The A-Team

Title : The A-Team

Casts: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Sharlto Copley,
Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Patrick Wilson

Genre: Actions

Rating: Great, great, great!

Pic: 21cineplex.com

Synopsis:

A a deserted place in Mexico, two corrupt cops are torturing a hostage. They left him with two ferocious dogs but instead of dead, the hostage is free himself.
Hannibal saves Face after enlisting disgraced Ranger Bosco B.A Barracus, driving to the rescue in B.A.'s modified GMC van.They stop in a nearby hospital to recruit Murdock and make a flee in a medical chopper

Eight years and 80 succesfull mission, the team is assign to Iraq. Hannibal is contacted by CIA Agent Lynch who reveals that Iraqi rebellion possess U.S. treasury plates being used to manufacture fake money. Lynch wants Hannibal and his team to steal the plates and over one billion dollars in counterfeit cash that will be moved out of Baghdad. In the other hand Captain Charissa Sosa arrives in the site and warns her ex-lover Face, to stay away from the plates.
Succeed to assure his commander in chief General Morrison, Hannibal agrees to take the job. The mission is successful but once they landed, Morrison's jeep is blow up, one minute after, the container that contain the fake money is also explode, and they unable to stop Pike to bring the plates. Without Morrison, there's no support that their action is authorized, and they are sentenced 10 years.

Six months after, Hannibal is visited by Lynch that reveals Pike probably tries to sell the plate to Arab backer. Lynch agrees to do something to release Hannibal and clean his team's name as a reward returning the plates. Hannibal and his team are escaping, during his time in prison B.A. becomes a religious person and refuses to kill but willing to join the team. Sosa believes Hannibal and his team work for Pike and trails them hard, she also has personal grudge since she's downgraded to lieutenant. She tries to intercept before the team leaves Germany, but the team manage to escape in a tank.

Comments:

I remember to see the A team in the only television station when i was a kid. The actions were great and since i always love to watch movie so mostly i watched the series. I can tell the remake is even better. I love to see Liam Neeson, Bradly Cooper, and even Sharlto Copley as Hannibal, Face, and Murdock. Buuuut, to see B.A. got enlightenment seem weird he he, i mean B.A? Enlightenment? You must be kidding. But overall, it's a great movie. The actions part was cool, the story line was exciting. Love it ^_^

Fun facts:

• When B.A. meets Hannibal, he says he was a member of the 4th Ranger Battalion. There are currently only 3 Battalions in the 75th Ranger Regiment. The 4th, 5th, & 6th Battalions were formed during and disbanded at the end of World War II.
• Pike is arrested in Frankfurt and interrogated in a building identified as the Embassy of the United States which is actually located in Berlin. The Consulate General of the United States is located in Frankfurt.
• In the scene where Hannibal is being cremated: bodies are always put into some sort of container. Bodies are never placed "loose" in the chamber.
• The A-Team's "retrieval" of the plates and the Arab are supposed to be in Germany. However, you can very clearly see Vancouver's Sears Tower outside of the office that the events happen in
• When Hannibal fakes his death, the doctor's name on the tag is Dr Schultz, a reference to Dwight Schultz who portrayed Murdoch in the original series
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RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN

Title : Race to Witch Mountain

Cast : Dwayne Johnson, Alexander Ludwig, Anna Sophia Robb, Carla Gugino

Genre : Action, Science fiction

Rating : Quite entertaining

Pic : wikipedia.org

Synopsis:

Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson) is an average cab driver down town Las Vegas, until one day he meets alien siblings Seth (Alexander Ludwig) and Sara (AnnaSophia Robb), they give him a bundle of cash and tell him to go as soon as possible to one direction. While driving, some government agents pursue and try to catch them. Seth, whose ability is to penetrate any solid object move out from the running cab, standing in the middle of the street and crashes pursuer's car without even moving. Having succeed to escape from their pursuer, the siblings tell Jack to stop in front of an old ragged house.

The siblings enter the house, several minutes after Jack decides to follow. The house is quiet and abandoned, Seth and Sara are hiding behind a sofa when Jack shows up, they warn Jack to be very quiet. Seth leads the way, is entering some secret doors and exit to unusual place. A minute after Sara takes whatever they need to have, a fire attacked began. It's Siphon, an assassin whose mission is to eliminate Seth and Sara. Succeed to escape, Jack brings the siblings in a bar to refresh, and Sara explain that they come from a distant planet, sent by their parent to take their parents experiment results which contain lots of information about the earth, it will help them to save their dying planet without attacking and invading the earth, since the government of their planet is meant to do so. Not so long after, the agents show up and ask Jack to surrender, with the help of a waitress they escape from the ambush.
Jack decides to go back to city and meets one of his passenger, Dr. Friedman (Carla Gugino) at UFO expo and with her help, they will find the siblings' aircraft.

Comments:

The film is a mix between a family drama and action, well you can't expect Dwayne Johnson to play pure drama right? ^_^. Interesting, with easy to guess plot. I think if the government agents were made even more aggresive like you saw in the matrix or bourne identity, it will add some thrill in the movie. Anyway, it's quite entertaining for a weekend movie and if you want to see something light and a little bit of thrill.

Fun facts:

• It's a remake film, the original film is played in 1975
• Jack's cab number is the same with the original film in 1975
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Title : X-men The Origin: Wolverine

Cast : Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Lynn Collin

Rating : Pretty good ^_^

Pic : wikipedia.com

Synopsis:

At 1854, young Logan accidentally killed his father and run away with his brother Victor. The brothers join army for many years, the killing activity sharpened Victor killing instinct and change him into a cold blooded murder. One day William Stryker shows up, asking the brothers to join his special force. Together with Gambit, Agent Zero, John Wraith, Deadpool, Weapon IX, Bolt and Dukes, the group first assignment is to take a meteor stone from a drug cartel.
No longer feel comfortable with his group, Logan decides to walk away and leave his brother behind.

Six years after, Logan has changed to an ordinary guy, lives in a small town with his lover Kayla and work as a lumberman. While having a happy live, Kayla is killed. And the journey to find Kayla's assassin is begin.

Comments:

I can't tell you much regarding this movie, since what i have is the leaked internet version. I am sure that you can find it somewhere by googling it. Frankly, this is a good movie just like any other X men film, you can see the plot and the action is the same thrilling. But since what i saw is unfinished film, i can't tell you the whole story. I need to see the original movie first, then i'll come back with the polished complete story ^_^

Fun facts:

• Originally, Liev Schreiber was given a muscle suit to wear for his role as Victor Creed, in an effort to make his physique look comparable to Hugh Jackman' figure. The suit made Schreiber feel "humiliated." Schreiber then requested he be given a chance to gain real muscle by putting work in the gym and changing his diet. He trained for 3 months while on the set of Defiance (2008) in Lithuania, and eventually trained with Jackman on the set of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in Australia.
  
• imdb.com
  

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY

Title : Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Cast : Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, James Dodd, Luke Goss, Anna Walton

Genre: Action

Rating : Better than the first, i like it!

Pic : 21cineplex.com

Synopsis:

At 1955, young Hellboy (Ron Perlman) is asking his father a bedtime story. Prof. Bruttenholm tells him a a legend, a war between human and mystic world. King Balor, leader of the elves, creates golden army, 70 times magical 70 times mechanical, and he owns a crown which who ever use it, will be able to rule the golden army. The Army destroy the humans, but only lead to the king regression. King Balor divides his crown into three parts, one for him, one for the humans and one is taken by her daughter, one of the twins, Princess Nuala.(Anna Walton) .King Balor's son, Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) is unsatisfied, he doesn't believe in humans and insists to raise the golden army again. The two are quarelled and angry Prince Nuada leaves the kingdom.

At the Bureau of Paranormal research and defense, Agent Tom Manning is meeting Abe (Doug Jones), he's angry because Hellboy keep showing himself to public and their organization suppose to be a secret. Abe explains that Hellboy's relation with Liz (Selma Blair) is tensed, which probably the reason of his erratic behavior. An emergency alarm rings, they are asked to investigate incident in auction house.


At first the place seems to be very quiet, while searching Abe accidentally touch Liz' tummy and said that she is pregnant, but Liz ignores it and keep look around. Suddenly thousands of flying creatures, called "tooth fairy" attack the team. They eat human flesh in seconds.Liz blows her fire to burn the flying creatures and explodes the floor, blows Hellboy out of the building and when he lands on a car, he lets himself exposed, and people astonished.
Meanwhile Prince Nuada come to his father kingdom and after conquering the army, he manages to kill his father and take the second part of the crown, equips the first part which he took from humans in the auction house. Prince Nuada run after his twin sister, Nuala, whom bring the last part of the crown.

Back at the bureau, a new agent called Johann Krauss (James Dodd) is coming. A weird smokey creature in an old swimsuit. Krauss investigate one of the tooth fairy, he awakening the death creature with his pure ectoplasm energy. Krauss realizes that the creatures came from the legendary Troll Market, a gathering place for magical creatures. Rumors suggest that the Troll Market might be located under the Brooklyn Bridge so Krauss takes the team to search for it.

Spliting, Abe finally find Princess Nuala, and realize that they share the same power, in reading and feeling by hand touching. A huge troll, Prince Nuada follower, brust in and run after Nuala. Hellboy manages to rescue the two, but Nuada appears and said that no matter how hard Hellboy help mankind, they still will hate him because he's different. And all he said comes to reality, after beating a green leavy monster, police try to catch Hellboy and Liz must stand to defend him.

Being brought to the bureau, Abe and Princess Nuada get to know each other closer. It won't be long before Nuada finds out his sister and kidnaps her. While trying to fight him, Hellboy is stabbed with the prince's spear. Everytime the spear is touched, it will move closer toward his heart. Will he survive?

Comments:

I think this second movie is way better than the first. More mythical creatures and great costumes. Though their faces were not as beutiful as fairy tales i knew, but they were just great ^_^. Not too much comments, i like it. You should try to see

Fun facts:

• Ron Perlman was turned down his role as Piccollo (Dragonball, 2009) due to his role in Hellboy
• The first movie filmed at new Korda Studio, Budapest
• Thomas Kretschmann was the first choice as the voice of Johann Kraus, but Guillermo Del Toro was not satisfied with the result, and subsequently brought in Seth Mc Farlene
• When Krauss spoke German it was generally nonsense, and sometimes the grammar was incorrect.
• When the auction room suffers a power cut and the lights go out, so should the monitor screens. Instead, they display static.
• imdb.com
  

THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR

Title : The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor

Cast : Brendan Frasher, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michele Yeoh, Luke Ford, Isabella Leong

Rating : Nice but bad cast

Pic : 21cineplex.com

Synopsis:

The story begins at Emperor Han (Jet Li)'s era, an ambitious man that dreams to conquer neighborhood countries and unite them in his authority. One thing the emperor afraid is being old and die. He learns to control 5 elements and always find ways to be immortal. One day, he heard about a powerful shaman called Zi Juan (Michelle Yeoh), the emperor asks his loyal general, Ming (Russell Wong) to bring the shaman to him. General Ming never expects to find a beautiful shaman and he falls in love at once. Zi Juan said she doesn't know any cure to make somebody immortal, but she said she knows shere to find it. Emperor Han order General Ming to escort Zi Juan and warn him not to let anybody touch Zi Juan because he wants her.
General Ming and Zi Juan find the book and involve in intimacy relationship. Once the two get back to the palace, Emperor Han asks Zi Juan to cast the spell written in sanskrit. The emperor soon feels different, he force Zi Juan to marry him or else he will kill General Ming. Zi Juan agrees to marry him but the emperor is still ordering to kill the general and stabs Zi Juan. Once stabbing, the emperor is frozen to earth statue along all of his shouldiers and palace due to Zi Juan curse.

The third sequel of The Mummy where Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and his wive Eve O'Connell (Maria Bello) have already retire from their adventure voyage. Rick is desperately try to find a new hobby which not included guns and Eve has become a popular writer. The O'Connells life in a big manor and have prosperous and peaceful life, and even none of them admits to feel bored to death.
Meanwhile the couple only child, Alex (Luke Ford) is described as a rebellious young guy and has an awkward relationship with his father. Rather than attending school, Alex is dumped off in china and is trying to dig Emperor Han's tomb. Somebody tries to killbut he manages to release himself.
A guy from foreign affairs comes and ask The O'connell to bring the eye of shangrila, a giant blue diamond to shanghai. The couple accidently meet Alex at The Pharoh, night club owned by Jonathan (John Hannah), whom entangled in trouble due to flirt Mad Dog (Liam Cunningham) girl. Rick saves his son on the mess but their relation is worsened.
Before showing his invention to public, Alex invites his parents to see the statues. General Yang (Anthony Wong), who eagerly wants to raise Emperor Han from his death and once again rule China. The shangrila eye can only be opened with the blood of a pure heart, Yang pushes Eve and said will kill her husband if she refuses. The diamond is opened and accidently splashes on a statue, the emperor is back to life.
The O' Connells once again should work together to prevent the emperor from immortality source which will arise his thousands of shouldier to conquer the world.

Comments:

Finally i decided to see the movie. And i did not regret it ^_^. I think the movie was great, i like the story line and also their great effect. Great! But one think i regreted, i disagree with the cast, i think Rachel Weiss was the best Evelyn O'Connell, and it was a big loss not to see her on the film. The son, Alex, played by Luko Ford, was also too old. He almost the same old with his "father" Brendan Frasher, and for me definitely weird! And the film should be longer since parts when Jet i transformed to evil monster seemed a bit too much. When you erase that part, the film won't change, much more like a post it, stick on the film with no effect. They should develop that frame, since the monster just appeared and disappeared and did nothing.

Fun Facts:

• It took days for me to finish the review since i saw the movie on Monday T_T
• The tomb of the Dragon Emperor with its Terracotta warriors is inspired by the real-life tomb of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty. The mausoleum is located in Xi'an, China.
• In the Himalayas, a shot of a running soldier's foot clearly shows sand, not snow.
• General Yang's soldiers are outfitted with AK-47s, but the movie is set in 1947. AK-47s weren't pressed into service until 1949.
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WANTED

Title : Wanted

Cast : James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie

Genre: Thriller

Rating: Irrational and cool

Pic : wikipedia.com

Synopsis:

The movie is open with Mr. X meeting with a ballastic specialist and aske her to find who made the bullet he gave, for their opponent. Their conversation is interrupted with gunshots from snipers accross the building. Mr. X jumps and shoots all the snipers. But he was killed from a distance.
The scene than move to Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), an ordinary guy who works in ordinary company. Almost has pathetic life, and always feel underpressure because his fussy bos, and has nerve disease due to his severe anxiety. Gibson's life is changing completely when he meets Fox (Angelina Jolie), whom tell him that she knew his father, and said that his father is one of the greatest assasins and has died yesterday. Gibson which barely knew his father since he left him while he's just a toddler, thinks that Fox is misknown him with someone else. Suddenly, Fox grab him down and Gibson hears shootings. Someone is trying to kill them. Gibson manage to escape from the shooting battle and run away to the street, the shooter is almost catch him but before, Fox manages to save him. Soon they enter a wild car battle and succeed to leave the shooter.
Gibson wakes up in a place he doesn't know and meet Sloan (Morgan Freeman). He tells him about the fraternity of assasins and said his father also one of their members. Gibson also told that his anxiety is not a disease and it's the great talents inherrited from his father. Sloan also said that all Gibson Sr properties is now belong to him. Gibson refuses to believe and try to leave, but Sloan pushes him to shoot flies wings with a gun. Amazingly, Gibson is succed to shoot off all the flies wings.
Wakes up in the morning, Gibson feels that all things happen is just a dream. But while he's in the bath room, he finds a gun that Sloan said belongs to his late father. Gibson runs to atm and found his account now filled with more than 3 million dollar. Start the day with a happy face, Gibson goes to work. His pussy manager yells at him and said that he hasn't gave her report she wanted. Unable to bear it, Gibson yells at her back and mocks her in front of his surpraised colleauges. Gibson leaves his shocked boss and brings his keyboard, while passing his friend, Barry whom sleep with his girlfriend, he slammed the keyboard to his face.
Gibson goes to Sloan and tell him that he's ready to replace his father and revenge to his murder, Cross. Sloan gives Gibson to Fox, where he is trainned to be an assasins. The hard training almost made Gibson quit, but his father memories strengthened him and finally, he's ready for his first assasination. Sloan takes him to the loom of fate, a loom that will gives them targets names through binary code hidden in the threads. Gibson fails to perform his first task, he can't just kill somebody that he doesn't even knew. Fox tells him a story of a little girl whose father is a judge, and one day a killer came to their house, pointed his gun to the girl and asked he r to wave at her dad as if nothing happened. The killer burned the father in front of his daughter and carved his initial to the girl's neck. Fox said that the killer name is shown up several days before and a member of fraternity was failed to kill him. Gibson than finds out that the little girl is Fox. Gibson finishes his first task.
While coming back to his apartment to take his father gun, Gibson is almost shot. He run after his shooter and accidently killed one of the fraternity mamber. Sloan is finally gives him task to kill Cross. Gibson doesn't realize that Fox's next task is to kill him.
Gibson and Fox travel to Europe to find the bullet maker, Pekwarsky, and they come to the origin place of fraternity. Pekwarsky, under a gun point, agrees to help them arrange meeting with Cross. But before it happens, he runs away. Both Fox and Gibson are chasing, but Gibson suddenly feels that Cross is in the train. He jumps in to the train and cause a big chaos. Fox uses a car to chase the train and shoots Cross while Gibson jostling. She then throws the car in the running train. A man pull hand brake while the train is on the bridge, and caused it's bended and thrown off the railways. Cross grabs Gibson hand, but furious Gibson shoot him. Cross pulls Gibson and befor his last breath he said that Gibson is his son.
What happen next?

Comments:

Well, as a movie, wanted is good. They have great special effects and awesome stunts. But killing shouldn't be that easy. You really can't take people life because a loomp of thread said so. That's definitely out of question! Irrationable, bloody, and cool. That's are my comments.

Fun facts:

• Taken from a comic called Top Cow Production by Mark Millar
• This is the first english language film for the director, Timur Bekmambetov
• Shooting took place in Chicago, Prague, Checz Republic, and Budapest.
• When Wesley returns to his apartment to retrieve his father's gun, Barry's missing tooth is clearly blacked out.
• On the train scene, where Gibson is trained, Fox was using high heel boots, after they jumped, Fox was wearing flat boots.
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THE DARK KNIGHT

Title : The Dark Knight

Cast : Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhall, Morgan Freeman

Rating : The best batman movie ever!

Pics : wikipedia.com

Synopsis:

The story begins with robbery of mafia bank by bunch of clowns. They enter the bank put everybody in hostage and start to kill anybody troubling their act, and that's including kill their own friends in a group, and left The Joker (Heath Ledger) alone to have all the money. In the same night few Batman impersonators interrupt a meeting between mobsters and the scarecrow, the real Batman shows up and subdue everyone. And being attacked by mafia's dogs made Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) asked Fox (Morgan Freeman) a new suit.
Meanwhile district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and his girlfriend, Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) which also Bruce Wayne ex girl friend, are in the court room, on an attempt to put one big mafia , Salvatore Maroni (Eric Roberts) to jail. The trial was not a big succes and Maroni walk out without any sanction.
The mafia bosses meet to discuss how to handle Batman, Gordon, and Dent, while a Chinese mafia accountant, Lau, lets the gang leaders know he has taken their money to Hong Kong to prevent the police and the district attorney from seizing it in an imminent bank raid.
Joker shows up in mafia's meeting and tell them that they will need him to protect their money and assured them that he is the only hope they have since Lau will be caught no matter what, and when it's happen no one can help them but him. Batman and Lt James Gordon contemplate bringing new district attorney Harvey Dent in on their plan to eradicate the mafia, and the possibility that Dent will become the hero to the people that Batman cannot be. Batman manages to abduct Lau from his Hongkong office and bring him to Lt. Gordon (Gary Oldman) prison. This lead to succesful agreement of The Joker and mafia bosses since after Lau's captured police have seized almost all mafia in town, hundreds of mobs are captured and trialled.
Joker sends a video message and asks Batman to reveal himself, he will start killing people until Batman open his mask in public. The judge and Commisioner Loeb are killed, Harvey Dent also in the kill list, but before the Joker reaches him in Wayne party, Batman saves Dent and urge him to held a press conference and Batman will reveal himself to public to stop another killing. Dent calls Rachel after Batman rescues him and ask her to go somewhere else safe, Rachel said that the safest place is Wayne mansion, and there she goes.
In the press conference, Dent admits that he is Batman before Bruce steps up and confess. Dent is arrested and bought to county jail, but Joker is trying to kill him on his way, the real Batman shows up and intervene, Joker is caught. While Joker is interrogated, Batman realized that Joker has Rachel and Dent as hostages. They are placed in opposites place in town with tons of bombs. Batman is rushed to save Rachel and Lt. Gordon go to other direction to save Dent. They just don't realize that Joker has switched the locations, Batman saves Dent tough half oh his left face is burnt, but Dent is refused to be saved and wants Batman to save Rachel. Seconds before Lt. Gordon reached Rachel's place, the bomb's explodes, Rachel is killed.
Dent refuses to have skin transplantation an let his left face burnt, the loss makes him blame Batman, Gordon, and Joker. Joker saves Dent before he explodes the hospital, and assured him to revenge on Batman, cops, and the mobs. Dent then confronts corrupt cops and mafias, and decides their fate by flipping a coin, pushing Det. Ramirez, Dean has Lt. Gordon's family as his hostage. Joker, in the other hand declares that he will rule and anyone stay in Gotham at nightfall will be subject to his rule. People start evacuate themself, they use ferries since Joker said he will explodes bridges. One ferry is filled with prisoners and other is filled with innocent citizens. Joker sends them package of detonators, and told them if they want to stay alive, they should blow the other ferry. The tense is culminate, Batman should save both ferries, facing Joker and Two Face. Can he manage it?

Comments:

I literally felt hardly to breath while seeing the movie. Tenses were everywhere, and you would not find space to take a deep breath he he, i'm not joking. This is the darkest and the best Batman movie i've ever seen. Heath played as psycho Joker wonderfully, as a matter a fact even better than one played by jack Nicholson. Joker was completely lunatic! He is really frightening and creepy hiksss... The movie duration was about 2.5 hours, long but not even boring. Everybody played their parts wonderfully, i really like the movie, and you should try to see it. Awesome! But make sure no children allowed, they have so many dangerous and harsh scenes, you will not want your children to see or even imitate those, believe me, this movie definitely not for children!
Oh ya, and please! KEEP YOUR FEET DOWN!!! You don't know how annoying when people trembling their feet on someone else seat! I felt it, and i hate that!

Fun facts:

• Adrien Brody and Robin William publicly announced that they are interested in Joker role.
• Matt Damon is director's first choice to play Harvey Dent but turn it down.
• The first Batman movie with no Batman on the title.
• Katie Holmes also turns down offer to play Rachel Dawes role.
• While filming on the streets of Chicago in April 2007, it was carried out under the fake movie called "Rory's First Kiss". Fliers regarding the filming carried this fake title, complete with a fake "RFK" logo for the movie and an address for the film's production offices.
• To prepare his role, Heath Ledger lived in a hotel alone for one month formulating the character's voice, posture, and phsycology, and kept a diary in which he recorded Joker's tought and feelings as a guidance of his performance.
  
• Heath Ledger's sudden death on January 22, 2008 prompted immediate speculation as to the state of this film. Late the same day, Warner Bros. released a statement declaring that Ledger had completed all his scenes and post-production work, thus making the Joker the actor's final completed appearance in a film.
• Sir Michael Caine said Heath performance is topped Jack Nicholson. He said Heath's Joker is really scary phsychopath. This is based on the scene when Joker visits Wayne Manor, Caine never met Heath before, and frightening to see him as a Joker made him forget his lines.
  
• Theaters accrosed US opens at 3 AM and 6 AM to accomodate explosive movie goers.
• imdb.com and wikipedia.com
  

CLEANER

Title : Cleaner

Genre : Drama, action

Cast : Samuel L ackson, Eva Mendez, Ed Harris, Luis Guzman

Rating : Not so bad but boring

Pic : Rottentomatoes.com

Synopsis:

Have you ever think, if a crime scene is happening in you place, blood is scattered everywhere and the smell of rotten body is the room odor, would you like to clean it yourself?
Tom Cutler(Samuel L. Jackson), is a police retirement, doing such business. Everytime a crime is occured, he will be there to clean all the crazy mess. One day, he received a job order for a family called Norcut. And like always, Tom is coming with his white van, entering the quiet big house. The client is specifically write down where he put the key and which place should be cleaned.
Tom finds blood splasing and scattered in the living room, stained the white couch and the windows, the table and the floor. A real mess. Tom takes picture everything before starts to clean. Finish with the job, his old friend Eddie Lorenzo (Ed Harris), meet him for a drink nd they are talking about their current life, while Tom is noticing the news, which is showing the missing of a famous businesaman called Norcut. Tom soon there is something wrong with his previous job, when he comes back to the Norcut's to collect a signature as a proof that the job has been done. Ann Norcut (Eva Mendes), the house lady, doesn't seem understand anything. Tom keeps his mouth shut and not even tell a story when Ann finally come to his office to ask what kind of job has Tom done to her house. The case is growing, and Tom's past life begin to haunt him, he face his police buddies and doesn't know who to trust.

Comments:

Samuel L. Jackson definitely awsome playing his part ^_^. The movie is quite nice for a drama movie, but absolutely boring as an action movie. One thing i like, the end is unpredictable, however the story line is just simple. In the movie Tom is said to do some dirty works for his previous boss, and he also in "the list" made by Norcut, where everybody in the list has received money from him, i saw nothing linked to this. Norcut is just missing, and everybody forgets about the list. That's absolutely weird, oh well, what can i say. I don't like the movie verymuch tough it's not worst movie ever. A bit boring but still go ahead if you like to watch ^_^

Fun facts:

• As Tom is sitting on the bed thinking of his wife he reaches under the bed for a box and the clock in the background reads 11:40. We then see a close up of Tom smelling her perfume and the clock now reads 11:38.
• imdb.com
  

THE HUNTING PARTY

Title : The Hunting Party

Genre : thriller

Cast : Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg

Rating : Not that explosive :(

Pics : Amazon.com

Synopsis:

Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) and Duck (Terrence Howard) are the best team of war specialist reporter and cameraman. Both of them team up to covering news directly from the battlefield. One day, while on live news, in Bosnia battle field drunken Simon messes up during reporting. The incident makes Simon's career drowned, but Duck in the other hand, begin to have an extraordinary live because of his rising career. Five year after, in 2000, while Duck is coming back to Bosnia, Simon is suddenly appears, asking him to team up with him in hunting down a war criminal named Fox, which has been killing thousands of moslems and has granted 5 million dollar for his capture, for an interview. Along with Duck and Benjamin, the network vice president's son, Simon starts to track Fox. Which is very dangerous and hard, since Fox is the most wanted war criminal, and he has so many people protecting. The searching is begin by meeting a UN officer called Boris whom mistaken the three to CIA agents. Soon they realize that none of UN, NATO, or any country, wants to catch Fox for real, there are many hidden intention lo let him run free.

Comments:

Hmmm...at the beginning, i think the movie is very exciting, war reporters..i mean that's sounds like wow! And it was nice at the beginning, but as the story goes i found it a bit boring. They were just talking and talking and talking *_*. Fox was to easy to catch, and to hunt a famous war criminal, the obstacles they faced were just too little. I know i'm just a regular watcher and i don't know exactly which part they said the movie is smart and exciting (hmmm????). But anyway, apart from the weird story, this movie is quite nice and the actors play were nice.
All i can say is this is just different than what i've expected ^_^. For others may be not that bad, but for me, i'll skip.

Fun facts:

• The UN mission ended in 20 December 1995 when NATO took over (IFOR/SFOR). In 2000 there should have been SFOR flags instead of the UN flags, SFOR patches, not UN and no blue berets. Military vehicles should have their national camouflage painting and SFOR markings.
• imdb.com
  

D-WAR

Title : D-War

Genre : Action

Cast : Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Foster

Rating : Very average u_u

Pic : wikipedia.org

Synopsis:

The film is based on Korean legend. The story began with the discovery of unidentified silver things in LA. Reporter Ethan Kendrick (Jason Behr) is capturing the discovery in his video and the silver thing reminds him of his childhood. Fifteen years earlier he met Jack, an antique shop owner, whom told him a story of a Korean legend. Jack (Robert Foster) said in every 500 years, a girl with the great power is born, with her power she is able to change regular imoogi (serpent) to a celestial dragon. She will be recognized with her dragon mark on her left shoulder.
Heaven sent two warrior, Bochum and Harem, to protect the girl from the evil dragon, Buraki. And for human sake, the cycle must fulfilled and Buraki can not have the power otherwise he would destroy mankind. Soon, the choosen girl was born to a upper family called Yoo Yi Joo. Being protected by Harem, no soon they were getting closer and fallen in love. But instead fulfilled Yoo Yi Joo destiny, the couple chose to run away and comitted suicide.
Jack gave the warrior pendant to Ethan and advised him to find Yoo Yi Joo reincarnation, named Sarah. Meanwhile, Sarah Daniels life suddenly changing, she experiences bad dreams and people start to think she is crazy. The evil Buraki shows up in present time, chases after Sarah for her power. Ethan now must repay his past mistake and brings Sarah to her destiny tough it is hard since he is in love for the second time to the choosen girl.

Comments:

Hmmm, seeing the legend, this movie should be fantastic, but somehow i found it a bit boring.
Jason Behr acting is flat and i don't feel any imotion involve, well he supposed to be a man whom protected his lover, right? Amanda Brooks was even better. And on the city scene, where the evil Buraki was attacked by the military force, i felt like watched another Godzilla movie.
Basically, the effect is quite nice, but the story is not strong and Jason Behr is definitely flat.
And the conclusion? Oh well, just watch if you have sooooo many spare time and tooooo much money to spend ^_^

Fun facts:

• On the beach scene, after Ethan rescue Sarah from the hospital, Sarah is dressed in hospital gown and slippers, she slips off her slippers and than walks down the beach. In the long shot she is wearing her slippers and than the next shot is a close up of both of them and in the lower left corner you see her slippers sitting on the beach where she took them off.
• A character (the policeman) incorrectly refers to the US Bank building in downtown LA as the "Liberty" Tower, when in fact the Tower is actually known as the Library Tower.
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THE INCREDIBLE HULK

Title : The Incredible Hulk

Genre : Action

Cast : Edward Norton, Liv Tayler, Tim Roth, William Hurt

Rating : QC passed ^_^, go ahead and see it

Synopsis:

The film began with fragments of events where Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton), starts the gamma radiation project and he become the experiment object. Something has gone wrong and change Banner into furious green giant, he destroys the lab, kills a couple of security and hurt his lover, Dr. Elizabeth Ross (Liv Tyler) and his dad, General Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt). This caused Banner to be a fugitive for years. General Ross is very determined to catch Banner and mobilise his best people to capture Banner, one of them is Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), which later become Hulk's first opponent.
Having a simple life in crowded Brazillian small city, Banner tries to do anything to surpress his anger. He works in local beer factory and practising hard portugese. Keep on searching oh the cure, he is online with somebody called Mr. Blue, which ask for his blood sample and advice of a flower as a cure which is failed. Soon, General Ross finds him and aims his troops to the city . Banner is edged and turn to mighty Hulk, furiously destroy everything around and try to escape.
Return to civilization, Banner finds out that Elizabeth aka Betty has dating to someone else. His old friend, Stan, a restaurant owner help him by providing food and shelter. Upon leaving, Betty accidently sees him, and shocked. The loving couple soon get back together and try to find the cure and meet Mr. Blue, Banner mysterious online friend, the day after, General Ross finds him and mobilized more troops and many hard weapon to catch Banner. Betty tries to stop her father. Surrounded by armed troops and tears gas, Banner changed into Hulk. The troops shooting and bomming, but none of it affect hulk, he becomes more and more furious. Blonsky which has been shot by gamma in a small dosage, faces Hulk and beat easily. Betty hillariously ask her father to stop and when a helicopter falls down, Hulk protects her and brings her away.
The two are fugitive now, and wherever they run, the general finds them. And the end they have to face Blonsky which turned into horrible creature.

Comments:

Well, now i just realize this movie is a bit more like the previous film at 2003, the point is the same, Banner changed and must avoid General Ross seizure. I think there are many episodes in the comics and also the television, why don't they make it differently? Hmmm...
Ok then, this movie is quite interesting, i like it ^_^. Edward Norton is just perfect for Banner's role, i can't imagine anyone better ^_^. The whole story was dominated by General Ross's effort to chase banner, the duel between Hulk and the monster was quite furious but very short, and at the end he just gave up that easily? This Hulk was very much look like animation, the green television hulk was look even alive (since he was real human ho ho). Apart form that, i think this movie has the same level with Spiderman, quite entertaining ^_^
And to my suprised, they linked Hulk with Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. showed up in the last part, still played as Tony Stark, he he he ^_^. And i bet there will be Hulk 2 and 3, he he there are many unsolved matters there.

Fun facts:

• The Incredible Hulk joined Toronto's Green-Screen initiative, to help cut carbon emissions and waste created during filming. Edward Norton had fun using a hybrid vehicle on set.
  
• William Hurt, who play as General Ross and his son are big fans of Hulk
• In the comics, Emil Blonsky was a KGB agent who takes on a scaly reptilian appearance, becoming the Abomination. Louis Leterrier felt that while that was cool, it made no sense considering there was no reptile mix in his origin. So in this film Blonsky's appearance is redefined to have his skin/muscles/bones exaggerated and sticking out all over his body; he however retains pointed ears as a tribute to his original form.
  
• 'Tim Roth' signed on the film because he was a fan of "The Incredible Hulk" (1978), as well as to please his comic-book-fan sons. On set, he constantly asked whether this would "be a cool shot" for his kids to see him in. He thoroughly enjoyed playing Blonsky, but found it difficult since to portray Blonsky's over-the-hill state he could not work out; but he hired a personal trainer to assist him in motion-capturing the Abomination's movements.
• The character of General Ross is incorrectly portrayed as a three-star Lieutenant General instead of a four-start General, yet his name plate still shows "General Ross."
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IRON MAN

Title : Iron Man

Genre : Action

Cast : Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard

Rate : Average

Pic : Wikipedia.com

Synopsis:

Anthony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) adalah seorang pengusaha senjata sukses sekaligus seorang ilmuwan yang jenius. Usianya masih muda dengan wajah tampan dan kekayaan yang berlimpah membuatnya menjadi seseorang yang suka berhura-hura dan cenderung kurang bertanggung jawab. Sekretarisnya, Ms. Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) selalu jadi orang yang mengurusi semua kekacauan yang dibuatnya sekaligus menyediakan semua kebutuhan sang bos. Ketika sedang mendemonstrasikan penemuan terbaru Stark Inc. di Afghanistan, Tony diculik oleh kelompok pemberontak dan mengalami luka serius pada jantungnya. Para penculik memaksa Tony membuat senjata untuk mereka dan otak jeniusnya mulai mencari cara untuk lolos. Sebuah baju zirah tercipta dan membantunya lolos dari para penculiknya. Kembali ke US, Tony mengumumkan akan menutup perusahaannya karena selama di Afghanistan dia melihat senjata buatan pabriknya digunakan oleh pihak-pihak yang tidak bertanggung jawab. Tony berhasil menyempurnakan baju zirahnya dan mulai memakainya untuk menolong mereka yang membutuhkan. Buntut pernyataannya yang hendak menutup perusahaan makin panjang, dan Tony menemukan bahwa ada banyak orang yang menginginkan kematiannya.

Comments:

Dibanding film superhero yang lain, Iron Man tidak terlihat "wah", meskipun terbilang cukup lengkap dengan adanya unsur aksi, drama, dan komedi di dalamnya. Mungkin karena porsinya yang seimbang itulah yang menjadikan film ini bagi saya biasa saja. So when you watch the movie, you can't really say "Awesome!". Robert Downey sebagai Tony Stark yang bengal, sangatlah pas, mengingat si bapak satu itu memang memiliki reputasi yang sama.
Kecanggihan peralatan yang dipakai di film ini akan membuat anda terpesona dan yang paling saya suka, walaupun Tony Stark seorang jenius, ternyata dia juga melakukan kesalahan, that makes the hero much more like any other mortal ^_^. Trial and error yang dilakukan Tony disini pasti akan membuat anda tertawa.

Fun facts:

• Iron Man adalah satu dari karakter komik buatan Marvel yang lahir pada tahun 1963
• Rachel McAdams semula adalah pilihan pertama sebagai pemeran Pepper Potts
• Robert Downey Jr. mendirikan kantor disebelah kantor sutradara Jon Favreau untuk berdiskusi tentang perannya dan agar lebih terlibat dalam penulisan naskahnya.
• Sebuah kamera Aaton 35mm secara tidak sengaja terlindas tank pada saat pembuatan film.
• Berat baju zirah Iron Man I adalah 45 kg.
• Gwyneth Paltrow hanya perlu waktu 15 menit untuk datang ke lokasi pengambilan gambar. Dia mengaku itulah satu alasan mengapa dia setuju untuk bergabung dalam Iron Man.
  
• Stark dikatakan lulus dengan predikat summa cum laude dari MIT, padahal MIT tidak pernah memberikan predikat kepada lulusannya.
  
• Ketika Tony sedang berbaring di meja dan meminta Pepper mengganti baterai tenaga untuk jantungnya, dada prostetik yang digunakan untuk adegan itu bergerak naik turun untuk menunjukkan gerakan nafas Tony, kalau anda melihat dada bagian atas, anda akan melihat gerakan nafas Robert Downey Jr. tidak sama dengan dada prostetik itu.
  
• Tony terlihat sedang menggunakan Verizon phone (LGVX9400) di Afghanistan. CDMA service doesn't work there!
• Pada adegan dimana Tony mendarat di pasir, dia berjalan di gurun dengan memegangi lengan kirinya yang terluka, beberapa saat kemudian, tangan kanannya yang nampak cedera, pada adegan selanjutnya terlihat dia sedang merawat tangan kirinya, dan pada saat press conference, tangan kanannya yang diperban.
• Source imdb.com
  

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

Title : Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull

Genre : Action

Cast : Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia Le Beouf, Ray Winston, John Hurt

Rate : You like an old stuff? Maybe you should try to watch ^0^

Pic : Taken from chip.co.id

Synopsis :

Film ini berlatar belakang perang dingin Amerika dan Soviet tahun 1957.
Jones dan sahabatnya Mac, diceritakan diculik oleh tentara Soviet pimpinan Irina Spalko. Keduanya dipaksa menunjukkan peti yang ditemukan Jones 10 tahun sebelumnya di sebuah gudang penyimpanan milik militer Amerika. Dengan kepandaian Dr. Jones yang mengagumkan, peti tersebut ditemukan dengan mudah. Tapi yang tidak disangka, sahabat yang sudah puluhan tahun menyertainya ternyata berkhianat.
Insiden gudang militer ini membuat Dr. Jones dicurigai sebagai mata-mata musuh dan dipecat dari tempatnya bekerja sebagai dosen di Marshall College. Ketika hendak keluar dari kota itu dan kembali ke New York, Jones bertemu dengan Mutt William, yang meminta bantuannya untuk memecahkan teka-teki tengkorak kristal dan kota misterius Akator yang berhubungan dengan hilangnya orang-orang terdekatnya yaitu Prof Oxley dan ibunya.
Dan ternyata, mereka tidak sendirian dalam pemecahan misteri tengkorak kristal, pihak Soviet yang dikepalai Irina Spalko ternyata juga mengincar tujuan yang sama. Berhasilkah mereka menguak misteri di balik semua teka-teki itu?


Comments :

Sependek ingatan saya, film Indiana Jones ini sudah sangat populer sebelum saya lahir ^_^ Meski begitu thanks to TV swasta kita yang suka sekali memutar ulang film-film jadul, akhirnya eykeh bisa juga tuh lihat aksi-aksi Indy. And believe me, dibanding film yang jadul-jadul itu sequel Indiana Jones terbaru ini kok tidak begitu menggigit ya.
Secara pengemasan, tentu saja The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull ini jauh lebih bagus dibanding dengan pendahulu-pendahulunya, special effect lebih ok dan setting juga lumayan keren. Tapi dari segi cerita, datar-datar saja dan cenderung mudah ditebak, untung saja ada berbagai aksi seru si Indy yang not too bad dan menyelamatkan film ini dari super membosankan.
Harrison Ford masih keliatan ok kok berperan sebagai Indiana Jones walau gak muda lagi, Cate Blanchett juga lumayan dengan logat Russky-nya, hmm... kira-kira belajarnya berapa lama ya? trus, spell nya sudah bener ga ya? Hi hi anyone? Yang belajar bahasa Rusia?
Tapi menurut saya seh kayanya hollywood harusnya menuruti kalimat, "Berhenti saat berada di puncak"

Fun Facts :

• Film ini menunjukkan air terjun raksasa di hutan Amazon. Ini adalah air terjun Iguaçu yang terletak di ujung selatan Brazil. Hutan Amazon terletak di Brazil Utara. Tidak ada air terjun yang dapat ditemukan disana.
  
• Pada peta yang menunjukkan rute penerbangan Indy dan Mutt ke Amerika Selatan, terlihat sebuah negara bernama "Belize". Sebelum tahun 1973, Belize dikenal dengan nama "British Honduras" dan menjadi negara merdeka pada 1981.
• Semut Siafu yang ada di film tersebut hidup di Afrika bukan Amerika Selatan
• Harley-Davudson yang dikendarai Mutt memiliki rem cakram di roda depan, kable dual throttle, dan mesin "Evolution". Semua ini belum ada sebelum tahun 1974.
• Garis Nazca TIDAK terletak di kota Cusco, sebenarnya garis ini tergambar di gurun di lembah ICA, di pesisir Peru.
• Display LED yang menghitung mundur waktu pada peluncuran roket di Nevada seharusnya baru tersedia bertahun-tahun setelah 1957 dimana setting Indiana Jones dibuat. Malahan LED pertama ditemukan oleh Nick Holonyak, Jr., pada tahun 1962 ketika masih bekerja di Perusahaan Listrik. LED dijual secara komersial pertama kali pada akhir 1960-an. LED dengan display numerik malah ditemukan bertahun-tahun setelahnya.
  
• Source: imbd.com