Monday, September 27, 2010

Predators

Predators is as great as the first instalment of Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger. It deals more with character development than Predator itself, not that I'm not a fan of the alien species.

A group of selected human were abandoned in an uncharted planet where they found themselves to be hunted. The group who were predators back on Earth are being preyed by alien predators. Each human possesses a different abilities such as mercenary, assassin, sniper, Yakuza etc. It's a game of survival, either be preyed or you seek out your predator.

Rating: 3.5
As good as the first Predator movie with references from the first movie.

The Batman VS Dracula

OK, it's been a vampire movie day. This time it's the Batman Vs Dracula, a movie film from the Batman series. The whole art concept of the Batman is based on Jeff Matsuda, who also produce Jackie Chan Adventures and comics such as Kaboom(Awesome Comics). If you don't know it's OK, importantly I like.

During the ancient times, the villagers of Transylvania managed to defeat Count Dracula in his sleep and transport the remains out of Transylvania to Gotham. The coffin was left heavily chained in the tombs of Gotham Cemetery. Till Penguin accidentally pry open the tomb in search of treasures.

Dracula was resurrected by Penguin drop of blood and terrorized the City of Gotham. It's up to the Caped Crusader to hunt and defeat the original Man of Bats.

Rating: 3
Batman stories are never a bore especially if he's a hero who relies on wits and gadget to save the day.

Lesbian Vampires Killers

It can't be a serious movie with a title like that. A British movie about vampires with the 2 great buddies, James Corden and Matthew Horne.

2 friends went for a road trip, not realizing the town was cursed. Met a group of girls who mostly end up as vampires. Vampire hordes all lesbians and big-breasted(some bared) tries to suck the living hell of the heroes. Vampires tries to resurrect Vampire Queen Carmilla. Untold prophecy reveals that Horne is a descendant of Carmilla slayer and Horne came to the rescue and defeated Carmilla.

Rating: 2.5
Horne and Corden are a great comedic pair. The boobs and quick laugh is quite commendable.

Killers

Seems more like a Mr and Mrs Smith movie. But Killers is about agent Spencer trying to achieve a normal life after he met Jen during his last assignment.

They got married with Jen totally oblivious of Spencer past. Till she found Spencer fighting with his friend. Apparently, someone has activated assassins to eliminate Spencer.

It's such an amusement to see that all the people you know in your life suddenly comes hunting you, from your neighbour, to your colleagues, and even your best friend.

It was expected on who called out the assassination. Watch to figure it out.

Rating: 3
Lesser of the actions but good on it's laugh. A lighter side in the world of espionage

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Get Him To The Greek

Get Him to the Greek is a spin-off to Forgetting Sarah Marshall where Russell Brand reprises his role as Aldous Snow, a British rock star. Though Jonah Hill is a totally new character, Aaron Green who still worships Aldous Snow.

The show is about Aaron trying to get Aldous Snow to perform at the Greek Theater for an anniversary performance. So his boss, Sergio(played by Sean Combs) sent him to fetch Aldous from London and bring him to Los Angelus.

Aldous returned to drinking and drugs after his single "African Child" was called the 'worst thing to happen to Africa since the apartheid', broke up with his long-time girlfriend and lost custody to his son. So he's not sober and made life difficult for Aaron by bar-hopping, delaying flights and drugs.

The show is full of drunkards and drugs in a funny way. Still watchable for kids.

Rating: 3
It's not the haha funny kinda a movie. It's more like seeing someone getting drunk and the mishap that follow after

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The Storm Warriors

Ok, I'm quite versatile with what I watched. I can watch any foreign movies but I can't comprehend Hindi or Bollywood. And as for Chinese films, I won't pay to watch it in the cinemas because most films will be dubbed in Mandarin. It's a distraction when the lips don't synced. So I'll watched most Cantonese films over DVD.

Anyway, The Storm Warriors is a 2009 sequel to The Storm Riders which was shown in 1998 (11 freaking years for a sequel). Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng return as Cloud and Wind destined to overthrow the rule of Japanese invasion of warlord Lord Godless. To gain more strength after their first defeat, our heroes venture to  learn a more powerful art.

Cloud trained with the legend Nameless and came up with a new sword style. Wind however trained under Lord Wicked in the evil arts. Wind's training was not completed due to a distraction from Lord Godless troops. This caused Wind to be consumed by eviland Cloud to fight Wind to regain his true self.

Rating: 3.5
The wushu and martial art sequences are just too spectacular. The battle scene are portrayed as a view from a comic with real life characters. Be good if they can 3D-fy the movie

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Grown Ups

Boy will be boys, some longer than others.  That line works well on me. But not sure if it still be when I get married. My life aside, Grown Ups is another movie by inseparable duo, Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider, with Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade joining the crew.

The movie is about a group of 5 junior high basketball champion getting together for their coaches funeral. Now married with kids, except Spade, they get together at a summer home after the funeral. It's great to see grown guys reliving their childhood and teaching them to their gadget-deprived kids.

The show packs a lot laugh. Each comedian provides different types of humor from sarcasm, klutz and dumb.

Rating: 4
Great laugh

Friday, September 17, 2010

Resident Evil: Afterlife

I didn't expect them to come up with a continuation after third movie. But RE:A is the only zombie movie that I can tolerate. It seems like movies nowadays are coming up in 3D, so RE:A joined in the bandwagon. And they did a good job in for every action. The matrix feel and 3D view makes viewing interesting.

RE:A takes off from Resident Evil: Extinction and a reunion of Alice and Claire Redfield, and another reunion of the Redfield siblings. Wentwood Miller is a excellent portrayal of Chris Redfield, Claire's brother. Alice and the Redfield siblings makes an excellent trio. Their action are just too awesome.

Though the boss fight seems like a bit too Matrix-like. The main villain Albert Wesker seems more like a Matrix agent and the fight sequence seems all too familiar.

Spoiler Alert! Expect a continuation with the return of Jill Valentine(Didn't noticed it was her till I wiki the movie)

Rating: 3.5
A tolerable zombie movie with not much zombie action but the actions are still awesome. Recommended in 3D viewing.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse is a direct-to-video movie adaptation of the comics storyline "The Supergirl from Krypton" by Jeph Loeb and the late Michael Turner. It is also a sequel from Superman/Batman: Public Enemy.

Even though the title states Superman and Batman, the movie features top characters of the DCU such as Wonder Woman, Big Barda, Darkseid and Doomsday.

Apocalypse follows directly from the storyline and even the great artwork of Michael Turner. The movie introduces Kara Zor-El, cousin to Superman and her growth to become Supergirl. Though the movie ending is different from the comics.

Rating: 3.5
Great adaptation in storyline and artwork. And if Supergirl is real, I hope she'll be my girlfriend.

Monday, September 6, 2010

The Expendables

I don't really like Sylvester Stallone but this time his directions is to be credited for. And the show is packed with top action movie stars.

Stallone together with Jason Statham, Jet Li and Mickey Rourke are elite mercenaries, The Expendables hired by Bruce Willis to overthrow a Latin American dictator.

The show packs a lot of explosions and great gun fights. Statham blades play are awesome. Each characters irritates each other perfectly.

Another great part of the movie is it's packed with great top action movie stars. I did mention it before but it's worth mentioning again. They even had a cameo with the 3 great action stars, Stallone, WIllis and Schwarzenegger dissing each other.

Ratings: 4
Great actors line-up, great actions, great fights and great humor. What else can we ask for.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Salt

Salt is a great action movie. And Angelina Jolie is great for this kind of shows and character. Tomb Raider, Mr and Mrs Smith and Wanted are great movie that Angelina delivered perfectly.

Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent, and goes on the run to try to clear her name.

The show is fast paced and you see Salt running for her life. The chase scene are all tremendously superb. Not much of those CGI action sequences. All the action seems real.

Rating: 4
Another great spy movie with great action and Angelina Jolie. Nuff said