Handsome Siblings 絕代雙驕

 Released Year: 1992

Directed by 曾志偉 Eric Tsang

Casted by:

劉德華 Andy Lau as 小魚兒 Fishy

林青霞 Bridget Lin as 花無缺 More

張敏 Sharla Cheung as 邀月宮主 Eva Palace Ruler

吳孟達 Ng Man Tat as 李大嘴 Big Mouth Lee

葉德嫻 Deanie Ip as 屠嬌嬌 Sissy To

吳鎮宇 Francis Ng as 江玉郎 Kong Yuk Long

苗僑偉 Michael Miu as 燕南天 Yin Nam Tin

袁詠儀 Anita Yuen as 鐵心蘭 Madam Ti

吳耀漢 Richard Ng as 武林雙尊之一 Twin Villain

王青 Wang Qing as 武林雙尊之一 Twin Villain

 Story: 

Every 18 years, the martial artists' community hold a martial arts contest to elect a new leader. Eva Palace's ruler wins the title and is tasked with eliminating the Ten Villains, who live in the Villains' Valley, a sanctuary for criminals. Yin Nam-tin (Eva Palace ruler's husband) believes that the villains are innocent and attempts to stop his wife from killing them. The couple turn against each other and Yin eventually manages to defeat his wife, but becomes paralyzed and mute. Eva accepts a girl called More as her disciple and intends to groom her as her successor. Meanwhile, the Ten Villains accept Yin's son (Fishy) as their student and plan to "nurture" him to become the greatest villain ever. 18 years later, the grown-up Fishy coincidentally meets More and falls in love with her. When he participates in the contest later, he is shocked to discover that Eva is actually his mother, and More is in fact Eva's student.

 L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

Missed this classic movie during the 90s... even though Bridget Lin is actually 7 years elder than Andy Lau, but it did not feel weird when both of them acted as a couple~ Bridget is the hottest actress during that time, nobody can look better than her when she wear a man clothes~ Of course the original fiction is not correctly shown in this movie as the gender of More should be a guy instead of a woman~ And lots lots lots stories were also amended as well...

Flirting Scholar 唐伯虎點秋香

Released Year: 1993

Directed by 李力持 Lee LikChi & 周星馳 Stephen Chow

Casted by:

 周星馳 Stephen Chow as 唐伯虎 Tong Pak Fu

鞏俐 Gong Li as 秋香 Chow Heung

鄭佩佩 Cheng Pei Pei as 華夫人 Madame Wah

陳百祥 Natalis Chan as 祝枝山 Chuk Chi San

黃霑 Jim Wong as 華太師 Chancellor Wah

宣萱 Jessica Hester Hsuan as 夏香 Ha Heung

苑瓊丹 Kingdom Yuen as 石榴 Sek Lao

梁家仁 Bryan Leung as 武狀元 Mou Zhong Yun 

劉家輝 Gordon Liu as 奪命書生 Evil Scholar

 Story: 

In the Ming Dynasty, there were four scholars, whose literary and artistic skills are unmatched in China. Tong Pak Fu is the most famous, for having eight wives in addition to his expertise as an artist, poet, and calligrapher. However, Tong's wives are all gambling addicts, unappreciative of Tong's artistic skills. This leads to Tong's quest for a woman who truly appreciates his strengths.

The Tong Family have been generations of martial arts masters and has two major enemies: the Evil Scholar, a notorious swordsman known for The Deadly Scholastic Sword, Due to these rivalries, Tong Pak Fu is forbidden by his mother to use any form of martial arts.

One day, Tong stumbles upon the convoy of the House of Wah, and meets Chow Heung, one of the four maids in the House of Wah. This chance encounter convinces Tong that he has finally found his true love. On the advice of a boatman, Tong pretends to be a lowly servant in order to gain employment in the House of Wah.

Tong finds life as a servant very difficult, until Madame Wah discovers that Tong is actually educated. After some persuasion by Chow Heung, Tong is hired as an assistant tutor for Madame Wah's two young sons.

After the sudden death of the main tutor of the House of Wah, Tong is promoted and manages to get closer to Chow Heung. However, the House of Wah is suddenly visited by Chancellor Wah's political rival, Prince Ning, who is planning a coup. Madame Wah is injured, and Tong steps in to finish the battle in the House of Wah's favor. Prince Ning seizes the opportunity to blame the House of Wah for insulting him. Embarrassed at being utterly defeated at the hands of a tutor, Prince Ning leaves hastily, vowing revenge. In reproducing a painting, Tong reveals his real identity to Madame Wah, who is the former love rival of Tong's mother.

Several days later, the Evil Scholar returns to annihilate the entire House of Wah. Madame Wah attempts to defend the family, but is almost killed. Tong appears and after a fierce battle, Tong kills the Evil Scholar and earns Chow Heung's hand in marriage as a reward. Tong then discovers that Chow Heung is just as much a gambling addict as his previous eight wives.

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

Hehe, one of my fav Stephen Chow's movie back in the 90's. The only time Stephen Chow film with Gong Li... Gong Li always give us the serious type of look, but in this movie, she did tried some effort to be funny, but of course she won't be able to compete with Sandra Ng, Teresa Mo, Sharla Cheung, Karen Mok or other Stephen Chow's movie actress... The biggest surprise would be Jessica Hester Hsuan in this movie, i almost lost my breath because i laugh too hard on some of her scenes~

Triumph in the Skies 衝上雲霄

Released Year: 2015

Directed by  葉偉信 Wilson Yip & 鄒凱光 Matt Chow

Casted by:

吳鎮宇 Francis Wu as 唐亦琛 Samuel

鄭秀文 Sammi Cheng as 譚夢 TM

古天樂 Louis Koo as 張春亮 Branson

張智霖 Julian Cheung as 顧夏陽 Jayden 

佘詩曼 Charmaine Sheh as 潘家詩 Cassie

郭采潔 Amber Kuo as 薛健雅 Kika

 Story: 

Young pilot Branson recently takes over Skylette, his father’s aviation empire, only to realize his old flames Cassie is a flight attendant there. Several years ago, he was forced to break up with her and move to New York to take care of his father's business. To this day, the two continue to harbor feelings for each other but decide to keep them bottled up.

In an effort to rebrand the airline, Branson invites rock idol TM to star in an upcoming commercial and appoints Sam as her flying consultant. Incongruent in both tastes and experience, this odd couple gets off on the wrong foot. As the shoot progresses, however, they slowly discover each other's merits, developing a strong mutual attraction.

Jayden has left Skylette Airline to become a pilot for private jets. He meets the young and vivacious Kika during a flight and assumes her to be wayward and shallow. But they turn out to have a lot in common and start falling madly in love. At the height of their romance, Jayden realizes almost too late the secret behind her recalcitrance…

Each of the three relationships comes with its own setbacks. As long as one can accept the imperfection of things, finding happiness—however fleetingly—is a blessing in itself.

 L² Scored: 2.5/10 

L² Comment:

Seriously, i never give such a low score to any of the Sammi's movie before... as u all would have know by now that i'm a big big Sammi's fans, and it so disappointed to see her act in this movie. I watched it in the cinema during Feb, but i hate it when i watch it, i didn't even feel like blog about it that time.

Well, as a professional movie blogger (self claim :P), i reconsider to watch it again and hopefully the whole movie will change my mind after a few months. But i cant... this movie is so so disappointed seriously. When the first and second drama has won a big success in my heart, i expected this to be better but it did not. Especially with Amber Kuo's part, i hope she die in that movie, she looks like a stupid retarded bitch to me... And Louis & Charmaine's part is so full of xxx... hey come on, y dont u both jst spray each other with ur underwear and lingerie?

As for Francis and Sammi's part, the feeling is seriously not strong enough. I dont even knw why the love occur in between the two of them. Really, i wont watch it for the 3rd time~

The House That Never Dies 京城81号 / 朝内81号

 Released Year: 2014

Directed by 叶伟民 Ye Wei Min

Casted by:

林心如 Ruby Lin as 陆蝶玉(前世) Dieyu & 许若卿(今生) Ruoqing

吴镇宇 Francis Ng as 霍连修(前世) Lianxiu & 赵奕堂(今生) Yitang

杨佑宁 Tony Yang as 霍连齐 Lianqi

夏文汐 Pat Ha as 霍家大少奶奶 Lianxiu's wife

 Story:

The 3D thriller is based on the legendary mansion at No. 81 on Chaoyangmennei Street in Beijing, follows Xu Ruoqing, a woman whose presence in the notorious mansion draws up the spirits that have taken residence there.

The film starts with the story of a notable family who lives in the house right after the fall of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). When the family's third son falls in love with a prostitute named Lu Dieyu, his request to marry her is refused and instead the family force Lu to marry their second recently deceased son in a posthumous wedding ceremony. Going from the wedding directly to the funeral, the family throws Lu into a coffin with the pale-faced dead body of her new husband.

L² Scored: 4/10

L² Comment:

Alot of you knows that i'm a big fans of horror movie. This movie was some sort related to one of Beijing haunted house and it was shot in 3D version. The 3D effect might be good, but the story is not that strong for me, feel like something is lacking, its not scary enough for me. What a waste~

The White Dragon 小白龍情海翻波

 Released Year: 2004

Directed by 叶伟信 Wilson Yip

Casted by:

张柏芝 Cecilia Cheung as 黑凤 Black Phoenix / White Dragon Jr.

吴镇宇 Francis Ng as 一地鸡毛 Chicken Feathers

安志杰 Andy On as 天养 Tian Yang

邓梓峰 Patrick Tang as 校长 Gene

阮小仪 Kitty Yuen as Tweetie

许绍雄 Benz Hui as 陆美霸 Deer Tail

雪妮 Suet Nei as Auntie / White Dragon Sr.

 Story:

In a twist departing from the standard superhero formula, White Dragon is a narcissist, forever worried about her good looks, even as she's fighting with Feather, a blind assassin nicknamed "Chicken Feathers" because of his propensity for using chicken feathers as his calling card.

Chicken Feathers is first challenged by White Dragon, an elderly woman with proficient skills in martial arts to almost match his, but not quite enough. Thinking that she has been fatally wounded, White Dragon transfers her kung-fu knowledge into empty shell Black Phoenix, turning the young woman into the prettiest martial arts expert around. The downside to having these extraordinary powers, which she does not fully understand, is bad acne, which she manages to prevent only by doing "noble" deeds like robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.

Phoenix is reluctant to take on her new role at first, but soon becomes interested in tracking down Chicken Feathers when she learns that her love interest, Second Prince Tian Yang, might become his next target. Using her flute-playing as bait, White Dragon finally faces Chicken Feathers in an attempt to defeat him before he can carry out the assassination. Chicken Feathers proves to be too good for the new White Dragon, however. When White Dragon tries to exploit his "weak points," she ends up injured(breaking her leg while trying to kick Feathers in the nuts) and dependent on Feathers, who does nurse her back to health after their heated battle. While Chicken Feathers plays nurse, White Dragon seeks to find his true weak point to stop him once and for all. What she finds instead is that Chicken Feathers has fallen in love with her, and that he is growing on her as well.

After a while her leg healed and Chicken Feathers found a letter for Second Prince Tian Yang and had it read by the town's doctor. This letter made Chicken Feathers thinking that Black Phoenix already has a boyfriend, namely the Second Prince Tian Yang. Chicken Feathers confronted Phoenix Black with this and they ended up struggling. Accidentally the girl stabbed her flute into the back of Chicken Feathers, which gave him a moment of sight. She ran away.

The Third Prince, brother of the Second Prince, apparently hired Chicken Feathers to kill his brother, this was revealed at the very last scene.

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

When i look at the cover of the disc, i thought its gonna be those damn boring fighting movie. But i was wrong with the comedy aspects added in the movie, it become more lively and not that boring too. Overall the movie and storyline is ok, but it won't definitely attract me to watch it again lol

Banana Spirit 精靈變

 Released Year: 1992

Directed by 卢坚 Lou Kin

Casted by:

吴镇宇 Francis Ng as 阿植 Zhi

林正英 Lam Zhen Ying as 陈福生 Sheng

傅俪人 Fu Li Ren as Iris

倪星 Collin Chow as 阿车 Che

Story:

Zhi and Che are 2 buddies who like adventurous, they took up a challenge to call out the banana spirit from a forest. Zhi was told to imagine the banana spirit with the most beautiful woman he has see, Zhi thought of the model Iris. Things happened and everyone ran away, Zhi saw Iris and quickly pull her away from the incident. But Zhi never realize this is not the real Iris, but is the Iris which transform by the banana spirit.

Zhi brought Iris home, she was very open and always naked in front of Zhi and Zhi has great sex with her. Iris even act open in fron of Zhi's sister and her boyfriend Sheng. In the end Sheng discovered Iris is a banana spirit and request her to return back to her own place before she hurt the soul of Zhi.

 L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

Oh well, this old film is quite ok, talks about the banana spirit which came out to attack young man and slowly absorb their soul away when they have sex. Francis look young of course but his acting is a bit so so... overall the movie is ok, but is it memorable? i dont think so....

24 Hours Ghost Story 猛鬼通宵陪住你

Released Year: 1997
Directed by 钱升玮 Wellson Chin

Casted by:
吴镇宇 Francis Ng as 大毛 Mao
黄子华 Dayo Wong as 陈查礼 Charlie
雷宇扬 Simon Lui as 蕃茄 Frankie
钱嘉乐 Ka-Lok Chin as 牙丫Yaya
黎姿 Gigi Lai as 小云 Wan
Story:

4 friends (Mao, Yaya, Frankie & Wan) decided to open a 24 hours shop in a corner lot. When they visit the shop before rent, Mao feel eerie because he saw a lot of uncomfortable things but they still rent the place.

During renovation, they met a silly policeman Charlie. Mao still always having the thoughts of seeing ghost, but after verified with Charlie. It was confirm that this shop lot is haunted. Rumors said that there were 4 friends opening a shop in the same lot, but one of them believe there's ghost there but the other 3 doesn't believe. After killing his friend, the guy suicide with a opera make up on his face.

Mao and Charlie tried to stop Yaya, Frankie & Wan to go back to the shop before 12am by pulling them to play mahjong together. But later on they found out it was a day before. On the actual day, everyone is in the shop before 12am. They were arguing as Frankie thought Yaya tried to tackled Wan, who is his girlfriend. When Charlie reach to help, he discover the ghost has haunted into Mao's body. All of them work together to fight against Mao, who is the ghost now. But Mao was too strong to be defeat.

At last, the real Mao feel the friendship that exits in real life and defeated the ghost in himself.

L² Scored: 3.5/10

L² Comment:

Well, the movie is a bit boring actually, but it managed to create the spookiness in some part. Especially the part when the ghost drawn himself an opera make-up. Nothing much to talk about this movie, but just to say Yuen Keng Dan is damn funny :P