Mural 画壁

Released Year: 2011

Directed by 陳嘉上 MH

Casted by:
邓超 Deng Chao as 朱孝廉 XiaoLian
孙俪 Betty Sun as 芍药 ShaoYao
闫妮 Yan Ni as 姑姑 The Queen
邹兆龙 Collin Chou as 孟龍潭 LongTan
柳岩 Ada Liu as 雲梅 YunMei
谢楠 Xie Nan as 翠竹 ChuiZhu
包贝尔 Bao Bei Er as 後夏 HouXia
安志杰 Andy On as 武士 Owl
郑爽 Zheng Shuang as 牡丹 MuDan
莫小棋 Monica Mok as 丁香 DingXiang
曾志伟 Eric Tsang as 不動和尚 BuDong

Story:

In a quiet temple, Xiao Lian staring at a drawing which contained the world of flowers. Due to the over focus, Xiao Lian's spirit has unconsciously went into the drawing and he met MuDan, one of the flower angel in the drawing. The Queen of the angel is a strict person who dislike man, to avoid Xiao Lian get into trouble, MuDan beg ChuiZhu to bring Xiao Lian to hide but herself was caught by The Queen and put into the dungeon for disobeying the rules.

Xiao Lian flash out from the drawing, but he worried about MuDan and brought along his servant Hou Xia & a bandit Long Tan back into the drawing to save MuDan. They met ShaoYao who is The Queen's assistant and Xiao Lian falls for her beautiful look while Hou Xia has his feeling for another angel YunMei. The Queen found out the 3 man's appearance, not only she did not kills them but offer them to marry her angel in order to get new born baby and plan to kill them off if a baby girl is born. Long Tan greedily marry YunMei as wife but divorce her on the second day. After that Long Tan chose DingXiang as his wife again and also seduce another 3 angels to be his woman. 

To stay at the world and avoid The Queen, ShaoYao & Owl's suspicious, Xiao Lian chose ChuiZhu to marry while Hou Xia marry with YunMei. ChuiZhu freaked out but after knowing Xiao Lian is tricking The Queen, she agreed on this fake marriage and helps to look for MuDan. On an event, ShaoYao told them MuDan has yet to die, other angels force her to bring them to MuDan. By saving MuDan, ShaoYao sacrificed herself to be put into the dungeon. They plan to leave this place, but MuDan realize Xiao Lian actually falls for ShaoYao but not her. MuDan went to ask forgiveness from The Queen and hope to get ShaoYao return in peace. The Queen is angry with the angels and plan to kill both ShaoYao & MuDan; but Owl fought back with her and sacrifice himself to get ShaoYao & MuDan back to safety. All angels forms up to fight against The Queen but The Queen great power has killed all of the angels & the 3 men who are here.

BuDong monk came into the drawing and told The Queen not to be so evil. He also told her that he has never forgotten The Queen. Melted by the words of her old lover, The Queen returns everyone's life and agreed to leave the place with BuDong. The Queen has passed her authority to ShaoYao and let her lead the angels. Not able to accept Xiao Lian, ShaoYao let him go in sadness. Xiao Lian sudden flash back and realized himself is in the quiet temple again staring at the drawing while nothing has ever happened... 

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment: 

This is one of the story from 聊齋 Liao Zhai which I think has never been filmed before. This movie has once hit the number one place in China's blockbuster in 2011. The whole movie is not bad but not sure how much changes it has been make comparing to the original fiction. However, the storyline seems ok just a few part which is kinda bored. Luckily the whole movie is still ok and I won't feel sickening compare to The Monkey King which I just watched.

And I Hate You So 小親親

 Released Year: 2000

Directed by 奚仲文 Kenneth Yee

Casted by:

郭富城 Aaron Kwok as 章戎 Rong

陳慧琳 Kelly Chen as 吳秋月 Yue

毛舜筠 Teresa Mo as Cat

曾志偉 Eric Tsang as 武 Mou

宣萱 Jessica Hester Hsuan as 馬丹莉 Lei

雷頌德  Mark Lui as 陳振華 Wah

Story:

The story started because of a vinyl record & a male dog being abandoned. Yue is a newspaper column writer with the title of "Period". She get into a fight with a famous radio DJ Rong, after failing to get back the vinyl record she has bought for her first boyfriend and Rong told everyone in his radio talk. 

Yue and Rong met in a party, and after discover each other identity, Yue angrily splash Rong with red wine. The war has been declared, both attacking each other with their own media. In another hand, Cat & Mou's fate link together because of an adopted dog...

L² Scored: 2.5/10

L² Comment:

Seriously, this movie is not good at all. Not only there's no main point in this movie which lead to no excitement part at all, it ends badly as well. Think this movie only selling point are Aaron Kwok and Kelly Chen...

The Romancing Star 2 精裝追女仔2

Released Year: 1988

Directed by 王晶 Wang Jing

Casted by:

馮粹帆 Stanley Fung as 劉定堅 Ken

陳百祥 Natalis Chan as 交通燈 Tony

曾志偉 Eric Tsang as 吳準少 Silver

 劉德華 Andy Lau as 劉備 Pei

黃韻詩 Wong Wan Sze as 十三妹 Mui

李美鳳 Elizabeth Lee as 程寶珠 Choo

劉嘉玲 Carina Lau as 芳芳 Fong

顏寧 Ngan Ngin as 家燕 Yin

盧海鵬 Lo Hoi Pang as 老周 Chow

王晶Wong Jing as 西門慶 Simon

 Story: 

After Fred left, the car workshop is getting less business, Tony & Silver decided to become actors while Ken become their manager. They work for Chow TV which is a low cost station with Ken's nephew Pei as a production manager. They managed to use Ken to tackle Mui and get Mui's new stars (Choo, Fong & Yin) to be in their TV station as well. All these are to beat down another TV station which is incharge by the evil Simon.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment: 

The sequence is very good as well comparing to the first movie. One thing is, I never realize Elizabeth Lee is much more famous than Carina Lau during that time. Elizabeth joined the industry in 1987 after winning the runner up in Ms HongKong while Carina has been in the industry since 1982... But of course as time goes by, Carina's acting skill is much more better than Elizabeth; while Elizabeth is marry with a rich man now? Who is more success now? In terms of carrier of course is Carina, but in terms of life & marriage, hands down to Elizabeth :)

Men Suddenly in Black 大丈夫

 Released Year: 2003

Directed by 彭浩翔 Pang Ho Cheung

Casted by:

曾志偉 Eric Tsang as 郭天佑 Yau

陳小春 Jordan Chan as 李永祥 Xiang

杜汶澤 Chapman To as 徐嬌 Tsui

賈宗超 Spirit Blue as 洪國波 Paul

毛舜筠 Teresa Mo as 張秀賢 Carrie

盧巧音 Candy Lo as 芳 Anna

原子鏸 Marsha Yuan as 綺貞 Ching

李蘢怡 Tiffany Lee as 鳳 Feng

 Story: 

4 men lead by Yau, with Dr Xiang, Tsui and Paul (a young boy who looking forward to break his virginity), they all found a chance to gather together when their wives (Carrie, Anna, Ching) & girlfriend (Feng) are on their way to Thailand. But their operation of playing around lead to a lot of bad lucks and comedies, and in the end total failure! 

 L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

At first I found this movie is kinda stupid but yet funny as well~ They acted as if they are ICAC or CID like that, make the comedy a bit tense and few times it make me burst into laughter... Well, that was how i feel when i watch it during the first time, but as I rewatch this movie now, it did not really give me that feeling anymore... 

A good comedy movie should be able to create the same feeling no matter how many times you watch it right? Haha, i didn't mean to sound like a pro here, but i hope i am :p I'm still looking for the sequence of this movie, anybody got it?

The Romancing Star 精裝追女仔

 Releasing Year: 1987

Directed by 王晶 Wang Jing

Casted by:

 周潤發 Chow Yun Fat as 王日發 Fred

馮淬帆 Stanley Fung as 劉定堅 Ken

陳百祥 Natalis Chan as 交通燈 Tony

曾志偉 Eric Tsang as 吳準少 Silver

張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 董曼玉 Maggie

蔣麗萍 Agnes Cheung as 利文芝 / 蚊滋 Agnes

翁世傑 Stuart Ong as 趙定先 Chiu Ting Sin

張敏 Sharla Cheung as 刁敏 Man

鄭裕玲 Dodo Cheng as 蘇絲 Susan

關秀媚 Suki Kwan as 細珠 Chu

 Story: 

Fred who's foul-mouthed, works in garage together with his two close buddies: Tony and Silver. The boss of the garage, Ken puts his friendship with the three in priority, ultimately, despite his harsh, picky and dingy personality. Both Tony and Silver couldn't put up with Fred's girlfriend's snobbish mother, they caused trouble on the occasion of her birthday banquet and make Fred breakup with his girlfriend. In order to recover the heartbreak of Fred, Ken decided cheer up Fred by joining a tour to Penang, where they came across two beautiful girls, Maggie and Agnes, strolling leisurely on the beach as if they were very wealthy. Since then they decided on courtship. They played a poker game to decide who’s to who. And Fred, the winner, chose Maggie to be his sole target. By the rules of the game, Ken, Silver and Tony have to compete to see who in the ends will win the heart of Agnes.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment: 

Another classic series movie - The Romancing Stars casted by many famous celebrities :) Surely everyone love to watch this movie back in the old time or even anytime when it is shows again in the tv... Stanley Fung never failed to makes me laugh so as Eric Tsang... Chow Yun Fat is a bit dull in this movie so as Natalis compare to the 2 others... But i was glad to see so many actresses appeared in this classic movie :) yeah~ 

Lucky Star 2015 吉星高照2015

 Released Year: 2015

Directed by 晴朗 Ching Long

Casted by:

王祖蓝 Wong Zho Lam as 王祖藍 Lam

温超 Wen Chao as 溫超 Chao

陈嘉桦 Ella Chen as 王祖紅 Hong

陈静 Dada Chen as 白碧碧 Bibi

曾志伟 Eric Tsang as 老豆 Chao's father

苑琼丹 Kingdom Yuen as 碧媽 Bibi's mother

元秋 Yuen Qiu as 飄紅姐 Piao

 Story:

Lam has a superstar girlfriend, Bibi. He always wanted to do something big to prove to Bibi's mother that he also can be success. By tricking Chao (a guy who sounds like Stephen Chow) to Hong Kong as his replacement comedian, Lam managed to get Piao to become his main sponsor on opening a movie which can let Bibi become the main actress in his movie. But thing does not came as what Lam thought and might even be worst...

  L² Scored: 3/10

L² Comment:

This movie has been receiving a lot of negative feedback from the Hong Kong audience and Stephen Chow's fans. Nobody likes Wen Chao to portrait the super comedian Stephen Chow. To be honest, its not bad in the beginning, but as the movie goes on, it started to get irritated a bit and even started to be boring. Luckily Kingdom Yuen is in here, even though she's not doing the comedy part, but her acting is never doubt to be bad :) always love and support her~

Monster Hunt 捉妖記

 Released Year: 2015

Directed by 許誠毅 Raman Hui

Casted by:

井柏然 Jing Bo Ran as 宋天蔭 Song Tian Yin

白百何 Bai Bai He as 霍小嵐 Huo Xiao Lan

曾志偉 Eric Tsang as 竹高 Zhu Gao

吳君如 Sandra Ng as 胖瑩 Fei Ying

姜武 Jiang Wu as 羅鋼 Luo Gang

鍾漢良 Wallace Chung as 葛千户 Ge Qian Wu

 Story:

The film takes place in the distant past, where the Human race existed alongside the Monster race. They once shared the world in peace and harmony until the Humans drove the Monsters out from their lands, for they sought total dominion over their lands. Recently, a civil war took place in the Monster Realm which resulted in the usurpation of the Monster King's throne from a treacherous minister, who later sought the Monster Queen and her unborn baby, and the Monster Queen fled to the Human Realm. The story begins with Song Tianyin, an unnerved young village mayor who becomes pregnant with the Monster Queen's baby, and he encounters an aspiring Monster-hunter named Hua Xiaolan, and they both embarks on an adventure to protect the baby from villains of the Human and Monster worlds alike. 

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

When I saw the thriller and the making of this movies previously, it really does attracted me to watch it... But if I'm not mistaken, it did not shown in Malaysia; but when I happen to watch it yesterday... the excitement came back... However, the movie is not as good as the thriller, so i decided to score it only 7/10 which i think i'm being a bit generous on this :) Thanks to Eric Tsang & Sandra Ng pls~

The Age of Miracles 嫲嫲·帆帆

 Released Year: 1996

Directed by 陈可辛 Peter Chan

Casted by:

袁咏仪 Anita Yuen as 林美勤 Kan

谭咏麟 Alan Tam as 常帆 Fan

杜丽莎 Teresa Carpio as 常满 Moon

陈小春 Jordan Chan as 常春 Chun

伍咏薇 Christine Ng as 阿薇 May

曾志伟 Eric Tsang as 伟叔 Wai

乔宏 Qiao Hong as 白衣公公 Death God

陈慧琳 Kelly Chen as 女警 Police

 Story:

The movie talks about Kan who lost her husband and almost lost her first son, Fan, whom drown. She beg the death god and use her own 10 years in exchange her son's life. Among the years, Kan did not live happily but as a grumpy old lady. She foreseen her eldest daughter Moon is coming back which hints that this will be the end of her life.

Hearing that Moon & Fan decided to left her alone after they migrated, Kan left home without informing anybody. During her trip at the hill, she met death god and fell off from the cliff together. She begs to extend her life, death god agreed and left. Kan happily went home and agreed Fan to migrate with his wife, May to America. But Fan later realize Kan has already met the accident few days ago, just that her eager to live makes her came back.

During Moon's giving birth, Kan saw death god again. Kan has the final talk with Fan and tell him to stay strong even after she gone... 

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

First time ever Anita Yuen acted as an elder character, a good challenge for her during that time. Though not bad, but she can be better if she is given a new chance now. It was sad when i watch it many years ago, now i feel very touching after rewatch it almost 20 years later... I miss my parents :(