Friday, July 18, 2008

Red cliff

A movie i watch 2 times in cinema. Is it good? the answer is good for the historic movie. Director John Woo know how to shoot the war scene. Major 2 war scene is long, detail and nice. He successfully portrait the war scene in ancient time. You can appreciate it better if you watch 2nd time because first time for story, 2nd time for datail.3rd time for analysis. I won't watch 3rd time until later.Romance of 3 kingdom is a very nice novel and war of red cliff is one the climax in the novel. There are many war in the novel but only less than 4 war worth reading in detail. Red cliff is one of them . I think 2nd part of red cliff will be better bacause the major war in red cliff is at 2nd part. If John woo can shoot the minor war with so datail in formation then 2nd part is more worth watching.the story is still follow according to original although few parts is modified. One of them is the zhang fei not using the shield to attack cao cao army in the beginning. He use the tactic of frightening . He ask few army chop out the tree and tie at the house then use the horse to run . it make the behindvery dusty . cao cao can't see how many army is there. he then stand at bridge and ask cao cao to cross. he shout and one commander died and cao cao fell down.
this is the real story but i still like the plot John woo modified.

Overall 8/10 story 8.5/10 action 8/10 war scene 8/10
recommend : must watch

Thursday, July 03, 2008

hancock

Hancock staring will smith is a movie of Antiheroes. This days, a lot of super heroes got their dark side.Start with spiderman suddenly change into black color but honestly i like the dark spiderman because the suit look glamour. Hell boys also a bit bad( a heroes from hell) . Batman never good before.He like to kill . Superman super dumb also let go of lex Luther. Why super heroes so famous now . Theory is simple because nowaday we want our heroes a bit like us. They should got problem like us not only saves people. Hancock is the worst among them .
Hancock saves people , caught thief but he do damages to the surrounding during catching process.example, he poke the thief's car at the rooftop, throw the dying whale to people yart. destroy the road during flying. His image is so bad until he met a guy(image producer). he encourage him and changed him. He ask him to go to jail. After that , he turned out to be the super heroes liked by people.After that,Charlize theron (the guy's wife) tell him that he is the angel. and turn out Charlize Theron is his ex.... When they are together, they will become normal human.
the story ended with hancock become the real heroes.....
Rating 8/10 story 8.5/10 special effect 7/10 action 7.5/10 emotion 8/10

A good movie using another approach for us to see the movie.

Get smart

if you like evan almighty, you maybe like this movie. i like Steve Carell since his acting in 40 year old virgin, evan almighty. his acting very natural for commedy. the actress is anne harthaway. a pretty girl. combination is good because of steve acting.
Further more i like spy movie with commedy element. compared to austin power, this movie is less 18sx (sex jokes), more action commedy. the movie ended with the theory based agent got the pretty agent.
Happy ending movie.
Rating 7/10 jokes 8/10 story 6/10 action 7/10
Recommend : a good to watch movie.

Wanted= almost fiction like matrix


a accountant whose father is a highly skilled assassin found by The organization" the fratenity" and trained him to be the killer. The concept is good just as the lorry driver trained to be the doctor, the hooker trained to be police or zombie or etc.
turned out the truth is far beyond his understanding. The secret organization turned out not as good as what he think. the concept of the organization kill one person saves thousand lives turns out to be the concept many people believe in. Just like killing one dictator or bad leader and saves all the citizen of the nation or is it just killing one dictator and comes another dictator.
The movie action is extremely good. Story got twisted. the bullet is not move in straight line in this movie but in parabola . How about that? idea is good.

Recommendation: Must watch
rating 8.5/10 story 8/10 action 8.5/10 twisted 9/10 idea 8.5/10
Warning : do not watch in small screen