Edge of Tomorrow

 Released Year: 2014

Directed by Doug Liman

Casted by:

Tom Cruise as Major William Cage

Emily Blunt as Sergeant Rita Rose Vrataski

Bill Paxton as Master Sergeant Farell

Brendan Gleeson as General Brigham

 Story: 

A race of aliens called Mimics has taken over continental Europe. General Brigham, head of humanity's United Defense Force, orders Major William Cage, a public affairs officer and former advertising executive, to cover combat on the beaches of France during the next day's assault on the Mimics. Cage objects to the dangerous assignment and threatens to use his public relations skills to turn the public against Brigham when the casualties start increasing from the invasion. General Brigham has Cage arrested; Cage is knocked out during an ensuing escape attempt. He wakes in handcuffs at a forward operating base at Heathrow Airport and discovers he has been labeled a deserter and put on combat duty for the invasion under the command of Master Sergeant Farell.

The invasion is a disaster for the humans. Cage manages to kill a large Mimic but dies as he is sprayed with its acid-like blood. He then wakes up at Heathrow the previous morning. No one believes his story that he knows the invasion will fail. He repeats the loop of dying on the beach and waking at Heathrow until he encounters Sergeant Rita Vrataski. She recognizes his ability to anticipate events and tells him to locate her the next time he "wakes up".

Together, Cage and Vrataski meet up with Dr. Carter, a former government scientist and expert in Mimic biology. Cage learns that the kind of Mimic he killed in his first loop, an "Alpha", resets time when it is killed to give the Mimics an advantage in battle. Cage inherited this ability when he was doused in the Alpha's blood as they both died. Vrataski had gained this ability in a recent battle but lost it after receiving a blood transfusion. She tells Cage that they must hunt the Mimics' hive mind, the Omega.

Over innumerable succeeding time loops, Vrataski molds Cage into a far more effective soldier. Frustrated by his continued failures, though, he retreats to a London pub, only to discover the Mimics will overrun the city after their invasion on the beach. He and Vrataski then spend several loops learning how to survive the battle on the beach and get inland based on his vision of the Omega hiding within a Bavarian Alps dam. After numerous loops end in Vrataski's death, Cage decides to hunt the Omega alone, abandoning her and the rest of the invasion to doom on the beach. When he arrives at the dam, he discovers that the Omega is not there. He manages to kill himself before an Alpha can steal his blood and prevent him from resetting the day. Back at Heathrow, he tells Vrataski and Carter that his vision was a trick.

Cage and Vrataski adopt a new approach: they infiltrate the Ministry of Defence in search of a prototype built by Carter that will allow Cage to discover the Omega's true location. After several failed loops they obtain the device, which reveals that the Omega is located under the Louvre Pyramid in Paris. They are injured as they flee; Cage is saved by a blood transfusion, but it removes his ability to reset the day.

Vrataski frees Cage and they return to Heathrow, where they convince his squad to help destroy the Omega. The other squad members sacrifice themselves to get Cage and Vrataski beneath the Louvre. Vrataski distracts a waiting Alpha while Cage advances on the Omega. The Alpha kills them both, but not before Cage primes and drops a grenade belt into the Omega's core, destroying it and neutralizing the other Mimics.

Cage's dying body floats down into a rising cloud of the Omega's blood. Regaining the power to reset himself, Cage wakes up en route to his meeting with Brigham the day before. Brigham announces that Mimic activity has ceased following a power surge in Paris. With the events leading to his arrest never happening, Cage travels to Heathrow on his own, retaining his original officer rank. None of his former squad mates recognize him. He finds Vrataski, who greets him with the same initial rudeness as previous loops, causing Cage to laugh.

  L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

Usually war genre kind of movie is not my favorite, but this movie is really good and I love the storyline damn well. And I'm surprise to see Emily Blunt in this kind of character, so tough and masculine... usually she's those kinda bitchy character which i think she's good at it too, like the one in Devil Wear Prada. Its a good change for her, hope to see her in more movie and i'm so in love with her now :)

The Muppets

Released Year: 2011
Directed by James Bobin

Casted by:
Jason Segel as Gary
Amy Adams as Mary
Chris Cooper as Tex Richman
Rashida Jones as Veronica

Voiced by:
Peter Linz as Walter
Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog, Link Hogthrob,
The Muppet Newsman, Rizzo the Rat, Beaker and Statler
Eric Jacobson as Miss Piggy, Animal,
Fozzie Bear, Sam the Eagle and Marvin Suggs
Dave Goelz as Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew,
Zoot, Beauregard, Kermoot the Frog and Waldorf
Story:

Walter, portrayed primarily by a muppet, lives with his brother Gary, a human, in Smalltown. The two became Muppet fans when they watched The Muppet Show in their youths. As adults, Walter and Gary continue to live together in Smalltown. Gary plans a vacation to Los Angeles with his girlfriend Mary to celebrate their tenth anniversary, and he invites Walter along so he can tour the Muppet Theater. Gary is pleased to spend time with both Mary and Walter, though Mary feels that Gary's devotion to Walter detracts from their relationship.

In Los Angeles, the three visit the Muppet Theater to find it derelict. During the tour, Walter sneaks into Kermit the Frog's office and discovers Statler and Waldorf selling the theater to Tex Richman, an oil magnate, and his cohorts Bobo the Bear and Uncle Deadly. Waldorf explains that if The Muppets can raise $10 million they can repurchase the theater. Once Statler and Waldorf leave, Walter learns of Richman's true intentions: to destroy the Muppet Theater and drill for oil underneath.

Walter recounts the conversation to Gary and Mary and appeals to Kermit at his mansion. Kermit is distressed to learn the news, and realizes he must organize a show to raise the money, which the Muppets have not done in years. Walter convinces him to try, and they set off to reunite the group. Fozzie Bear is performing with the Moopets, a group of uncouth Muppet impersonators, in Reno, Nevada, and Kermit persuades him to leave Reno. Meanwhile, Gonzo has become a plumbing magnate. Despite his initial objection, Gonzo decides to perform, destroying his business and joining them. Animal is in a celebrity anger-management clinic; he rejoins them, but his sponsor, Jack Black, warns him to avoid drums. In a montage, the other primary Muppets are located and rejoin. In Paris, the group finds Miss Piggy working as Vogue Paris's editor for "plus-sized" fashion. Unable to convince Miss Piggy to return, the group replaces her with her Moopet counterpart Miss Poogy.

The Muppets pitch their telethon idea to several TV networks, but are turned down. Due to a popular show's sudden cancellation, Veronica eventually gives the Muppets a two-hour opening in her network's schedule on the condition that they find a celebrity guest. The Muppets repair the theater, but their rehearsal fails and Kermit cannot find a celebrity guest. Miss Piggy returns and forces Miss Poogy out. Kermit persuades Walter to perform and find his talent, while Mary goes sight-seeing alone.

Realizing there is not yet a guest host, Kermit entreats Richman to return their studio, but he refuses and reveals he will give their rights to the Moopets. Miss Piggy organizes the Muppets to kidnap Jack Black as a celebrity guest. Mary returns to Smalltown after Gary forgets their anniversary dinner. Gary and Walter each want each other's help with their problems and they have a falling out. Gary realizes he must improve his relationship with Mary, while Walter realizes he was meant to be a Muppet. Gary reconciles with Mary, while the telethon succeeds with celebrity support and Black as host. Richman cuts the power to the theater, but Gary and Mary rush back and repair the wiring. Uncle Deadly turns on Richman and stops him from destroying the transmitter antenna.

With the telethon running short, Walter finds his talent, performing a whistling act to the audience's acclaim. When calls are stopped by Richman, a glitch is discovered when it is revealed the Muppets only got $99,999.99. Kermit states that they tried and will start over, together as a family. The Muppets, Walter, Gary, and Mary walk out of the theater and discover a vast gathering of fans. With Gary's encouragement, Walter greets the crowd with the Muppets. Gary proposes to Mary, and Richman gives the Muppet Theatre back to the Muppets after suffering a head injury from Gonzo's bowling ball.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

The original series started in 1955, on & off there are various other series & movies about the muppets on air. This is a very good movie, i love it so much, especially Miss Piggy, she's so diva~ The muppets totally steal the spot light of Seagel & Adams. But having Whoopi & Emily Blunt in the movie as cameo is a total surprise :)

Gulliver's Travels

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Rob Letterman

Casted by:
Jack Black as Lemuel Gulliver
Emily Blunt as Princess Mary
Jason Segel as Horatio
Amanda Peet as Darcy Silver
Chris O'Dowd as Edward
Story:

Lemuel Gulliver is presented as the boss of a newcomer named Dan, but Dan gets promoted and is now Gulliver's new boss. Deeply depressed at his dead-end job in the mail room, Gulliver decides to talk to journalist Darcy Silverman. He convinces her he could write a report about his (false) extensive world "travels" saying his dream is to become a writer. After suffering writer's block, he plagiarises a report from other publications on the Internet. The next day, Darcy, impressed by his writing, presents Gulliver with a new task – to travel to the Bermuda Triangle and write an article confirming that the legend of ships mysteriously disappearing in the area being caused by extraterrestrials is not true.

Upon arrival in Bermuda, Gulliver rents a boat and travels into the triangle. He's caught in a freak storm and the boat is overwhelmed by a waterspout. He washes up unconscious, on the shore of Lilliput, where he is immediately confirmed as a "beast" by the town's microscopic population. He is captured and imprisoned in a cave, citizens claiming him to be dangerous, because of his huge size. Here, he meets another prisoner named Horatio who was jailed by General Edward because he fancies Princess Mary of Lilliput, whereas Edward wants her for himself. After the island across from Lilliput enacts an invasion, Gulliver manages to break free of the plough-machine he is forced to work and then rescues the princess from being kidnapped and her father, King Benjamin from a fire.

Gulliver is declared a hero by Lilliput's citizens, and Gulliver makes up a deal of lies saying he is the President of the United States and a living legend in his homeland. Edward, however, becomes enraged due to the luxurious accommodations he receives, even being presented as an honorary general of Lilliput. When the townspeople find Gulliver's boat and his things, Gulliver gets angry voice mail messages from Darcy, angrily saying she has to take his place and travel to Bermuda now, and also found out about his plagiarism and she no longer wishes to be friends with him. The next day, chaos ensues as the population across from Lilliput enact an attack on the city when Edward shuts down the defenses surrounding Lilliput, as an act of revenge for Gulliver treatment. Gulliver defeats the neighboring population again, invulnerable to the cannonballs being fired at him (although he receives numerous welts on his stomach).

Edward abandons the Lilliputian army, joining the enemy forces instead. Using a powerful and gigantic robot from one of Gulliver's sci-fi magazines that they secretly built, Edward makes Gulliver surrender after he is beaten and embarrassed by Edward's robot, he is banished to the island across from Lilliput, admittedly saying to his onlookers that he is "just the guy from the mail-room" and nothing more. Meanwhile, on the shores of Brobdingnag ("the island where we dare not go"), he is captured by Glumdaclitch and forced to become her doll. Darcy is then imprisoned by the Lilliputians when she is lost in the Bermuda Triangle in the same manner as Gulliver. Horatio reveals to Gulliver that she is imprisoned. Gulliver narrowly escapes with him, using a parachute from Glumdaclitch's dollhouse that he took from a dead air force aviator.

Once again accepting a duel from Edward, Gulliver ultimately defeats him with the assistance of Horatio, who disables the machine's electrocuting weapon. Horatio is hailed a hero and gets King Benjamin's permission to court the princess. Edward, reaching the point of insanity, threatens to kill the princess, but the princess, finally having enough of Edward, beats him up in frustration. Gulliver then helps to make peace between the rival island nations by reciting Edwin Starr's "War" and he, along with Darcy, return to New York on their repaired boat. It's revealed they later became a couple and successful fiction writers in New York, writing about their experiences on Lilliput.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

Black never fail to make me laugh all the time. But this movie is a bit different than the original novel of Jonathan Swift in 18th Century; still the movie can sure make a good laugh out of u :)

Love Emily Blunt, she looks so much better with long hair. Sexy and elegant~

The Wolfman

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Joe Johnston

Casted by:
Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot
Anthony Hopkins as John Talbot
Emily Blunt as Gwen Conliffe
Hugo Weaving as Francis Aberline

Story:

Lawrence Talbot is a theater actor who received a letter from Gwen Conliffe, his brother's fiancee. Lawrence discover that his brother, Ben was missing when he went back to New York Talbot's mansion. John Talbot, Lawrence's father is still as weird as he used to be.

Few days later, Ben's body was discovered. Everyone suspect that Ben was attack by the bear in the Gypsy camp. To find out the truth, Lawrence and others went over the camp during the fullmoon and was attack by the wolfman. Lawrence got himself hurt when hunting down the wolfman. But surprisingly, the wounds and scars were heal by itself very quickly.

After get bit by the werewolf, Lawrence has been having weird illusion image flowing inside his mind. Lawrence even remember while he was small, he saw his mother killing herself by slashing razor on her throat. Lawrence also discover about the lycanthropy and werewolf will only kill by silver bullet. Francis Alberline as the police officer came to arrest Lawrence because suspect he will become the wolfman and hurt others. But John Talbot came and makes the policeman go away. During fullmoon, Lawrence finally found out he's one of the wolfman too.

After killing a few people when he's in the werewolf form, Lawrence feel guilty and went over to find Gwen and told her he has feeling for her. But Francis came and bring Gwen away. After figure something out, Lawrence discovered that John is the wolfman as well who kill Lawrence's mother and brother. Lawrence search for the silver bullet that their servant, Singh had. Lawrence used the silver bullet to kill John but not success. It seems like John has clear out the bullet powder which can't kill him. And about time of the fullmoon period, both of the father and son turn into werewolf and fight against each other.

The young werewolf is definitely not able to defeat the old and experienced wolfman. But one accident kick, the old wolfman fell into the fire and get himself burn. Taking this opportunity, the young werewolf smash off the head of the old wolfman and won the fight. But Francis and Gwen were here in the moment. The wolfman try to kill Gwen but was shot by Gwen with the silver bullet.

Before Lawrence die, he transform back into human form and thanks Gwen for ending this horrible life. With the dead of both wolfman, everyone thought this will be the end. But, nobody remember Francis was bit by the werewolf too...

L² Scored: 4/10

L² Comment:

Hmm~ seriously, i fall asleep in the cinema. Am i too tired? No, i don't think so... the story is pretty pretty lame and boring. Its only talk about how the werewolf transform and nothing else. But at least the make up is not bad for the werewolf.

The Devil Wears Prada

Released Year: 2006
Directed by David Frankel

Casted by:
Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs
Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
Adrian Grenier as Nate Cooper
Story:

Andrea, also known as Andy is highly passionate on writing her journal. Staying with her boyfriend Nate in a small cozy place and dressing casually is what she used to do. But getting into the US 1st top fashion magazine "Runway" is her stepping stone for achieving her target as a journalist. "Runway" editor-in-chief is Miranda, who's an icy-cold woman with excellent job presenter and fussy on everything for being the perfectionist.

Andrea has to suit herself in the high-end and vogue world in "Runway" while assisting Emily as the 2nd assistant for Miranda. After being insult, Andrea learns her lesson and try to be as vogue as other girls in the magazine with the help of Nigel. Andrea starts to have fight with Nate, her friends and even abandoned her dad during dinner due to her heavy job load.

By giving a good performance, she replaced Emily to attend the fashion show in Paris together with Miranda. She also has affair with Christian who's has certain power in this industry. But after seeing the failure of Miranda's marriage, Andrea realized this is not the life that she wants. Giving up on her job, she went for the New York News and get back with her boyfriend.

Of coz, the wonderful Miranda managed to keep her own job and power in the industry and wish all the best to Andrea in the end.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

My favourite show among the year in 2006. Talks about all those high end fashion and company politics. I watched this movie twice in the cinema. Simply excellent. Nothing to criticized but just 2 thumbs up :)