Cold War 寒戰

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by 陸劍青 Sunny Luk & 梁樂民Longman Leong

Casted by:

郭富城 Aaron Kwok as 劉傑輝 Sean Lau

梁家輝 Tony Leung as 李文彬 MB Lee

李治廷 Aarif Rahman Lee as 張國標 Billy Cheung

彭于晏 Eddie Peng as 李家俊 Joe Lee

林家棟 Gordon Lim as 鄺智立 Albert Kwong

楊采妮 Charlie Yeung as 梁紫薇 Phoenix Leung

安志杰 Andy On as 石米高 Michael Sek

錢嘉樂 Chin Ka Lok as 徐永基 Vincent Tsui

尹子維 Terence Yin as 杜文 Man Tu

劉德華 Andy Lau as 陸明華 Philip Luk

王敏德 Michael Fitzerald Wong as 曾向榮 York Tsang

 Story:

One midnight, a Hong Kong Police Force Emergency Unit (EU) van carrying advanced equipment and five police officers goes missing. As the police investigate the case, they became aware that the terrorists possess detailed knowledge of the police's procedures and have planned several steps ahead, even possibly breaching the secured police network. As the Commissioner is away, Deputy Commissioner M.B. Lee, plans and leads a rescue operation code-named "Cold War," and declares Hong Kong to go under a state of emergency.

After being repeatedly misled by the terrorists and failing to track them down, fellow Deputy Commissioner Sean Lau believes Lee is acting too rashly, due to one of the five abducted policemen being his own son, Joe Lee. After consulting with superintendent Vincent Tsui and Albert Kwang, who both believe Lee is taking measures too extreme, Lau relieves Lee of his command and assumes command of Operation Cold War.

Lau plans to negotiate with the terrorists while secretly tracking them to their hide-out. The terrorists asks Lau to prepare a ransom equal to the calculated value of the policemen and the EU van. As the police force prepare the cash, the terrorists call again and say they only want roughly half of it, and for Lau to personally deliver the money. At the request of the bank manager, Lau takes only enough for the ransom and have the rest delivered back to the bank. When Lau eventually arrives at the meeting location, he is ordered to stop the car immediately and throw the cash down a bridge, causing a traffic blockage. In the confusion, Lau is attacked by the terrorists, and superintendent Tsui was killed in action in the crossfire. The terrorists escape, while superintendent Kwang notifies Lau that the terrorists simultaneously intercepted the other half of the money that was supposed to be returned to the bank. However, the police force did successfully rescue the missing policemen at a different location.

Lau attempts to question the bank manager, but the manager was then killed by a car bomb. Superintendent Kwang investigates the bombing to track the bombers, but is instead led into a trap and killed with his team. Lau suspects that the terrorists were aided by insiders in the force, but before he can investigate any further, he is arrested by ICAC Officer Billy Cheung, who received leaked information from an anonymous source about Operation Cold War. Lau is interrogated by Cheung, who accuses him of poorly handling the rescue operation, leading to the loss of the ransom money which he secretly took for himself. Lau denies this, and the ICAC fail to find evidence against him. Cheung makes some further investigations and discovers that the police Commissioner will be stepping down in two years, and thus either Lee or Lau will receive a promotion. Lau has the support of the Security Secretary because of his skillful management of the police's finances. On the other hand, Lee rose through the ranks from Constable and has the support of the front-line officers including the CID. Cheung now suspects that Lee is trying to use the failure of Operation Cold War to ruin Lau's chance for promotion.

The ICAC eventually discover, based on forensic evidence, that Joe Lee was the mastermind behind the abduction of the EU van. Lau presents this information to Lee, and reveals that it was Lau himself that leaked information to the ICAC (who has the power to act independent to the police force), in order to borrow their resources to investigate the case, thus not alerting the insider. Lee confronts his son, who reveals that he planned this with other associates from the police force who wanted to see Lee rise to the position of Commissioner. Seeing that Joe is unrepentant and unwilling to reveal anymore, Lee reluctantly shoots and arrest him. The following day, Lee and the current Commissioner announce their plans to retire, nominates Lau as the next Commissioner, and congratulate Lau on his resourcefulness on solving the case.

The film ends with Lau receiving a mysterious phone call from the terrorists, who announces that they have kidnapped his wife, and wants Joe Lee released in return.

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

I'm kinda out on the HK movie lately, its not because that I'm more focus on the Western movie, but HK movie is getting so much disappointing lately. As cold war 2 goes on the big screen this year, everyone is telling me how exciting the movie was, but it is linked with the first movie. So before I even want to watch the second movie, I need to watch this first. But as you know, I'm kinda lazy and in the end the movie was postponed till now lol

Overall the movie is quite ok, but its a bit similar like internal affairs which i feel that HK is totally out of any ideas. Tony Leung definitely delivered his best in this movie, so as Andy Lau even though he just came out as a guess appearance. Aaron Kwok is a bit not so good whenever the scene show of him with Tony Leung together; Charlie is as beautiful as always but seems useless in this movie....

Don't Stop My Crazy Love for You 擋不住的瘋情

 Released Year: 1993

Directed by 韩伟达 Hon Wai Tat

Casted by:

任达华 Simon Yam as 孙志辉 Fai

翁虹 Yvonne Yung as 黄洁怡 Kitty

王敏德 Michael Fitzereld Wong as 查理 Charlie

 Story:

Fai is a computer company manager has been living a double life eccentric personality. During the day in the company's hard work, a woman with money dismissive; night began to try every possible way to be close to their dreams - a popular television presenter Kitty. Fai not only moved opposite the apartment lived with binoculars to monitor their every move, but with a VCR tracking shot, and all the men with iron bars lessons for Kitty rude or tried to approach her. Fai in their own homes plastered with photos of Kitty, a day to watch her videos and in front of dummies dressed as seemingly speak for her music.

By chance, Fai by colleagues know Kitty and her wealthy boyfriend Charlie. Two loving to Fai jealous, and Fai strange eyes let Kitty played a guard. Charlie and Kitty requent side let Fai no longer tolerate, then the two engaged in a masquerade, Fai finally began to take action. As he says, "we are doomed fate", some mixed with pain and bliss of twisted love destined to unfold between Fai and Kitty....

 L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Yvonne Yung looks damn hot in here, and first time ever, both of Yvonne & Simon were in fully naked when they acted this movie and especially the sex scenes. Yvonne is so well in the rape scene, most probably she's enjoying as well? lol

City Hunter 城市獵人

Released Year: 1993

Directed by 王晶 Wang Jing

Casted by:

成龍 Jackie Chan as 孟波 Ryo Saeba

王祖賢 Joey Wong as 惠香 Kaori Makimura

後藤久美子 Kumiko Goto as 今村清子 Shizuko Imumura

邱淑貞 Chingmy Yau as 芽子 Saeko Nogami

黎明 Leon Lai as 高达 Gao Da

Richard Norton as 麥當奴 MacDonald

Gary Daniels as Kim

 Story: 

Ryo Saeba and Kaori Makimura are assigned to locate Shizuko Imumura, the runaway daughter of the CEO of a prominent Japanese newspaper. Kaori leaves in the middle of the search, unhappy with the way Ryo ignores her romantic feelings for him and flirts with other woman. Ryo finds Shizuko at a skateboarding park and a chase ensues, but she escapes in disguise.

Shizuko boards a luxury cruise liner, the Fuji Maru, with the ticket she found in the suit she stole. Kaori also boards the ship with her lustful cousin while Ryo sneaks inside to follow her. A terrorist gang led by Donald Mac have plans to hijack it and take the rich passengers hostage with Police Officer Saeko Nogami and her buxom sidekick in pursuit.

Staying next door from each other, Shizuko overhears Donald's plan. Donald discovers her and sends one of his men to kill her, but she knocks him out and escapes. She then bumps into the ship's first officer, who takes her to the boiler room and reveals himself as a terrorist. When he attempts to silence Shizuko, Ryo, who had been staying there since his encounter with Kaori and her cousin at the swimming pool, saves her. When Donald's gang arrive, the officer is killed in the shootout while Ryo and Shizuko escape into the movie theater, where Game of Death is being shown. To beat two towering opponents, Ryo interprets Bruce Lee's techniques from the film.

At the ship's casino, a party hosted by the captain is interrupted when Donald kills the captain and terrorizes the partygoers, including Saeko and her sidekick. After robbing them of their valuables, he entices the rich patrons into a sadistic card game. A few opponents are quickly disposed of until Kao Ta, a skilled card gamer who uses his cards as shurikens, joins in. When Donald is distracted by seeing Ryo and Shizuko not far away, Ta and Saeko put an end to his game.

Donald's henchman Kim kidnaps Kaori and takes her to his room. When Ryo bursts in, both men fight before Donald and his men interrupt, capturing Ryo in the process. Kaori escapes, bumping into Shizuko, Saeko, and the rest of the main characters. They take down a gay terrorist trying to seduce Kaori's cousin and prepare to save Ryo.

The next day, Ryo is stood before a firing squad. Shizuko, Saeko, and her sidekick interrupt the planned execution, but are forced to separate by Donald's gang. Shizuko uses her gymnastic skills to defeat one henchman, Saeko saves Ta after he runs out of cards in a fight with several terrorists, and her sidekick falls of a ledge and is left unconscious. Ryo goes into the gaming parlor with his hands still tied, but is thrown into a Street Fighter II arcade game by Kim and suffers an electric shock. This causes him to hallucinate and think Kim is Ken from the game. After two failed attempts, Ryo defeats him as Chun-Li.

As a Taiwanese counter terrorism unit, the "Thunderbolts Squad", arrives and take his men out, Donald blows up bombs he had set up all over the ship and takes Kaori hostage at the casino. When Ryo and Saeko arrive, he injures both women and starts a long fight with Ryo. However, Donald is thrown into the stage and dies when he accidentally steps on his remote, setting off the bombs behind the T.V. panels.

Ryo and Kaori find Shizuko and return to her father. He speaks to Ryo privately, seeing him as a future husband to Shizuko. Listening to their conversation, Kaori leaves in anger, unaware that Ryo has declined the man's offer. However, Ryo finds her and tries to apologize with a rose, but then Saeko drives up and flirts with him. He gives her the rose instead and furious, Kaori smashes him through the air with a big hammer. Ryo wakes up in his recurring dream with beautiful women at the swimming pool.

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

A movie based on the famous japanese comic, its very suitable for Jackie Chan to act in this character as in the real person, he is very welcome by the ladies and a lot of the ladies will stick around with him because of his body/flame? The storyline is nice, never expect Joey Wong can be so funny too~ All the ladies are pretty gorgeous except Kumiko Goto, whom i don't understand why she deserve to be one of the pretty girl in this movie~  

Delete My Love - Delete 愛人

 Released Year: 2014

Directed by 叶念琛 Patrick Kong

Casted by:

　王祖蓝 Wong Zho Lam as 苏波荣 So Boring

许冠文 Michael Hui as 马上发 Fatt
王菀之 Ivana Wong as 钟家宝 Bou
方力申 Alex Foong as 华 Dee

Story:

So Boring has a terrible life, living with his mother and sister who is trying to get him to sell off the house and living in a family which is out of care. He also has a girlfriend Bou who has cancer and always worry that she will die in one day soon. So Boring has a boss Fatt who is always finding chances to cut his salary and ignore about his talent.

Just when he feel miserable about his life, he received a message saying that he can delete whoever he dislike in the world. First, he deleted his boss Fatt and get a good boss replaced. The new boss allowed them to have fun and don't need to work; So Boring then deleted his mother and sister and replaced a nice family out of them; Best friend Dee was also replaced by him and a nice guy appeared to be his new buddy.

When So Boring found out Bou has her cancer on final stage, he wanted to marry her. But then the mispresent message by the doctor cause So Boring to be annoyed with Bou and she was deleted too and replace with a girl that have big boobs. 

One fine day, So Boring found out the company is making big loss and the nice boss instructed him to fire his colleagues. He cried and swear that he rather not be a boss forever to have a good boss again then Fatt appeared. Fatt told him his previous experience about the same thing happened to him before. So Boring then was attacked by his family and new girlfriend while his new buddy mentioned that he is gay and fall in love with him. Both Boring and Fatt look for the old computer to find the solution. In the end, they realize sacrificing their life can change everything back in order and so they did.

All the things were back in normal and So Boring is happy with his life again.

L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

This movie doesn't really have a main focus, the story was everywhere and kinda messy. Don't really love the way Michael Hui acted right now, he looks kinda dumb with his old style of acting. Luckily Ivana is not that annoying in this movie compare to Sai Sai Lup which i wanna give her a big fat slap on her big fat face ~ 

Nightfall 大追捕

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by 周顯揚 Xian Yang Chow

Casted by:

     張家輝 Nick Cheung as 王遠陽 Yang
任達華 Simon Yam as 林正忠 Zhong

文詠珊 Janice Man as 徐依雲 Yun & 徐雪 Xue

 王敏德 Micheal Fitzereld Wang as 徐翰林 Lam

余安安 Candice Yu as 徐 太 Lam's wife

謝安琪 Kay Tse as 歐陽螢 Yin

 Story:

20 years ago, Yang tried to runaway with Yun and their baby girl Xue, but Lam (Yun's adopt father) killed her because Lam was deeply in love with Yun and does not want to let her go. Lam also created a trap to let the police arrest Yang and believe him as the murderer of Yun's case.

20 years later Yang left the prison and went to see his daughter, he found that Lam been torturing Xue and refuse to let her see any male friend. In a fight, Xue accidentally push Lam and Lam slip and fell off from the balcony. Yang saw this and try to set a trap to let the police (Zhong & Yin) to believe that he is the real killer of Lam. Zhong tried his best to dig out the whole story and finally Yang killed himself from jumping down from a high building. Before he suicide, Yang wrote a letter to Zhong and state out the real story.

L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

This is so cool. Nick Cheung's acting is so good, he freaks me out :) I think he can win an academy award this year for this film, maybe he will be the next Tony Leung too :) The whole storyline is great, the actors & actresses can act well too~ i never expect Janice Man can act that well too, excellent :)

Overheard 竊聽風雲

Released Year: 2009
Directed by 麦兆辉 Alan Mak & 庄文强 Felix Chong

Casted by:
刘青云 Sean Lau as 梁俊义 Jun
古天乐 Louis Koo as 杨真 Yeung
吴彦祖 Daniel Wu as 林一祥 Xiang
方中信 Alex Fong as 李光 Guang
张静初 Zhang Jing-Chu as 任婉儿 Wan
王敏德 Michael Fitzereld Wong as 马志华 Wah
Story:

A team of CID is investigating the crime of money laundering, they used the eavesdrop machine for the investigation. Until one event when Yeung and Xiang heard the tips of getting a "must-raise" shares. Yeung request Xiang to delete the conversation of the criminal so that he can buy the share and earn money for his family as Yeung has cancer. But this was discovered by their senior Jun.

Jun request them to give up, but they continue until the sharemarket has stop the said share to be sell or buy. In the meanwhile, Jun was having an affair with Wan, Guang's ex wife. Jun is not able to face it and promise to help out Guang to plant the ctv in Wan's house. The share was back on market for the next day and they won a lot of money. Three of them kept this as their secret and put the money inside Xiang's house. But on their policeman's dignity, they decided to save someone who is going to be kill by Wah. Wah is the charity businessman who has actually did all the money laundering behind.

Jun, Yeung & Xiang were detected by Wah. Xiang was caught and strangled to death. Yeung's whole family was hit by a lorry and Yeung has lost one leg and one arm. Jun was caught and brought to a escorted place and shot to death. 2 years later, revenge take place. Jun was not dead yet, he went back to arrest Wah with enough evidence. During the way sending wah to police station, Wah realize Yeung is the driver. For his family, Yeung crash the whole car together with Wah inside down the bridge into the deep ocean.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Seriously, the whole movie is good. But i should say that Daniel Wu's acting has spoiled the whole film. He's like a robot!!! Sean Lau is definitely cool, Louis Koo sacrifice his good looking image and wore a old look image. It also let me realize that once you've did something wrong, there's always a way for others to discover it. Scary huh?