Thursday, April 17, 2014

Delete My Love - Delete 愛人

 Released Year: 2014
Directed by 叶念琛 Patrick Kong

Casted by:
 王祖蓝 Wong Zho Lam as 苏波荣 So Boring
许冠文 Michael Hui as 马上发 Fatt
王菀之 Ivana Wong as 钟家宝 Bou
方力申 Alex Foong as 华 Dee
Story:
So Boring has a terrible life, living with his mother and sister who is trying to get him to sell off the house and living in a family which is out of care. He also has a girlfriend Bou who has cancer and always worry that she will die in one day soon. So Boring has a boss Fatt who is always finding chances to cut his salary and ignore about his talent.

Just when he feel miserable about his life, he received a message saying that he can delete whoever he dislike in the world. First, he deleted his boss Fatt and get a good boss replaced. The new boss allowed them to have fun and don't need to work; So Boring then deleted his mother and sister and replaced a nice family out of them; Best friend Dee was also replaced by him and a nice guy appeared to be his new buddy.

When So Boring found out Bou has her cancer on final stage, he wanted to marry her. But then the mispresent message by the doctor cause So Boring to be annoyed with Bou and she was deleted too and replace with a girl that have big boobs. 

One fine day, So Boring found out the company is making big loss and the nice boss instructed him to fire his colleagues. He cried and swear that he rather not be a boss forever to have a good boss again then Fatt appeared. Fatt told him his previous experience about the same thing happened to him before. So Boring then was attacked by his family and new girlfriend while his new buddy mentioned that he is gay and fall in love with him. Both Boring and Fatt look for the old computer to find the solution. In the end, they realize sacrificing their life can change everything back in order and so they did.

All the things were back in normal and So Boring is happy with his life again.
L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:
This movie doesn't really have a main focus, the story was everywhere and kinda messy. Don't really love the way Michael Hui acted right now, he looks kinda dumb with his old style of acting. Luckily Ivana is not that annoying in this movie compare to Sai Sai Lup which i wanna give her a big fat slap on her big fat face ~ 

Monday, April 14, 2014

Out of Inferno 逃出生天

 Released Year: 2013
Directed by 彭順 Danny Pang & 彭發 Oxide Pang

Casted by:
古天樂  Louis Koo as 阿強 Keong
劉青雲 Sean Lau as 大軍 Tai Kwan
李心潔 Angelica Lee as 思樂 Si Lok
陳思誠 Chen Si Cheng as 李健樂 Kin Lok
 Story:
The film stars two estranged brothers in Guangzhou, Tai-Kwan and Keung, who had worked as firefighters. The last time they spoke with one another was during the funeral of their father, four years before the events of the film. Keung, now retired from firefighting, operates a fire protection systems company. In the beginning of the film, he holds a celebration of the opening of the office of his company. Meanwhile, Tai-Kwan's wife, Si-lok, is seeing a gynaecologist. The company and the doctor are in the same building. A fire breaks out in the basement and travels upwards. Tai-Kwan, who submits his resignation before the fire breaks out, is sent in his unit to fight the fire. Keung finds Si-lok and struggles to rescue her.
 L² Scored: 6/10 

L² Comment:
 No doubt the graphic, the picture is nice... but kinda bit disappointed to watch this movie as i am always a big fans of the Pang's brother... But this movie is not that good... lack of excitement of the storyline, and the characters are not that strong too in each presenter. Overall this movie is just so so...

Saturday, April 12, 2014

The Mask of Zorro

 Released Year: 1998
Directed by Martin Campbell

Casted by:
Antonio Banderas as Alejandro Murrieta / Zorro
Anthony Hopkins as Don Diego De La Vega / Zorro
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Eléna (De La Vega) Montero
Stuart Wilson as Don Rafael Montero
Matt Letscher as Captain Harrison Love
 Story:
In 1821, Don Diego de la Vega a Spanish nobleman, fights against Spain in the Mexican War of Independence as Zorro, a mysterious avenger who defends the Mexican peasants and commoners of Las Californias. Don Rafael Montero, the cruel governor of the region, learns de la Vega's identity. Arresting de la Vega in his home, his beloved wife Esperanza is accidentally killed by one of Montero's soldiers. Montero kills the soldier for murdering Esperanza, imprisons de la Vega, and takes his infant daughter, Elena, as his own and leaves for Spain. Twenty years later, Montero returns from exile in Spain with Elena, who has grown into a beautiful woman, by his side. He is planning to turn California into an independent republic. However, his reappearance also awakens a long-dormant de la Vega, who has spent two decades living in anonymity during his imprisonment. He escapes from prison, and as he plans his revenge on Montero, de la Vega encounters a thief, Alejandro Murrieta, who, along with his brother, greatly admired Zorro as a child and even had a small hand in the hero's last great exploit.

After a brief period of deliberation, de la Vega decides to take Alejandro as his protégé. Inspired by the wish for revenge upon Captain Harrison Love, his brother's killer and Montero's right hand man, he endures the tough training regimen brilliantly. After Alejandro steals a black stallion resembling Toronado, Zorro's long deceased horse, and leaves Zorro's mark at the scene, de la Vega scolds him claiming that Zorro was a servant of the people, not a thief or adventurer. He challenges Alejandro to gain Montero's trust and pose as Don Alejandro del Castillo y García, a visiting nobleman, with de la Vega posing as his servant, Bernardo. Both attend a party at Montero's hacienda, where he gains Elena's admiration and titillation and enough of Montero's trust to be invited to a secret meeting. There, Montero hints at a plan to retake California for the Dons by buying it from General Santa Anna, who needs money to fund his upcoming war with the United States. Alejandro and the Dons are taken to a secret gold mine known as "El Dorado", where peasants and criminals are used for slave labor.

The plan is to buy California from Santa Anna using gold mined from Santa Anna's own land. Meanwhile, de la Vega uses this opportunity to become closer to Elena: still posing as Bernardo, he learns that Montero raised her telling her that her mother died in childbirth. De la Vega sends Alejandro, as Zorro, to steal the map leading to the gold mine: he duels Montero, Love, and their guards at the hacienda. When Alejandro escapes, Elena attempts to retrieve Montero's map. She fights him with a sword, but he uses his sword to strip off her clothing and seduces her, leading to a passionate kiss before he flees. Terrified of Santa Anna's retribution if he discovers that he is being paid with his own gold, Montero decides to destroy the mine, along with all its workers, to better hide all evidence. De la Vega tells Alejandro to release the workers on his own so that he can reclaim Elena: he corners Montero at his hacienda and reveals his identity, but is captured.

As he is taken away, Elena, inspired by a chance encounter at the market with a woman who had been her nanny, asks Montero the name of the flower that her mother had hung about her crib: when it is de la Vega who tells Elena that it is the Romneya, she realizes he is her father. She releases de la Vega from his cell and they proceed to the mine, which Zorro has begun to infiltrate. De la Vega stops Montero from shooting Zorro and the two duel. Meanwhile Zorro is confronted by Love and they duel. In the end, Alejandro avenges his brother by impaling Love with his own sword, and de la Vega sends Montero to his death by dragging him off a cliff behind a gold laden cart which crushes Love. Elena and Alejandro free the workers before the explosives go off, where they attend to the mortally wounded de la Vega. He makes peace with Alejandro before dying, passing the mantle of Zorro to him, and gives his blessings for Alejandro's and Elena's prospective marriage. They re-build the de la Vega hacienda and have a son named Joaquin, honoring Alejandro's brother.
 L² Scored: 6.5/10 

L² Comment:
Zorro is always been a mysterious hero for me :) He wore a mask and fight with a sword. Hmmm... Zorro gave me the impression of the sexy latino figure which was well presented by Antonio Banderas of course. The whole movie is not bad, but there are few parts which i feel quite dull and dry.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Finding Neverland

 Released Year: 2004
Directed by Marc Forster

Casted by:
Johnny Depp as J. M. Barrie
Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
Dustin Hoffman as Charles Frohman
Julie Christie as Mrs. Emma du Maurier
Radha Mitchell as Mary Ansell Barrie
Freddie Highmore as Peter Llewelyn Davies
 Story:
The story focuses on Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, his platonic relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, and his close friendship with her sons, who inspire the classic play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Never Grew Up.

Following the dismal reception of his latest play, Little Mary, Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her four young sons in Kensington Gardens, and a strong friendship develops between them. He proves to be a great playmate and surrogate father figure for the boys, and their imaginative antics give him ideas which he incorporates into a play about boys who do not want to grow up, especially one named after troubled young Peter Llewelyn Davies. Barrie's wife Mary, who eventually divorces him, and Sylvia's mother Emma du Maurier, object to the amount of time Barrie spends with the Llewelyn Davies family. Emma also seeks to control her daughter and grandsons, especially as Sylvia becomes increasingly weak from an unidentified illness.

Producer Charles Frohman skeptically agrees to mount Peter Pan despite his belief it holds no appeal for upper-class theatergoers. Barrie peppers the opening night audience with children from a nearby orphanage, and the adults present react to their infectious delight with an appreciation of their own. The play proves to be a huge success.

Because Sylvia is too ill to attend the production, Barrie arranges to have an abridged production of it performed in her home. She dies shortly afterward, and Barrie finds that her will is to have him and her mother look after the boys, an arrangement agreeable to both.
  L² Scored: 7/10 

L² Comment:
Multiples awards nomination film, this movie is something like a biography-kinda film of the playwright Mr Barrie, who created Peter Pan. I was amazed of how this guy can have such good imagination to creae a wonderful story like Peter Pan, as it has always been my dream to look for a neverland too :) 

Overall the storyline is just ok for me, some part is a bit dull but luckily the talented actors and actress make this movie sparks ~

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Journey to the Center of the Earth 2008

 Released Year: 2008
Directed by Eric Brevig

Casted by:
Brendan Fraser as Prof. Trevor 'Trev' Anderson
Josh Hutcherson as Sean Anderson
Anita Briem as Hannah Ásgeirsson
 Story:
In the opening scene, Max Anderson is being pursued by a dinosaur, a Giganotosaurus. Max then comes across a fissure vent. When he tries to jump across, he falls to his death while calling out the name of his brother. Ten years later, Max's brother volcanologist Trevor Anderson is visited by Max's son/Trevor's 13-year-old nephew Sean Anderson. In a box of items that belonged to Max is a book, Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. Notes written by Max are found inside the book.

In Trevor's volcanology laboratory, a device shows activity on Snæfell, a dormant volcano in Iceland. Trevor and Sean travel to Iceland to investigate. They try to contact Icelandic volcanologist Sigurbjörn Ásgeirsson, but instead encounter his daughter Hannah Ásgeirsson, her father having died some years earlier.[3] It turns out that Sigurbjörn and Max were both Vernians, a group of people who believe the works of Jules Verne to be fact, not fiction.

Hannah offers to help them climb the volcano. While the group is hiking up the volcano, a lightning storm forces them to take shelter in a cave. The cave entrance collapses, leaving them trapped in what appears to be an abandoned mine. They reach the bottom of a volcanic vent, the floor of the vent breaks, and they begin to fall towards the center of the Earth. The volcanic vent eventually becomes a water slide which drops them safely into a lake in the center of the Earth, which turns out to be a completely separate world contained within the Earth. Hannah is seen sinking because her pack was too heavy. She's later saved by Trevor.

The group starts seeking a way back to the surface. Along the way, they find evidence that someone had been there a hundred years ago. Trevor remarks that some instruments found are Lidenbrock's (the name of a character in Jules Verne's book Journey to the Center of the Earth). This suggests that another group had previously made the journey, somehow returned to the surface and recounted the tale of their adventure to Verne. They find some of Max's things as well.

While Trevor and Sean are examining what they've found, Hannah discovers Max's body. They bury Max on the beach of the underground ocean and Trevor reads a letter to Sean found in Max's journal. Trevor discovers that his brother died due to dehydration because of hot magma surrounding the center of the Earth.

Using information from Max's journal, Trevor determines that they must find a geyser that can send them to the surface before the temperature rises to 200 °F (about 93 °C). Further, they must reach the geyser within 48 hours or the water for the geyser will have evaporated. They build a raft and begin crossing the underground ocean, but soon encounter a pack of Xiphactinus. They use makeshift clubs to bat them away, then a shoal of Elasmosaurus attacks the Xiphactinus. The raft's sail becomes loose. Sean tries to hold on, but is blown away and separated from the two adults.

A little bird guides Sean towards the river. Meanwhile, Trevor and Hannah decide to take a rest, but are attacked by carnivorous plants. Hannah is captured and being strangled by the plants. Trevor defeats the plant that is holding Hannah by the neck, and they continue towards the geyser.

When they arrive at the river Trevor calls out to Sean but gets no response. Trevor says he is going to look for Sean, but tells Hannah she should continue on to the geyser and save herself. Meanwhile, Sean has entered an arid, bone-filled land. He hears roars, looks up and sees a Giganotosaurus coming after him. Trevor saves him. When they get to a river, they find Hannah sailing a boat fashioned from a Giganotosaurus skull. They sail to a volcano with magma rising in its crater. They are too late; the water needed for the geyser has evaporated.

Sean notices that the crater walls are wet. Trevor hears water flowing on the other side of the walls and sees that the crater walls contain magnesium. After Trevor uses a flare to ignite the magnesium, a geyser shoots them up and out of the Center of the Earth. They emerge in Italy from Mount Vesuvius. When they fall, they accidentally destroy a vineyard. To make amends, Sean gives the owner a diamond that he found while in the Center of the Earth. Trevor sees that Sean has many more diamonds in his backpack. Trevor later uses them to fund his late brother's laboratory.

During the adventure, Hannah and Trevor gradually become closer and eventually share a kiss. After the adventure, Sean visits Trevor and Hannah in their new home purchased using some of the diamonds Sean took from the cave. Trevor hands Sean a book about another strange land, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius L. Donnelly, and suggests they get together during Sean's Christmas break. Sean reveals that he has brought the little bird back from the center of the Earth to keep as a pet. However, the bird flies away ending the movie.
  L² Scored: 9/10 

L² Comment:
I always think that this movie is much more fun and excited to watch than the Journey 2, which was lead by Dwayne Johnson and Josh Hutcherson as well. Its not because of Brendan Fraser, but overall the storyline was very interesting and kinda new for me... even though this is not the first time they shot this movie (same name with the fiction).

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Human Breast Lair 人奶魔巢

 Released Year: 1989
Directed by 郑永明 Zheng Yong Ming

Casted by:
东方闻樱 Dong Fang Wen Ying as 左林燕 Yan
纪玲 Ji Ling as 铁美 Mui
王亚玲 Wang Ya Ling as 大菊 Ju
王跃进 Wang Yue Jing as 王翔 Xiang
 Story:
During World War II, a lot of China ladies being kidnap and force to produce human milk for the Japanese. A group of 4 (Yan, Mui, Ju & Xiang) went for rescue. Yan was caught in the camp and they also realize Mui is a Japanese spy, out of shame, she killed herself. The rest of the gang also managed to settle the issue and release all the ladies while killed all the Japanese armies.
L² Scored: 1/10 

L² Comment:
This is the most funny movie i ever watch, not that it was shot badly, it is because of the silly storyline. I never heard of the human breat/milk factory ever in the history, but it already showed that how those in China managed to crack up stories...

Monday, April 7, 2014

Sweeney Todd 2006

 Released Year: 2006
Directed by David Moore

Casted by:
Ray Winstone as Sweeney Todd
Essie Davis as Mrs Lovett
Tom Hardy as Constable Matthew Paine
 Story:
London, the early 19th Century. Sweeney Todd has become a successful barber but also develops a taste for slitting the throats of his customers with a razor while he is shaving them. Sweeney also has some skill as a surgeon and befriends Mrs Lovett, a pie-maker in a nearby shop, when she asks him to perform an abortion for her. Afterwards, she sends him meat pies daily. Sweeney is called by Mrs Lovett to operate on her ailing husband. Seeing that the husband beats her, Sweeney kills him during the operation. Afterwards, Sweeney buys Mrs Lovett the neighbouring premises so that she can have her own pie shop. He declines her offer of a sexual relationship but watches through a peephole as she regularly has sex with customers. When she sends them to him for a discount shave, he slaughters them and then gives the flesh to her as meat for her pies. She then comes to him, suffering hideously from venereal disease. As he tends her through her illness, he confesses his secret to her. When she returns to work and is taunted by customers about the sores on her face, she readily takes to the idea of sending them to Sweeney knowing that they will be killed.
 L² Scored: 6.5/10 

L² Comment:
This is the Birtish version of Sweeney Todd which i found it is quite nice to watch too. The storyline is ok except the first 10-20 minutes too much boring scenes. Overall Ray Winstone really impressed me with his acting and the impression is excellent as well...