Sunday, May 11, 2014

The Golden Lotus "Love & Desires" 金瓶风月

 Released Year: 1991
Directed by 李翰祥 Lee Han Xiang

Casted by:
单立文 Pal Sinn as 西门庆 Simon Heng
纪倩儿 Ji Qian Er as 潘金莲 Pan Jin Liang
方玉婷 Fang Yu Ting as 李瓶儿 Li Ping Er
李婉淑 Lee Yuan Shu as 龐春梅 Pang Chun Mei
曹查理 Richard Cho as 蒋竹山 Jiang Zhu Shan
 Story:
Simon Heng try to tackle his neighbor's wife Li Ping Er and also get the rich properties from them as well. He loves to play on woman but he hates it when his 5th wife Jin Liang is fooling around with a 16 years old servant. He killed the small boy and sm Jin Liang. From that time onwards, Jin Liang fell in love with this crazy sm together with Simon and Chun Mei. While Li Ping Er stay in her own room to study how to be a good person indeed.
L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment
Definitely this movie is not as attractive as the Taiwan Version of drama. Pal Sinn definitely can be register as the one and only famous Simon Heng in so many years lol~ love the way he use his tongue to "attack" the girls nipples, its so exciting and kinda erotic as well~

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger 龍騰虎躍

 Released Year: 2001
Directed by 蓝海瀚 Allen Lan

Casted by:
洪金宝  Sammo Hung as 陆正阳 Yang
樊少皇 Fan Siu Wong as 白啸虎 Hu
梁铮 Jade Leung as 柳云龙 Long
郑佩佩 Cheng Pei Pei as 柳如燕 Yan
 Story:
 During Yang's younger days, he involved in the fight and cause his wife Yan has to ran away with their daughter Long. But Yan lost Long accidentally and never forgive Yang on this. Yang search for Yan and Long all the times and finally met Long, who was accompany by Hu, a young guy who falls in love with Long.
L² Scored: 3/10

L² Comment
Seriously, the caucasian might fall in love with this movie as it's something like the crouching tiger and hidden dragon, but definitely not for me. It was bored and the storyline is predictable... especially a scene of the sandstorm, gosh, it is so fake that I nearly puke.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Gigolo and Whore 鸡鸭恋

 Released Year: 1991
Directed by 唐基明 Tong Kei Ming

Casted by:
任达华 Simon Yam as Sam
刘嘉玲 Carina Lau as 亚红 Hong
方中信 Alex Fong as Dickson
 Story:
Hong came from China to to Hong Kong and stay with her cousin sister who is a whore, she met Sam, the most famous gigolo there. To achieve what she wants, Hong request a training from Sam to become the top whore she can be. But Sam remind her that whore and gigolo is not to have any real relationship. 

Hong got a chance to pretend as a personal assistant of Dickson and to cure him from the hurt of his previous relationship. When Dickson cure and Hong got her money and a dream guy. But Sam realize he was deeply in love with this whore and decided to get her.

Both of them later move to Japan and have their own sushi shop.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment
A very simple story and of course this will definitely not able to win both of them including this film any awards at all. Though Simon is famous in this kind of movie that time, but his way of acting this time seems a bit dull... and Carina is a bit too over. 

Monday, May 5, 2014

Hong Kong Gigolo 香港舞男

Released Year: 1990
Directed by 林德禄 David Lam

Casted by:
 萬梓良 Alex Man as 马祥 Xiang
 任達華 Simon Yam as David
鄭浩南 Mark Cheng as Joe
馮寶寶 Petrina Fung as Maria
 Story
A hot gigolo club in town own by Maria, her top 3 gigolo is Xiang (a father who want to earn more for his son, but sadly his sexual performance is getting bad and he is not as famous anymore), David (a man who has a older sister as a cop and a loving mother) & Joe (an orphan who has a rich girlfriend).

Xiang wanted to get his son back from his ex wife and try his best to get a lot of customers. He was down perform and in the end he took drugs and sleep with a caucasian guy Wilson to earn more money. David in another hand was obssessed by Wilson but he refuse to sleep with him. Wilson is the head of David's sister and instruct her to go on a dangerous mission that caused her to loose both of her legs. Joe wanted to prove to his girlfriend's father that he is useful, he took a job of acting as a rapist with a rich client but in the end, his client was killed by her own husband.

Things went bad for them 3. Xiang risked his life when trying to save David. And after that both David and Joe is wondering whether they will continue their life as a gigolo or not.
  L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:
Not a bad movie, it was quite nice to watch actually. The storyline of these 3 men is strong and 3 of them can really act well, of coz Alex Man being very famous in tvb drama that time won't fail to do so. Especially the scene which he was force to eat shit in front of his son... man~ his acting is really good!

Friday, May 2, 2014

Final Destination 2

 Released Year: 2003
Directed by David R. Ellis

Casted by:
Ali Larter as Clear Rivers
A.J. Cook as Kimberly Corman
Michael Landes as Thomas Burke
David Paetkau as Evan Lewis
James Kirk as Tim Carpenter
Lynda Boyd as Nora Carpenter
 Story
In 2001, one year after the explosion of Flight 180, college student Kimberly Corman heads to Daytona Beach with her friends, Shaina, Dano and Frankie for their spring break in Kimberly's SUV. As she stops on the exit passage to Route 23, Kimberly has a premonition of wood logs falling off from a semi, causing a massive car crash and killing everyone involved.

Aghast and in a huge panic, she stalls her car and prevents lottery winner Evan Lewis, widow Nora Carpenter and her fifteen-year-old son Tim, businesswoman Kat Jennings, stoner Rory Peters, pregnant Isabella Hudson, high-school teacher Eugene Dix, and Deputy Marshall Thomas Burke from entering the highway. While Thomas questions Kimberly, the pile-up occurs and Shaina, Dano and Frankie are suddenly killed by a speeding truck, devastating Kimberly, saved by Thomas in the last second.

The survivors are questioned at the police station and informed of the events of the Flight 180. Later on, Evan arrives at his apartment, buying large amounts of jewelry and a computer. When a fire erupts in his apartment, Evan escapes from the building via a fire escape. But a chain reaction causes the ladder on the fire escape to fall and impale his eyes, killing him. Meanwhile, Thomas researches the survivors of Flight 180 and learns Alex Browning was killed by a falling brick to the head while strolling through an alley. Desperate for help, Kimberly visits Clear Rivers, the last survivor of Flight 180, inside her psychiatric ward.

Though Clear initially refuses to help and invites Kimberly to share her isolation, she warns Kimberly to watch out for 'signs' of death. Upon arriving home, she sees herself being attacked by pigeons, and accompanied by Thomas, go to save Nora and Tim. They arrive too late and Tim is crushed by a glass pane at the dentist, devastating Nora. Clear accompanies Kimberly and Thomas to mortician William Bludworth. Bludworth explains the equilibrium of Death and "new life", implying their salvation upon the birth of Isabella's child.

Isabella, accused by the police of driving a stolen van, is taken into custody while the other survivors unite for safety. Overcome by grief, Nora is decapitated by malfunctioning elevator doors. Horrified, Eugene attempts suicide but fails, prompting the group to leave and find Isabella, who meanwhile goes into labor at the police station. The policeman on duty rushes her to the hospital in Isabella's van.

En route, they discover that if it had not been for the flight 180 survivors, they would all be dead; Eugene had to replace the deceased teacher Valerie Newton and his substitute was killed by a crazed student, Kat almost went into a hotel where a gas leak suffocated the staff and guests but went home after witnessing Terry's death, Kimberly was inside the mall distracted by a news piece of Tod's "suicide" attempt and her mother was outside and muggers killed her while in her car, Rory almost went to a club in Paris where the roof collided on the guests and killed everyone but was distracted by Carter's death, and Thomas had to clean up Billy's remains while his partner was on duty, where he was killed in a robbery attempt.

Driving further, the survivors' vehicle nearly collide with Isabella's van as they are driving, prompting them to swerve onto a nearby farm. In the process, the back of the car is penetrated by PVC pipes. Eugene's abdomen is punctured by one of the pipes and Kat narrowly avoids another. As rescuers arrive at the scene, Brian Gibbons, the son of a farm's owner, is nearly killed by a news van, but Rory pulls him back at the last second. The rescuers' Jaws of Life activates Kat's airbag, spearing her head within the pipe and killing her, and dropping her cigarette on a gasoline leak, leading to the news van. This causes the van to explode, sending a barbed wire fence flying through Rory, trisecting him.

As Kimberly, Clear, and Thomas dash to the hospital, Kimberly has another forewarning of Dr. Ellen Kalarjian "strangling" Isabella. Kimberly and Thomas witness Isabella giving birth and are relieved thinking that the new life will wipe Death's slate clean and save them all. However, Kimberly has another vision of a submerging van and Isabella's embargo from Death all along, realizing that Isabella was not on Death's list at all, and that Thomas and Kimberly are still destined to die.

Clear searches for Eugene, accidentally detonating his room from oxygen combustion, which kills Eugene and burns Clear, also completing Death's previous list. Kimberly tackles Thomas from the explosion's debris and realizes her premonitions convey her fate. Although Kimberly immerses a van into a lake for Thomas' sake, she is recovered by Thomas and resuscitated by Kalarjian. Afterwards, Thomas and Kimberly have a picnic with Brian's family and Kimberly's father Michael Corman to celebrate their survival. Learning of Brian's deterrence from Death before when his father tells him that he was almost hit by a van, the group witnesses a barbecue grill blast Brian into pieces, catapulting his burnt arm onto his mother's plate as she screams in horror.
L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment
This second movie is still as good as the first movie, more gruesome dead this time and with the help of Ali Larter from the first movie (die also in this movie), the movie become much more exciting and nasty :) 

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Ella Enchanted

 Released Year: 2004
Directed by Tommy O'Haver

Casted by:
Anne Hathaway as Ella of Frell
Hugh Dancy as Prince Charmont (Char)
Cary Elwes as Sir Edgar
Steve Coogan as Heston
 Story
In the kingdom of Frell, baby Ella is given the "gift of obedience" by a misguided and obnoxious fairy called Lucinda. This is more of a curse, making Ella do anything she is told to, but only Lucinda can reverse it. Ella's mother tells Ella keep the curse secret; after she dies, only the household fairy, Mandy, knows about it.

Several years later, Ella's father remarries to a wealthy socialite, Dame Olga, who dislikes Ella. Her spoiled daughters Hattie and Olive notice Ella's obedience and begin making her life miserable. Ella stumbles upon Prince Charmont, the handsome heir who will soon take the throne, as he's being pursued by his fan club of besotted young women. He invites Ella to the Coronation Ball, but Olga intercepts the invitation. Hattie and Olive, fan club members themselves, are overcome with jealousy. They force Ella to insult and cut ties with her best friend Areida.

Ella cannot bear her situation a moment longer, and resolves to find Lucinda. Mandy helps by lending Ella her boyfriend Benny, who she accidentally transformed into a talking magical book that can show people in their current surroundings. During her journey, Ella encounters an elf named Slannen, who wants to be a lawyer instead of an entertainer as the laws now require. They are both captured by a group of ogres, who want to eat them. Prince Charmont rescues them and accompanies them to a wedding in the land of giants, where Ella hopes to find Lucinda. En route, Ella opens Char's eyes to the cruelty of the laws oppressing elves and giants established by the acting ruler, Char's uncle Sir Edgar. Char invites Ella to visit the palace's Hall of Records and find Lucinda faster. But Edgar's talking snake, Heston, is spying on them.

At the palace, Heston tells Edgar about Ella's obedience, which Hattie confirms when Edgar offers her Char's hand in marriage. Knowing that Char intends to marry Ella, Edgar orders her to kill him when he proposes, and tell no one. Edgar also reveals that he murdered Char's father. To save Char, Ella asks Slannen to tie her to a tree and to get the giants to help. Ella writes Char a letter, saying she is leaving permanently and cannot explain why, which breaks his heart. Lucinda then appears before Ella, who asks her to undo the "gift" of obedience. Lucinda, offended, tells Ella to remove it herself. She unties Ella, gives her a fancy dress, and tells her to attend the ball, where Char almost immediately takes her to the Hall of Mirrors and asks her to marry him.

Ella is about to stab him with the dagger Edgar provided, when she realizes Lucinda has provided the answer: looking into a mirror, she says, "You will no longer be obedient!" She drops the dagger and Char sees it. Edgar is spying on them, and before Ella can explain, he orders the guards to lock her up, to be executed tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Slannen, the giants, and the ogres all sneak into the castle to rescue Ella. They find out that Edgar is poisoning the crown Char will receive during the ceremony. Ella and her allies burst in just in time to stop him putting it on. Edgar and Heston call for the knights and Red Guards, and a battle ensues. Ella explains everything while fighting alongside Char. Mandy transforms Benny back into a human. When Edgar's forces lose, Heston tries to bite Char, but is stopped by Ella. Caught trying to kill the prince, Edgar admits to the crowd that he killed the King, but says only he deserves the crown. Then, carried away by his own rhetoric, he puts it dramatically on his own head—and promptly collapses from the poison.

Char and Ella kiss; her stepsisters arrive and order her to stop, but she is delighted to refuse. Char once again asks Ella to marry him, and she agrees: "Now that I'll do." The movie ends with their wedding and a musical number. During all this, it's shown that Slannen is in a relationship with a giant, Ella has rekindled her friendship with Areida, and that Edgar had survived. The Narrator announces two more words: The End.
 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:
Funny, romantic, nice to watch... this movie is based on the same name novel by Gail Carson Levine. It involve magics, fairies, witches, ogres, elves... so many of the fantasy creatures and yet the storyline is strong and presentable. Love Anne Hathaway, she looks so beautiful in this movie~

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Final Destination

 Released Year: 2000
Directed by James Wong

Casted by:
Devon Sawa as Alex Browning
Ali Larter as Clear Rivers
Kerr Smith as Carter Horton
Kristen Cloke as Valerie Lewton
Daniel Roebuck as Agent Weine
Roger Guenveur Smith as Agent Schreck
Chad E. Donella as Tod Waggner
Sean William Scott as Billy Hitchcock
 Story
Alex Browning, a teenager, boards Volée Airlines Flight 180 with his teenage classmates and teachers for their senior trip from New York City to Paris, France. Before the Boeing 747 takes off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will suffer a catastrophic engine failure, causing the plane to explode in mid-air, killing everyone on board. As events from his vision begin to repeat themselves in reality, he panics and attempts to stop the flight, but he is removed from the plane, along with a handful of passengers, including Clear Rivers, best friend Tod Waggner, teacher Valerie Lewton, Alex's rival Carter Horton, Carter's girlfriend Terry Chaney and student Billy Hitchcock. None of the passengers except Clear believe in Alex's premonition until the airplane explodes on take-off, killing the remaining passengers on board. The survivors are interrogated by two FBI agents, who suspect the students were involved in the explosion.

39 days after the explosion, the survivors attend a memorial service for the victims. After the service, a chain reaction causes Tod to accidentally strangle himself in his shower, but the accident is deemed a suicide. As Alex and Clear sneak into the funeral homes to inspect Tod's body, they meet mortician William Bludworth who tells Alex and Clear that Death is reclaiming the lives of those who escaped from the explosion. The next day, Alex and Clear discuss what the mortician informed them in town, where the rest of the survivors (Carter, Terry, Ms. Lewton and Billy) pass by. During the commotion, Terry is suddenly killed by a speeding bus and the mortician's theory is believed to be coming true.

As he watches a news report on the cause of the explosion, Alex concludes that Death is killing the survivors in the same order that they were meant to die in the explosion and finds out Ms. Lewton is next to die. He attempts to go to her to ensure she's safe, but thinking Alex is up to no good, Ms Lewton calls the FBI agents to take him in for questioning. As Alex tries to convince them of what is happening, they ask him to promise to forget all of this, but he frustratedly refuses and leaves. Nonetheless, when he gets back to Ms Lewton's house, he is too late to save her from an accidental kitchen knife impalement or the subsequent explosion of her house. The remaining survivors (Alex, Clear, Carter, and Billy) get together in Carter's car, and Alex explains the situation as they drive through town. During the discussion, Carter fears he is next to die. Frustrated by Terry's death and having no control over his life, Carter attempts suicide by stalling his car on railroad tracks. He changes his mind at the last minute, but gets stuck when his seat belt jams. Alex manages to save him before the train hits the car. However, Billy is decapitated by flying shrapnel from the wreckage.

Alex believes that Carter was supposed to die in the car accident but because Alex saved him, Death skipped Carter and moved on to Billy, who was meant to die after Carter. Alex realizes that Clear is next, because he and Clear had switched seats in his original premonition. He rushes to her aid while being pursued by FBI agents. Meanwhile, Clear is trapped inside her car with a leaking gas tank, surrounded by loose live wires. Alex grabs a wire, allowing Clear to escape before the car explodes, but Alex is incapacitated.

Six months later, Alex, Clear and Carter arrive in Paris and discuss their survival. Alex believes Death skipped Carter and Clear because he saved them, but Alex himself was never skipped. Fearing that their struggle is now unfinished, Alex leaves and narrowly avoids being hit by a bus, which then topples a neon sign. After Carter pushes Alex to safety, Carter asks "so who's next?" The film ends with the neon sign toppled by the bus swinging towards Carter and killing him, implying that Death's plan is still in action.
 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:
For me, this is very very best among the final destination film series. The plane crash came so real and it make me goosebump each time i thought about it when i go on a plane. But the smart part of this movie is that Alex managed to solve the death code and help the rest "temporarily" escape from death. The whole movie come in a good pace and non of the scene is extra i should say...