Movie Review – Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol

Is not too much if I said, this is the most anticipated movie that has been waited by all Tom Cruises’ die-hard-fan and Mission Impossible hard-fans precisely. The fourth movie from Mission Impossible series was release in silver screen in Malaysia on 15^th December 2011 ago. MyBoo and I definitely will not take our chance not to be in our favourite cinema for the screening.

Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol is a story of Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) as an agent of IMF. On assignment in Budapest to intercept a courier working for a person of interest code-named "Cobalt", IMF agent Trevor Hanaway (Josh Holloway) is killed by an assassin named Moreau (Lea Seydoux). Hanaway's team leader, Jane Carter (Paula Patton), and newly promoted field agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) extract Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and Hunt's source Bogdan from a Moscow prison. Hunt is recruited to lead Carter and Dunn to infiltrate the secret Moscow Kremlin archives and locate files identifying Cobalt. Halfways through the mission, someone broadcasts across the IMF frequency, alerting the Russians to Hunt's team. Although Hunt, Dunn and Carter escape, a bomb destroys the Kremlin and Russian agent Sidirov (Vladimir Mashkov) accuses Hunt of masterminding the attack.

The IMF extracts Hunt from Moscow. The Russians have called the attack an undeclared act of war and the US president activates "Ghost Protocol", a black operation contingency that disavows the entire IMF. Hunt and team are to take the blame for the attack, but will be allowed to escape from government custody so that they may operate to track down Cobalt. Before Hunt can escape, the IMF's secretary is killed by Russian security forces led by Sidirov, leaving Hunt and intelligence analyst William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) to find their own way out. The team identifies Cobalt as Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist who believes the weak must die for the strong to survive, and so plans to start a nuclear war to start the next stage of human evolution. Hendricks bombed the Kremlin and acquired a Russian nuclear launch-control device, and now needs its codes from the Budapest courier in order to launch a nuclear missile at America.

The exchange between Moreau and Hendricks' right-hand man, Wistrom (Samuli Edelmann), is due to take place at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. There, Hunt's team-members separately convince Moreau and Wistrom that they have made the exchange with one another. However, Moreau identifies Brandt as an agent. While Hunt chases Wistrom (only to realize Wistrom is actually Hendricks in disguise as Hendricks escapes with the codes) Carter detains Moreau. Moreau attempts to kill the inexperienced Dunn, and Carter throws her out a window to her death (it is 100^th floor of Burj Khalifa). Brandt accuses Carter of compromising the mission for revenge against Moreau, but Hunt accuses Brandt of keeping secrets from them, as he has displayed fighting skills atypical of an analyst. While Hunt seeks more information from Bogdan, Brandt admits he was assigned as security detail to Hunt and his wife Julia while on assignment. Julia was killed by a Serbian hit squad, prompting Ethan to pursue and kill them before he was caught by the Russians and sent to prison.

From Dubai, their journey in tracking Hendricks brings them to Mumbai, India. Hendricks facilitated the sale of a defunct Soviet military satellite to Indian telecommunications entrepreneur Brij Nath (Anil Kapoor), which could be used to transmit the order to fire a missile. While Brandt and Dunn infiltrate the server room to take the satellite offline, Carter gets Nath to reveal the satellite override code. But Hendricks has anticipated Hunt's plan and takes Nath's servers offline before sending a signal from a television broadcasting tower to a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific. The submarine fires on San Francisco. Hunt goes after Hendricks and the launch device while the rest of the team attempt to bring the broadcast station back online. Hunt and Hendricks fight over the launch-control device before Hendricks jumps to his death with it to ensure the launch. Dunn kills Wistrom, allowing Brandt to restore power to the station and enabling Hunt to deactivate the missile before it can detonate. He is confronted by Sidirov, who sees that he has stopped the missile, proving that the IMF is innocent in the Kremlin bombing.

Say needed more. This movie is full of action, mendebarkan… you can feel the excitement. Go and watch it! Last when we walked out from the cinema, I said ‘Tom Cruise looked handsome even he’s wearing goggle’… hahahaha.. till then~~

Movie Review – Tower Heist

My first thought when I saw this movie trailers is ‘wow’. Why? Bcoz I can’t contain my laugh when I saw Eddie Murphy’s face! Hahaha… yes, he’s one of the leading actors in this movie.



Tower Heist

Tower Heist is crime comedy film, a story about Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) who’s working as a manager in one of the most prestigious service apartment in New York City, Tower. His relationship with one of the tenants and the most respected person in Wall Street, Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) make him decided on investing his staff’s pension in the Ponzi scheme. When Shaw was caught by FBI, Josh realized that all the pension investment was gone. Reluctant to see his staffs’ disappointment when they learn their hard-earn-money for all those long years was nowhere to be seen, Josh team up with Charlie (Casey Affleck) his brother-in-law who’s working at the same building, Dev’reaux (Michael Pena) a lift technician, and Odessa (Gabourney Sidibe) a housekeeper. The team enlists the aid of criminal Slide (Eddie Murphy) and bankrupt bussinesman Mr. Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick) to break into Shaw’s penthouse and steal back their money while avoiding the FBI in charge of his case, Claire Denham (Tea Leoni).

This movie is fun, suspense, full of laughter and……. I am calling everyone to go and watch this movie! It’s good. People always say laughter is a good medicine, so does this movie. It will blow out your migraine. Hahaha… I’m giving away 4.5 stars out of 5 stars for this movie. Need no more to say. Till then~~

Movie Review – Real Steel

Finally last Tuesday night, I managed to get myself and myBoo (paid by us) ticket movies of Real Steel (erghh…. After almost two weeks in cinema.. too bad for us). The cinema was packed with audience and since Wednesday is a public holiday for Malaysia, Pavilion KL was jammed pack with people hanging out after work (coz I see those still wearing works’ attire.. hehehe).

Real Steel

Synopsis: A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

Let’s talk about the movie! I’m giving away 4.5 stars out of 5 stars for the brilliant entertainment from Shawn Levy. The film is based in part on the 1956 short story "Steel" by Richard Matheson. It is full of energy till there are times I can’t laid back and relax but I was very spiritually wanna be along in the arena and threw some fit to Zeus or Farra Lemcova. You can found love, hatred, will of surviving in life and lots of morality in this film. It’s not just offer u some action from the robot, but Max and Atom shown some strive and never give up attitude.

Note: I will watch this movie again, for the second time, sometimes next week. So I encourage everyone to watch this movie… simply bcoz this movie is good. Till then~~

Movie Review – Paranormal Activity 3

According to actual plan, yesterday is the day we supposed to watch Real Steel. Unfortunately, when we approached the ticketing booth, the movie still not released for free viewing (coz we won the free ticket, we have to have until GSC announce it with asterisk (*) in the newspaper… mind myself to be alert!). Even though I already GSC the day before and the customer service girl said I can come and watch the movie yesterday, but fate not at our side. Try again next week I guess!

So we move on to next movie in the list, Paranormal Activity 3. Luckily it already in the cinema, else I’ll be very disappointed. We watched the first and second movie of Paranormal Activity. So the third movie, is exciting me. It is continuity of the first two films which brings us back to 18 years ago, on year of 1988. Where the audience was brought up by the cause or on how and where it was started. My advice, u has to watch the first two films then only u watch the third. Believe me; this film was not going to disappointed u.

Paranormal Activity 3

The story started with Katie delivers a box of old video tapes to her sister Kristi and her husband Daniel in 2005. Later when Kristi and Daniel's house has been trashed, Daniel discovers the tapes have been taken. Back in 1988, a young Katie and Kristi live with their mother Julie, and her boyfriend Dennis, who has a job videotaping weddings. Kristi begins interacting with an imaginary friend named Toby. Dennis and Julie notice that since Kristi's friend appeared, strange things have happened in the house. The climax of this story is when Julie, Dennis, Katie and Kristi went back to Julie’s mother house. There Dennis and Julie was ‘died tragically’ and Katie and Kristi later was raised by their grandmother.

I said ‘died tragically’ with an apostrophe (‘__‘) is because their death is cause by Toby. Who I believe along the plot is trying to marrying Kristi. Yes it sounds like…. err….. cheesy?? But it is true.. we can’t see ghost folks! And that’s all about paranormal, things that we can’t see. This film will make your heart beats twice faster than normal. Towards the end of the movie, honestly I closed my eyes through it and scream a lot… hahahaha… from 5 stars; I give this movie 4 star. Thumb up! I will wait for the fourth movie (if any). Till then~~

Mid-day Mood… Fullest to Life!!

I came back from lunch… weather very hot, and I’m hotter when I saw my car which I sent to carwash (below my office) still got dirt and my shoes all tunggang-langgang (messy). But soon enough I was cool down bcoz I received this courier which I’ve waited for a week!! Yieehhaaaaaaaaa… finally I got my ticket for Real Steel movie courtesy from Suria.fm. Thanks Suria.fm!!

Letter from Suria.fm

Tickets of Real Steel *wink

The story is, last two weeks as usual I listen to Suria.fm online when I came across this competition, SMS for a movie ticket. That time they were giving away two movie tickets of Real Steel where I and myBoo already listed it in our movie watching listing. So I just try my luck, send an SMS and BOOM! I won it… I couldn’t even believe it coz not once in my life I ever win anything (from the radio lah.. hehe).. Within seconds I already yell it to myBoo and my sissy bout it.. hahahaha… funny..

I’m going to watch it tomorrow after work (hopefully). Wait for my review! Till then~~

Movie Review – 1911

Hi all… it’s been awhile since my last post. Sorry for the busy days, all mixed up, work, family, relation, friends, emotionally mixed up too. But I’m ok, slowly keeping my life back into track.

Despite the chaos, I manage to get some time with myBoo to watch latest movie by Jackie Chan, titled 1911. Frankly to me, the number itself (1911) brings a significant to my life. And since this is a 100^th movie by Jackie Chan, I don’t want to miss it.

Jackie Chan's 100th Movie - 1911

We watched it on Saturday, at GSC Pavilion KL. The movie is a historical piece of The 1911 Revolution or also known as Xinhai Revolution. Co-stars include Chan's son Jaycee Chan, Li Bingbing, Winston Chao, Joan Chen and Hu Ge. The movie filming was taken place at Fuxin, Liaoning. It’s a war film, so no one could expect a kung fu battle here. From 5 stars, I would give this movie 2.5 star.

Synopsis: At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, and his ruthless mother, Empress Dowager Longyu (Joan Chen) is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power.

With ordinary citizens beginning to revolt openly, the Qing Dynasty has created a powerful, modern army (the "New Army") to quash any rebellion. But weapons are expensive, and desperate for cash, the Qing leaders are trading anything they can get their hands on with foreign countries… and selling China's future in the process.

Huang Xing (Jackie Chan) has recently returned from Japan, where he has studied the art of modern warfare. When he finds his country falling apart, he feels he has no choice but to pick up the sword, leading an increasingly desperate series of violent rebellions against the powerful Qing Dynasty and the New Army- several with tragic consequences.

From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, with no expense spared in production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy, 1911 is a true epic in every sense of the word.

At the eve of the Qing dynasty, Western powers exerted their spheres of influence and the resulting trade imbalance endangered the entire country. From the 1840 Opium War onward, Western Imperialists extended their control on Chinese soil. While parts of China were ruled by the feudal Qing court, other parts were administered as foreign colonies. Yet the Qing court continued to concede to foreign demands: the Manchus gave up land and control while exercising dictatorial powers over the Chinese people, creating great stress and strain on various social strata. The Western powers abused the Qing court to the extent that China was literally being overwhelmed, which alarmed many.

At the same time, Chinese people began to benefit from capitalism: business people accumulated wealth and a national consciousness on the political and economic front, reflecting the Chinese people's wish to be autonomous and their desire to live in a democratic society. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Chinese intellectual world had become aware of revolution and democracy and various organizations were established to promote these ideals: Xingzhonghui (Revive China Society), Huaxinghui (China Revival Society), Kexuebuxisuo (Science Night School) and Guangfuhui (Restoration League). On August 20, 1905, the Tongmenghui (Chinese Revolutionary Alliance) was established and Sun Yat-sen proclaimed its founding principles: "Repel the Tatar barbarians, revive China, establish a republic, and divide land equally." Tongmenghui's founding signaled a new revolutionary phase in the political development of China.

Movie Review – The Three Musketeers

Haaa… I got a lot to write, but not much time to do it. Huhu… while I’m a bit free now, I’ll settle this review as well before it drag and bother my mind! Hehe…

Ok. This is really fresh from oven!

Last Saturday, as usual the main character here is me and myBoo, went for movie watching session at GSC One Utama. This time we opted for The Three Musketeers.  Wachaaaa~~ opss… sorry! Wrong sound effect… hehehe..



The Three Musketeers 2011

Story of The Three Musketeers (interpretation from novel of The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas of 1844) is about the hot-headed young D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) along with three former legendary, Athos (Matthew MacFayden), Porthos (Ray Stevenson) and Aramis (Luke Evans), but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent, Milady de Winter (Mila Jovovich) and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war. Milady works for both France’s Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) and England’s Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). In the earlier scene, Milady was betrayed the musketeers in order to get scroll of war machines from the bunk located in Venice that should be given to France, but Milady sold the scroll to Duke of Buckingham.

Novel by Alexander Dumas 1844

This is a remake of 1948, 1973 and 1993 version. For me, this film is enjoyable but not so amused me. Out of 5, I will give these movie 3 stars. And I recommend everyone to watch this movie. Just to sit, lay back, relax and enjoy it. Happy watching y’all!

Movie Review – The Sorcerer and the White Snake

A couple weeks ago, I and myBoo went for a movie watching of latest film by Jet Li, The Sorcerer and the White Snake at GSC Pavilion KL. Frankly, the main reason we watch the movie bcoz of Jet Li. And it’s quite sometimes we watch Chinese movie since Ip Man 2.

The Sorcerer and the White Snake

The Sorcerer and the White Snake stories about White Snake (Eva Huang), in the incarnation of a beautiful lady, fall in love with a young herbalist Xu Xian (Raymond Lam). With the help of Green Snake (Charlene Choi), she ventured into the human world and got married to Xu Xian. In a twist of event, Fa Hai (Jet Li), a sorcerer from Jin Shan Temple, crosses path with White Snake. Fa Hai is on ghost hunting with his assistant, Nen Reng (Wen Zhang). This story is based on the Chinese Legend of the White Snake.  

The movie was not disappointing us. It was good, and some parts were hilarious! Everyone in the movie was roaring with laughter when Nen Reng turned himself into bat after his battle with demon of bat that was attacking a village. And also there a scene where the demons from White and Green Snake camouflage themselves as their parents and family members in order for White Snake and Xu Xian to get married. It was cute (for me it’s cute…. Hehe) to see how animals turn themselves into human but still keeps some of their animal’s habits! Hahahaha… the only thing is a lot of CGI where I think it makes the battles looked…. FAKE! Ok I know it is a movie, but still I wanted something more realistic.

Overall, I will encourage everyone to go and watch this movie.. Till then~~