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...

Reign Of Assassins 劍雨

Released Year: 2010

Directed by 蘇照彬 Su Zhao-Pin

Casted by:

杨紫琼 Michelle Yeoh as 曾静/细雨(整形后)

Jing/Drizzle (after surgery)

郑宇成 Jung Woo-Sung as 江阿生/张人凤(整形后)

Jiang/Feng (after surgery)

王学圻 Wang XueQi as 转轮王 LunZhuan

徐熙媛 Barbie Hsu as 叶绽青 Qing

余文乐 Shawn Yu as 雷彬 Lei

戴立忍 Leon Dai as 连绳 Sheng 　

林熙蕾 Kelly Lin as 细雨 Drizzle (original)

郭晓冬 Guo Xiaio-Dong as 张人凤 Feng (original)

Story:

In the legend, some said if you can have the whole corpse of a wushu senior dead body, you will able to learn his kungfu and become the best of the best. In the dark side, a group of people lead by LunZhuan is called Black Stone. They decided to get the corpse, which is with Feng's family. Drizzle and Lei & Sheng killed all Feng's family just to get the corpse. But after Drizzle get it, she flee away.

A monk used his life to advise Drizzle about what's right and wrong. Drizzle bored of her life and went for a plastic surgery to change her face. Drizzle name herself Jing and stay in a small village. She met a guy name Jiang who has feeling for her. Both of them quickly fall in love with each other and Jiang marry Jing and both of them stay in the village happily. Until one incident, Jing forced to use her kungfu to save her husband and she was tracked down by the Black Stone.

To replace Drizzle, LunZhuan get a lusty bitch Qing and taught her kungfu. Together with Qing, Lei & Sheng, they went to look for Jing. A fight has make Sheng wanted to get the corpse for himself to heal the wounds. After a terrible fight, LunZhuan killed Sheng. Lei was also wounded seriously and went home before he died.

Qing accused LunZhuan the real reason of getting the corpse. And it seems like LunZhuan is an eunuch and hope the new kungfu can help him to grow back his manhood. Qing decided to leave and pissed off LunZhuan, finally she was killed too.

LunZhuan told Jiang about Jing real background, and surprisingly Jiang was Feng. He was not died in that slaughtering and managed to change a new face for a new life. The two couple fought, Jing used medicine to fake Jiang's death. Jing faced LunZhuan by herself and manage to tackle him down while she too badly hurt. On the next day, Jiang managed to get away the drowsiness of the medicine and save Jing who's almost died.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

This was not my first choise in the cinema during that night, but wow, luckily me and my friends went for it instead :) A movie which not to be missed in this year. Splendid martial kungfu fighting wushu film which took your breath away.

Michelle Yeoh looks so young in this film, definitely have to thanks to the magical make up :) Still love her but kinda weird when its not her original voice in the movie. Barbie definitely show all of us how a bitch should be :) hehe, not bad though, but i believe it will be better if her sister is taking this part~

The whole movie is nice, storyline is good, a bit predictable in the end but still manage to stunt u with all the actions they have in the fighting.

Bodyguards And Assassins 十月圍城

Released Year: 2009
Directed by 陳德森 Teddy Chen

Casted by:
梁家輝 Tony Leung as 陈少白 Bai
王学圻 XueQi-Wang as 李玉堂 Tang
胡军 Hu Jun as 阎孝国 Guo
谢霆锋 Nicholas Tse as 邓四弟 Shi
甄子丹 Donnie Yen as 沈重阳 Yang
王柏杰 PoChieh-Wang as 李重光 Guang
李宇春 YuChun-Li as 方红 Hong
巴特尔 Bateer as 王复明 Ming
黎明 Leon Lai as 刘郁白 Yu
范冰冰 BingBing-Fan as 月茹 Ru
曾志伟 Eric Tsang as 史密夫 Smith
张涵予HanYu-Zhang as 孙中山 Sun YatSen
張學友 Jacky Cheung as 杨衢云 Yun
任达华 Simon Yam as 方天 Tian
周韵 Zhou Yun as 阿纯 Chun
Story:

1906, a year which is very important for China. The time of revolution. Sun Yat Sen is gonna arrive in Guang Dong after his mate of war Yun been killed by Guo. Bai has gathered up everybody to protect Sun Yat Sen on his arrival. Tian is a former army and willing to help, but three days before Sun Yat Sen arrived, he was murdered. To make revenge, Hong the daughter joined force.

Tang is a businessman who support the team of revolution. His son Guang wanted to join forced but was rejected by the father. Tang's concubine, Ru begged Yang, her ex lover to protect Tang when Sun Yat Sen arrived. Guang sneaked out to Bai and willingly to help no matter how the servant Shi try to stop him. Tang eventually has helped Shi to proposed to Chun for a marriage after Sun Yat Sen left, therefore Shi join force too.

Tang has helped the beggar Yu to found his silver fan and he too willing to help for the country. Ming the ex monk also help out to protect. On the say Sun Yat Sen arrived, everyone fought and a lots of them sacrificed. In the end, Guang pretend to be Sun Yat Sen and mislead Guo away so that Sun Yat Sen can escaped safely. But this has cost Guang's life. But finally the revolution has successed.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

A bit regret that I missed out this great film in cinema last year. With a lot of huge casting from Hong Kong and China, and a preparation for more than 10 years, finally the film took place and show us what they have.

Winning a lot of awards including best film, best director for teddy chen, best lead actor for XueQi-Wang, best supporting actor for Nicholas Tse.

And don't miss out the NBA player, a Mongolian Bateer and super pop singer YuChun-Li have presented their first time in the big screen. Even Michelle Reis has came out for the show after her marriage.

The only failure would be Leon Lai. I just feel that his wig is so so weird... and his expression... gosh... how to explain... but simply not the right things... i dun knw why, but he seems like a big failure in all the movie!!!