Movie Review: 2012 (3/5 stars)

Disaster maestro film director Roland Emmerich is back at his forte again (after a hiatus since Independence Day, and The Day After Tomorrow).
Expect the best movie effects in scenes like flooding, huge earth and mountain moving quakes, buildings collapsing, subway trains hurling over airplanes. I mean, the scenes are intense, and at some points, it [...]

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Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds (4/5 stars)

Quentin Tarantino is back.
With a vengence.
And in this film, he exacts it on all camps – the good guys, the bad guys (which is which is really from whose perspective). What the audience is assured of is one good ol’ spaghetti western-styled movie set in the backdrop of WWII nazi-occupied France.
The script is tight, [...]

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Movie Review: The Shinjuku Incident (4/5 stars)

This is a non-typical Jackie Chan movie, firstly because JC did not direct it, nor get involved in the stunt chereography, nor inject his slapstick humour into it.
In fact, this is a more gritty drama from Director Derek Yee who was responsible for Protege and One Night in Mongkok.
So there is hardly much of the [...]

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Movie Review: Quantum of Solace (3/5 stars)

Anyone looking for a fast-paced action flick will give this latest James Bond full marks.
From the start till the end, I lost count of the number of running chase scenes, with lots of glass-breaking, jumping across roofs, cars/planes/boats chase scenes.
Daniel Crag’s portrayal of the new Bond is a rough and tumble, bleed and bone-crunching 007. [...]

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Movie Review: Eagle Eye (4/5 stars)

First things first.
* Spoiler Alert!
We close one eye that this movie is based on an overused plot about technology/super computer/machines gone haywire….(just like Terminator, The Matrix, iRobot, Enemy of the State…hmmn last two starred Will Smith)
Then the rest of the ride is fantastic.
Just like a roller coaster which never lets up on the pace, and [...]

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Movie Review: The Dark Knight (4.5/5 stars)

I feel that Director Christopher Nolan does justice to the Batman movie series.
While Batman Begins was a gargantuan effort to revitalise the whole franchise and save it from smouldering in the depths of corny, campy, silly episodes (remember the hoo-ha about the nipple-shaped enhancements to the bat suit?), The Dark Knight is primed to unleash [...]

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Movie Review: Red Cliff (4/5 stars)

Red Cliff did not feel like a 2 1/2 hour movie.
No draggy scenes, no gaps in between and despite only having 2 major battle scenes, the dialogue and storyline was really very engaging.
And towards the end, I was drawn into the plot and eager to know how Prime Minister Cao Cao will strategise his next [...]

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Movie Review: The Bank Job (3/5 stars)

Confession 1: I have this thing for brit/irish/scottish accents.
Confession 2: I am quite done with standard American movies.
Final confession: The story has to make sense, down to the details.
So I liked the rawness of the movie.
Some shots were very straightforward and direct movie making, though I believe either the censors snipped off some extremely gruesome [...]

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Movie Review: Hancock (2.5/5 stars)

Q: Firstly, I was wondering where the title came from, what it meant.
A: Then I realised it was much ado about nothing. John Hancock played by Will Smith, is just accidentally named after the insurance company.
Q: Then next, was this Superhero movie ever a DC Marvel comic book (as in superman, spiderman, batman)?
A: From [...]

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Movie Review: Wanted (3/5 stars)

This is like a movie for meat-eaters who are given a hamburger.
Just throw away the buns at both ends. The patty is juicy and sumptous, though a complete meal it does not make.
Some parallels must be drawn with The Matrix.
1) The protoganist is a loser dude in a loser job living in a loser house [...]

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