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.

Love You You 夏日乐悠悠

 Released Year: 2011

Directed by 馬楚成 Jingle Ma

 

Casted by:

 彭于晏 Eddie Yu as 遊樂樂 LeLe
杨颖 Angelababy as 夏米 XiaMi
朱雨辰 Zhu YuChen as 郝常 Chang
周扬 Zhou Yang as 苏菲亚 Sophia

 Story:

XiaMi is given a mission by JK to check on LeLe, she went her way to this beautiful island which is handled by LeLe and become his staff for these days. Misunderstanding happened and so do some romantic story in the island.

 

In the end XiaMi realize JK is using her to attack LeLe (JK's stepbrother) to win over the island, XiaMi let go of her dignity and tell the whole world about her flaws. One Year later in Beijing, XiaMi met Sophia who invited her back to YouYou Island  for her one year anniversary with Chang. At there, both XiaMi & LeLe met and they never let go of each other every again.

 L² Scored: 5/10

 

L² Comment:

Even though Jingle tried his best to create another love story after being rejected by Sammi & Ritchie for acting into this, Eddie Yu & Angelababy didn't really helps. Well, who ask Sammi to give such a deep impression to the audience on the previous movie? Sammi good job :)



The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake 竞雄女侠·秋瑾

 Released Year: 2011

Directed by 邱礼涛 Herman Yao

Casted by:

黄奕 Crystal Huang as 秋瑾 Qiu Jin

杜宇航 Du Yu Hang as 徐锡麟 Xu Xi Lin
黄秋生 Anthony Wong as 李钟岳 Yue
郑嘉颖 Kevin Cheng as 王廷钧 Jun
夏文汐 Patricia Ha as 吴芝瑛 Ying   

 Story:

Life of Qiu Jin begins in a rich family and she was married to Jun who is also rich, but she decided to went over to Japan and learn about the woman's right. She came back and fought for it and helped Lin on a revolutionary. But in the end she was arrested and chopped off her head. 

  L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

Crystal Huang still not my fav actress after i watched her bullshit comedy. Though this is a serious movie and she's quite good, but it did not change my impression of her :P Overall the movie is quite good to talk about Qiu Jin's legendary, but some parts are a bit boring...

1911 Revolutionary 辛亥革命

Released Year: 2011

Directed by 成龍 Jackie Chan & 张黎 Zhang Li

Casted by:

成龙 Jackie Chan as 黄兴 Xing         
赵文瑄 Winston Cho as 孙中山 Sun Yat Sen
李冰冰 Bing Bing Lee as 徐宗汉 Han     
孙淳 Sun Chun as 袁世凯 Yuen Sai Hoi         
房祖名 Jaycee Chan as 张振武 Wu     
胡歌 Hu Ge as 林觉民 Min

 Story:

 The war of Sun Yat Sen join force with Wong Xing to do a revolutionary for China in year of 1911

L² Scored: 2/10

L² Comment:

Seriously war movie is definitely not my type of movie, but as a movie blogger, i watched it for the sake of writing it... but i fell asleep multiples time...

Choy Lee Fut 蔡李佛

 Released Year: 2011

Directed by 羅惠德 Lo Wai De & 黃明升 Wong Min Sheng

Casted by:

洪天照 Sammy Hung as 陳偉業 Yip

小杉健 Kane Kosugi as 武田少佐 Saka

元華 Yuen Wah as Uncle

黃嘉樂 Wong Kar Lok as 左長空 Kong

劉永健 Sammy Lau as Senior

王佳音 Wang Jia Yin as 夏羽飛 Fei

洪金寶 Sammo Hung as 陈天来 Lai

 Story:

Yip went back from USA with his best friend Saka to the martial arts stadium Choy Lee Fut. His father Lai is not in while Fei represent the big company to take over Choy Lee Fut. Yip refused and they decided to call for a martial arts competition.

Yip, Saka & senior fought with Kong and his team. The first fight, senior lost while Saka won the second fight. During the third fight, Yip managed to defeat Kong and won. Beside that he also won the heart of Fei. 

 L² Scored: 4/10

L² Comment:

I thought this is a nice martial arts movie since Sammo is filming this with his youngest son Sammy. But this is very dissapointed as the fights are like girl fighting. There is no strength and no power. It is good that Wong Kar Lok managed to get into the big screen, but he looks so soft and not even muscular enough to be the head of a team. He is kinda sissy as well~ :( haiz...

Magic to Win 開心魔法

 Released Year: 2011

Directed by 叶伟信 Wilson Yip

Casted by:

黃百鳴 Raymond Wong as 康森貴 Professor Kang

吳千語 Karena Wu as 程美斯 Macy

吳尊 Wu Chun as 凌楓 Fung

吳京 Wu Jing as 畢野武 Wu

閆妮 Yan Nee as 柏格斯大學女排教練 Coach
古天樂 Louis Koo as 古新月 Yue

 Story:

The world constitutes of five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. In the wizard world of Magic to Win, the story also revolves around the "Five Element Wizardry", portraying a story that surpasses our imagination. Hong Sum-Kwai, a university professor, is also the wizard of water of "Five Elements Wizardry". Although he uses magic spells in his daily life, his superpower remains a secret. By accident, his power is transmitted to his student, Macy, and finds herself entangled in the power struggle of the 5 elements.

 L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

When they film this movie, it stated clearly that this will be the 6th movie of the "Happy Ghost" series, but it is so different from the original 5 movies, Raymond Wong is no more the happy ghost, then what point stating this as the "Happy Ghost" series?

Back to the storyline, it is a bit childish and very predictable. The only excellent part is when Wu Jing fought with Wu Chun, the rest is just so so...

A Beautiful Life 不再讓你孤單

 Released Year: 2011

Directed by 劉偉強 Andrew Lau

Casted by:

刘烨 Liu Ye as 方镇东 Dong

舒淇 Shu Qi as 李佩如 Ru

田亮 Tian Liang as 方镇聪 Chong

 Story:

Ru is a working Hong Kong lady who try to achieve something in Beijing. She met Dong who is a police officer when she was drunk. Dong was attracted by her weird behavior when she ask him to cook dumpling for her and her secret lover who happened to be her boss. After a several meet up, Dong knew Ru better and started to fall in love with her.

Ru also spend her time when she met Chong, Dong's brother who fall in love with a girl that can't talk. Ru pity her own life and discover her boss was betraying her by leaving her with her best friend. She decided to strike a new carrier in Beijing, Dong help her by spending all his money for her but in the end the business failed. Dong discover himself from an illness and force to leave the police job and hide away from Ru. Ru went back to Hong Kong but was called back by Dong's friend to Beijing to look for him.

Ru found Dong in Beijing and seems like he suffer from "forgotness" and don't remember his memory that well. Ru stay with Dong and happily together. But once incident, Dong lost himself in the rail station, but he managed to meet back Ru and Ru told him she is pregnant. Chong is worried about Dong and followed him on the road but ends up met an accident. Dong wanted to work back as a policeman but not success. Ru gave birth to their new born, the whole family live together until Dong was shot by a thieve. Luckily he survived and they live happily ever after...

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Liu Ye still the best China actor that i admired, his acting is no doubt in this movie. Shu Qi is not bad but acting as a HongKies? Not good enough for her. The love story between this 2 characters are sad, it make me feel bad watching the whole movie. A good work from Andrew Lau i should say :)

Love for Life 最愛 2011

 Released Year: 2011

Directed by 顧長衛 Chang-Wei Gu

Casted by:

郭富城 Aaron Kwok as 趙得意 Yi

章子怡 ZiYi Zhang as 琴琴 Qin

Story:

A happy village become dull after AIDS infected the villagers. Yi was in love with Qin who is engaged but affected by AIDS. Both of them make love at the railway but was caught by Qin's fiancee. In the end, Yi took care of Qin when she is sicked.

 L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

I don't really understand what they are talking in this film because the way they speak. Wonderfully, Aaron Kwok spoke like them and acted like them, a nice thing to be praised of... But the whole film is kinda boring the slow pace really make me sleepy.... zzzz

Treasure Hunt 无价之宝

 Released Year: 2011

Directed by 王晶Wang Jing & 姜国民 Jiang Guo Min

Casted by:

张柏芝 Cecilia Cheung as 江慧妮 Winnie

郑中基 Ronald Cheng as 高大龙 Long

邵兵 Shao Bing 阿星 Xing 

王晶 Wang Jing as 何能威 Wei

 Story:

 An advertisement director Winnie is willing to shoot the advertisement for Long just because she will get sponsor to shoot her own children movie. But leaving her husband and son alone make her miserable. Winnie and the crew went to the island which the pirates are aiming. Long is not really a martial arts actor but only know how to show off, luckily he was save by Xing who stay in the island together with his son. The pirates attacked but luckily all of them managed to defeat them with Xing's help. Finally the advertisement is shot and Winnie went back to see her love one.

 L² Scored: 1.5/10

L² Comment:

Though its a welcome movie for Cecilia Cheung to join back the entertainment of HK movie industrial, but her acting is still the same, a bit too much exaggerated... And what i hate the most is, the overall storyline together with the "not-funny-at-all" stupid jokes...yawn!!!

My Kingdom 大武生

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 高曉松 Gao Xiao Song

Casted by:
吳尊 Wu Chun as 關一龍 Long
韓庚 Hankyung as 孟二奎 Gui
徐熙媛 Barbie Hsu as 席木蘭 Lan
劉謙 Liu Qian as 盧局長 Officer Lu
于榮光 Yu Rong Guang as 岳江天 Tian
元彪 Yuan Biao as 余勝英 Ying
伊能靜 Annie Yi as 馮姨太 Mrs Feng
Story:

Ying rescued Gui from being kill and Gui become his apprentice together with Long. Ying was also crowned as the best actor in the chinese opera. But Ying face a challenged from Tian, Ying loss and forced to leave the chinese opera. 20 years later, Long and Gui has learned enough and went to Shanghai to defeat Tian.

Tian is still the best actor in the chinese opera and decided to marry his apprentice Lan. Long and Gui challenge Tian and Tian loss on the stage in front of the audience. Tian cannot accept the humiliation and suicide on the stage. Long and Gui become the best actor in Shanghai and they live in a fancy world. Long even get to tackle Mrs Feng who is the wife of a gangster.

Gui decided to left the chinese opera team and make his revenge, he has assassinate 3 sons of his rival and left one who he didn't found. Once when Long is having affair with Mrs Feng, he was almost caught but Lan safe him. By killing the 4th son, Long save Gui from getting into trouble and found out he was the son of the 4th dead guy. Gui came to fight with Long and defeated Long by breaking his leg. Gui fall in love with Lan and have sex with her after a fight. But actually all this is plan by Lan to take revenge for Tian. Gui fell into the trap and was poison to be mute.

Lan left, Gui found Long and both of them decided to go back to Beijing and start their life again.

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

To be honest, the storyline is kinda so so. But the martial arts and the fighting scene is great. Yuan Biao just appeared in a few scene but its enough to show off his great martial arts to us :) Comparing Wuchun and Hankyung, Wuchun seems to be a bit sissy when comes to action. No offense, but Hankyung can move better than him and seems to be more manly than this pretty boy Wuchun.

Overall the movie is still ok, the costume and action is good. As for Barbie, she's not bad too in this movie, but she definitely needs more hard work in acting if she wanted to win some awards in this field.

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 龍門飛甲

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 徐克 Tsui Hark

Casted by:
李連杰 Jet Li as 趙淮安 Huai
周迅 Zhou Xun as 凌雁秋 Qiu
陳坤 Chen Kun as 雨化田 Yu & 风里刀 Dao
李宇春YuChun Li as 顾少棠 Tang
桂綸鎂LunMei Kwai as 鞑靼首领 Tribal princess
范曉萱 Mavis Fan as 素慧容 Rong
樊少皇 Louis Fan as 馬進良 Liang
Story:

The story begins after the East Bureau was defeated by Huai and his gang, the leader of West Bureau Yu took over the job and try to vanish Huai's gang. Yu was actually an eunuch who managed to be the blue eyes boys of the emperor's concubine.

Huai discover someone who portrait him to save a lot of people including Rong who ran out from the palace after discover she is pregnant. Rong was running away from the capture of the West Bureau and was save by a guy who call himself as Huai. Apparently, this is Qiu who dress up like a guy and try to attract Huai's attention and force him to meet her. Qiu and Huai was actually having a love affair when they met in Dragon Inn few years back.

At the dragon Inn, a gang of people appear, one of them (Dao) look like Yu. Tang and the tribal princess is aiming to get the ultimate treasure in the dessert. At the same time, Qiu bring along Rong to hide underneath the Dragon Inn and have a fight with the gang. Qiu was hurt by Tang's weapon and finally Huai appear to see her. Huai requested Rong to help him to act to distract Qiu and let her go off but they failed.Finally they come to a deal to trick over the West Bureau who's coming to attack soon. Dao pretend to be Yu and order the West Bureau to go further away from the Dragon Inn. But Yu was back and the war finally begin. Huai challenged Yu to fought with him in the sandstorm.

The sandstorm has exposed the palace under the dessert. The gang went into there and discovered Yu & Huai fainted in there. After both of them awake, all of them agree to get all the treasure out after Yu defeat Tang. Qiu, Tribal Princess, Dao & Rong moved the treasure out but Rong suddenly use a knife to stab Qiu and ran back inside the palace. The rest were shocked that Rong know martial arts but were unable to ran back in because Rong has set traps to block their way. They moved the treasure up the roof of the palace and try to save Huai & Tang from above.
Another sandstorm is coming bu after a harsh fight, Yu & Rong was defeated while Huai feel unconscious.

When Huai woke up, Qiu was gone. Huai ride along a horse and try to win Qiu back again.

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

Hmmm, how would i comment on this? Of course i love Tsui Hark's movie and Jet Li, but this is not really as good as i thought, or maybe i have too high expectation on it? The whole movie is related to the one which have been shoot earlier on at 1992 "New Dragon Inn". This is the part which make me loss my direction of the movie...

Beside the storyline, the actors & actresses are not bad especially Yu Chun Li in this movie. she look so marvelous in this movie, and her character martial's is the best among the rest.