CITY OF EMBER

Title : City Of Ember

Cast : Harry Treadaway, Saoirse Ronan, Bill Murray, Tim Robbins

Genre : Adventure

Rating : Average

Pic : 21cineplex.com

Synopsis:

The movie was opened by several old people gathering to save a deposit box that contains manual life rescue which is set to open after 200 years. The box should be past to the major and his next descendant. But things changed and the major is killed and the box is forgotten. Years gone by, the box is opened without anybody ever noticed.

Doon Harrow and Lina Mayfleet are school graduationg, they join with other children in the city hall to have their working placement, Major Cole hands them a bag, in which their future is fixed. Doon gets messanger job and exchange it with Lina's pipe works.
One day, Lina finds an old box which looks like what she saw in the major paintings. She opens it and find ancient paper wrote by the builders. Soon, they find out that the city generator, the heart of their city, is creeping to end. The blackouts are frequent and they realize that their city is almost collaps. Doon and Lina start to follow the builder's clue and soon they find out that ther is another place outside Ember

Comments:

Well, i haven't heard anything about the movie before and i haven't read the synopsis. And that's quite disappointing. The movie was not that great, i don't have any idea why they build an underground city, not before i finished to watch the movie. Very frustating, boring, but the adventure was quite entertaining, but they supposed to make it a little more thrilling than it is now.

Fun facts:

• Ember is Hungarian word for man or human
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Oh well, that's my opinion anyway, maybe you'll like it

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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THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES

Title : The Spiderwick Chronicle

Genre : Adventure

Cast : Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Mary-Loise Parker, Martin Short, Nick Nolte

Rating : A perfect film for the holiday ^_^

Pic : wikipedia.org

Synopsis:

The Grace family moving in to a huge and creepy house whose before belong to the mother's, Helen Grace (Mary-Loise Parker), aunt. The Grace siblings find the house is very weird, especially one of the twins, Jared (Freddie Highmore) which is rebellious and has a anger issues.
One night Jared enters his great great uncle study room and finds a sealed book called The Field Guide to Fairies, which has a forbidden to open note. Jared ignores it and open the book. Then he meets a brownie called Thumbletack, whom tell him that the book contains secrets of fairy creatures and will be a a disaster if Mulgarath (Nick Nolte), an evil goblin knows it. He also gives Jared a stone which has a hole and trough the hole, he can see fairy creatures. Jared tries to warn his family of the existance of this creatures, but no body believes him. Until one day Mulgarath's army is kidnapping Simon, Jared's twin brother. In the effort to save his brother, Jared meets Hogsqueal, a pig alike creature that give him the ability to see all fairy creatures without a seeing rock. Jared is able to rescue his brother, Simon insists to give the book to Mulgarath so he will let them in piece, but Jared knows that Mulgarath will kill them anyhow.
The twins run away back to the house, the protection charm around the house saves the twins, but minutes after, their sister, Mallory shows up. The twins yells and asks Mal to stay inside the charm, but she refuses to do it,. The goblins attack Mal and with the help of the magic stone, she is able to see them and fight back. And things get worse when Mulgarath gets some parts of the book and finds out how to break the charm, now the siblings must work together saving their lives even no body is believing.

Comments:
Another family movie which is perfect for this holiday ^_^. You can ask your children to watch and feel no worry. This is pure adventure movie, an imaginary film which is quite entertaining. Not too many family movies in theater nowadays and when i found Spiderwick and Kung Fu Panda, i'm pleased. Well tough i don't have kids to take along, this safe movie is sometimes a good way to relase your stress. Don't miss this ^_^

Fun facts:

• Film prints were send to some theaters under the fake title called "Widow".
• When Mallory and Jared are fighting at the beginning, you can see Jared is mouthing Mallory's words.
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NIM'S ISLAND

Title : Nim's Island

Genre : Adventure

Cast : Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin, Gerard Butler

Rating : You won't like it but your children will

Pic : yahoo.movies.com

Synopsis:

Nim Rusoe (Abigail Breslin) is a girl that live in a remote island with his scientist father, Jack Rusoe (Gerard Butler). Nim whole world is the island and her big imagination, anything coud happen in Nim's world. One day Jack is sailing due to a research and asking his daughter to come along, but Nim refuses and prefer to stay in the island. One night the hurricane strikes and Nim's lost contact to his father, Nim is asking her favorite writer, Alex Rover (Jodie Foster), to come to help her find her father. Since Alex has written the best adventure novels, which Nim admires. And when they meet, Nim soon realize that her hero, is not even close to what she has imagined. And yet they still have to find Jack.

Comments:
This movie remind me of home alone, the identical scene where Nim is alone in the remote island and must protect her island of strangers. Overall, there is nothing much we can expect in the movie. The imagination that they say Nim has is also not very dominating, and at first it will be like Pan's Labyrinth whereas the imagination of the role character is focus on. Adult may be bored in first 30 minutes, but this is a family drama, and it is completely safe to bring your children to see the movie.

Fun facts:

• The role of Selkie, Nim's sea lion, is played by two sea lion origin from Sea World Australia.
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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA : PRINCE CASPIAN

Title : The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian

Genre : Adventure

Cast : Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell

Rate : Worth to see

Picture: Taken from imbd.com

Synopsis:

Cerita dibuka dengan percobaan pembunuhan yang dilakukan oleh Lord Miraz, terhadap keponakannya Prince Caspian X, sang pewaris tahta Telmar. Sang pangeran melarikan diri, berkat bantuan gurunya Doctor Cornellius, ke hutan terlarang. Terdesak oleh tentara pamannya yang makin mendekat, dia meniup terompet ajaib yang diberikan oleh gurunya. Terompet ajaib itu membawa Peter, Susan, Edmund, dan Lucy kembali lagi ke Narnia. Dan mereka menemukan bahwa sudah ratusan tahun berlalu semenjak mereka memimpin negeri itu, keadaan di Narnia sudah banyak berubah dan mereka nyaris tidak dapat mengenalinya. Makhluk Narnia terpinggirkan dan nyaris punah, sementara penguasa Telmarine, Lord Miraz, memerintah dengan semena-mena. Sekarang Pevensie bersaudara harus berjuang sekali lagi untuk mempertahankan Narnia dan membantu Prince Caspian mendapatkan tahtanya kembali.

Comments :

Film keluarga yang sangat menarik, karena genre film seperti ini termasuk favorit saya. Setting filmnya indah dan ceritanya juga cukup menghibur.
Yang agak mengganggu mungkin karena saya tidak melihat film pertamanya, jadi at first i really have no idea what were they talking about. Jadi seperti Harry Potter, rasanya memang harus melihat seri sebelumnya untuk bisa menikmati jalannya cerita film ini.

Facts:

• Buku The Chronicles of Narnia telah terjual 100,000,000 copy dan telah diterjemahkan dalam 35 bahasa
• Pemain dan crew Prince Caspian datang dari 15 negara yang berbeda, termasuk Republik Ceko, Selandia baru, Amerika zSerikat, Inggris, Australia. Kanada, Jerman, Polandia, Slovenia, Spanyol, Meksiko, Italia, dan Perancis. Lebih dari 9 bahasa diucapkan di tempat pembuatan.
  
• Setting film dilakukan di Selandia baru, Ceko, Polandia, dan Slovenia.
• Sutradara Andrew Adamson memeberikan kesempatan pada Anna Popplewell (Susan Pevensie) cuti untuk menghadiri prom night di sekolahnya di London. Anna harus ganti baju di kamar mandi dan sempat 2 kali berdansa sebelum kembali ke Praha.
• Studio Barrandov yang historik di Praha, dimana sebagian besar setting film Prince Caspian dilakukan, dibangun pada tahun 1931 dan akhir-akhir ini menjadi tujuan wisata favorit. Film lain yang juga diambil disana antara lain Casino Royale dan The Bourne Identity.
  
• Source : movie-opening. blogspot.com