Helios 赤道

 Released Year: 2015

Directed by 陸劍青 Sunny Luk & 梁樂民 Longman Leung

Casted by:

張學友 Jacky Cheung as 肇志仁 / 赤盜 Professor Siu Chi-yan

張家輝 Nick Cheung as 李彦明 Eric Lee Yan-ming

池珍熙 Ji Jin-hee as 崔民浩 Choi Min-ho

崔始源 Choi Siwon as 朴宇哲 Park Woo-cheol

王學圻 Wang Xueqi as 宋鞍 Song An

張震 Chang Chen as 金燾年 Gam Dao-nin

文詠珊 Janice Man as 張怡君 Zhang Yiyun

余文樂 Shawn Yue as 范家明 Fan Ka-ming

顧美華 Josephine Koo as Sophia

 Story: 

South Korea's top most wanted criminal, nicknamed "Helios", and his assistant, nicknamed "Messenger", have successfully stolen a mass destruction weapon secretly developed by the South Korean military, the portable nuclear explosive device DC8 along with sixteen raw material spheres. The police forces of Hong Kong, China and South Korea were informed that "Helios" will hold an underground trading in Hong Kong.

An emergency response team was set up in Hong Kong. Its members, chief inspector Eric Lee Yan-ming of the Counter Terrorism Response Unit, senior Chinese official Song An, and two South Korean weapon experts Choi Min-ho and Park Woo-cheol, work together to trace the whereabouts of the weapon. Lee also specially invites Physics professor Siu Chi-yan of the University of Hong Kong to serve as a special adviser for the operation.

Hong Kong, China and South Korea face the same objective, but with different purposes. Choi wants to hunt down "Helios" to take back the weapon to make sure not to divulge secrets of South Korea. In the position of the Chinese government, Song wants to resolve the current crisis in Hong Kong and halt any terrorism activities in Chinese territories. Lee and Siu face pressure from the two countries and have to deal with the greatest challenge since the establishment of Counter Terrorism Response Unit, with the situation getting more tense.

As times passes by each second, with "Messenger" arrested and DC8 falls into the hands of the Hong Kong Police Force, China and Korea fight for the right to possess the weapon. On the other hand, "Helios" appears in Macau, with plans to retaliate and repossess the weapon. During the last stand, conspiracies are gradually revealed, with everyone caught off guard.

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Its been quite sometime since I have watch a good HK's crime movie, a bit too bad coz I missed out this movie in the cinema last year. Few surprises in this movie such as Jacky Cheung first try on such character; actors from China + HK + Korea + Taiwan can be found in the same movie; Janice Man got the potential to be fighting actress; the most most surprise is to see Josephine Koo after so many years...

Storyline of this movie started a bit exciting & fast, just when you thought you can relax a bit in the middle of the movie, the story twisted & brought another peak part of this movie till the end. The only problem is that i need to read the chinese subtitle when the Korean actors & actresses communicate...

Keeper of Darkness 陀地驅魔人

 Released Year: 2015

Directed by 張家輝 Nick Cheung

Casted by:

張家輝 Nick Cheung as 黃永發 Fatt

張繼聰 Louis Cheung as 阿葱 Chong

郭采潔 Amber Kuo as 江雪 Xue

蔡思貝 Sisley Choi as 方紫寧 Ning

釋延能 Shi Yan Neng as 黑哥 Hei

余文樂 Shawn Yue as 劉江 Jiang

 Story: 

Fatt is a famous exorcist & living with Xue, a ghost who has passed away many years ago. Xue taught him how to be an exorcist without hurting the people & animal who has been used by ghost as a living object.

Fatt & his apprentice Chong, together with the help of Ning, they try to solve the issue of the great evil ghost Hei who has been hurting people around. In the end, Ning let Xue used her body to bid farewell to Fatt on her last day...  

 L² Scored: 3.5/10

L² Comment:

Well, its been a bit disappointed after watching this movie. The whole movie is not that scary at all comparing to its trailer, some more this is the second horror movie Nick Cheung has been directing. Won't consider to watch it again because it will not change my mind towards this movie~

Golden Chicken 3 金雞SSS

 Released Year: 2014

Directed by 鄒凱光 Matt Chow

Casted by:

吳君如 Sandra Ng as 阿金 Kam

張家輝 Nick Cheung as 哥頓 Gordon

王菀之 Ivana Wong as 吳璐 Lu

陳奕迅 Eason Chen as Jackie

詩雅 Michelle Wai as 阿花 Fa

 Story: 

Nowadays, Kam has become mamasan and lead her girls towards to become a better hooker. She lead Lu who acted as china girl and Fa who can do anything to be the greatest. Kam met her man who was released from the jail Gordon. Gordon still acted the same and wanted his gang Jackie to serve him always. Kam tried to educate Gordon that the time has changed and finally she managed to change his mindset and they were happily ever after...

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment: 

 For me, this is not as good as the 1st 2 movie. There's no main point of the whole storyline and the worst is, i even feel Sandra Ng's acting skill has gone bad... The whole movie focus on her extra big boobs and Nick Cheung is definitely outshine her in the movie and even Ivana is better than her... 

Love in the Buff 春嬌與志明

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by 彭浩翔 Pang Ho Cheung

Casted by:

楊千嬅 Miriam Yeung as 余春嬌 Cherie

余文樂 Shawn Yue as 張志明 Jimmy

楊冪 Mini Yang as 尚優優 You You

徐崢 Xu Zheng as Sam

 Story: 

Five months after the events in Love in a Puff, Jimmy and Cherie face more difficulties in their romantic relationship as they split up and both individually end up in Beijing as they follow their jobs to China’s capital city, and both begin new relationships there. But despite their best efforts they can’t seem to keep away from each other.

Jimmy dated You You, a cabin crew while Cherie met the rich KL guy, Sam. Both of them experienced the life without each other but still remember each other deeply. Soon, both give up their new lover and get back to each other again...

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

A comedy romance sequel from "Love in a Puff", it was showed in the HK blockbuster after 2 years from the first movie. I still love the romance between the 2 of them, this time it spice up by adding 2 love rivals in their love story. And the funniest part of course is Shawn Yue pretended to be Linda Wong and sang her famous song 别问我是谁.

As the Light Goes Out 救火英雄

 Released Year: 2014

Directed by 郭子健 Derek Kwok

Casted by:

謝霆鋒 Nicholas Tse as 何永森 Sam
 余文樂 Shawn Yue as 游邦潮 Chill
 任達華 Simon Yam as 李培道 Dou
胡軍 Hu Jun as 海洋 Yang
白冰 Bai Bing as 楊琳 Lam
 安志杰 Andy On as 葉志輝 Fai

 Story:

Sam, Chill & Fai lost trust on each other after a fire because Sam and Chill decided to disobey order and went further for help. Year later, Fai has become the head of a station and Sam wish to transfer to a new station while Chill only focus on his son.

 

Fai's son went to visit on the power station and get lost in the back staircase. A fire on a village might cause big explosion to the power station, Fai pressure Sam on the spot. Sam forced to ignore Yang & Dou's advice and left the scene. After that power station Lam inform on the dangerous issue. Sam went for help without Fai approval. Fai went and accidentally fall and dead.

 

Explosion happened and disaster cause the whole Hong Kong went dark in the Christmas eve. The fire fighter risk their life and safe this fire. And it sacrifice Sam and Dou...

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

I give this a full score as non of the scene is bored and it was so exciting to watch. The storyline is good and love the way it brought out Hu Jun and his son's relationship in the movie, very touching. Can see that Nicholas has improved a lot on his acting, love it. Andy On still hot but Shawn seems to be faded a bit. Overall this is a good film, watch it!

Love In A Puff 志明與春嬌

 Released Year: 2010

Directed by 彭浩翔 Pang Ho Cheung

Casted by:

 楊千嬅 Miriam Yeung as 余春嬌 Cherie
余文樂 Shawn Yue as 張志明 Jimmy

黃德斌 Kenny Wong as 家豪 Hoe

 Story:

Since 2007, the Hong Kong government banned smoking in all indoor areas, causing smokers from neighboring buildings to gather for cigarette breaks during office hours at trash bins with ashtrays near their work premises. The regulars started sharing small talks and dirty jokes like friends at a hot pot dinner and this community became known as the "Hot Pot Pack".

Jimmy is an advertising executive who befriended Cherie, a cosmetic sales girl, at a "Hot Pot Pack" shortly after Jimmy broke up with his girlfriend who cheated on him. Cherie's flirting with Jimmy during their cigarette breaks, through text messages and excursions at night eventually led to Cherie's break up with her lived-in boyfriend. This sudden change in their relationship, including a failed one night stand at a love motel, caused them to confront the change in their relationship and consider whether they are viewing each other as love interests or just a companion during lonely nights.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

A very hit romantic movie in 2010, which helps Miriam Yeung to be nominated as Best Actress in HK academy awards. The whole film is simple and love how the speedy love build up among the Hongkies in such a modern life. I can't wait to see the second movie, who has it?

Child's Eye 3D 童眼

Released Year: 2010
Directed by 彭发 Oxide Phang & 彭顺 Danny Phang

Casted by:
杨丞琳 Rainie Yang as Rainie
江若琳 Elanne Kwong as Ling
余文乐 Shawn Yue as Lok
林家棟 Godron Lam as Chuen
谷祖琳 Jo Koo as Ghost
徐正曦 Izz Hu as Hei
何浚尉 Rex Ho as Rex
Story:

Rainie, Ling, Lok, Ciwi, Hei & Rex went to Thailand for travel, but they met the red shirt gang and were forced to stay in Thailand. They move to a motel nearby to the airport and mysterious things happened.

The motel was own by Chuen who is very secretive. The 6 youngsters found it weird when three kids and one dog always stare at them. According to them, there is a woman ghost following them. The kids also told them that there is a monster living in the motel. On the first day, the 3 guys were sick and disappeared suddenly. The girls try to find them and were lead into a mist.

Rainie was holding the dog and she saw the monster, the monster was a girl combination of human and dog. She quickly hide herself when Chuen appeared. Later Rainie found all her friends in a room and the ghost stated out the reason behind all these hunt.

She was the wife of Chuen and she can't stand the dogs barking and killed all of them. But the dogs' revenge back and cause her to born a human-dog form baby. She tried to killed the baby and Chuen try to stop her and she was dead accidentally.

The ghost wanted to kill Rainie but found her pregnant, later on she realised she has o give up on revenging for her next life and she burn herself to death. Later on Rainie and gang found Chuen poison his own monster child and himself to death.

Peace came back, the 6 teenagers went back to Hong Kong safe and sound.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

Although this film has a lots of critics, but i still love it. The way Oxide and Danny directed this film is not bad, just the mix of the human and dog is a bit out of imagination. Love the way Rainie show her fear with her big eyes, cute :)

Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen 精武風雲: 陳真

Released Year: 2010
Directed by 劉偉強 Andrew Lau

Casted by:
甄子丹 Donnie Yen as 陈真 Zhen
舒淇 Hsu Chi as KiKi
黄秋生 Anthony Wong as 刘爷 Liu
木幡龙 Ryu Kohata as 力石猛
Story:

Before the Second Sino-Japanese War, seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after avenging his teacher (Huo Yuanjia) in Fist of Fury. A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local businessman and owner of a prominent nightclub frequented by foreign dignitaries. That man is Chen Zhen in disguise, who is part of the local resistance. Disguising himself as a masked fighter (based on the Green Hornet sidekick Kato) by night, Chen foils the plans of the Japanese to assassinate the son of a local warlord (General Zeng) who has been collaborating with the Japanese and place the blame on a rival warlord (General Zhuo), thereby causing civil war and aiding the subsequent Japanese invasion.

With the operation failed, Tokyo sends a death list of 100 names to the colonel in charge of intelligence operations in China, to be killed within a month. To smoke out the masked hero who foiled their operation last time, the Japanese leak the death list which causes panic among the populace, and pay a visit to the nightclub where Chen Zhen, disguised as his dead comrade Qin Tiansheng, is masquerading in the day as a partner of Master Liu, the nightclub owner and an influential businessman. As Chen Zhen looks nothing like his dead comrade who used to wear spectacles, the Japanese suspect of him of being the masked warrior and challenge him to save as many people as possible.

Most of the people on the death list refuse to leave, and have to be forced to leave by Chen Zhen's friend who is an inspector in the ineffectual, British controlled police force, and while Chen Zhen saves many of those on the death list, he is unable to save everyone in time. Eventually the colonel's younger brother leads a team of killers to kill the editor of the Shanghai Times, Chen Zhen's friend and comrade in the resistance. Chen Zhen arrives in the nick of time to see his friend killed right before his eyes and avenges him by killing all of the Japanese on the scene.

Meanwhile Chen Zhen is pursuing a romantic relationship with Kiki, one of the nightclub hostesses, whom is actually a captain in the Japanese army and one of their best spies. However Kiki starts to have conflicting feelings due to her love for Chen Zhen and does not inform the colonel of Chen Zhen's real identity and Chen Zhen eventually figures out who the spy in the nightclub is after noticing that Kiki always orders a particular brand of cigarettes even though she does not know how to smoke, and warns her to immediately leave Shanghai. At this point, the colonel, suspecting Kiki's loyalty, kidnaps the girlfriend of General Zeng's son and forces Kiki to kill her, even though they are both close friends. The incident is blamed on General Zhuo and General Zeng, backed by Japanese troops attack General Zhuo's forces, starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Eventually the Japanese simply kidnap Chen Zhen off the street in broad daylight and torture him at the Japanese headquarters. At the same time, Chen Zhen's comrades in the resistance, together with Chen Zhen's sister and his inspector friend, stage a raid on the Japanese headquarters and succeed in causing serious damage with the use of fire and explosives. As Chen Zhen has taken pictures with his comrades before, the Japanese are able to easily track down and have them hanged in public, while the colonel rapes Qin Tiansheng's sister (albeit misunderstood her as Chen Zhen's biological sister). Chen Zhen is thrown out of a car in front of the nightclub and is comatose for many days while he heals from his injuries.

With the Japanese invasion underway and General Zhuo killed in action with his forces in full retreat, there seems to be nothing the resistance can do to preventing the Japanese from occupying Shanghai. However the colonel sends Kiki, now clad in a Japanese army uniform, to the nightclub to issue a challenge to fight Chen Zhen in martial combat at the Hongkou Dojo, the same one that Chen Zhen defeated in Fist of Fury. Chen Zhen accepts the challenge and defeats all the students of the Dojo, before facing the colonel in one on one combat, which he wins. Although the Japanese eventually occupy Shanghai, Chen Zhen continues fighting as part of the resistance.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

This is such a best martial art movie this year, a neck-to-neck fight with "Reign Of Assasins" by Michelle Yeoh. I have forgotten since when Donnie Yen has become the next Chinese kungfu artist after Bruce Lee, Jacky Chen, Jet Li... Of course, Donnie Yen has a very manly look and his great body-figure will simply make u droll~

The best part is the cinema did not censored his butt scene in the theatre... hot!!! :) Totally hot~