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....

Due West: Our Sex Journey 一路向西

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by 胡耀辉 Wu Yao Hui

Casted by:

張建聲 Justin Cheong as 向西 Frankie

王宗堯 Gregory Wong as 王靜 Jing

郭穎兒 Celia Kwok as Zeta

莫綺雯 Mok Yi Wen as Zoey

王李丹妮 Daniella Wang as 小思 Si

 Story: 

Frankie was young and masturbate by watching a CD he borrow from Jing. His parents are back and in the end funny things happened and from that onwards, his mother let him have more freedom as an adult. Frankie thought he was having sex with his lovable Si, but it was the tomboy actually, feeling humiliated, he decided to study in England and left everything behind. He got a hot girlfirend Margaret but due to the culture difference, he came back to Hong Kong.

After came back, he met Zeta who later on become his girlfriend. Zeta is very hygienic and never allow Frankie to lick her nipples or do any oral sex for him. Feeling frustrated, Frankie met Jing again and Jing brought him to China and look for hooker. There he met a 36F hooker Si who make love wildly with him. But Si can never be his, and Frankie went back to Zeta... But after that, he needs to on and off went back to China because he is addicted to hooker Si.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

Super super love this HK erotic movie, very nice and seriously Daniella's 36F is so damn beautiful, legendary Amy Yip might loss to her as well. Beside this, Justin Cheong is damn cute, but i hope he can show us more of himself instead of just his ass :p  

Love in the Buff 春嬌與志明

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by 彭浩翔 Pang Ho Cheung

Casted by:

楊千嬅 Miriam Yeung as 余春嬌 Cherie

余文樂 Shawn Yue as 張志明 Jimmy

楊冪 Mini Yang as 尚優優 You You

徐崢 Xu Zheng as Sam

 Story: 

Five months after the events in Love in a Puff, Jimmy and Cherie face more difficulties in their romantic relationship as they split up and both individually end up in Beijing as they follow their jobs to China’s capital city, and both begin new relationships there. But despite their best efforts they can’t seem to keep away from each other.

Jimmy dated You You, a cabin crew while Cherie met the rich KL guy, Sam. Both of them experienced the life without each other but still remember each other deeply. Soon, both give up their new lover and get back to each other again...

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

A comedy romance sequel from "Love in a Puff", it was showed in the HK blockbuster after 2 years from the first movie. I still love the romance between the 2 of them, this time it spice up by adding 2 love rivals in their love story. And the funniest part of course is Shawn Yue pretended to be Linda Wong and sang her famous song 别问我是谁.

CZ12 十二生肖

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by 成龙 Jackie Chan

Casted by:

成龍 Jackie Chan as JC
姚星彤 Yao Xing Tong as CoCo
權相佑 Kwon Sang Woo as Simon
張藍心 Zhang Lan Xin as Bonnie
廖凡 Liao Fan as David
Laura Weissbecker as Katherine

 Story:

The movie begins by a man telling the story of the Old Summer Palace and how it was looted in the 1800s by the British in the Second opium war. Among the treasures are bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals.

In the present day, the bronze heads are auctioned for over a million euros each. The main company supplying the bronze heads and other stolen relics is MP Corporation. JC, is tasked by MP Corp to find the remaining lost bronze heads, with a promise of a 10 times bonus if he can recover all of them. JC visits a man named Professor Guan, who had created 12 identical replicas for study purposes with his team of researchers, under the pretense that he is a reporter named Martin from National Geographic. When left alone, JC scans the multiple bronze Zodiac animal heads using special gloves so that his secret organisation can replicate an extremely realistic model of them. After scanning, he goes to Paris to find a woman named Coco, recommended by Professor Guan, for more information on the whereabouts of two bronze heads.

JC, along with his partners Simon, David, and Bonnie, infiltrate a mansion to find two of the bronze heads. JC manages to decode the password to a top secret vault and finds two bronze heads, a painting called "The Roses", along with many other valuable national treasures thought to be lost inside. JC's cover was soon busted but managed to evade capture with all the valuables, but is spotted by Coco. Having no time to explain himself, he tells Coco to meet him at a boat house while fleeing from the mansion's security. At the boat house, Martin tells Coco that he is working for a secret corporation that is trying to recover all the lost relics for China. The guards from the mansion storm the boat house and try to attack JC. However, the police are called in and arrest all of them. JC, Coco and Simon are cleared of any wrongdoing and are released.

Coco, JC and his team are invited to a castle owned by a lady named Katherine (Laura Weissbecker). Unknown to them, the guards from the mansion continue to tail them out of suspicion. It turns out the captain of the "Indestructible", one of the ships involved in the destruction of the Old Summer Place and taking away the treasures, is Katherine's great-grandfather. This upsets Coco, who confronts Katherine on the issue. JC and his team find many valuable treasures in the castle, including the Bronze head of the Rooster, and hatch a series of plans to ferry them out. JC promises Katherine that he will help her locate her great grandfather's remains.

The next day, they venture out in search of the Indestructible's treasures, located on a seemingly uninhabited island. JC instructs Coco and Katherine to stay behind while his team explore the island. However, Coco and Katherine disobey JC's orders to look for Katherine's great grandfather's corpse on their own. They get entangled among the vines and this forces JC to rescue them. The group accidentally discovers the remains of the Indestructible, several more bronze heads and a large quantity of gold (plus the remains of Katherine's great-grandfather.) As they prepare to leave with all the artifacts, they are confronted by the guards from the mansion. In turn, the island's local inhabitants, a group of pirates, appear and promptly capture all of them. JC and his team fight their way through to escape the island via a log set up with a pulley system, leaving the five guards with the pirates.

Back on the yacht, Coco accidentally discovers the real motive of JC's ventures and confronts him. Subsequently, the log carrying approximately eight tonnes of gold and the corpse of Katherine's great-grandpa sinks due to the heavy weight of the gold and the corpse, and all the log's contents are lost. Nevertheless, JC and his team still get rewarded for recovering some of the lost bronze heads. The group is enraged when they find out that the supposedly-missing dragon bronze head was already at the hands of MP Corp all along, thereby making it impossible to claim the large bonus. Meanwhile, Coco and her fellow students' protests over the sale of the national treasures escalated quickly to grab worldwide attention. As Coco's students try to find out more about MP Corp, three of them, including Coco's younger brother, are captured. Coco approaches JC for help but JC seems nonchalant.

JC contacts MP Corp on the availability of "The Roses" artefact and is allowed into the secret premises. Having toured the entire factory, where almost exact duplicates of the relics are made to be sold as real relics in auctions, JC deduces the location of the captives. He challenges a long time rival who happens to be there as well – the unscrupulous treasure hunter, Vulture, to a fight but it ends in a stalemate. JC bargains with MP Corp to sell "The Roses" painting at a reduced price and secures the release of the three hostages. When MP Corp refuses, JC fights his way to the chamber. During the ensuing fight, a furnace explodes due to a guard's baton rupturing one of the pipes. The explosion destroys most of the facility. JC later settles for the release of the three hostages in exchange for the painting and not paying damages done to the premises.

Meanwhile, the dragon bronze head is expected to fetch the highest price in the auction but no one bids for it due to increasing pressure from activist groups. MP Corp, in a bid to teach these groups a lesson, threatens to throw the relic into an active volcano, calling the mission "Let the Dragon Fly," if no bids are received by 12:00 noon the next day. The deadline passes without a single bid and Vulture leads a group of three sky divers to throw the relic into the volcano. JC intervenes and, in the ensuing air-borne struggle, seemingly dies in order to save the relic from dropping into the volcano. As a mark of respect, Vulture hands over the relic to a sprawling JC. MP Corp's owners are arrested on suspicion of counterfeit relics. JC survives and is seen recovering in a hospital and on good terms with everyone, including Vulture. The movie ends off in JC kissing his wife.

  L² Scored: 9/10

L² Comment:

Omg, i have totally forgotten to blog about this movie after i have watched it in the cinema lol~ Rumors said that this will be Jackie Chan's last movie, but is it true? I thought he is preparing for "Police Story 2013"? So, is this some sort of a technique to attract more audience in the cinema? His wife and son even came out in the movie and help out to gain more fame for him.

Overall i love the storyline, though some of his action is a bit predictable, but i still love it. Surprisingly, he is using Kwon Sang Woo in this movie, i mean, i love Kwon, but don't you think he is a bit too famous for that character? But i definitely like Zhang Lan Xin, this girl really got potential and she's very beautiful too~ Overall the whole movie is good, expected to be a bit more better on the comedy part, but well, i couldn't ask much more than this then~ lol

Double Trouble 宝岛双雄

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by 张训玮 Zhang Xun Wei

Casted by:

房祖名 Jaycee Chan as 吳英傑 Jie
夏雨 Xia Yu as 倪大海 Hai
鄧家佳 Jia Jia Teng as 張靜文 Wen

 Story:

Jie is the security guard of Gu Gong in Taiwan, he's very self-center and dislike to work with his co-worker when come to protect the Gu Gong's property. Hai is a tourist from China who happened to bump into Jie when Jie is chasing the 2 females thieves, and caused Jie into trouble.

Finally the 2 worked together and managed to get back the property Gu Gong has lost.

 L² Scored: 2/10

L² Comment:

Even though Zhang Fei is in this movie, but i don't know what the hell he is doing all the time... The whole movie is just so normal and predicted, the fighting scene is lame and Jaycee Chan looks stupid in this movie.

The Viral Factor 逆戰

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by 林超賢 Dante Lam

Casted by:

謝霆鋒 Nicholas Tse as 萬陽 Man Yeung

周杰倫 Jay Chou as 萬飛 Jon Man

林鵬 Lin Peng as 簡麗珊 Rachel

廖啟智 Liu Kai Chi as 萬天 Man Tin

安志傑 Andy On as 王尚恩 Sean

吳嘉龍 Carl Ng as 羅斯 Ross

金燕玲 Elaine Jin as 鳳玲 Fung Ling

 Story:

On a mission to protect a scientist who has stolen a copy of the smallpox virus in Jordan on an International Defence Commission escort mission, Sean betrays his IDC team in order to get the virus so he can mutate it into a biological weapon, develop a vaccine and sell it to a corrupt pharmaceutical company via an arms dealer. The failed mission leaves Jon Man injured and his girlfriend Ice dead. With two weeks to live, he decides to spend his remaining days with his mother who tells him that he has a long lost brother, Man Yeung whom she left behind with his father, Man Tin. Jon decides to track Yeung down in Malaysia but upon arrival, he discovers that Yeung has become a wanted felon and is part of the plot orchestrated by Sean. Jon is drawn into the conflict, not only to protect his family but to ensure his brother does not go further down the road of unrighteousness and to take down Sean's operation for good.

  L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

From the thriller, it really attracted my attention, but the actual first 10 min of the movie make me yawn and almost sleep... Nicholas Tse acted very well in either emotional way and on all fighting scene; Jay in another hand has nothing much to show his talent. Liu Kai Chi still perform all the best he can... Overall the story is ok, but a bit bored...

And btw, i was stuck in a horrible jam when they shoot this film at Pavilion...grrrhhh...

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 :)