Warcraft: The Beginning

 Released Year: 2016

Directed by Duncan Jones

Casted by:

Travis Fimmel as Sir Anduin Lothar

Paula Patton as Garona Halforcen

Ben Foster as Medivh

Dominic Cooper as King Llane Wrynn

Toby Kebbell as Durotan

Ben Schnetzer as Khadgar

Robert Kazinsky as Orgrim Doomhammer

Clancy Brown as Blackhand

吳彥祖 Daniel Wu as Gul'dan

Ruth Negga as Lady Taria Wrynn

 Story:

Draenor, the homeworld of the orcs, is being torn apart by a mysterious force known as fel magic. Gul'dan, a powerful orc warlock, unites the orc clans and forms the Horde, and creates a portal to the world of Azeroth. The orcs begin to use fel magic to drain the life out of captive draenei in order to sustain the portal. Once it is operational, Gul'dan leads a small warband to capture prisoners on Azeroth and sacrifice them to bring the rest of the Horde through the portal. Despite their doubts, Durotan, the chieftain of the Frostwolf Clan, his pregnant mate Draka, and his friend Orgrim Doomhammer join this initial warband. While crossing through the portal, Draka goes into labor. When the orcs arrive on Azeroth, Gul'dan assists Draka with giving birth, but the baby is stillborn. Gul'dan then drains the life out of a nearby deer to revive and infuse fel magic into the baby, which Durotan later names Go'el.

The orcs raid several settlements throughout Azeroth. Anduin Lothar, the military commander of the human forces in the Stormwind Kingdom, looks over some of the men that were killed, and finds a trespassing mage named Khadgar, who explains that he was investigating the dead bodies because they contained traces of fel magic. Khadgar persuades Stormwind's king, Llane Wrynn, to consult Medivh, the renowned Guardian of Tirisfal, and Llane sends Anduin and Khadgar to Medivh's stronghold, Karazhan, to inform him of the fel magic's presence on Azeroth. In the Karazhan library, a ghostly shadow leads Khadgar to a mysterious book, which he takes.

Anduin, Khadgar and Medivh join a scouting team following traces of fel magic, but are ambushed by orcs. Medivh uses a spell to kill the fel-corrupted orcs, leaving the Horde's warchief, Blackhand to flee along with Durotan and Orgrim. Khadgar restrains a half-orc slave, Garona, and the soldiers take her prisoner. King Llane frees Garona in exchange for loyalty to Stormwind, and she leads the humans to spy on the orc camp, where they learn of Gul'dan's plan to bring the Horde to Azeroth. Meanwhile, Durotan realizes that the fel magic is responsible for the destruction of Draenor, and if Gul'dan is not thwarted, Azeroth will suffer the same fate. Despite Orgrim's objections, Durotan invites Llane to a secret meeting so that the Frostwolf Clan and the humans can unite to defeat Gul'dan. While studying the book he took from Karazhan, Khadgar learns that Gul'dan could not have opened the portal on his own; he had help from someone on Azeroth. He is confronted by Medivh, who burns Khadgar's research when Khadgar offers to help him with his work.

The Frostwolf Clan meets with the humans to negotiate an alliance, but the group is ambushed by Blackhand. As the humans retreat, Medivh forms a magical barrier to protect them, but Lothar's son Callan is separated from the rest of the group and killed by Blackhand. Medivh is severely weakened, and Garona and Khadgar take him back to Karazhan to recover. After noticing Medivh's eyes shine green, showing that he is infected by fel magic, Khadgar returns to his former home, Dalaran, to seek help from the Kirin Tor, the authority of human and high elven mages. The Kirin Tor facilitate a meeting with Alodi, revealed to be the shadow who led Khadgar to the book; she confirms that Medivh has indeed been corrupted by fel magic and possessed by an unknown demon. At the orc camp, Blackhand purges the Frostwolf Clan. Orgrim helps Draka to escape, and she sends Go'el down a river in a basket, but is then found and killed by another orc. Durotan challenges Gul'dan to Mak'gora, a traditional orcish duel to the death for leadership of a clan – in this case, all of the orcs. During the fight, Gul'dan violates the honorable combat rules by draining the life out of Durotan with his magic, killing him and earning the disapproval of the orcs watching, and he empowers Blackhand with the same magic. Medivh, now in a half-demonic state, starts to open the portal to Draenor, and Gul'dan sacrifices the captured human villagers to allow the rest of the Horde to enter Azeroth.

Llane leads the human army in an assault on the orc camp, while Anduin and Khadgar fight Medivh and destroy the demon that had begun to manifest on the outside. Medivh is left mortally wounded, and uses the last of his strength to close the portal to Draenor and instead open a portal to Stormwind, allowing Llane to evacuate most of the freed prisoners. When Medivh eventually dies, the portal closes, leaving Llane, Garona and a small number of human soldiers to fight the orcs. Llane secretly orders Garona to kill him, bringing her honor among the orcs and putting her in a position of power to bring peace between the two races. Garona reluctantly does so, and is welcomed into the Horde by Gul'dan. As the orcs celebrate, Anduin arrives to retrieve King Llane's body and discovers Garona's knife in the body, realizing that it was she who had killed their king. Blackhand challenges Anduin to Mak'gora, and Anduin quickly disposes of him. Against Gul'dan's demands, the orcs, bound by tradition, allow Anduin to depart with Llane's body. At Llane's funeral in Stormwind, the leaders of the other human nations, along with the high elves and dwarves, proclaim an alliance against the orcs and rally behind Anduin as the leader of the Alliance forces. Elsewhere, Orgrim takes one of Durotan's tusks to one day give to Go'el, and the basket containing Go'el is found by a human.

 L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

It was excited when I saw the trailer of this movie, well, i think every man/boy whom play this game before will have the exact same feeling with me.Though i only started to play warcraft since The Frozen Throne, i wanted to watch this movie in cinema so badly. But because of my hectic workload nowadays, i miss the chance :(

The graphic wise is definitely the best, but story wise is kinda boring. But surprise part is Daniel Wu was also in the film...Who? Check the casting list above pls~ lol

Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 單身男女2

Released Year: 2014

Directed by 杜琪峰 Johnnie To

Casted by:

 古天樂 Louis Koo as 張申然 Sean

杨千嬅 Miriam Yeung as 杨鸯鸯 Yang

高圓圓 Gao Yuan Yuan as 程子欣 Chi Yan

周渝民 Vic Chou as 程子建 Ken

吴彦祖 Daniel Wu as 方启宏 Kevin

林雪 Lam Suet as John

 Story: 

Continue from the first movie, Chi Yan has chose Kevin instead of Sean and will be getting marry soon. While Sean in another hand trying to avoid  Chi Yan appears in his life again by getting more slutty & even attached with Yang, an iron lady who is expert in shares investment.

Things just happen so coincidentally that Chi Yan work as an economic adviser in Yang's office which happened to located opposite of Sean's office building. Chi Yan's brother, Ken has his feeling on Yang one day who needs help on moving her car out from a terrible parking conditions. Both of them quickly get close with each other due to one octopus but Yang is still having most of her feeling for Sean.

After knowing that Sean's ex girlfriend is Chi Yan & Sean is still unable to let go of Chi Yan (Sean has been renting Chi Yan's old apartment & stay overnight there daily to feel the appearance of Chi Yan in his life), Yang get angry because Sean has proposed to her but still can't let go of Chi Yan. At the same time, Yang even mistaken Ken is Kevin and angrily push Ken into the sea. Yang scolded Sean; Sean released his stress & depression by beating up Kevin at his house. But thing sorted out when Chi Yan told Yang that Ken is actually her brother instead.

On the wedding day of Chi Yan & Kevin (at the top floor of a high building), Sean crazily hike his way all up to that building just to attracts Chi Yan's attention by not marrying to Kevin. This crazy behavior cause everyone to go insane & Yang even sprained her ankle on it. In the end, both Kevin & Ken climb up to the top and managed to pull Sean back to the building. Chi Yan cried & hit Sean for his behavior. In front of everyone, Yang asked Chi Yan to choose one guy but Chi Yan chose non of them. Yang stopped Chi Yan from leaving and her turn to hit on Sean. Yang forced Sean to choose between her and Chi Yan & Sean chose Chi Yan by saying sorry to Yang. Disappointingly, Yang decided to walk away but Ken rush out to propose but was rejected by Yang. Ken is not giving up, he rush behind Yang (after picking her heels from the pool), and told Yang no matter how, he will not let go of her... The elevator's door close with Yang sort of accept Ken by letting him help her to wear back her heels.

Before Yang left just now, she told Chi Yan to be brave and chose the man that she really wants. Chi Yan walked up to Kevin and saying that she is sorry and run away by pulling Sean along...

 L² Scored: 9/10 

L² Comment: 

Wow, I never know that the sequel is so much better than the first movie. The whole storyline is richer & exciting when another 2 characters (Yang & Ken) was added in; but in the same time the character of Kevin has become a supporting role instead of the lead role like the first movie. 

Throughout the movie, not only I can feel the sadness, disappointment, jealousy that presented by these actors & actresses... I feel that Louis Koo finally improve his acting skills after so many years acting in the same kind of characters in so many movies. Bravo to him.

Not sure whether in future the production house will be doing the same kind of story about single man & lady or not... but definitely the characters will be change, just hope that they will maintain some of these actors & actresses in the new movie again... 

Overheard 3 竊聽風雲 3

 Released Year: 2014

Directed by 麦兆辉 Alan Mak & 莊文強 Felix Choong

Casted by:

劉青雲 Sean Lau as 陸金強 Keong

古天樂 Louis Koo as 羅永就 Jau

吳彥祖 Daniel Wu as 阿祖 Joe

周迅 Zhou Xun as 阮月華 Hua

葉璇 Michelle Ye as 陸永瑜 Yu

方中信 Alex Foong as 陸永富 Fu

林家棟 Gordon Lam as 陸建波 Bo

林嘉華 Dominic Lam as 陸永泉 Chuen

曾江 Kenneth Tsang as 陸瀚濤 Tao

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 司徒光 SzeTo

黃磊 Huang Lei as 萬山Shan

 Story: 

Few years ago, Jau bang Yun and cause him to die so that the Luk's 4 brother - Keong, Fu, Bo & Chuen able to work with Tao's development company in extending the village properties. When Jau is out from prison, Tao's daughter Yu and bf Shan hired Jau and IT expert Joe to investigate of the Luk's 4 brother. Jau still has feeling for Yu while Joe met Hua (Yun's wife) and the Luk's brothers later discover that Jau is the one who betrayed them... 

 L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

The very last movie of the "Overheard" franchise film, this is the best among the 3 movies. Even though there's no link among these 3 movies but the actors are basically the same which is Sean, Louis & Daniel. Overall the storyline for this is the best, love the twist and turn of it. Happy to see that most of them are originated from TVB, and now they are strong enough to stand in front of the HK blockbuster and shine for the Hong Kong films :)

Miss Du Shi Niang Miss杜十娘

Released Year: 2003

Directed by 杜国威 Du Guo Wei

Casted by:

李嘉欣 Michelle Reis as 杜十娘 Niang

吴彦祖 Daniel Wu as 李甲 Jia

沈殿霞 Lydia Sum as 老鸨 Mamasan

 Story:

Du Shi Niang is the famous hooker but she fall in love with Jia, a useless guy who came for her beauty and not able to live based on his own ability. When mamasan challenge Jia to leave or buy back Niang, he felt defeated but Niang has her own way out. 

Following Jia back to his hometown, Jia sold Niang out to a rich man which make Niang disappointed. She show Jia how rich she was but dump them all into the lake. In the end, she herself jump into the lake as well. Later that day she swim back to find mamasan and promise herself that she will never fall in love again.

 L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:

Not a bad movie, its actually based on an old old novel last time. The only disappointing point is that both Daniel Wu & Michelle Reis don't really speaks good cantonese and their acting are not that good as well. Beside Lydia Sum, the whole movie is consider dull and boring. Luckily with Michelle & Daniel's look + Lydia good comedy skill, this movie is still watch-able~

Night Corridoor 妖夜迴廊

 Released Year: 2003

Directed by 李志超 Li Chi Chiu

 

Casted by:

吳彥祖 Daniel Wu as 袁森/袁洪 Sam/Hung
 谷峰 Gu Feng as 陆思凡 Mr Luk

 蔣怡 Coco Chiang as 秀冰 Bing

 惠英紅 Kara Hui as 母亲 Mother
 吳振宇 Allan Wu as 史云生 Vincent

 Story:

Sam received his twins brother, Hung's death news in London. Going back to Hong Kong, Sam tries to find out the truth from Mr Luk, his own mother & from Bing (Hung's girlfriend). The story involved priest fucking the young Sam while young Hung fucked by his mother; Sam continue fucking with the priest for Vincent while it makes Sam fell in love with him. Sam also control by Mr Luk to have sex with the demon lady Bing.

 L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

Love Daniel's slutty look during masturbation, but there's a lot of unexplain part in the movies which makes me a bit confuse... maybe it did but i might be stupid to noticed :P

Naked Weapon 赤裸特工

 Released Year: 2002

Directed by 程小東 Chin Xiao Dong

 

Casted by:

Maggie Q as Charlene Ching
 安雅 Anya Wu as Katherine
 吳彥祖 Daniel Wu as Jack Chen
 黃佩霞 Almen Huang as Madame M
 鄭佩佩 Cheng Pei Pei as Faye Ching
 李菲 Jewel Lee as Jing
 連凱 Andrew Lin as 龍三郎 Ryuichi

 Story:

 The movie opens with the assassination of a man of unknown identity. A team of three CIA officers, including Jack Chen, a rookie, watch through surveillance as a sexy female assassin named Fiona Birch enters the man's heavily guarded apartment suite and, after having sex with him, kills him by breaking his spine with her bare hands. As she makes her escape in her white Porsche 911 GT3, her car is hit by a rocket. As the officers rush over to extricate her from the wreckage, a woman in a limousine shoots her to death.

The woman in the limousine is revealed to be Madam M, the leader of a mysterious assassin organization, to which the killed assassin belonged. After the incident, young girls across the globe start disappearing one after another. The only relationship among them is that they are all trained in martial arts or sports. As Jack correctly theorizes, these girls have been abducted by Madam M and transported to an island to be trained to become professional assassins. After six years of gruesome training, only Charlene Ching, Katt and Jing survive and "graduate". The last test in order for them to graduate was a fight for survival/to the death test. Katt and Charlene, being friends, could not kill each other, and so each is accepted as the third survivor. To celebrate Madame M gives them all different wine which has drugs in it. As the drugs take effect Madame M calls her guards who brutally rape the girls, thus (in Madame M's words) making them ready for what was to come.

The three girls are then sent on several missions around the world. During one of her missions in Hong Kong, Charlene coincidentally runs into her long-lost mother, Faye Ching. Jack, who has been following Madam M's case for the last six years, tracks Charlene down, but Charlene manages to knock him out and escape. Believing that Charlene would return to seek her mother, Jack waits outside Faye's house. However, Jing shows up first and stabs Faye. Jack tries to fend her off but was no match for her. Charlene shows up shortly and kills Jing after a fierce fight. The two then escort the wounded Faye to hospital.

In order to regain their freedom, Charlene and Katt accept a final mission from Madam M. A yakuza boss, Ryuichi, has contracted Madam M to eliminate a traitor in his gang. The mission turns out to be Ryuichi's trap to avenge his partner, who was assassinated previously by one of Madam M's girls (Charlene). Ryuichi kills Madam M and captures Katt, while Charlene escapes. Later, she and Katt went to the meeting place and finds that it was a trap. Ryuichi then shoots a dart containing a drug. Then while Jack was at the hospital, Charlene calls him to meet her at the beach. They end up making love and by the next morning she left a note in his shoe saying if they have fate then they will meet again. When Charlene returns the next day to rescue Katt, she watches helplessly through a bullet-proof glass as Katt, after being tortured, is killed by Ryuichi, with a sword. The enraged Charlene battles Ryuichi and through an intense fight, finally manages to kill him, using the technique used by Fiona Birch.

After everything is over, Jack and Charlene's mother, Faye, are at a Chinese temple offering prayers. Faye jokingly says that these things (the gods that she has been praying to) must have been all nonsense in Jack's point of view. But Jack tells her that although he never had a religion he feels peace every time he is in the temple. Faye commends his behavior and says that he should visit the temple more often. Meanwhile, we see Charlene in a Chinese temple praying for Katt's soul to rest in peace and she tells the deity that she wishes to be with the one she truly loves, Jack himself. Jack claims at the end of the movie that there are times when he is sure that Charlene is beside him; the last scene of the movie is Charlene watching Jack rush through the crowd looking for her.

 L² Scored: 7.5/10

 

L² Comment:

For me the whole movie does not really go on the peak. Hey come on, even though Chin is directing this film, but it was producted by the nasty Wang Jing!!! Where is the excitement?!? Especially the theme is good enough~ I need to see Maggie Q has some body contact with Anya, or at least a lesbian kiss; how about Daniel Wu? He should show us his nice fine ass on the beach sex scene; and don't forget about Almen, she's way too conservative in here, she should at least get a rape scene with Andrew Lin!!! Gosh~ this is rubbish, but i'm still gonna like it :P

 

CZ12 十二生肖

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by 成龙 Jackie Chan

Casted by:

成龍 Jackie Chan as JC
姚星彤 Yao Xing Tong as CoCo
權相佑 Kwon Sang Woo as Simon
張藍心 Zhang Lan Xin as Bonnie
廖凡 Liao Fan as David
Laura Weissbecker as Katherine

 Story:

The movie begins by a man telling the story of the Old Summer Palace and how it was looted in the 1800s by the British in the Second opium war. Among the treasures are bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals.

In the present day, the bronze heads are auctioned for over a million euros each. The main company supplying the bronze heads and other stolen relics is MP Corporation. JC, is tasked by MP Corp to find the remaining lost bronze heads, with a promise of a 10 times bonus if he can recover all of them. JC visits a man named Professor Guan, who had created 12 identical replicas for study purposes with his team of researchers, under the pretense that he is a reporter named Martin from National Geographic. When left alone, JC scans the multiple bronze Zodiac animal heads using special gloves so that his secret organisation can replicate an extremely realistic model of them. After scanning, he goes to Paris to find a woman named Coco, recommended by Professor Guan, for more information on the whereabouts of two bronze heads.

JC, along with his partners Simon, David, and Bonnie, infiltrate a mansion to find two of the bronze heads. JC manages to decode the password to a top secret vault and finds two bronze heads, a painting called "The Roses", along with many other valuable national treasures thought to be lost inside. JC's cover was soon busted but managed to evade capture with all the valuables, but is spotted by Coco. Having no time to explain himself, he tells Coco to meet him at a boat house while fleeing from the mansion's security. At the boat house, Martin tells Coco that he is working for a secret corporation that is trying to recover all the lost relics for China. The guards from the mansion storm the boat house and try to attack JC. However, the police are called in and arrest all of them. JC, Coco and Simon are cleared of any wrongdoing and are released.

Coco, JC and his team are invited to a castle owned by a lady named Katherine (Laura Weissbecker). Unknown to them, the guards from the mansion continue to tail them out of suspicion. It turns out the captain of the "Indestructible", one of the ships involved in the destruction of the Old Summer Place and taking away the treasures, is Katherine's great-grandfather. This upsets Coco, who confronts Katherine on the issue. JC and his team find many valuable treasures in the castle, including the Bronze head of the Rooster, and hatch a series of plans to ferry them out. JC promises Katherine that he will help her locate her great grandfather's remains.

The next day, they venture out in search of the Indestructible's treasures, located on a seemingly uninhabited island. JC instructs Coco and Katherine to stay behind while his team explore the island. However, Coco and Katherine disobey JC's orders to look for Katherine's great grandfather's corpse on their own. They get entangled among the vines and this forces JC to rescue them. The group accidentally discovers the remains of the Indestructible, several more bronze heads and a large quantity of gold (plus the remains of Katherine's great-grandfather.) As they prepare to leave with all the artifacts, they are confronted by the guards from the mansion. In turn, the island's local inhabitants, a group of pirates, appear and promptly capture all of them. JC and his team fight their way through to escape the island via a log set up with a pulley system, leaving the five guards with the pirates.

Back on the yacht, Coco accidentally discovers the real motive of JC's ventures and confronts him. Subsequently, the log carrying approximately eight tonnes of gold and the corpse of Katherine's great-grandpa sinks due to the heavy weight of the gold and the corpse, and all the log's contents are lost. Nevertheless, JC and his team still get rewarded for recovering some of the lost bronze heads. The group is enraged when they find out that the supposedly-missing dragon bronze head was already at the hands of MP Corp all along, thereby making it impossible to claim the large bonus. Meanwhile, Coco and her fellow students' protests over the sale of the national treasures escalated quickly to grab worldwide attention. As Coco's students try to find out more about MP Corp, three of them, including Coco's younger brother, are captured. Coco approaches JC for help but JC seems nonchalant.

JC contacts MP Corp on the availability of "The Roses" artefact and is allowed into the secret premises. Having toured the entire factory, where almost exact duplicates of the relics are made to be sold as real relics in auctions, JC deduces the location of the captives. He challenges a long time rival who happens to be there as well – the unscrupulous treasure hunter, Vulture, to a fight but it ends in a stalemate. JC bargains with MP Corp to sell "The Roses" painting at a reduced price and secures the release of the three hostages. When MP Corp refuses, JC fights his way to the chamber. During the ensuing fight, a furnace explodes due to a guard's baton rupturing one of the pipes. The explosion destroys most of the facility. JC later settles for the release of the three hostages in exchange for the painting and not paying damages done to the premises.

Meanwhile, the dragon bronze head is expected to fetch the highest price in the auction but no one bids for it due to increasing pressure from activist groups. MP Corp, in a bid to teach these groups a lesson, threatens to throw the relic into an active volcano, calling the mission "Let the Dragon Fly," if no bids are received by 12:00 noon the next day. The deadline passes without a single bid and Vulture leads a group of three sky divers to throw the relic into the volcano. JC intervenes and, in the ensuing air-borne struggle, seemingly dies in order to save the relic from dropping into the volcano. As a mark of respect, Vulture hands over the relic to a sprawling JC. MP Corp's owners are arrested on suspicion of counterfeit relics. JC survives and is seen recovering in a hospital and on good terms with everyone, including Vulture. The movie ends off in JC kissing his wife.

  L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

Omg, i have totally forgotten to blog about this movie after i have watched it in the cinema lol~ Rumors said that this will be Jackie Chan's last movie, but is it true? I thought he is preparing for "Police Story 2013"? So, is this some sort of a technique to attract more audience in the cinema? His wife and son even came out in the movie and help out to gain more fame for him.

Overall i love the storyline, though some of his action is a bit predictable, but i still love it. Surprisingly, he is using Kwon Sang Woo in this movie, i mean, i love Kwon, but don't you think he is a bit too famous for that character? But i definitely like Zhang Lan Xin, this girl really got potential and she's very beautiful too~ Overall the whole movie is good, expected to be a bit more better on the comedy part, but well, i couldn't ask much more than this then~ lol