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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

DEAD SNOW (2009)

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FULL THROTTLE (1995)

RATING: 3/5NOMINATED for an impressive 10 Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Picture, but only won one for Best Film Editing, Derek Yee's FULL THROTTLE is nevertheless one of the best Hong Kong films of 1995. Despite the overall effort is predictable,...

C'EST LA VIE MON CHERI (1993)

RATING: 4/5 HONG KONG's answer to the evergreen Ali MacGraw-Ryan O'Neal's LOVE STORY (1970), C'EST LA VIE MON CHERI (which means "That's life, my love") is one of the most popular tearjerkers ever seen that also boosts the career of Anita Yuen...

THE BEAST STALKER (2008)

RATING: 2.5/5 FOR every Hong Kong cinema enthusiasts, Dante Lam is forever best known for his 1998's career-defining and award-winning BEAST COPS, in which he has hardly topped ever since. His latest film, THE BEAST STALKER, comes close to return...

PROTEGE (2007)

RATING: 3/5 DEREK Yee's much-hyped anti-drug epic, PROTEGE, isn't as fulfilling as it touted to be but as far as any Hong Kong film goes, this one manages to stand above-average effort. For seven long years, Nick (Daniel Wu) has gone undercover...

MURDERER (2009)

RATING: 1/5 ON the basis of the highly-anticipated MURDERER, the film looks set to be another winner for currently in-form Aaron Kwok. During production, it was reported he went extreme method acting by portraying his role without sleep to...

LIFELINE (1997)

RATING: 3/5HONG KONG's answer to Ron Howard's BACKDRAFT (1991). Though not as great as that Hollywood counterpart, director Johnnie To's insider's look of the dangerous profession of firefighters is a credible and solid entertainment nonetheless. Of...

INVITATION ONLY (2009)

RATING: 1/5HAILED as "Taiwan's first slasher film", it should have been saying a lot for INVITATION ONLY. Unfortunately rookie director Kevin Ko's directorial debut is nothing more extraordinary than being one of those listless and increasingly tedious...

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (2009)

RATING: 2.5/5 BACK in summer 2006, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND has shocked and disappointed (every) fans and audiences alike by abruptly killing off some of the important main characters in a row -- e.g. James Marsden's Cyclops and Patrick Stewart's Professor...

TERMINATOR SALVATION (2009)

RATING: 3/5 WHEN Halcyon Company greenlit a new, proposed TERMINATOR trilogy a year ago, I was pretty much skeptical how the franchise is going to work out especially since Arnold Schwarzenegger has no longer involved leading the cast as the iconic...

DRAG ME TO HELL (2009)

RATING: 4/5HERE'S a very important question: When was the last time a horror film that manage to scare the hell out of you but at the same time also draw some worthy dosage of cheeky laughter as well? Not since the EVIL DEAD trilogy jump started...

TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (2009)

RATING: 2/5THE first TRANSFORMERS (2007) was a gargantuan hit, grossing at a whopping $319 million in the domestic box-office alone while reaping an even bigger money of $706 million worldwide. And shortly after the film won Best Movie at 2007 MTV Movie...

THE HURT LOCKER (2009)

RATING: 2.5/5AFTER scoring low with back-to-back disappointments of K:19 - THE WIDOWMAKER and THE WEIGHT OF WATER (both released in 2002), Kathryn Bigelow's long-awaited return to the director's chair sees her back in a near top form. Winner of...

PUBLIC ENEMIES (2009)

RATING: 3/5NO historical and cultural aspects of America's real-life crime saga will ever goes unnoticed without mentioning the famed bank robber John Dillinger, the most publicized figure during the rise of 1930s Depression-era whose appearance subsequently...