight occurs and Bang forced to surrender and give the Xian Yang City back to Yu while abandon Liang.

Though this has been strategize earlier, Liang manage to get Yu's heart and outcast Zhen. Zhen feel sad and left while passing a message to Yu for future usage. Liang went to visit Zhen and compete on the final chest, Zhen passed away at that session. Liang took this chance to flee away leaving Yu alone to fight with Bang. Yu was angry and strike a war with Bang. During the fight, Bang managed to get help from the other king when Yu killed Huai King. To fight against the large number of enemy, Yu lost his battle and bring along small number of armies and ran to Wu Jiang City with Yuji. After a few fight, Yu lost all his army, Yuji killed herself and Yu went along with her.

Discovering the message, Bang found out Zhen has been strategize and bribe over Liang, Xin & He to betray Bang. Bang pissed off and assassinated them. Though Bang become the emperor but he lost all his brother who fight with him in the battlefield. Fan even kill himself in front of Bang to show that he does not trust Bang anymore. Bang live his life trusting nobody even his own family. When Bang almost passed away in his old life, he met Liang again, who managed to survive.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Its a great history movie this year, so happy to watch it with some friends who are so also interested in China history :) Though the storyline is good by using a flashback memories on the movie, but the ending part is a bit laggy and boring. The best part will be the time when Zhen & Liang compete with each other in the chinese chest competition.

Leon Lai still the same-old-leon, his expression is bad and boring, i wonder how he ever won the best actor before~ lol. The one who surprise me is Jordan Chan!!! You can see that he's do his hardwork for this film. This proof that he's not only good in comedy but this kind of history-war film as well~ good job:)

Arthur Christmas

2011-12-12T08:47:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Sarah Smith

Casted by:
James McAvoy as Arthur
Ashley Jensen as Bryony
Hugh Laurie as Steve
Jim Broadbent as Santa
Bill Nighy as Grand-Santa
Imelda Staunton as Mrs. Santa
Story:

The story of Arthur Christmas revolves around the current Santa Claus, his wife, his two sons Arthur and Steve, and their grandfather, Grand-Santa. Set on Christmas Eve night, the film opens with a set of elves sitting behind their computers in the command center of Santa's gigantic, ultra-high-tech sleigh titled the S-1. While Santa and the elves deliver presents to children using fancy advanced equipment and military precision, Santa's oldest son Steve manages the operation at mission control, alongside his obsequious assistant Peter. However, his clumsy younger brother Arthur, who is assigned to handling childrens' letters in the mail department, inadvertently disrupts operations when he enters mission control to place some correspondence and a present falls out of the system as a result.

With the seventieth annual delivery mission under his official command completed, Santa, being far past his prime and whose role in field operations now is largely symbolic, returns to give a congratulatory speech to the elves. Much to Steve's frustration, who has long anticipated succeeding his father, Santa announces he intends to continue for the foreseeable future.

During their family Christmas dinner, Arthur's suggestion for the family to play a board game degenerates into a petty quarrel with Santa and Steve arguing about their right to be Santa while Grand-Santa, who is bored by retirement, resentfully criticizes his successors' modernization of their calling. Distraught, the various family members leave the dinner table, though Arthur stops Steve with a small gesture to reassure him that he will be a great Santa Claus. However, Steve rejects Arthur's overture, while at the same time their father shares his doubts with his wife about his self-identity if he retires.

Meanwhile, an elf named Bryony finds a wrapped bicycle that has not yet been delivered. She alerts Steve and his elf-assistant to the problem. Overhearing, Arthur is alarmed to recognize the present as a gift for a little girl named Gwen who had written Santa about her wish. Arthur alerts his father Santa who doesn't know how to handle the situation. Steve argues that one missed present out of the billions of deliveries that night is a minimal error and since sunrise is in two hours with the high-tech sled needing an overhaul, correcting that oversight will have to wait a few days.

The distraught Arthur is stopped by his grandfather, who proposes delivering the gift with his old wooden sleigh named Evie and the great-grandchildren of his old reindeer which were called Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, John, Banbi, "You with the white ear", "And You, and you". Together, Grand-Santa, Arthur, the reindeer and Bryony, who had stowed away, embark on a journey to deliver the present. They get lost and land in danger including being mistaken for aliens, thus causing an international military incident and losing reindeer in the various mishaps. Through the group's struggles, Arthur is profoundly disillusioned to learn that Granda-Santa is doing this merely to satisfy his ego, that Steve refuses to help them out of a petty resentment of perceiving that Arthur is threatening his succession and that his own father has gone to bed, apparently content to neglect his duty to that girl.

Finally, while stranded in Cuba after losing the sleigh, Arthur gets an renewal of purpose that the girl needs him and the field team manages to regain control of the sleigh. Meanwhile, the elf staff is collectively alarmed at learning of this neglected delivery and Santa's befuddled excuses sends them into a panic that their organization's ideals have been violated, threatening their whole existence. In response, Mr. and Mrs. Claus, and belatedly Steve, take the high-tech sleigh to deliver the present. Unfortunately, they are seriously delayed by a basic mistake of Santa's with the craft's navigation system which causes an embarrassing incident that reveals Steve's lack of empathy and compassion with his poor handling of the mistaken child. Humiliated at the misunderstanding, Steve loses his temper at his father's aged incompetence.

After much difficulty, and with Mrs. Claus' and Bryony's help, all the male Clauses arrive at Gwen's house before she awakens, only to have all but Arthur quarrel about who finally places the gift. Noticing that only Arthur truly cares about the girl's feelings in the Christmas spirit in this situation, the elder Clauses realize that he is the sole true worthy successor. As a result, Santa gives Arthur the honor and Steve forfeits his birthright to his brother.

With the crisis resolved, Santa goes into a happy retirement with Mrs. Claus. Meanwhile, Grand-Santa's desire for some traditionalism is satisfied with the compromise of the high-tech sleigh being pulled by a 5000-reindeer team led by the original eight reindeer, all of whom managed to return home after that difficult run. As for their sons, Steve finds he is content being valued as COO with Bryony as Vice President of Packing while Arthur happily guides the enterprise in the proper spirit as the new Santa and S-1 Renamed "EVIE" with Christmas ornaments and is pulled by Hundred of Reindeers.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Ho ho ho~ merry xmas :P Though xmas is not here yet, but i enjoy watching this film in the cinema. Love the grand-santa & his reindeer the most :) The old folks who left behind in the house but still miss his old fame when he was the santa~

Watch it in the cinema and you will not regret.

Royal Tramp 2 鹿鼎記２神龍教

2011-12-09T08:39:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 1992
Directed by 王晶 Wong Jing

Casted by:
周星驰 Stephen Chow as 韦小宝 Bao
林青霞 Bridget Lin as 龙儿 Lung
陈百祥 Natalis Chan as 多隆 Duo
李嘉欣 Michelle Reis as 阿珂 Ou
温兆伦 Deric Wan as 康熙帝 Emperor Hong Hei
邱淑贞 Chingmy Yau as 建宁公主 Princess Ning
刘松仁 Damian Lau as 陈近南 Nan
汤镇业 Kent Tong as 吴應熊 Xiong
秦沛 Paul Chun as 吴三桂 Kwai
馬海倫 Helen Ma as 獨臂神尼 Jiu
陈德容 Vivian Chan & 袁洁莹 Fennie Yuen as 双儿 Twins Shuang
吴君如 Sandra Ng as 韦春花 Hua
Story:

The fake empress ran away and gone back to the Shen Lung Society, she took off her mask and reveal her real identity as Lung. Lung received the martial arts from her master. Her martial arts request her to be a virgin, once she has sex with a guy, 80% of her kungfu will be transfer to the guy.

Bao brought Duo back and Duo fell in love with Hua immediately. but Duo betray Bao and caused him to be caught by Ou and her master, Jiu. Lung and Xiong went after them and Xiong quickly tackle Ou who fall for him. Xiong and his father Kwai betray Lung and forced Lung to take a slutty pill. Lung choose Bao to have sex with and pass all her martial arts to him.

Emperor arrange Bao to send Princess Ning to marry with Xiong, but Princess Ning told Bao that she was pregnant. When they reach Wu's house, Princess Ning slice off Xiong's penis. With the help of Lung, Ning & Twins, Bao ran away and discover the secret of "42 Scriptures". Finally, Bao found the treasure but was fought by Fan. Bao used the martial arts that he got from Lung and defeated Fan.

In the end, Bao managed to get Ou with him and together with other wives. Bao chose to leave the place and bid farewell to the emperor and Nan.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

This movie hit the 5th place on the Hong Kong 1992 blockbuster. A good result from Stephen Chow & Wang Jing. But out of expectation, Bridget Lin is so funny in this movie, and her hairstyle~ lol... i laugh non stop on it...

Royal Tramp 鹿鼎記

2011-12-08T08:24:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 1992
Directed by 王晶 Wong Jing

Casted by:
周星馳 Stephen Chow as 韋小寶 Bao
陳百祥 Natalis Chan as 多隆 Duo
吴孟達 Man-Tat Ng as 海大富 Fu
張敏 Sharla Cheung as 太后 The Empress
邱淑貞 Chingmy Yau as 建寧公主 Princess Ning
温兆倫 Deric Wan as 康熙帝 Emperor Hong Hei
劉松仁 Damian Lau as 陳近南 Nan
徐錦江 Jing Jiang Xu as 鳌拜 Bai
吴君如 Sandra Ng as 韋春花 Hua
陳德容 Vivian Chan & 袁洁瑩 Fennie Yuen as 雙兒 Twin Shuang
林青霞 Bridget Lin as 龍兒 Lung
Story:

Bao lives in a hooker shop with his sister Hua, he was sneaky and funny. In a gang fight, he met Nan who is the leader of Tian Di Society. Nan accept Bao in his society after Bao save his life. Bao is given a task to steal the 4 books of "42 scriptures" from the palace.

Bao accidentally went in the palace as an eunuch after Fu get him in. Fu wants Bao to steal the "42 scriptures" from the empress. Bao sneak into the empress' room but bump into Princess Ning who is into sm. Bao slept with Princess Ning and also met the Emperor Hong Hei who treat him as a friend. The emperor asked Bao to help him to defeat Bai who seems to be a threat to the emperor. For reward, the emperor gave him 2 books of the "42 scriptures" after Bao defeated Bai with Duo.

Duo fall in love with Hua when Bao bring him back to hometown. In the palace, Princess Ning accidentally discover the real emperor was hid behind a wall. They fought against the fake empress but she managed to escape. The story will be continue...

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

As a fans of Kam Yung, i dislike the way they change the storyline and make it look like a stupid movie; but as a fans of Stephen Chow, i love it so much~ lol... so contradicting, right? This movie has hit the 3rd place in the Hong Kong's blockbuster in the year of 1992.

The brilliant part of Wang Jing is, he break up the movie into 2 parts and the second movie hit the 5th place in the blockbuster as well. Imagine how much the production team earn for this movie, huge!!!

The Duel 決戰紫禁之巔

2011-12-05T09:28:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2000
Directed by 劉偉強 Andrew Lau

Casted by:
張家輝 Nick Cheung as 龍龍九 Nine
劉德華 Andy Lau as 葉孤城 Cool
趙薇 Vicki Zhao as 飛鳳公主 Phoenix
鄭伊健 Ekin Chen as 西門吹雪 Simon
徐錦江 Elvis Tsui as 金鬍子 Golden
楊恭如 Kristy as 葉子青 Qing
天心 Tian Xin as 玉如意 Jade
譚耀文 Patrick Tham as 皇帝 Emperor
Story:

Nine received the order from the emperor to distribute 8 invitations card for the duel of Cool & Simon at the palace. Nine and Golden discover a mysterious behind a murder case, one of the 3 dolls' face has been destroy. And this doll will reveal who is the real guy who wanted to roll over the emperor's dynasty.

The mischievous Princess Phoenix follow along Nine and met her idol Cool. Phoenix was attracted to Cool and take risk to steal the expensive medicine to heal Cool when he is hurt during a fight. In another hand, Simon who owns a biscuit shop save Qing who has almost killed by her own master. Simon is not high profile and always stay at his shop together with Qing. Nine went to send off the invitation card while investigating the missing doll, of course at the same time he went to visit his lover Jade.

Finally the doll's reveal the truth identity, its Cool. Cool fake up someone to fight with Simon during the duel and in the same time try to kill the emperor. Nine and Simon went to help, Cool demand a real fight with Simon. After a big fight, Cool was defeated and Simon finally win in the duel and get back his life with Qing.

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

Basically this movie is just for a laugh during the Chinese New Year time in year 2000. Surprisingly, the graphic is extremely good, not too over but enough to make you "wow" during that time. The only problem i have with this film is Ekin Chen !!! His acting is super duper bad~

Blade of Fury 一刀傾城

2011-11-30T08:51:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 1993
Directed by 洪金寶 Sammo Hung

Casted by:
楊凡 Yang Fan as 王五 Wang
狄龍 Tommy Tam as 譚嗣同 Tong
楊麗青 Cynthia Yang as 九斤 Jing
關之琳 Rosamund Kwan as 顾夕/奕亲王妃 Concubine
趙長軍 Jiang-Jun Zhao as 袁世凱 YuenStory:

Wang is a legendary hero who help out Yuen & Tong in China's history. Together with Jing, 4 of them have build up a good reputation in the country. Wang met the concubine who is his previous lover, but this meet up has cause him into trouble. The rival came and 4 of them thinking of solutions to defense...

L² Scored: 1.5/10

L² Comment:

Oh, i didn't mean to be rude Mr Sammo, but i really not into this film. :P

Seriously, this history kinda movie is a bit boring, the storyline is not interesting at all... Even putting in the beauty Rosamund did not help ! The only thing that i can concentrate is the martial arts, that's all~ oh god, watching this is kinda torturing...

Puss in Boots

2011-11-29T09:06:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Chris Miller

Vocal by:
Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots
Salma Hayek as Kitty Softpaws
Zach Galifianakis as Humpty Alexander Dumpty
Billy Bob Thornton as Jack
Amy Sedaris as Jill
Story:

Sometime before Puss meets Shrek and Donkey in Shrek 2, he arrives at a town while escaping a bounty hunter. There he learns that the outlaw couple Jack and Jill have the magic beans he's been looking for most of his life, beans that can lead him to a giant's castle holding valuable golden goose eggs. When Puss tries to steal them from the outlaws' room, a masked cat interrupts. Both fail and escape, and Puss follows the cat back a club, where they have a dance-off and a sword fight, ending when Puss hits the masked cat in the head with a guitar. He learns that the masked cat was Kitty Softpaws. She is allied with Humpty Alexander Dumpty , Puss' long-estranged childhood friend from the orphanage where he was raised. Overcoming Puss' feelings of betrayal for a youthful misadventure when Humpty tricked Puss into helping commit a crime, they convince him to join them in finding the beans and retrieving the golden eggs.

The trio steals the beans from Jack and Jill and elude the angry outlaws in a canyon chase. As Humpty leads his compatriots to the spot where they must plant the beans, Puss and Kitty's relationship begins to grow from rivalry into friendship. The trio ride the fast-growing beanstalk into the clouds where, Humpty explains, they'll find castle of the late giant. Now, he continues, a fearsome monster called the Terror guards the Golden Goose. When they realize the golden eggs are too heavy to carry, they steal the Goose — which is just a gosling — and escape the castle and the Terror. While celebrating their victory, the group is ambushed by Jack and Jill, who knock Puss unconscious.

When Puss wakes up, he tracks Jack and Jill back to his old hometown, where he learns that the entire heist was a plot by Humpty to lure him home to be captured, as revenge for abandoning him to the authorities when Humpty's youthful heist went bad. Jack, Jill, and even Kitty were involved in the con. After pleas from his adoptive mother, the head of the orphanage, Puss turns himself in to the guards while Humpty donates many golden eggs to the town and becomes a hero.

While in prison, Puss meets the original Jack from the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story who warns him that the Terror is in fact the Golden Goose's mother, and it will stop at nothing to get its child back. A repentant Kitty helps Puss break out of prison. Puss convinces Humpty to help him fight off the Terror, saying he knows Humpty is a good person at heart, and he will be forgiven if he helps save the town. The Terror arrives, revealing itself to be a giant goose. Using the Golden Goose as bait, Puss and Humpty lure the Terror out of the town, but Humpty and the Goose are knocked off a bridge with Puss holding on to them. Humpty knows Puss cannot hold both of them, and he lets go, sacrificing himself to save the Goose and the town. Humpty's shell cracks open to reveal that he was a golden egg on the inside. The Terror then takes the Goose and Humpty away back to the giant's castle.

Puss is forced to flee because he is still an outlaw, but his efforts to save the town make him a hero among the townspeople. Puss and Kitty escape the guards once more, and Kitty says she will see him again soon, showing that she has taken his boots. In the epilogue, Jack and Jill are recovering from their injuries after being crushed by the Terror, Humpty is shown once again in his regular egg form as he rides the Terror into the clouds, and Puss and Kitty head back to dance at Kitty's hideout, the Glitter Box, where they finally kiss.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

Once a while, an exciting and funny animation movie is a good thing to cheer up our life :) Puss is the spinoff prequel character from Shrek franchise. And the box office earn more than Shrek which is a surprise and good thing for the production team.

Never know that 51yo Banderas & 45yo Hayek is still able to voice for animation, if not because of Banderas has been the original Puss in the the previous movie, i dont think the production team will look for them~ Though they are old, but they are not bad... basically the whole movie is quite fun to watch... but sitting near a bunch of kids in the cinema is always not a joyful things to do... :(

The Fortune Buddies 勁抽福祿壽

2011-11-27T09:06:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 鍾澍佳 Shu-Jia Zhong

Casted by:
阮兆祥 Louis Yuen as 阮福祥 Dee
王祖藍 Chon-Lam Wong as 王祿藍 Blue
李思捷 Johnson Lee as 李捷壽 Sau
曾志偉 Eric Tsang as 凱琪之父 Fiona's dad
薛凱琪 Fiona Sit as 凱琪 Fiona
王小鳳 Paulin Wong as 凱琪之母 Fiona's mother
張可頤 Maggie Cheung as Maggie
陳法拉 Fala Chan as 蚊姐 Mun
Story:

3 unemployed guys are working hard to look for job. Dee has a son, his ex wife Mun has become the leader of gangster; Blue want to marry Fiona, but would have to earn HKD500m for Fiona's parents; Sau is the son of a rich guy who has fantasy with Samantha Ko.

Maggie is Fiona's father's ex girlfriend, she came back to Hong Kong from USA. Maggie brought over a team of wrestler to fight with the 3 guys. Three of them was tricked by Fiona's father to sign the contract, they learn the tactics of wrestling for the fight. In the end, they won the fight and all of them live happily ever after.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

Though this is a TVB production, but it doesn't really as good as their drama. The storyline is still ok, predictable. Laughing point is not bad, but kinda familiar, which is not a good thing. One thing TVB like to do is, to let all their actors & actresses to involve in the film they produce. Lol, they really know how to promote...

School Ghost Story 4 <学校の怪談4> がっこうのかいだん4

2011-11-25T09:02:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 1999
Directed by 平山秀幸 Hideyuki Hirayama

Casted by:
丰田真唯未
濑斗史辉
笑福停松之助
原田美枝子
Story:

In the old time, 5 children is playing hide & seek at their school near the beach. But Tsunami came on attack. Others 4 children who were hiding ignore the alarm while the one who play seeker ran for his life.

50 years later, a brother & sister came with their mother to the relatives house. They were enjoying their time with the cousins while happily playing at the beach. One of the children discover a bag which is buried in the sand. They dig it out and throw it aside, but the bag gone missing and appear in one of the child's house. The child throw the bag into the sea, but was drag into the sea together. While the little girl and boy were having nightmare on other dead children. The boy was obsessed by the spirit, the girl try to save the boy and met an old man who claimed himself as the owner of a stationery shop.

The old man accompany the girl to look for her brother in the old school. Who knows that the old man is actually the kid who play as seeker 50 years ago? He finally met his old friend and manage to join back his old friends at the incident place. The unhappy feeling has vanished from the children's spirit. They released the little boy and vanished together with the old man.

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

This is not a bad horror movie, but not good as well. It has some part which i think is quite spooky if you are watching alone in a dark place. But the whole movie is lead by child star, so the way the present is kinda immature (lol, wat am i talking about? they are kids, of coz immature).

I am watching this movie through CD, maybe that's why the movie sounds a bit boring and the graphic is not attracting at all~

Legendary Amazons 杨门女将之军令如山

2011-11-24T09:16:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 陳勳奇 Frankie Chan

Casted by:
张柏芝 Cecilia Cheung as 穆桂英 Mu Guiying
任贤齐 Richie Ren as 杨宗保 Yang Zongbao
肖明玉 Xiao Mingyu as 杨文广 Yang Wenguang
刘晓庆 Liu Xiaoqing as 柴郡主 Princess Chai
郑佩佩 Cheng Pei-pei as 佘太君 She Saihua
周小飞 Zhou Xiaofei as 杨排风 Yang Paifeng
周海媚 Kathy Chow as 杨五娘 Fifth Sister Yang
陈紫函 Chen Zihan as 杨八姐 Eighth Sister Yang
金巧巧 Jin Qiaoqiao as 杨三娘 Third Sister Yang
葛春燕 Ge Chunyan as 杨大娘 Eldest Sister Yang
大岛由加利 Oshima Yukari as 杨二娘(邹兰英) Zou Lanying
李静 Li Jing as 杨二娘(耿金花) Geng Jinhua
杨紫彤 Yang Zitong as 杨四娘 Fourth Sister Yang
于娜 Yu Na as 杨七娘 Seventh Sister Yang
刘冬 Liu Dong as 杨九妹 Ninth Sister Yang
王媞 Wang Ti as 杨金花 Yang Jinhua
赵芊羽 Zhao Qianyu as 小豆子 Xiaodouzi

午马 Wu Ma as 庞太师 Imperial Tung

Story:

The film is set in early 11th century China during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. The emperor neglects state affairs and indulges in personal pleasures, while the government sinks into corruption and war continues to rage on at the borders of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty is being invaded by the armies of the rival state of Western Xia.

Yang Zongbao is the last man standing in the Yang clan, a family of generals who have dedicated their lives to defending the Song Dynasty from foreign invaders. He dies in battle tragically when the treacherous Imperial Tutor Pang refuses to send reinforcements to aid him. Yang Zongbao's widowed wife Mu Guiying leads the other widows of the Yang clan into battle to continue the legacy of their husbands.

L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

Oh gosh, how should i comment this. Frankie Chan (director) is quite famous in the HK film industry, i was expecting a good action from him... but sadly no... Jackie Chan the producer, did he ever do any QS before they show this film in the big screen?

The cost for this film is quite huge i believe, but the production came out like ATV (亚视)'s quality... Though they gather actors & actresses from China,HK & Taiwan, but due to the bad graphic and dub, the whole movie is spoiled !!!

As for the cast, Cecilia still look stunning after all these while; Kathy Chow is a bit funny in this action kinda film; PeiPei Cheng look even sillier in this character...Overall this film is ok ok only.

I Love Wing Chun 笑咏春

2011-11-22T08:51:00.003+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 蔡力Choi Lik

Casted by:
田亮 Tian Liang as 阿永 Wing
罗贯峰 Damon Law as 吴浩民 Min
元华 Yuan Hua as 春伯 Uncle Chun
元秋 Yuan Qiu as 春婶 Aunty Chun
颜薇恩 Gan Mei Yan as Mary
陈百祥 Natalis Chan as 阿保 Bao
Story:

N/A

L² Scored: -10/10

L² Comment:

Pui!!! i don't even bother to write the story on this film. What a bad bad movie in the century!!!

Immortal 2011

2011-11-21T08:52:00.002+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Tarsem Singh Dhandwar

Casted by:
Henry Cavill as Theseus
Freida Pinto as Phaedra
Mickey Rourke as King Hyperion
Stephen Dorff as Stavros
Luke Evans as Zeus
Isabel Lucas as Athena
Kellan Lutz as Poseidon
Story:

The Heraklion King of Crete, Hyperion, declares war on Olympus after the Gods fail to answer his prayers to save his family from illness, and starts searching for the Epirus Bow, a powerful weapon created by the God of War Ares, which he intends to use to release the Titans from Mount Tartarus and destroy the gods.

Hyperion attacks several holy places in search of the Epirus Bow, and after kidnapping a virgin oracle priestess called Phaedra to help him, advances towards a nearby village, where the young Theseus lives with his mother. Theseus' mother conceived him after being raped, and he is thus considered a bastard and prevented from evacuating the village with its other inhabitants by the soldier Lysander. Theseus defeats him in combat, which he was taught by an old man, and Lysander is discharged by his commanding officer. Infuriated, he offers his services to Hyperion.

The old man is actually Zeus in disguise. He meets with Ares, Poseidon, Athena , Apollo and Heracles, and tells them that they can't directly interfere with the conflict until the Titans are released from Tartarus. Meanwhile, Theseus returns to the village only to discover that Hyperion and his army have already attacked. Hyperion murders Theseus' mother in front of him and sends him to work as a slave in the mines, where Theseus befriends another prisoner, the thief Stavros.

Phaedra has a vision of Theseus fighting Hyperion after accidentally touching him and tells Stavros to make sure Theseus is always by his side. She and the other captured oracles later start a riot, in which she, Theseus, and Stravros escape alongside other slaves. Theseus decides to go after Hyperion and the others follow him. They attack a boat filled with Hyperion's men, but are overpowered. They are however rescued when Poseidon causes a tidal wave which knocks Hyperion's men out. On their way out, Phaedra has a vision that Theseus needs to return to his village and bury his mother, which he does.

In the process, he finds the Epirus Bow, but is attacked by Hyperion's soldier, the Minotaur while the others are attacked by soldiers. The Minotaur was warned of Theseus' presence by Lysander. Theseus finally defeats the Minotaur and rescues his allies using the Epirus Bow, before collapsing due to being poisoned by the Minotaur. Phaedra takes him to her house, where she cures him and they have sex, which causes her to lose her premonitory powers.

The group returns to Phaedra's temple, only to discover that it is filled with Hyperion's soldiers. They capture the group and steal the Epirus Bow, forcing Ares to intervene and save them. Athena comes from Olympus as well. Zeus sees this as treachery, and is ready to kill Athena, but he spares her life. Ares, however, does not back down, and says that he had to do what he did. An infuriated Zeus uses a fire chain to knock Ares into the marble wall to his presumed death. Athena is able to provide horses for the group which they use to ride to Mount Tartarus which is under attack by Hyperion's forces. Hyperion releases the Titans using the Epirus Bow, and they are confronted by the Gods, while Theseus and his allies join forces with the Athenian army present.

Theseus enters the temple and fights Hyperion. He is stabbed multiple times, but is able to kill Hyperion by stabbing him in the neck before dying. Meanwhile, the Gods are overpowered by the Titans, who kill Stavros, Apollo, Athena, Heracles and Poseidon. Before Zeus returns to Mount Olympus with his dead daughter, he collapses the temple upon the Titans, killing them as well as most of Hyperion's forces, while the rest are crushed by the collapsing temple. Two beams are seen ascending to Olympus which are Zeus carrying his daughter and Poseidon. Theseus also ascends to the skies as a beam.

Theseus is welcomed into Mount Olympus by the Gods for his sacrifice, and is awarded with a son from his night with Phaedra. The boy inherits his mother's premonitions and is trained by the old man in mastering them after discovering that, in the future, there will be a war between the Gods and the Titans, with Theseus leading the Gods in battle on Mount Olympus.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

This would be a good movie with a good storyline and good action, if you're just there for the movie. But if you knows a bit of the Greek Myth/Gods, this will be sucks man~ compare to Clash of The Titans, this is so horrible~

But back to the movie, i'm very glad a non-caucasian become the director. Freida Pinto first try to be so sexy, nice... And of course, Henry Cavill is hot as well. Overall this is a quite good if you just enjoy the action & thingy~ :)

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

2011-11-20T09:35:00.001+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Steven Spielberg

Voiced by:
Jamie Bell as Tintin
Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock
Daniel Craig as Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine and Red Rackham
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thomson and Thompson
Story:

Tintin, a young journalist, and his dog Snowy, are browsing in an outdoor market in a European town. Tintin buys a model of a three-masted sailing ship, the Unicorn, for a good price, but is then immediately accosted by the sinister Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, and the mysterious figure of Barnaby, who both try to buy the model from Tintin, without success. Tintin takes the ship home, but it is broken during a fight between Snowy and a neighbour's cat. As it breaks, a parchment scroll slips out of the ship's mast. Snowy spots it but is unable to alert Tintin. Meanwhile, incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson are on the trail of a pickpocket, Aristides Silk. Tintin visits Sakharine in Marlinspike Hall, where he learns that there are at least two model ships.

Later, Tintin is shot at, then abducted by accomplices of Sakharine, and imprisoned on the SS Karaboudjan. On board, Tintin escapes and meets the ship's nominal captain, Haddock. Haddock has been supplied with whisky by first mate Allan, who is working for Sakharine, and the captain is permanently drunk, and doesn't know what's happening on board his ship. Tintin and Haddock (and Snowy) eventually escape from the Karaboudjan in a lifeboat. Sakharine sends a seaplane to find them, but Tintin is able to capture the plane, and fly towards the (fictitious) Moroccan port of Bagghar, but they crash in the desert.

Dehydrated in the heat, and suffering from a sudden lack of alcohol, Haddock hallucinates, and starts to remember stories about his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock(e), who was captain of the Unicorn during the 17th century. Sir Francis' treasure-laden ship was attacked by a pirate ship, led by the masked Red Rackham, and, after a fierce battle and eventual surrender, Sir Francis chose to sink the Unicorn, and most of the treasure, rather than allow it to fall into Rackham's hands. It transpires that there were three models of the Unicorn, each containing a scroll. Together, the scrolls will reveal the location of the sunken Unicorn, and its treasure.

In Bagghar, Tintin and the Captain find out that the third model ship is in the possession of the wealthy Omar Ben Salaad, but it is encased in a bullet-proof glass display case. Sakharine's plan is to stage a concert involving famous diva Bianca Castafiore, the "Milanese nightingale", whose penetrating singing voice will be able to shatter the glass case, allowing Sakharine's trained hawk to fly down and steal the third scroll. After a chase down to the harbour, pursued by Tintin and Haddock, Sakharine finally escapes with all three scrolls. Tintin chases him back to Europe and arranges a police reception for him on the dockside. Haddock and Sakharine, who is revealed to be the descendant of Red Rackham, replay their ancestors' swashbuckling sword fight, using dockside cranes, and Haddock is eventually victorious.

With the three scrolls in their possession, Tintin and Haddock find that the indicated location is Marlinspike Hall, and that the hall had been built originally by Sir Francis Haddock. There, in the cellar, they find some of the treasure, a clue to the location of the sunken Unicorn, and, perhaps, the excuse for another adventure.

L² Scored: 9.5/10

L² Comment:

My favorite comic has finally come on the big screen :) Its a mix of 3 stories of Tintin in this film. At first i do not want to know the story before i go for the cinema coz i dont wanna expect too much. But the film never fail me, a production from Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson is absolutely awesome~

An animation you will never wanna miss in your whole life :)

Mothman

2011-11-14T08:59:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Sheldon Wilson

Casted by:
Jewel Staite as Katharine Grant
Connor Fox as Derek Carpenter
Susie Abromeit as Mindy
Michael Aills as Jared
Matty Ferraro as Casey
Story:

10 years ago, few teenagers went swimming but tragedy happened. Jamie was fooled by them and drown in the lake. To prevent from getting arrested, each of them use a rock to smash Jamie's head and claimed to police that Jamie knocked his own head when he dive into the water.

Katherine who did not wanted to do it at first but later on go along with the rest. She left to big city to work as a reporter. Due to work, Katherine was sent back to do an interview regarding the mothman. Beside Derek (Katherine's high school's date), the rest don't really seems to welcome her back. On a night, Jared was attacked by the mothman at his silver car and died.

Later on in a bar, Richard was killed by mothman which appeared through mirror. The mothman later on try to attack Sally, but she ran to her car and drove off. On the highway, mothman appeared in the windshield screen and slash Sally alive. Katherine went to seek advice from Frank, an old blind guy while at the same time the mothman attacked Mindy in her saloon.

Frank told Katherine that the rest of them has to use knifes to cut their chest and use the blood to drop on the dust which mothman stay. Katherine, Derek & Casey did that but still failed. Mothman climb out to attack and get Casey. Katherine & Derek went back to Frank, but Frank locked them up in a cell and went to the town by himself. Mothman attack Katherine & Derek in the cell, but they were save by Casey who they thought he has died.

3 of them went to the town and realize mothman is attacking the city, it has killed a lot of people including Frank. Casey also being stab to death after saving Katherine. Katherine used the knife with blood (Blood of Katherine, Derek & Casey) to stab the mothman and vanished it. The mothman disapeared and become multiple of moth and flew away. Derek was sent to hospital, Katherine went to visit.

Derek shout crazily when he found that Katherine's eye become red and involved into the mothman.

L² Scored: 3/10

L² Comment:

The beginning of the movie is quite good, but as it goes along, i found that the storyline is kinda boring. Not that the actors & actresses are bad, but the story is really predictable and kinda laggy. Though this is based on a real legendary creature, but please... make it more interesting next time.... :P

Finale 2009

2011-11-12T11:06:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2009
Directed by John Michael Elfers

Casted by:
Carolyn Hauck as Helen Michaels
Suthi Picotte as Kathryn Michaels
Elizabeth Holmes as Mrs. Bliss
Steven Nieport as The Collector
James Johnson as Peter Michaels
Story:

A family descends into a vortex of denial and paranoia after the death of the oldest son. Though labeled a suicide, the bizarre circumstances lead the mother, Helen, to believe there are darker forces at work. Black paint was thrown over everything reflective in the son's decrepit Victorian house, an explosive trap set in his bedroom and a woman from his past haunts the cemetery where he lies buried. But when Helen's investigation threatens to ruin the life of her teenage daughter, Kate, and possibly her own sanity, she realizes there is but one escape from this nightmare world - the very route attempted by her dead son. Finale captures mystery, horror and suspense in the colorful visual style of the 1970's Italian gialli.

L² Scored: 1.5/10

L² Comment:

The director film this movie after his own brother hang himself and his mother retreated into grief-stricken denial and paranoia, blaming his death on the planned sacrifice of a demonic cult. Though they have financial problem when filming this movie, and it suppose to be very touching story for the scene behind. But YAWN~

All i can say is... this is not a good movie at all. 1.5 is for the strong belief that the director has for himself~

Saw 5

2011-11-10T08:43:00.001+08:00

Released Year: 2008
Directed by David Hackl

Casted by:
Tobin Bell as Jigsaw / John Costas Mandylor
Costas Mandylor as Mark Hoffman
Scott Patterson as Agent Strahm
Betsy Russell as Jill
Julie Benz as Brit
Meagan Good as Luba
Mark Rolston as Dan Erickson
Story:

Seth Baxter, a convicted murderer, awakens chained to a table beneath a pendulum blade. In order to release himself, he must crush his hands by putting them into two presses and pushing the buttons inside. He does as the video tells him, but the pendulum still swings down and violently cuts him in half. Just before he dies, he sees an eye watching him through a hole in the wall.

In a scene from the end of Saw IV, Agent Peter Strahm kills Jeff Denlon in self-defense. After being sealed in the sickroom, he escapes through a hidden passage, where he is captured by a figure wearing a pig mask. He awakens with his head trapped in a glass box slowly being filled with water; he survives by performing a tracheotomy on himself using a pen to keep him breathing. Outside the meatpacking plant, Detective Hoffman returns Corbett Denlon, Jeff's daughter, to the police. He claims they are the only two survivors, only to be shocked to see Strahm carried out alive as well.

In his will, John Kramer leaves Jill Tuck a box and a videotape, which informs her that the items in the box are of "grave importance". She opens the box using a key around her neck, then leaves without disclosing its contents. Meanwhile, a memorial service is held for the five detectives killed in action; during the memorial, Hoffman is promoted to detective lieutenant by the chief of police. While taking Strahm's phone, he is informed that Strahm's partner, Lindsey Perez, died from her shrapnel wounds. He meets Strahm at the hospital, where Strahm tells him that Perez's last words were "Detective Hoffman." Strahm is taken off of duty by his boss, Dan Erickson, and begins researching past Jigsaw victims, now obsessed with piecing together Hoffman's involvement. Through his research, he learns that Hoffman killed Seth Baxter with the pendulum trap after Seth killed Hoffman's sister, and that John used this information to blackmail Hoffman into working with him. The two worked together to set up most of John's tests, most notably the razor-wire maze and the nerve gas house. Additionally, Hoffman planted the penlight that framed Lawrence Gordon and provided the files for the victims of the gas house. At the end of his quest, Strahm discovers that everyone was meant to die in the meatpacking plant except for Hoffman, who was to be the hero who closed the case.

Meanwhile, five more victims awaken in an underground trap with collars locked around their necks connecting them to mounted razor blades. The keys to their collars are in glass boxes across the room, but moving for them will set off a one-minute timer. All but Ashley retrieve their keys, and she is decapitated when her collar retracts. In the second room, keys must be found in overhead jars in order to unlock three chambers that will protect them from bombs. Charles attacks Mallick and takes his key, but is struck by Luba and is killed when the bombs explode. In the third room, five cables must be connected to a full bathtub to unlock five locks on the door, though none are long enough to reach. Luba attacks Mallick to use his body to close the circuits, but Brit stabs her in the neck and they use Luba's body instead. In the final room, the door must be opened by filling a beaker, positioned in a machine fitted with circular saws, with ten pints of blood. They notice that there are five armholes and realize that all five victims were to work together to survive in every game: In the first test, any of the five keys in the room would have unlocked all the collars; the three chambers in the second test could have easily fit two people; the five victims could have closed the circuit in the third test without receiving a lethal amount of electricity and in the final test the five victims could have provided enough blood to fill the ten pints without experiencing the degree of injury experienced if there were only two. They also realize that all five of them were connected to a building fire that killed eight people. With no other choices, they begin sawing their arms to provide the ten pints.

Hoffman plants Strahm's phone, which is being tracked by Erickson, and Erickson's personnel file in the fifth room, which is found by Erickson when he arrives soon after. He also finds Brit, who managed to crawl out of the fourth room when Mallick passed out from blood loss, and calls for medical assistance, then places an all-points bulletin for Strahm's arrest, as he now believes Strahm to be Jigsaw's second accomplice. Meanwhile, Strahm follows Hoffman to the renovated nerve gas house and makes his way to a small underground room, which contains a clear box filled with broken glass. Hoffman's tape recorder informs Strahm that he must trust him and enter the box, but Strahm stops the tape short and ambushes Hoffman when he arrives, ultimately sealing Hoffman in the box and causing the room to seal itself. Hoffman indicates the tape, which tells Strahm that if he chooses not to, he will "simply vanish" and Hoffman's legacy will become his own. The glass box is lowered safely into the floor as the walls close in on Strahm and crush him to death while he attempts to escape through the ceiling grid.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

I would really wanna praise the intelligence of the script writer to wrap up the storyline of the previous movie with this one. And this creates a kinda spooky feeling which you might feel towards Jigsaw.

This time, the best part will be putting 5 person in several test. They outcasted each other but in the end only realize that they are wrong and they need 5 person to work together to get them alive. FUCK!!! I will fucking kill myself first if i know i was caught in the Saw game :P

Saw 4

2011-11-09T08:49:00.002+08:00

Released Year: 2007
Directed by Darren Lynn Bausman

Casted by:
Tobin Bell as Jigsaw/John
Lyriq Bent as Lt. Rigg
Scott Patterson as Peter Strahm
Ahtena Karkanis as Lindsey Perez
Betsy Russell as Jill Tuck
Story:

During John Kramer's autopsy, a wax-coated microcassette is found in his stomach; it is given to Detective Hoffman, whom it informs that he too will be tested, and that the games will continue. Elsewhere, Trevor and Art awaken chained at the neck to a winch; Trevor's eyelids are sewn shut, as is Art's mouth, rendering communication impossible. When the winch activates, Trevor panics and attacks Art, who kills him in self-defense and takes a key from his collar to free himself.

Detective Kerry's body is found by police four days after her disappearance; after Hoffman cautions Lt. Rigg for going through an unsecured door in order to reach her, he meets Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez, two FBI agents who had previously been in contact with Kerry. They inform Hoffman that a second accomplice is involved in Kerry's murder, as Jigsaw and Amanda Young were both physically incapable of placing her in the trap. Strahm soon becomes suspicious of Rigg, who is convinced that Eric Matthews is still alive. Rigg is later attacked in his home, awakening to discover that Matthews is indeed alive, that he and Hoffman have ninety minutes to save themselves, and that Rigg must go through a series of tests to "discover what it truly means to save a life."

As Rigg progresses through his tests, he finds Brenda, a female pimp whose hair is attached to a winch that tears her scalp; Ivan Landsness, a serial rapist whom Rigg forces into a trap where he must choose between blinding himself or being dismembered; and Rex and Morgan (Ron Lea and Janet Land), an abusive husband and his wife who are in a harness, impaled together with spikes. Morgan asks for his help in removing the last spike, but he tells her that she has to do it herself, and it is later revealed that she was able to. Meanwhile, Strahm and Perez investigate each test scene while also interrogating Jill Tuck, Jigsaw's ex-wife, and soon discover that they are also targets. They also discover that a lawyer named Art Blank, who had vanished two weeks previously, had successfully defended all three victims, as well as Jill. When Perez is hospitalized after an incident involving Jigsaw's puppet, Strahm forces Jill to recount the rest of Jigsaw's background. She had been pregnant with a baby to be named Gideon, but miscarried after a drug addict named Cecil robbed her clinic, because he accidentally slammed a door into her stomach; this and John's subsequent depression ended their marriage. Upon surviving his suicide attempt, John began his work. He targeted Cecil first, placing him in a trap in which he had to push his face through a rack of knives to hit a switch and release himself. The trap collapsed and Cecil lunged at John, only to fall into a tangle of razor wire and die. Strahm connects Jill's story with the Gideon Meatpacking Plant, the location of Rigg's final test.

Strahm arrives shortly after Rigg but ends up trailing Jeff Denlon, who is making his way to the sickroom of the plant. He finds Jeff in the sickroom moments after John dies and kills him in self-defense when Jeff mistakes him for his daughter's kidnapper. In another area of the plant, Rigg locates Matthews and Hoffman, who are monitored by Art; all three can be released by Art when the ninety minutes expire. Rigg, not knowing this, breaks into the room with one second left just as Matthews shoots him, and sets off the traps: two ice blocks swing down and crush Matthews' head, killing him, and the excess water flows toward Hoffman, who's strapped to a chair with electrodes at his feet. Rigg then kills Art, believing him responsible for the traps, and learns from Art's tape recorder that he has failed the test by interfering; Matthews would have lived if Rigg had not tried to save him. An unharmed Hoffman releases himself, revealed to be the second accomplice, severs the monitors' connection and leaves Rigg to die. He seals Strahm in the sickroom with the four corpses and leaves the area just as the scene cuts to Jigsaw's autopsy, which took place after the events of the film.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

The fucking serial killer Jigsaw was already dead in the previous movie, but his intelligence mind has already thought of how to torture his next victim which is the only officer left, Ltd Rigg. The movie goes on while showing the life of Jigsaw before he become the serial killer.

The whole movie did occur a few shocking scene. The best is when the husband and wife stick together and the wife decided to end her husband's life by pulling out the steel that is stick between their body~ ewww....

Saw 3

2011-11-08T08:54:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2006
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman

Casted by:
Tobin Bell as Jigsaw/John
Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young
Angus Macfadyen as Jeff
Bahar Soomekh as Lynn Denlon
Dina Meyer as Kerry
Mpho Koaho as Tim
Barry Flatman as Judge Halden
Story:

Minutes after the conclusion of Saw II, Eric Matthews escapes the bathroom by breaking his foot with the remains of a toilet tank lid and slipping it out of the shackle. Later, another Jigsaw victim is discovered by Lt. Rigg and Detectives Kerry and Hoffman. In his test, Troy had to rip chains from his flesh in order to escape from a bomb; however, the door to the room was sealed, making the trap inescapable. This is observed by Kerry, who feels guilty over Matthews' disappearance; she later awakens in a harness hooked into her ribs. She retrieves a key to the harness from a beaker of acid, but the device kills her anyway.

Jeff, a vengeful man unable to cope with the death of his son, and Lynn Denlon, a depressed doctor, are kidnapped under John Kramer's orders. Lynn is brought before John, now bedridden from cancer, by Amanda Young and is given a straightforward game: keep John alive for the duration of Jeff's game. Should John die, or should she try to escape, the collar around her neck will fire five shotgun shells at her head. Jeff awakens in the middle of an abandoned meatpacking plant and is informed that he must go through several tests, which will lead him to "the man responsible for the loss of his child."

In his first test, Jeff enters a freezer and finds Danica, who witnessed the car accident that killed his son Dylan but refused to testify in court. She is naked and chained between two poles spraying ice-cold water at random intervals; she eventually convinces Jeff to help her, but freezes solid before he can retrieve the key. In his second test, Jeff successfully frees Judge Halden, who only sentenced Dylan's killer to six months in prison and was thus a target of Jeff's rage, from the bottom of a vat being filled with liquefied pig corpses by incinerating his late son's toys to retrieve a key. In his third test, Jeff finds Timothy, his son's killer, strapped to a machine that will twist his limbs and neck one by one until they break. He retrieves a key attached to the trigger of a shotgun but accidentally kills Halden when it discharges, and Timothy's neck is broken before he can unlock the device. With his tests nonetheless complete, Jeff moves on to the final area.

Meanwhile, Lynn and Amanda work together to keep John alive. During an improvised brain surgery intended to relieve pressure on John's brain, he begins hallucinating about another woman and declares his love out loud. Distressed from witnessing this, Amanda leaves the sickroom to continue monitoring Jeff. Flashbacks reveal that Amanda continued cutting herself after John became bedridden, and she recollects becoming John's apprentice and kidnapping Adam prior to the events of the first film. Amanda also finds a letter addressed to her, its contents further distressing her. After the surgery, Lynn and John talk privately; Lynn reveals that her ordeal has given her a new appreciation for her family. Amanda returns with the news that Jeff's tests are complete, but refuses to release Lynn; she reveals that she does not believe John's modus operandi and had designed her tests to be inescapable accordingly, including Troy's and Kerry's. She also reveals that she left Eric Matthews for dead and that she had given Adam a mercy killing through suffocation.

Amanda shoots Lynn in the back just as Jeff arrives in the sickroom and he retaliates by shooting her in the neck. John reveals to the dying Amanda that the test was hers: she was being tested on her will to keep someone alive, not knowing that Jeff and Lynn were married. Amanda dies from her wound and John gives Jeff one last test, where he can choose between killing John or forgiving him; John offers to call an ambulance for Lynn if Jeff forgives him. Jeff takes a circular saw, tells John he forgives him, and slashes John's throat. The door to the room seals itself as a dying John plays a tape recorder, which reveals that Jeff has failed his final test by killing John, who was the only person to know the whereabouts of his daughter, Corbett. In order to find her, Jeff must play another game. The tape ends as John dies, and the shotgun collar activates and kills Lynn simultaneously, leaving Jeff trapped with the three corpses as he screams in agony.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

Saw 3 continues as Amanda helps Jigsaw to do his cruel crazy torturing stuff while Jigsaw was badly sick on the bed, but in the end Amanda is the one who are tested and she failed. Our Mr Jigsaw also died in this film. A big shock, are they gonna end this movie? Hell no~ Just wondering how they are gonna film the next movie.

The scariest part this time will be when Lynn do the surgery to open the scull of Jigsaw, omg~ i feel fucking horrible... i think i will never be able to become a doctor~ lol

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

2011-11-07T08:48:00.001+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Declan O'Brien

Casted by:
Sean Skene as Three Finger and Vincent
Blane Cypurda as Young Three Finger
Daniel Skene as One Eye
Scott Johnson as Saw Tooth and Charlie the Orderly
Jennifer Pudavick as Kenia Perrin
Tenika Davis as Sara
Kaitlyn Wong as Bridget
Terra Vnesa as Jenna
Victor Zinck, Jr. as Kyle
Dean Armstrong as Daniel
Ali Tataryn as Lauren
Samantha Kendrick as Claire
Arne McPherson as Doctor Brendan Ryan
Kristen Harris as Doctor Ann Marie McQuaid
Story:

The film opens in 1974 at the Glenville Sanatorium with Dr. Ryan showing a local psychiatrist Dr. Ann McQuaid around the psychiatric hospital. The cannibals from the previous films-One Eye , Three Finger, and Saw Tooth now are locked up in the institution as children. But the cannibals escape, savagely murder an orderly, Dr. Ryan and Dr. McQuaid.

The film then switches to present day where a group of college kids, Kenia, lesbian couple Sara and Bridget, Lauren, Jenna , and Claire, along with their guy friends Kyle, Vincent and Daniel are going snowmobiling. They are heading to their friend Porter's cabin in the mountains. They get lost in a storm and seek refuge inside the now abandoned Glenville Sanatorium. Little do they know, the three now adult cannibals are hiding out in the sanatorium and murdering trespassers.

The group of teenagers explore the asylum, and decide to wait out the storm. After a montage of rolling around in wheelchairs, drinking booze and acting like teenagers, the storm still hasn't stopped so the teenagers are forced to sleep in the desolate building. In the middle of the night, Vincent, suffering from insomnia, walks around the asylum and finds Porter's mutilated body-apparently he didn't make it to his cabin either. He is then killed by Saw-Tooth-having a metal rod shoved into his chin and out through the top of his head. The next morning, everyone discovers they are still snowed in, and Vincent is missing. The gang splits up to look for him, and Jenna witnesses the cannibals cutting Porter up. She runs back to tell the others and they all meet up in the auditorium. Something wrapped in Porter's jacket is thrown at them and Kenia opens it up to reveal Porter's severed head. Screaming and panicking, the group flocks around the door, trying to get out but the doors are locked. The three cannibals-up in the balcony, throw down a strip of barbwire and loop it around Claire's neck, pulling her up to the balcony. Kyle tries to save her, but it is to late and the barbwire tightens, severing Claire's head. Horrified, what is left of them (Kenia, Sara, Bridget, Lauren, Jenna, Kyle and Daniel) run outside and try to escape on their snowmobiles. But the engines won't turn and it is revealed that the cannibals had stripped them of their spark plug wires. Lauren sets off to ski down the mountain to retrieve help and the other six run inside to try to defend themselves.

Kenia, Bridget, Sara, Jenna, Kyle and Daniel barricade themselves in an office where they find files on the three cannibals that say the three are deformed and cannibalistic. Sara, armed with a fire poker, Daniel, and Kyle leave to go find more weapons, Kyle remembering the room filled with knives and saws that him, Kenia, Claire and Jenna found while they were searching for Vincent. The three are chased by Three Finger who is also wielding an axe and they find the room filled with knives, lock themselves in and hide, waiting for him to pass. Meanwhile One Eye attempts to break through the door of the office with a drill but Kenia, Bridget and Jenna fend him off. Back with Sara, Kyle, and Daniel, they stock up with an arsenal of knives and other tools, and run back to the others, but on the way Daniel is grabbed by the cannibals and dismembered with a knife. Sara, Bridget, Kenia, Jenna and Kyle go to look for Daniel after hearing his screams. The cannibals are slicing off pieces of Daniel's skin and cooking them in a pot of boiling oil. Kyle is separated from everyone else and discovers the killer clan torturing Daniel. The teenagers devise a plan to catch the cannibals and succeed in trapping them inside a cell. Kyle attempts to set them on fire, but Kenia coaxes him into having the heart and not killing them. Sara, Bridget, Kenia and Jenna go to search for the spark plugs that were stripped from their snowmobiles earlier, and Kyle stands guard outside, but Three Finger manages to pick the lock to get the cell open and Saw Tooth grabs Kyle by the throat and delivers one punch then the screen goes black.

Then Kenia goes to check on Kyle and finds him and the cannibals gone. She runs back to the office with Sara, Bridget, and Jenna and the four girls decide to stay in the room until morning. One of the cannibals appear wearing a potato sack, and the girls stab him to death only to reveal it is Kyle whose tongue was cut out so who couldn't talk and they just mistakenly killed him. The girls then encounter the three cannibals and are chased up into the attic. They find some old winter clothes and put them on and then run back down to the main floor and try to escape through a window. To their dismay, they are all grated, except for one where the grate is bent. Sara rips away the grating and shatters the glass and the girls climb through the window and out into the snow. But Jenna-who climbs through last-doesn't make it and is killed with a drill. Kenia, Sara and Bridget run away into the snow pursued by the cannibals on the teenager's snowmobiles. Bridget is captured, but escapes using her knife to stab the killer in the arm. Kenia is wounded, and Bridget is killed. Morning starts to come, and it is revealed that Lauren had frozen to death, just a few yards from a road. It switches to the cannibal chasing Kenia on the snowmobile, but Sara hits him with a log.

The two then board the snowmobile and drive off into the snow--but they run into a barbwire fence and are both decapitated. Three Finger then appears, grabs the girl's heads, throws them into the back of the yellow tow truck that appeared in the first film. Hops in himself and him and the other cannibals drive off and the film ends.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

This is a fucking good horror film :) Horror movie is always my favorite, especially those slashing stupid teenagers films~ lol. But one part i'm curious, is how come the 3 insane guys know how to unplug the spark plug of a snowmobile and drive it? Weird kan?

Trespass 2011

2011-11-06T13:58:00.001+08:00

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Joel Schumacher

Casted by:
Nicolas Cage as Kyle Miller
Nicole Kidman as Sarah Miller
Cam Gigandet as Jonah
Ben Mendelsohn as Elias
Liana Liberato as Avery Miller
Jordana Spiro as Petal
Dash Mihok as Tye
Story:

Kyle is a diamond dealer whom almost face bankruptcy. Inside his glamorous house, Sarah his wife and Avery the daughter were arguing whether Avery can attend a party. Avery sneaked out from the house and climb out through fence after shutting down one of the alarm part to let herself escape to meet her friend.

Sarah wore her best lingerie & nice black dress to please Kyle but Kyle was worry about his business and decided to go out. But the security guard appeared on the telecom and request them to open the door to check whether there is robberies inside their house. But Sarah realize Avery has gone missing and shout to Kyle. Kyle realize the dangerous and wanted to shut the door but the security guards broke in. They are not security guards but 4 robberies instead.

The robberies seems like know everything about them including their life and the house alarm system. They shut down the system to prevent the security company from knowing it. They threaten to kill Sarah if Kyle did not hands out the diamond to them from the safety box. After a several punches, Kyle open up the safety and everyone was shocked that there are nothing inside. Kyle claims that he has face bankruptcy and has nothing left beside debts. On a disappointment, Sarah realize that one of the robbery is the security guard whom she almost has an affair with, Jonah. The rest of the robberies are, Elias (Jonah's older brother), Petal (a strip dancer, Elias' girlfriend) & Tye (Elias' debtor).

Avery came back from the party because a young boy wanna have chem sex with her by paying her cash. The robberies caught her and threw her with the parents. The robberies get freak off because there were no diamonds and cash for them. But from a picture, they saw that Sarah has a expensive diamond necklace, they went through the house and found the necklace. But Kyle claims that the necklace is fake and from a flee market. Elias crash it and discover it is really fake. Tye decided to kill the Millers, then Avery told them she can get them money from the young boy's party. Petal follow her along to the party, while driving, Avery turn the car and crash into a pole while unbutton the seat belt of Petal's. Petal get injured and Avery chain her up while getting back to her parents.

Sarah stole the narcotic from Elias and in the end Kyle injected it at Tye to make him unconscious. Elias realize Petal was in trouble and wanted to kill Avery but Sarah protected her. Jonah kill Elias instead to protect Sarah whom he has fall for. A fight in the house renovation part exposed the huge money which was hide by Kyle at there. Kyle use the nail gun to nailed Jonah at there and fire burn up to burn him alive. The Millers lost all including the house and money but they were safe in the end.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

I love this movie so much, kinda exciting and new to me. The storyline is good and almost all scene are important and exciting. The most exciting part will be the fighting part at the renovation house.

And its been a long time i didnt watch any movie of Nicole Kidman :) She still looks good but you can actually see the wrinkles~ lol...

Valiant

2011-11-02T09:17:00.000+08:00

Released Year: 2005
Directed by Gary Chapman

Casted by:
Ewan McGregor as Valiant
Ricky Gervais as Bugsy
Pip Torrens as Lofty Thaddeus Worthington
Dan Roberts as Tailfeather
Brian Lonsdale as Toughwood
Olivia Williams as Victoria
Tim Curry as General Von Talon
Story:

In May 1944, 5 years since the declaration of World War II, three Royal Homing Pigeon Service war pigeons are flying across the English Channel with the White Cliffs of Dover in sight, carrying vital messages to Great Britain. Despite the poor weather conditions the pigeons have nearly reached their destination. They are, however, suddenly ambushed and attacked by a German enemy falcon called General Von Talon; two of the pigeons are instantly killed, yet the third is taken as a prisoner of war.

Elsewhere a small wood pigeon named Valiant is watching an Allied forces propaganda film in his local bar (an overturned rowing boat) in West Nestington. Wing Commander Gutsy, a war hero flies into the bar, informing everyone that signups are scheduled the next day in Trafalgar Square, London. In General Von Talon's lair, Mercury (the captured prisoner of war) resists interrogation by his captors. Valiant flies off to London, bidding his mother and Felix, the local barman, goodbye. In London, Valiant meets a filthy pigeon named Bugsy, who is wanted by two thugs. In order to escape the wrath of the thugs, he signs up with Valiant.

The recruits, Valiant, Bugsy, Lofty, an intellectual red pigeon, and Toughwood and Tailfeather, two strong but dim-witted twin brothers, form Royal Homing Pigeon Service Squad F, and are sent to a recruit training facility. Under the command of Sergeant, who declares that he will toughen them up for the RHPS, the training begins. Meanwhile, Von Talon and his henchmen try numerous attempts to discover the message's departure location. However Mercury refuses to tell, despite the tortures inflicted upon him, such as irritating him with yodelling music and injecting him with truth serum, before Mercury accidentally reveals the location: Saint-Pierre.

Throughout the training, Valiant develops a crush on Victoria, the camp's nursing dove. Eventually, Gutsy arrives and tells the Sergeant that the recruits need to leave the next morning, despite their training being vastly incomplete. Bugsy, however, decides not to go on the "highly dangerous" mission and flees the camp that night. The next morning, Valiant and the others prepare to leave and start to board the plane headed for France, but not before Bugsy shows up at the last second. The journey becomes extremely perilous, as the plane is caught in the midst of dogfight. Their plane sustains heavy damage and the pigeons soon have to bale out, in boxes equipped with parachutes. The pigeons are dropped from the plane; however a technical malfunction causes Gutsy's box to fail to deploy. The plane goes down in an inferno of flames, presumably killing Gutsy in the resulting explosion.

In France, the pigeons meet Charles de Girl and Rollo, two mice from the French Resistance, Mouse Division, the latter being an expert saboteur who lead them to Saint-Pierre, where they receive the message they have been ordered to deliver. They soon come under attack by Von Talon's henchmen, resulting in Bugsy and the message being captured. Von Talon takes the message from Bugsy and decides to cage him up and eat him later. Valiant and the troops follow Bugsy to the falcon's bunker, where they discover that Gutsy has survived the plane crash. Valiant takes advantage of his small size and sneaks into the bunker through the gun barrel, retrieves the message, and frees Bugsy and Mercury. Unfortunately, the falcons are alert and give chase. As Gutsy and the others fend off Von Talon's henchmen, Valiant flies to London to deliver the message, followed closely by Von Talon.

After a climactic chase by the falcon, Valiant hides in the cottage where he lives, where he is attacked by Von Talon again. With the help of his mother and Felix, Valiant finally defeats the villain by getting a giant hook caught on his medals, leaving him to be beaten senseless by the water wheel. Valiant delivers the message, and is rewarded with a Dickin Medal. After receiving the Dickin Medal, Squad F returns to the local bar in West Nestington, where Valiant reunites with Victoria.

L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:

This is not really a Walt Disney production, but from UK animation production. Walt Disney only bought it over to showcast in USA only. Ok, back to the story. This cartoon is make to praise those pigeon during world war II. Dickin Medals were given to 32 pigeons during that time.

Just fyi, Dickin Medals is a medal which give to animals whom help to save human beings~ So this is definitely a good cartoon to watch. But for entertainment purposes? Well, its not really that attractive :P

Scary Movie 4

2011-11-01T08:43:00.001+08:00

Released Year: 2006
Directed by David Zucker

Casted by:
Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell
Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks
Craig Bierko as Tom Ryan
Bill Pullman as Henry Hale
Leslie Nielsen as President Harris
Carmen Electra as Holly
Story:

The film opens with Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil waking up to find their ankles chained in a bathroom. They have only two minutes to escape as their host, Billy the Puppet, reveals that the room is filling up with nerve gas. Phil realises they have to cut through their own ankles, but accidentally saws off the wrong foot, inadvertently leaving both men to die, for their bones are seen later in the movie.

In New York, Cindy Campbell visits her former brother-in-law Tom Logan. Since the previous film, her husband George has died and her nephew Cody has been sent to military school, leaving her a broken and lonely woman. Tom, equally depressed despite being in a relationship with three girls, tries to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. However, he mistakenly ingests Viagra, resulting in a painful death when he tumbles over the balustrade and lands on his absurdly erect penis.

Distraught, Cindy accepts the job of caring for an incapacitated old lady, Mrs. Norris, who lives in a creepy and obviously haunted house which Tom had previously recommended her for. Meanwhile, Cindy's new neighbour, Tom Ryan, runs into George's old friends, Mahalik and CJ, who unintentionally reveal they had a homosexual one night stand since taking a trip to the mountains, much to Tom's disgust and CJ's embarassment. Tom returns home, where his ex-wife Marilyn has just arrived with his children, Robbie and Rachel, both of whom resent their father.

The next morning, Cindy confides with Tom, leading to a conversation about their past relationships. Cindy sadly remembers the tragic death of her husband George Logan during the last match of her boxing career against dimwitted Tiffany Stone. When Stone turned around to pick up a nickel, Cindy tries to swing at her but misses and loses her balance. George notices that she is about to land on a stool, and he jumps in the way to save her but he accidentally kills himself which results in a chain reaction of multiple people breaking their necks and dying. As the two realize their love for each other and kiss, the sky suddenly experiences a freak storm. A gigantic object called triPod emerges from the ground to play "Karma Chameleon" – before switching to "Destroy Humanity", transforming into a mobile weapon that vaporizes people into dust and ashes. Cindy runs back home and encounters the house’s resident ghost, Toshio. The Japanese boy reveals that the answer to the invasion lies in his father’s identity. Tom chooses to part ways with Cindy and flees with his children to an undisclosed location.

While visiting Edna R. Penhall Elementary School, President Baxter Harris receives news of the alien attack. Unfortunately, Harris is more interested by the reading of "My Pet Duck" and fails to respond appropriately. The situation only worsens when his aide explains that the duck dies, which culminates in a violent riot by the children. Later, at an emergency session of the United Nations, Harris follows a round of offensive jokes with the unveiling of a weapon designed to combat the aliens. Scientists have modified the heat ray into having the opposite effect of destroying clothes. The UN gets an unexpected and quite unwelcome demonstration when Harris unwittingly causes the ray to render everybody stark naked, beginning with himself.

Cindy reunites with her old friend Brenda Meeks, now a local reporter despite having died in the previous film. The pair manage to find the last working car and follow the directions left by Toshio. Soon, they discover a mysterious village which resembles a pseudo-Amish community. Unfortunately, they are captured and taken into a court to have their fate decided by village leader Henry Hale. During the trial, Hale's blind daughter, Holly, stumbles into the courtroom thinking she's alone she strips and has a large bowel movement in front of everyone. To the consternation of the crowded courtroom, Hale rules that Cindy and Brenda may stay in the village, but never leave.

In a nearby field strewn with red weed, Tom and his children run into a battle between the US military and the triPods. Robbie decides to join the fight, excited by the graphic violence. While Tom tries to dissuade him, Michael Jackson tries to persuade Rachel to come along – but Tom manages to stop her in time, leaving the singer to be repeatedly disintegrated until only his nose remains. Tom and Rachel flee into a house guarded by the lunatic Oliver, but their respite is short-lived when father and daughter are captured by a triPod. Back in the village, Henry gets stabbed by the mentally challenged Ezekiel. A dying Henry explains to Cindy and Brenda that he is the father of Toshio, who was killed during the mass accident at Cindy’s boxing match. However, various events conspire against Henry revealing the full story, finally culminating in Cindy and Brenda being caught by the Command triPod.

The main characters wake up in the same bathroom from the opening. Cindy and Brenda find themselves wearing "Venus Fly Traps" and Tom wearing an absurd device designed to shoot a pole up his behind. Then Billy appears on a monitor and tells them Cindy has 60 seconds to retrieve the key. After much prompting, Cindy realises that she has to retrieve the key from behind her eye – which she does without trouble, since the key was behind a glass eye she got following a “bad bar fight in '96”. Then both Rachel and Robbie come down from the ceiling, to be sliced into pieces unless Tom holds onto their rope, leaving him open to another, ultimately lethal torture device where his kids would be saved but he would suffer a terrible death. Moments before his imminent death, Cindy finds photos in the toilet of Billy with Henry's wife and Toshio. Realising that Billy was the boy's biological father and the entire invasion is revenge for his son’s death, Cindy pleads him to call off the invasion. After seeing how far Tom would go to save his children's lives at the cost of his own, Billy spares their lives and grudgingly apologizes for killing millions of people and allows them to depart.

In an epilogue set nine months later, Brenda gives birth to the child of Billy's brother Zoltar, CJ and Mahalik resume their relationship, and President Harris is seen sleeping with a duck. James Earl Jones narrates mankind's victory through love – before being run over by a passing bus. Meanwhile, Tom appears on Oprah, crazy for attention. Ultimately, following various increasingly destructive antics, Tom manically throws Cindy off the stage and rushes towards the camera as the screen goes black.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Movie 4 is actually the final chap for the trilogy of Scary Movie, therefore, they actually make it quite big such as making aliens and stuff. Love how Anna Faris & Regina Halls make the film funny, think they are best in doing all these, after all they are famous because of this series, right?

The most funny parody will be the million dollar baby's boxing scene & the brokeback mountain gay scene~ :P lol... Heard that scary movie 5 is coming next year (2012), i hope it is as good as these 4 series :)

Scary Movie 3

2011-10-31T08:52:00.001+08:00

Released Year: 2003
Directed by David Zucker

Casted by:
Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell
Simon Rex as George Logan
Charlie Sheen as Tom Logan
Leslie Nielsen as President Baxter Harris
Queen Latifah as Aunt Shaneequa/The Oracle
Pamela Anderson as Becca Kotler
Jenny McCarthy as Katie Embry
Denise Richards as Annie Logan
Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks
Story:

The film's plot is introduced by two girls, Katie and Becca, meeting a gruesome supernatural demise seven days after having watched a cursed videotape. In a farm outside Washington D.C., widowed farmer and former reverend Tom Logan and his clumsy and easily discouraged brother George discover a crop circle in their fields. The "circle" actually composes a sign shaped like an arrow pointing at the Logan house which reads in English: "ATTACK HERE".

Since the events of the previous film, the gang have all gone their separate ways. In Washington, Cindy Campbell, now an anchorwoman, reveals the crop circle occurrence on the news, and afterwards has an argument with her boss, who only wants stories featuring sex, violence and the weather. She then goes to pick up her paranormally endowed nephew Cody from school, where her best friend and former classmate Brenda Meeks now works as a teacher, no longer dating Ray Wilkins. George Logan arrives to pick up his niece, Sue, Tom's daughter, who is in the same class. George and Cindy take an instant liking to each other, and he invites Cindy and Brenda to a rap-battle with his rapper friends Mahalik and CJ.

Later that evening, George proves actually quite successful, but due to some unintentional racist blunders, he gets thrown out. Following the battle, Brenda asks Cindy to keep her company, since she has watched the cursed videotape herself. After playing several pranks on Cindy, she goes to watch television, and is killed by the undead girl, Tabitha, who emerges from her television set. During Brenda's wake, George and Mahalik, due to a misunderstanding, wreak havoc on Brenda's corpse in an attempt to bring her back to life. Cindy decides to watch the tape for herself and also receives the fateful message. She calls George, CJ and Mahalik for help. CJ comments that his Aunt Shaneequa, might be able to help Cindy. Aunt Shaneequa, who turns out to be The Oracle, and her husband Orpheus agree to watch a segment of the tape. Shaneequa discovers the hidden image of a lighthouse, which she claims Cindy must find to solve the mystery. But when Cindy returns home, she finds to her horror that Cody has watched the tape, condemning him to certain death.

Back at work, Cindy browses through various pictures of lighthouses, before finding the one depicted on the tape. Desperate to save Cody's life, Cindy tries to warn the population by feeding typing a message into the station anchor's teleprompter, but only part of her message gets through before her boss and a janitor interrupt her. Among those who take her message seriously are the Logans, who have an encounter with an alien disguised as Michael Jackson, and President Baxter Harris, who personally visits the farm to investigate the crop circles. With no further resources, Cindy ventures to the lighthouse, where she encounters The Architect. The loquacious (and lecherous) old man explains the story behind the killer tape. Tabitha was his evil adopted daughter, whom his wife drowned in the family farm's well, but not before she imprinted her evil upon the tape. Unfortunately, he mistook the evil tape for a copy of Pootie Tang and returned it to Blockbuster instead, unleashing the curse upon the world.

Upon returning home, Cindy discovers that her station has been broadcasting the same tape for hours, dooming many people to death, and in addition, there have been various sightings of aliens descending upon Earth. Worse, Cody has gone missing. Cindy manages to track him back to the Logan farm, where he has taken refuge with George. Tom orders everybody into the basement for safety, as he, George and Mahalik go outside to fight off the extraterrestrials. The aliens arrive, but reveal that they are in fact friendly (despite their unusual customs), and have come to Earth to stop Tabitha, since they accidentally watched the tape on a broadcast they had intercepted, thinking it was Pootie Tang.

In the basement, Cindy realizes that a scene from the tape matches the farm's cellar, and underneath the floor she uncovers the well where Tabitha was drowned. Suddenly, Tabitha appears behind her. A short fight ensues, during which Tabitha takes Cody hostage. Cindy and George appeal to her, offering her a place in their family. Tabitha refuses and prepares to attack again, but is accidentally knocked back into the well by President Baxter. The aliens leave in peace, and Cindy and George get married. Leaving for their honeymoon, they realize they forget to take Cody with them, and the boy gets knocked over by a car while chasing them down the road.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

I actually not very fancy on this 3rd movie~ though Anna Faris still the lead of this film, but my fav Regina Halls just a special appearance in this movie. :(

But they add on a lot of cool celebrities such as Simon Rex (i love his porn :P), Pamela Anderson, Queen Latifah & Denise Richards :)