CARA BERITAWA

Sunday, July 25, 2010

CHLOE (2010)

RATING: 3/5When comes to erotic thriller, Atom Egoyan isn't particularly among the favorable candidates spring into mind. In fact, his movies are always cerebral and clinical, regardless what kind of genre he was given to be accomplished of. Movies that...

Sunday, July 18, 2010

KNIGHT AND DAY (2010)

RATING: 2.5/5Once upon a time, a Hollywood summer movie tentpole would not be complete without delivering an event picture that featured a pair or a couple of A-list superstars. There are also the time when a superstar alone can open a movie. But by...

JONAH HEX (2010)

RATING: 0/5At the first glance, JONAH HEX looks like something of a unique comic-book movie. Based on the cult DC comics of the same name, the movie's mix of old-fashioned fashion with additional supernatural twist is no doubt puts a fascinating spin...

CROSSING HENNESSY (2010)

RATING: 2/5Judging from its breezy trailer, Ivy Ho's CROSSING HENNESSY is easily seen as a romantic comedy that sees stars Jacky Cheung and Tang Wei falling in love for each other. But thanks to its misleading marketing campaign, the movie is more of...

THE LEGEND IS BORN: IP MAN (2010)

RATING: 2.5/5Banking on the current "it" martial-art genre of Wing Chun, which is evident on the hugely successful IP MAN (2008) and this year's IP MAN 2 (2010), it's not surprising that more filmmakers wanted to jump in the bandwagon as well. Such case...

BLACK RANSOM (2010)

RATING: 1/5There are two words best described for writer/producer Wong Jing and director Keung Kwok-Man's latest cop thriller, BLACK RANSOM: painfully routine. Pretty much like their 2007's BULLET AND BRAIN, the movie is both awfully generic and awkwardly...

Sunday, July 11, 2010

THE KARATE KID (2010)

RATING: 2.5/5At the first glance, a remake of the original THE KARATE KID (1984) is wholly unnecessary but you can't blame of Hollywood for lacking of fresh ideas nowadays. But surprisingly, this 2010 remake manages to hold on its own. Not only that,...

Saturday, July 10, 2010

TRIPLE TAP (2010)

RATING: 2.5/5After the cinematic misfire of the highly-ambitious but bloated gangster drama SHINJUKU INCIDENT (2009), it's fair to say that Derek Yee's TRIPLE TAP looks promising enough worth checking out for. After all, TRIPLE TAP is actually a sequel...

ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW (2009)

RATING: 3/5Based on writer-director Alex Law's own childhood memories, ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW is a good old-fashioned, slice-of-life melodrama that is rarely seen in Hong Kong cinema these days. On the bright side, this kind of long-forgotten genre is...

Sunday, July 4, 2010

CRAZY HEART (2009)

RATING: 2.5/5In this Scott Cooper's directing debut, CRAZY HEART, the movie centers on a 57-year-old alcoholic and onetime legendary country singer/songwriter Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) who is now in a career slump touring hundreds of miles a day in his...