Four Rooms

 Released Year: 1995

Directed by Allison Anders & Alexandre Rockwell

& Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino

Casted by:

Tim Roth as Ted the Bellhop

"The Missing Ingredient"

Valeria Golino as Athena

Madonna as Elspeth

Alicia Witt as Kiva

Sammi Davis as Jezebel

Lili Taylor as Raven

Ione Skye as Eva

Amanda de Cadenet as Diana

"The Wrong Man"

David Proval as Siegfried

Jennifer Beals as Angela

Lawrence Bender as Long Hair Yuppie Scum

Paul Skemp as Real Theodore

Quinn Thomas Hellerman as Baby Bellhop

"The Misbehavers"

Antonio Banderas as Man

Tamlyn Tomita as Wife

Lana McKissack as Sarah

Danny Verduzco as Juancho

Patricia Vonne as Corpse

Salma Hayek as TV dancing girl

Betty's house

Kathy Griffin as Betty

Marisa Tomei as Margaret

Julie McClean as Left Redhead

Laura Rush as Right Redhead

"The Man from Hollywood"

Quentin Tarantino as Chester Rush

Jennifer Beals as Angela

Paul Calderón as Norman

Bruce Willis as Leo

Kimberly Blair as Hooker

 Story:

The film is set on New Year's Eve, and starts with Sam, the previous bellhop of the Hotel Mon Signor, briefing his replacement, Ted, about the job.

Honeymoon Suite - "The Missing Ingredient"

Written and directed by Allison Anders

Ted assists a number of unusual women with their luggage, which he takes up to the Honeymoon Suite. He learns they are a coven of witches, attempting to create a potion to reverse a spell cast on their goddess, Diana 40 years ago. In order to create the potion, each witch must place an ingredient into a large cauldron in a ritual. However, one of the witches has still to retrieve her ingredient - semen - which she is told she must retrieve in one hour. The witch manages to seduce an initially reluctant Ted and has sex with him in the cauldron. After he leaves, the witches complete the ritual and Diana is seen emerging from the cauldron.

Ted's phone call with the party guest

At the end of the segment, a guest from a hotel room party calls Ted at the front desk to get some ice. He is unsure about which floor the room is on, but eventually directs Ted to room 404.

Room 404 - "The Wrong Man"

Written and directed by Alexandre Rockwell

Upon arriving at room 404, Ted finds himself in the middle of a fantasy hostage situation between a husband and wife. Siegfried, the husband, maniacally accuses Ted (whom he calls Theodore) of having slept with his wife, Angela. At gunpoint, Ted is made to participate in the scenario, with uncertainty about what is real and what is part of the fantasy. At one point, Ted is stuck in the bathroom window and the party guest from the beginning of the episode appears in the window above, uttering the word "ice" and vomiting. Eventually, Ted escapes just as a different party guest appears, looking for room 404 and is greeted by Siegfried in the same manner as Ted was at the beginning of the episode.

Ambiguity of room number

It is not fully clear if these events take place in room 404 or in room 409. The party guests' room is on the above floor, which suggests Siegfried's room is indeed room 404. Adding to this uncertainty, the room door reads "40-", with a faint outline of what appears to be a missing "4" or "9". However, Siegfried answers the phone at one point, which is later revealed to be a call connecting to room 409.

Room 309 - "The Misbehavers"

Written and directed by Robert Rodriguez

A husband and wife go out to a New Year's Eve party and leave their two children, Juancho and Sarah, in the hotel. Ted is paid $500 to keep an eye on the children by the stern father, who orders them not to misbehave. As Ted is responsible for the entire hotel he cannot actually stay in the room with the children, but instead instructs them to stay in the room and watch television. After Ted leaves, the children soon begin to squabble and proceed to both explore and vandalize the room, and manage to explode a bottle of champagne in the process. They call Ted for toothbrushes, at which point he arrives and attempts unsuccessfully to put them to bed by putting ointment on their eyelids. After they wash their eyelids and summon him back to the room once more, Ted arrives at a scene of mass chaos: One painting in the bedroom has a target scribbled on it in lipstick-That Juancho and Sarah use to play darts with the syringe., Juancho has a cigarette in his mouth, Sarah has the bottle of champagne in her hand, the television is set to an adult channel, and the children have found the corpse of a dead prostitute stuffed under the mattress. While Ted tries to quell the chaos in the room, Sarah stabs him in the leg with a syringe when he repeatedly uses the word "whore" and Juancho accidentally sets the bedroom on fire with his cigarette. At this point, the children's father arrives, carrying his passed-out wife, and, looking around the room, asks Ted, "Did they misbehave?"

Ted's phone call with Betty

After the events of room 309, an unsettled Ted calls his boss, Betty, to quit for the night, as his shift has ended. After a prolonged conversation with Margaret, Ted gets Betty on the phone and quits, but a call from the Penthouse comes in. Betty reasons with Ted and convinces him to tend to their needs, due to the importance of continued Hollywood business to the hotel.

Penthouse - "The Man from Hollywood"

Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino

The penthouse is currently being occupied by the famous director Chester Rush and a group of his friends, which includes Angela from The Wrong Man. The party requests a block of wood, a doughnut, a ball of twine, three nails, a club sandwich, a bucket of ice, and an extremely sharp hatchet (Rush specifically requests a hatchet "as sharp as the Devil himself"). After getting acquainted with Chester and his friends, Ted is asked to take part in a challenge: Chester's friend Norman has bet he can light his Zippo cigarette lighter ten times in a row. If he succeeds, Norman will win Chester's car, but if he fails, Norman's pinky will be cut off. Ted is asked to "wield the hatchet" and cut off Norman's pinky, should he fail. Ted initially tries to leave, but Chester persuades him to stay by offering $100 up front and another $1,000 if he performs his assigned role. Norman's lighter fails on the first try, and Ted chops off the finger, sweeps up all the money, and leaves the penthouse. While the credits are rolling, Chester and company are seen frantically getting ready to take a screaming, agonizing Norman to a hospital.

  L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

 I found it quite weird to watch in the beginning of this movie, but as it goes by... it attracts me and yeah~ i totally love this movie. Not only there are tons of superstars in this movie but the humor parts really gets me and i just couldn't take my eyes away from it :)

Sin City

 Released Year: 2005

Directed by Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez

Casted by:

 Bruce Willis as Det. John Hartigan

Nick Stahl as Roark Junior/Yellow Bastard

Jessica Alba as Nancy Callahan
Brittany Murphy as Shellie

Carla Gugino as Lucille

 Elijah Wood as Kevin

 Josh Hartnett as The Salesman

Mickey Rourke as Marv

 Jaime King as Goldie and Wendy

 Clive Owen as Dwight McCarthy

 Rosario Dawson as Gail

 Benicio del Toro as Det. Lt. Jack "Jackie Boy" Rafferty

Devon Aoki as Miho

 Story:

 "The Customer Is Always Right (Part I)"

The Salesman walks onto a penthouse balcony where The Customer looks out over Basin City. He offers her a cigarette and says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save her. The two share a kiss and he shoots her; she dies in his arms. He says he’ll never know what she was running from but that he’ll cash her check in the morning.

"That Yellow Bastard (Part I)"

On the docks of Sin City, aging police officer John Hartigan tries to stop serial child-killer Roark Junior from raping and killing his fourth known victim, eleven-year-old Nancy Callahan. Junior is the son of Senator Roark, who has bribed the police to cover up his son's crimes. Hartigan's corrupt partner, Bob tries to convince Hartigan to walk away. Hartigan knocks him out.

Hartigan heads into the warehouse where Roark Junior is holding Nancy, fighting off the pain caused by his bad heart, as well as several henchmen. Junior shoots Hartigan in the shoulder and tries to escape. Hartigan catches up and shoots off Junior's ear, hand, and genitals. Bob, now recovered, shoots Hartigan in the back. As police backup approaches, Bob leaves and Nancy lies down in Hartigan's lap. Hartigan passes out, reasoning his death is a fair trade for the girl's life.

"The Hard Goodbye"

After a one-night stand, Marv awakens to find Goldie has been killed while he slept. He flees the frame-up as the police arrive, vowing to avenge her death. His parole officer, Lucille, warns him to give up on his mission, believing Marv may have imagined it all due to his "condition." Marv interrogates several informants, working up to a corrupt priest, who reveals that the Roark family was behind the murder. Marv kills the priest after he insults Goldie but is then attacked by a woman who looks like Goldie, which he dismisses as an hallucination.

Marv goes to the Roark family farm and is subdued by the silent stalker who killed Goldie. He awakens in the basement to find Lucille has been captured after looking into his story. She tells Marv that the killer is a cannibal and that Goldie was a prostitute. He learns that the killer's name is Kevin and escapes with Lucille. Lucille is gunned down by the leader of an arriving squad of corrupt cops, who are then killed by Marv, except for the leader, who he interrogates first. Marv finds out that Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark arranged for Goldie's murder.

Marv goes to Old Town, Sin City's prostitute-run red-light district, to learn more about Goldie and is captured by her twin sister, Wendy, who had been stalking him. He eventually convinces her that he is not the killer. She and Marv return to the farm where Marv kills Kevin. He confronts Cardinal Roark, who confesses his part in the murders. Kevin was the cardinal's ward; the two men ate the prostitutes to 'consume their souls'. Marv kills the cardinal but is then shot and captured by his police guards.

Marv is taken to a hospital where cops threaten to kill his mother to get him to confess to killing Roark, Kevin, and their victims. He is sentenced to death in the electric chair. Wendy visits him on death row and thanks him for avenging her sister. Marv is then executed.

"The Big Fat Kill"

Shellie is being harassed by her abusive ex-boyfriend Jackie Boy. Her current boyfriend, Dwight violently warns him to leave Shellie alone. Jackie Boy and his men flee to Old Town. Dwight follows and sees them harass Becky, a young prostitute. Gail, the prostitutes' leader and Dwight's on-and-off lover, also witnesses the scene. When Jackie Boy threatens Becky with a gun, Miho, a martial arts expert, kills Jackie Boy and his friends. They then realize Jackie Boy is actually Detective Lieutenant Jonathan "Iron Jack" Rafferty of the Basin City police, considered a "hero cop" by the press. If the cops were to learn how he died, their truce with the prostitutes would end and the mob would be free to wage war on Old Town.

Dwight takes the bodies to a tar pit, where he is attacked by an ex-IRA mercenary hired by mob boss Wallenquist. He nearly drowns in the tar before Miho saves him. The mercenary runs away in the sewer with Jackie Boy's severed head but Dwight and Miho are able to retrieve it and return to Old Town. Meanwhile, the head mercenary, Manute, kidnaps Gail. Becky has made a deal with the mob and has betrayed the prostitutes. The mob is moving to invade with Manute leading. Dwight trades Jackie Boy’s head in exchange for Gail, but activates an explosive he placed inside the head, destroying it before it can be taken to the cops for evidence. The other prostitutes gun down the mercenaries while an injured Becky escapes.

"That Yellow Bastard (Part II)"

Hartigan is recovering in a hospital when Senator Roark informs him that Junior is in a coma and the Roark legacy is in serious jeopardy. Hartigan will be framed for Junior's crimes; if he tells anyone the truth, they will die. A grateful Nancy promises to write letters every week while he is in prison. Hartigan goes to jail, though he refuses to confess. He receives a weekly letter from Nancy, as promised. After eight years, the letters stop and he receives a severed finger instead. Hartigan confesses to all charges leading to his parole and searches for an adult Nancy, not knowing he is being followed by a deformed, yellow man. He eventually finds her at Kadie's Bar, where she has become an exotic dancer.

He realizes he was set up to lead the yellow man to Nancy and the two escape in Nancy's car. Hiding at a hotel, the deformed man returns, revealing himself as Junior Roark, disfigured by years of surgery to regenerate his body parts. Junior attacks Hartigan and takes Nancy to the Roark farm to finish what he started eight years before. Hartigan follows and fakes a heart attack, giving him a chance to kill Junior. Knowing that Senator Roark will never stop hunting them, Hartigan commits suicide to ensure Nancy's safety. Again, he justifies his life for Nancy's as a fair trade.

"The Customer Is Always Right (Part II)"

An injured Becky departs from a hospital, talking on a cell phone with her mother. In the elevator she encounters The Salesman, dressed as a doctor. He offers her a cigarette, calling her by name, and she abruptly ends the call with her mother.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment: 

Superb! This is superb! Love the black and white concept with red and yellow only flashed out on it. Love the blood and love the killing. Can't wait for the second movie in 2014, i hope it is as good as this one :)  

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

 Released Year: 2013

Directed by Jon M. Chu

Casted by:

Dwayne Johnson as Roadblock (Marvin F. Hinton) 

李炳憲 Byung-hun Lee as Storm Shadow (Thomas Arashikage)

D.J. Cotrona as Flint (Dashiell R. Faireborn)
Adrianne Palicki as Lady Jaye (Jaye Burnett)
Jonathan Pryce as the President of the United States
 Bruce Willis as General Joseph Colton
Ray Park as Snake Eyes
Elodie Yung as Jinx
Channing Tatum as Duke (Conrad S. Hauser)

 Story:

The Joes are framed for stealing nuclear warheads from Pakistan by Zartan who is impersonating the President of the United States. The entire team is eliminated in a military strike, with Duke as one of the casualties. Roadblock, Flint and Lady Jaye are the only survivors.

Meanwhile, Storm Shadow and ex-Joe Firefly rescue Cobra Commander  from an underground maximum-security prison in Germany. Storm Shadow is injured during the escape, and retreats to a temple in the Himalayas to recover. Upon learning that he is alive, the Blind Master, leader of the Arashikage Clan, sends Snake Eyes and his apprentice Jinx, Storm Shadow's cousin, to capture Storm Shadow so he can answer for the murder of his uncle, the Hard Master.

Roadblock, Flint, and Lady Jaye return to the United States where they set up a base of operations in a rundown gym. After Zartan announces that Cobra will replace the Joes as America's main protective unit, Lady Jaye deduces that someone is impersonating the President, and Roadblock leads them to General Joseph Colton, who provides them with weapons and helps them infiltrate a fundraising event that the President will be attending. Lady Jaye steals a sample of the President's DNA and confirms that he is Zartan. They escape after a brief confrontation with Firefly and Zandar, the head of the Presidential Detail and a member of Cobra.

Snake Eyes and Jinx locate and capture Storm Shadow after a battle with ninjas and take him back to Japan, where Storm Shadow reveals that Zartan murdered the Hard Master and he joined Cobra to avenge his uncle. Storm Shadow then accompanies Snake Eyes and Jinx as they join the Joes' efforts to stop Cobra.

Zartan invites the world leaders to a summit, where he blackmails them into disabling their nuclear arsenals, and reveals that he has created Project Zeus: seven orbital kinetic bombardment weapons of mass destruction at his command. He destroys central London to prove his superiority, and threatens to destroy other capitals if the countries don't submit to Cobra. However, Storm Shadow betrays Cobra Commander and kills Zartan, revealing Cobra's deception to the world leaders. While Snake Eyes, Jinx, and Flint fight Cobra's soldiers, Cobra Commander activates the remaining six weapons and instructs Firefly to protect the launch device. Firefly is killed in combat by Roadblock, who deactivates and destroys the orbital weapons. Meanwhile, Colton and Lady Jaye rescue the President.

Cobra Commander escapes during the battle and Storm Shadow disappears after avenging his uncle. The real President addresses the nation at a ceremony where Roadblock, Jaye, Flint, Jinx, and Snake Eyes are commemorated as heroes. Colton thanks each of them, and presents Roadblock with the gun of General Patton, an M1911 pistol, to use when he finally finds Cobra Commander. Roadblock proudly raises the weapon and lets out a single shot.

 L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

Well this movie is definitely not better than it first movie in previous 2009. Of course ByungHun showing off his nice toned body is a yummy yummy things for us, but i just totally lost interest on this movie after Channing Tatum die :( lol, ok, the one scene i love the most is the fighting scene on the snow hill cliff, cool huh? Bet a lot of graphic has been used to beautified the whole scenery of it~

Catch .44

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Aaron Harvey

Casted by:
Malin Åkerman as Tes
Forest Whitaker as Ronny
Bruce Willis as Mel
Deborah Ann Woll as Dawn
Nikki Reed as Kara
Shea Whigham as Billy
Story:

For Tes and her two cohorts Kara and Dawn, the job sounded simple enough: intercept a double-cross drug shipment for their crime boss Mel at an isolated diner. But when an unstoppable chain of events unfolds, everyone soon realizes no one is who they seem and the job may be something other than eliminating the competition. What started as simple instructions has now turned into a deadly cat-and-mouse game - with large guns pointed at everyone.

After Kara and Dawn was shot to death, Tes was in the situation of pointing the gun at Billy while Billy doing the same to her. In the meantime, Deputy Elmore came into the diner and take side on Tes. Deputy Elmore late announced that his real name is Ronny and he safe Tes before when she was working in the strip club, and falling in love with her. Ronny order Tes to shoot Billy or else he will shoot her instead. Tes betrayed and shot Ronny. Tes missed her shot and Ronny shoot Tes & Billy.

Mel came and talk to Ronny, in the end he shot Ronny's head and cause him to die. But out of sudden, Mel realize that Tes is not dead yet and Tes send Mel to hell and run away with the money.

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

This is something new to me, the way they film this movie. It seems that these people have nothing to do with each other, but actually they did. Bruce Willis looks so old in this movie while i think that Ms Akerman is such a hottie :)

RED

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Robert Schwentke

Casted by:
Bruce Willis as Frank Moses
Mary-Louise Parker as Sarah Ross
Morgan Freeman as Joe Matheson
Helen Mirren as Victoria
John Malkovich as Marvin Boggs
Karl Urban as William Cooper
Julian McMahon as Robert Stanton
Ernest Borgnine as Henry, The Records Keeper
Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Dunning
Brian Cox as Ivan Simanov
James Remar as Gabriel Singer
Rebecca Pidgeon as Cynthia Wilkes
Story:

Frank Moses, a former black-ops CIA agent, is now living a quiet life in retirement. However, he begins to feel lonely and often chats on the phone with Sarah, a customer service agent working for Frank's pension office in Kansas City.

His life is disrupted when a hit squad raids his house in the middle of the night. Frank kills the assassins and, knowing they would have tapped his phone, goes to Kansas City to protect Sarah. She becomes Frank's reluctant companion while he tries to find out who is trying to kill him, and track down his old black ops team for help. Meanwhile, CIA agent William Cooper is assigned to hunt and kill Frank.

Frank first goes to New Orleans to find his mentor Joe Black, currently living in a retirement community and terminally ill, who tells him that the hit squad Frank killed were also responsible for the murder of a news reporter. While avoiding Cooper, Frank and Sarah find clues left behind by the deceased reporter, which leads them to a hit list. They then track down Marvin, a paranoid conspiracy theorist, to provide more information. Marvin tells them that the names on the list were all connected to a secret mission in Guatemala that Frank participated in during 1981, and that one name, Gabriel Singer, is still alive. The trio track down Singer, who tells them that the mission involved extracting a person from a village and that everybody on the list have been killed to silence them. Singer is then assassinated by a sniper, and the team makes their escape as Cooper closes in. With the help of Russian secret agent Ivan Simanov, Frank and Sarah infiltrate the CIA headquarters to steal the file but Frank is injured in the process. Joe, having escaped an attempt on his life, helps extract the team and joins them. The team hides out in Victoria's house for first aid. Victoria, who misses her old life as a wetwork agent, joins the team as well.

After reviewing the file, all the team can figure out is that the only man involved not on the list, Alexander Dunning, has some way of protecting himself. The team arrives at Dunning's house, where he reveals under interrogation that the mission was to extract Vice-President Robert Stanton, who at the time was a young lieutenant that experienced a breakdown and massacred the village. It becomes apparent that Stanton is trying to erase all the loose ends as he plans to run for president. At that moment, Cooper and the FBI surround Dunning's mansion. Cooper tries to negotiate Frank's surrender, but Frank tells Cooper about the vice-president's treachery, which shakes his faith. Joe sacrifices himself by taking Frank's place and pretending to give up. An unknown sniper kills Joe as he leaves the mansion, despite Cooper ordering his own men to hold fire. The confusion buys the team enough time to escape, but Sarah is captured. Frank calls Cooper and threatens to kill his family if Sarah is harmed, and that he intends to kill Stanton.

The team, along with Ivan (revealed to be Victoria's former lover), infiltrate Stanton's fundraising gala in Chicago and successfully kidnap him despite Cooper's best efforts to stop them. Frank calls Cooper and says he is willing to trade Stanton for Sarah. At the meeting point, Dunning arrives and reveals that he is the mastermind behind the assassinations and that Stanton was merely a pawn and scapegoat. Cooper's handler, Cynthia Wilkes, is also in on the plot. Disgusted with Dunning and Wilkes' greed and corruption and being used by her and Dunning, Cooper gives Frank the key to his handcuffs and shoots Wilkes while Marvin and Victoria kill Dunning's bodyguards, and Frank crushes Dunning's windpipe. Marvin then shoots his head while he's on the ground. Cooper agrees to let Frank and his team go. As they leave the scene, Frank and Sarah are eager to start a new life together.

The final scene shows Frank and Marvin in Moldova, fleeing from Moldovan Army troops with a stolen nuclear device, in a wooden wheelbarrow with Marvin wearing a dress being pushed by Frank, as part of returning a favor to Ivan for his help.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Love this movie a lot, thanks to Chad for recommending. Love Helen Mirren a lot. This hot mama is still stunning in her age of 65... The way she shoot~ haha, gorgeous. Bruce Willis still my favourite~ love his bald head... And both Karl Urban and Julian McMahon are hot !!!

Like what i told Fable, this is a "must-watch" movie.

Perfect Stranger

Released Year: 2007
Directed by James Foley

Casted by:
Halle Berry as Rowena Price
Bruce Willis as Harrison Hill
Giovanni Ribisi as Miles Haley
Nicki Aycox as Grace Clayton
Story:

Rowena is an aggressive reporter who team up with Miles Haley a researcher as a team to find out real truth story. They were after a secret sexual story of a male senator and his male interns but the story is shut down by the editor. Rowena was pissed off and quit her job. While walking furiously back home, she met her childhood friend, Grace. Grace ask Rowena to help her take down Harrison Hill, a wealthy advertising executive. Grace also gave Rowena her emails to proof the affair she's having with Harrison.

Few days later, Grace was found dead and Rowena suspect Harrison is the murderer. Miles helps Rowena to get a new identification and sneak into Harrison's company as an undercover. Rowena flirt with Harrison in both real life and through online; but at the same time a guy name "trublu" was flirting with with Rowena through online too. One day, while sneaking in Harrison's office to plant in some "hacking" system, Rowena action was found by Harrison. To lie, Rowena make up a stupid excuse and promise to go out for a dinner with Harrison. But a text message from Miles ruined the things.

Harrison is angry with Rowena and shoo her out of the company. Rowena was disapointed and went to visit her mother and while Miles pretend to be a technician to fix Harrison's computer and stole all his data. Rowena in another hand get into Miles' room and discover a shocking things. She saw Grace and Miles' sex photo and Rowena's picture all around the room. Miles came back and admit he likes Rowena and even use the nick "trublu" to flirt with Rowena.

With the evidence, Rowena make the police report and Harrison was arrested for murdering Grace. After Harrison's conviction, Miles visit Rowena and explain that he knows Rowena is the real killer and has been using this investigation to frame Harrison. He wonders what Grace had on her. Rowena flashes back to a memory of her stepfather trying to molest her and her mother has stab the stepfather to death with a fireplace poker. While Rowena and her mother burying the dead body, it was seen by Grace at that time. Rowena has planned all these to kill Grace and blackmail Harrison for the murder.

Miles request for sex to keep him quiet, but Rowena stab him to death and making the whole place in a mess. She called up the police and accuse Miles is disturbing her. She even used Miles hand to scratch a wound out of her and make it as if she's the innocent who has been attacked by Miles.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

I never thought Giovanni Ribisi will be so hot~ :) He's always like the goofy small little brother of Phoebe Buffay in Friends. But hell ya, he's well build up now with a great body :) Hmmm~ whereas Bruce Willis doesn't really show us how good he is in this movie.

In another hand, the ever-sexiest Halle Berry is still smokey sexy in this film. Nice figure, nice hair and sexy lips :) But overall the story is a bit so so, nothing much too excited.