Happy Go Lucky 福星到

Released Year: 2010
Directed by 叶春晖 ChunHui-Yap

Casted by:
范文芳 Fann Wong as 傅欣 Xin
刘谦益 QianYi-Liu as 傅利福 Hock
莫小玲 XiaoLing-Mok as Donna
刘玲玲 LingLing-Liu as 老蔡 Chai
司徒法正 FaZheng-SzeTo as 司徒 Sze To
Story:

Xin has been known as a bad luck person by her own father Hock as she was born in a bad timing. As she grown up, she work in Hock's foot reflexology shop together with her step sister Donna and one old staff Chai.

Hock is crazy in gambling and loss a lot, he always blame Xin for bringing the bad luck to him. One day, Hock went to ask God for a lottery number and inform Donna to buy it in the 4D. Donna forgot and inform Xin to buy the number instead, but Xin forgot the number at the last minute and bought her own birth date as the number. Hock thought he loss again but realize he won after he saw the lottery ticket.

Hock spend his money like nobody business and finally loss all his money again, including owning a lot from the shark loan. Hock and Donna stole the good luck statue from Xin and brought it to Cambodia's casino. Hock and Donna loss the money again to an enemy. Xin learn all the "sure win" technique from master Sze To and went to Cambodia. Xin finally helps her father to win back all the money and manage to cover the debts of the shark loan.

In the end, Hock learn his lesson and never gamble like crazy again.

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

Not really fancy about this movie, a bit boring than normal Neo's movie... quite a big yawn yawn in this movie, as nothing really specified about the "Lucky" that Fann wong is getting... And my idol Sze To Sifu is in here, haha~ so funny but i love it :)

Future X-Cops 未來警察

Released Year: 2010
Directed by 王晶 Wang Jing

Casted by:
劉德華 Andy Lau as 周志豪 Hao
徐熙媛 Barbie Hsu as 王雪娥 Xue
徐嬌 Xu Jiao as 周淇淇 Kiki
樊少皇 Louis Fan as 卡龍 Lung
唐一菲 YiFei-Tang as 斐娜 Fina
賀軍翔 Mike Ha as 馬金祥 Xiang
范冰冰 BingBing-Fan as 美莉 Li
Story:

In the year of 2080, Hao & Li are super cops who protect the Professor Ma who has contributed a lot to the solaris society. But Professor Ma has caused a lot of the gangster to loosed their business, in such, Lung brought his team including Fina (all of them are cyber enemy) to kill Professor Ma. During a fight, Li sacrificed and leave her husband, Hao & their daughter, Kiki.

Lung decided to go back to the past to kill the young professor, so Hao let the scientists to transfer him into a cyborg and brought Kiki along back to the past to protect Professor Ma. But in 2020 year, Hao did not managed to find Professor Ma. Hao met Xue in the arm forces and Xue has fall in love with Hao. Hao did not want to get into any relationship with Xue as he will leave her one day after he accomplished his duty.

Xiang, one of the arm force, save a mother and son. Xiang also marry the mother and the son change his surname to Ma. In such, Hao discovered the son is the young professor Ma. Lung arrived with Fina and they attacked and try to kill the young professor Ma. Hao transfer into the steel future cop and managed to defeat them. Later on, Hao brought Kiki along and both of them return back to 2080, leaving Xue behind.

L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:

This future cops film is kinda cybortic feel, feel like transformer + x man :) I would love it more if they use more HK movie star. Not really prefer too many China actors and actresses. :P

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~

Paranormal Activity 2

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Tod Williams

Casted by:
Sprague Grayden as Kristi Rey
Molly Ephraim as Ali Rey
Brian Boland as Dan Rey
Katie Featherston as Katie
Micah Sloat as Micah
Seth Ginsberg as Brad
Vivis Cortez as Martine
Story:

In 2006, a "burglary" occurs at the home of Kristi and Dan Rey. Every single room is completely trashed except for their infant son Hunter's bedroom. The only thing stolen is a necklace that Kristi's sister, Katie, had given to her. Dan installs a number of security cameras throughout the house to watch over their son, Hunter. The family starts to hear noises and see items fall or move on their own. Martine, the family housekeeper and nanny, believes evil spirits are the cause and attempts to cleanse the house of "evil spirits," and Dan fires her after catching her burning sage. Katie and Kristi talk about being tormented by a demon or unknown spirit when they were children. Dan's daughter, Ali, begins investigating the mysterious happenings. She discovers that on occasion, a human can make a deal with a demon for wealth or power by forfeiting the life of their first-born son. She also realizes that until Hunter, there had not been a male child born in Kristi and Katie's family since the time of their great-great grandmother.

The violence continues to escalate, and Kristi is tormented further; the family's German shepherd dog, Abby, is attacked and pulled violently off camera and apparently suffers a seizure. Dan and Ali take the dog to the vet, leaving Kristi alone with Hunter. She goes to check on the baby and notices a light flicker off. She turns the light back on but then is dragged by an unseen force out of the room and halfway down the stairs before she is released. Kristi runs back upstairs into Hunter's room but is violently dragged back downstairs. This time she is dragged into the basement where she stays for several hours. Finally, the security camera footage shows the basement door opening and a possessed Kristi walking through the living room.

The following day, Ali is at home with Kristi, who won't get out of bed. Ali looks at the inside of the door to the basement to find it covered in scratches and a single word, Meus (Latin for "mine"), illegibly scratched into the door. After hearing noises, Ali finds Kristi ignoring Hunter but aggressively demands she not touch him. Ali cries downstairs waiting for Dan to arrive home to bear witness to Kristi's strange change of character. When he arrives, Ali, who has now watched the security tapes from the night before, begs him to view the footage of Kristi's attack. Upon watching the evidence, he immediately calls Martine, who then prepares a cross that will pass the demon onto another blood relative, and that Kristi will have no memory of having been possessed. Dan tells Ali that he is going to pass the demon onto Katie so that Kristi and Hunter will be saved. Although Ali pleas with him, begging him not to because it is not fair to Katie, Dan sees no other way to save his wife and son.

That night, when Dan tries to use the cross on Kristi, she violently attacks him, and all the lights in the house go out. They turn the night vision of the hand held camera on, and find that Kristi has disappeared after snatching Hunter. Furniture all over the house begins toppling over, and the chandeliers in the dining area shake. Dan chases Kristi into the basement and after a few minutes of looking for her, she attacks him. He touches her with the cross, causing her to collapse to the floor, the camera facing the other way as the ground rumbles. Inhuman growls and roars are heard, until it finally stops suddenly. The next scene shows Dan putting Kristi to bed and then burning a photo of a young Katie, which Micah, Katie's boyfriend, would later find in the attic of their house.

Three weeks later, on September 18th, Katie visits and explains how things have now begun happening at her house. After Katie leaves, she is shown at her and Micah's house, where he has just purchased a new video camera (the scene shows approximately the first 2 minutes from the first film). On 9th October - the night after Micah is murdered (in Paranormal Activity) - Katie, possessed and bloodstained, breaks into their home and kills Dan by breaking his neck. She then climbs the stairs and confronts Kristi in Hunter's room, violently hurling her against the wall and taking the baby. The final scene is Katie leaving the room, cradling Hunter with a satisfied look on her face.

An epilogue text states that Ali was on a school trip and returned home on October 12th to find her father and stepmother dead and that Katie's and Hunter's whereabouts remain unknown.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

This definitely is the prelude of the "paranormal activity". A brilliant movie, love the feeling that u knw something will happen, and it still fucking scare the shit out of u :) Looking forward for paranormal activity 3 ...

My Left Eye Sees Ghost 我左眼见到鬼

Released Year: 2002
Directed by 杜琪峰 Johnnie To & 韦家辉 KaFai-Wai

Casted by:
　郑秀文 Sammi Cheng as 何丽珠 May
刘青云 Sean Lau as 王劲威 Ken / Sam
林雪 Lam Suet as 何父 May's father
　李珊珊 SanSan-Lee as Susan
应采儿 Cherrie Ying as Tina
林熙蕾 Kelly Lin as Sam's girlfriend
任达华 Simon Yam as Ben
Story:

May Ho is a woman who inherits a vast fortune when her rich husband drowns in a scuba diving accident in the Caribbean. May told several joking lies to win her Stanford-educated, extremely successful husband, and his mother and sister are less than pleased when they find out, especially since they still harbor suspicions about her motives in marrying her husband after knowing him for only seven days. Nonetheless, the house, fortune, and a portion of the family fashion company are hers. Depressed, alone, and deeply missing her husband (feelings further exacerbated when her husband's dog, Whisky, dies), May goes on a binge of eating, drinking, smoking, watching television, and stealing from her own company's stores, culminating in a drunken car ride and near-fatal car accident.

May finds herself lying on the ground outside her car and thinks she is unscathed, until she approaches her vehicle and sees her bloody body in the driver's seat. Ken Wong appears to her and scares her into returning to her body, reviving herself.

Although she just barely evaded death, the left side of May's face is heavily injured. Later in the hospital, when she removes the gauze covering her left eye, she suddenly realizes she can see ghosts with that eye. She soon finds herself in the constant company and care of the ghost Ken, who claims that he is her former classmate who died when he was 13 in a typhoon out at sea. Throughout their escapades in the realm of the supernatural, May slowly develops a connection with him. However, despite all the ghosts she has encountered, her husband has never appeared to her and she deeply wants to see him, even for just an instant. Ken attempts to help her fulfill this wish before he crosses the Twilight Junction to be reincarnated though it initially appears she did not succeed. Only the spirit of her husband's late dog, Whisky, appears - seemingly close to Ken as if the canine knows him. Ken ask May for a final wish to hug her before he moves on, and in doing so she had to pretend that he was her husband.

Later, she goes to check on the restoration of her husband's vintage car and discovers the restorer resembles Ken, who turned to be the real Ken who did not really die when he was 13. She finally realize that the ghost who had been at her side all the while was actually her dead husband in disguise to prevent her from becoming too attached to him and to urge her to move on. She tries several ways to contact him after he had moved on, but all attempts were useless. Her ability to see ghosts had also disappeared. The film ends with a hint of a future romance between May and Ken.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

This is a very fun black comedy movie of Sammi + Sean. A brand new mix up of these 2 actors ever in the HK film industry. Both of them are superb and able to make us laugh all the ways in the movie. But who make me laugh the most? Of coz is the Fei Mui ghost !!! haha~ omg... she so damn funny... a film never bored to rewatch for a thousand time...

Child's Eye 3D 童眼

Released Year: 2010
Directed by 彭发 Oxide Phang & 彭顺 Danny Phang

Casted by:
杨丞琳 Rainie Yang as Rainie
江若琳 Elanne Kwong as Ling
余文乐 Shawn Yue as Lok
林家棟 Godron Lam as Chuen
谷祖琳 Jo Koo as Ghost
徐正曦 Izz Hu as Hei
何浚尉 Rex Ho as Rex
Story:

Rainie, Ling, Lok, Ciwi, Hei & Rex went to Thailand for travel, but they met the red shirt gang and were forced to stay in Thailand. They move to a motel nearby to the airport and mysterious things happened.

The motel was own by Chuen who is very secretive. The 6 youngsters found it weird when three kids and one dog always stare at them. According to them, there is a woman ghost following them. The kids also told them that there is a monster living in the motel. On the first day, the 3 guys were sick and disappeared suddenly. The girls try to find them and were lead into a mist.

Rainie was holding the dog and she saw the monster, the monster was a girl combination of human and dog. She quickly hide herself when Chuen appeared. Later Rainie found all her friends in a room and the ghost stated out the reason behind all these hunt.

She was the wife of Chuen and she can't stand the dogs barking and killed all of them. But the dogs' revenge back and cause her to born a human-dog form baby. She tried to killed the baby and Chuen try to stop her and she was dead accidentally.

The ghost wanted to kill Rainie but found her pregnant, later on she realised she has o give up on revenging for her next life and she burn herself to death. Later on Rainie and gang found Chuen poison his own monster child and himself to death.

Peace came back, the 6 teenagers went back to Hong Kong safe and sound.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

Although this film has a lots of critics, but i still love it. The way Oxide and Danny directed this film is not bad, just the mix of the human and dog is a bit out of imagination. Love the way Rainie show her fear with her big eyes, cute :)

The Cannibal Man (La Semana Del Asesino)

Released Year: 1972
Directed by Eloy De La Iglesia

Casted by:
Vicente Parra as Marcos
Eusebio Poncela as Nestor
Emma Cohen as Paula
Story:

Marcos is a butcher, he went out with his girlfriend, Paula and try to make out in a taxi. The taxi driver feel annoying and shoo them out of the car. Not feeling enough, the taxi driver scold them and slapped Paula on her face. To protect his girlfriend, Marcos hit the taxi driver with rocks.

Nestor is living on the next tall building and always look at Marcos with binocular. The next day Marcos realize he accidentally killed the taxi driver last night on the newspaper. Paula advise him to surrender himself after they have sex but Marcos reject and killed Paula. After this, Marcos killed another friend and 2 other girls who have sex with him.

Marcos and Nestor is having some friendship bond and Nestor told him that he saw what happened in all the cases. Marcos try to kill Nestor but find himself couldn't do it. In the Marcos just surrender himself.

L² Scored: 2.5/10

L² Comment:

The english title for this film is kinda misunderstanding as Marcos is not eating any of the human flesh but just killing. The showering scene of Marcos and Nester is kinda gay, don't know why they put this in. Well, don't really fancy this film, just find it ok.