I really love this action-thriller film adapted on the 1963-1967 TV series starring my No. 1 idol, Harrison Ford, because it gave me excitement by seeing Ford go on the run to trace an one-armed killer who committed the murder of his wife after he was accused. Ford was fit as the part of Dr. Richard Kimble perfectly. With this role, the last thing required is a melodramatic actor that sticks out like a sore thumb. Ford casually settles into the role of the man on the run, bringing intelligence and style to a less ostentatious character. The result is an interesting cat-and-mouse game between Dr. Richard Kimble and the police that never allows your attention to fade away. Excellent directing and acting and the constant action and tension, this movie really delivers everything that you can expect from it. I keep watching that movie on DVD several times when I make my chance.
This is one of my all-the-time favourite Marvel Comics superheroes when I was a kid. While the movie started in the production, I was really exciting to look forward watching the amazing scenes of Spider-Man's action more better than late 1970's TV series. I finally watched it at the cinema on the late night in the first session released. This is absolute masterpiece as well as fascinating mix of spectacular action and powerful drama. These scenes are mostly familiar to Marvel superhero comic book series I last read - very impressive. Director Sam Raimi's excellent at showing us the hero's pain, as well as the one he causes to others, and he gets terrific performances from the entire cast, particularly Tobey Maguire (as Peter Parker/Spider-Man) and Willem Dafoe (as the evil-looking Norman Osborn/Green Goblin).
Magnificient! Excitement! More adventure... and funny! I was really terrific to see Harrison Ford, director Steven Spielberg and creator George Lucas finally reunited for the final installment of an archaeology hero Indiana Jones since 19 years. This adventure movie brought some memories from the past Indy series. I was also surprised to see how fit Ford was in his reprise of 1980s character on his currently age as well as I believed he did his own stunts in the movie. Aussie actress Cate Blanchett is terrifically as the villianious vixen than Alison Doody in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Shia La Beouf is incredible in his action scenes as Indy's young sidekick, Mutt, but known as his son while Indy's old lover Marion told him. And veteran actress Karen Allen is quite funny as her reprise Marion Ravenwood since Raiders of the Lost Ark. In the warehouse scene was helter-skelter, kinetic and funny, perfectly choreographed and, arguably, as deliriously good as anything in the series. And the action and jungle-chase sequences were stunning!
This is one of my all-the-time favourite war films based on the novel by Alister MacLean I read before watching this. Really great entertainment in the escapist adventure where our heroes can do no wrong and the action comes thick and fast. Surprisingly the combination of Richard Burton's classical approach to acting & Clint Eastwood's brash new-kid-on-the block 1960s adaption works quite excellent and make for a good partnership as they go about kicking Nazi butt in their usual inimitable ways.
Really HILARIOUS and I love it! This becomes one of my number 1 favourite Jim Carrey's funniest movie and 90s comedy classic. Jim Carrey puts so much energy and his comedic performances and he is well supported by the likes of Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz and Amanda Donohue. I loved almost as much as Carrey's rubber mouth and oral blockage (like an overheated boiler fighting not to explode) was the premise: a lawyer that can't lie. I bloody couldn't stop laughing heaps when I watch it again and always hurt my stomach.
AWESOME! The best of the 1980's Hong Kong action-comedy movie with Jackie Chan. The film features opening and ending action sequences which are amongst the best done EVER. The climax features an incredible fight scene in a shopping mall which is a fantastic combination of martial arts, brawling and sheer destruction, and the final stunt - WOW! Chan performs such dangerous stunts in Police Story that it's a testament to his strong conditioning and bravery. Because of his fearless attitude, Chan always recovers from injury to do more dangerous stunt work. Very few would do what Chan does and this is what makes him beloved in the eyes of his fans.
Barrymore, Diaz and Liu are bloody hottest babes in their marital arts/action against their enemies including villian babe Demi Moore. Much dancing and cute outfit-wearing ensues.
Harrison Ford is my favourite hero and even his most powerful role ever as the President of the United States in this sky-high thriller film. Really excitement with high-stakes action and suspense - I love it!!!
I love the scene of Spidey fighting against Doc Octopus on the train because it really excited me. The story is still familiar to Marvel Comics comic books I last read when I was a kid - excellent jobs to director Sam Raimi and screenwriter Alvin Sargent with screen story Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Michael Chabon. This action-adventure movie is for the whole family. Great chase scenes, crashes, and special effects for the guys. Romance, and a tender love story for the gals. The action sequences once again are entrancing and the story is well written. Based on Marvel Comics comic books by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
Unusual love story between a teacher of the deaf and a deaf janitor. Marlee Matlin has a superb performance on her debut film. I love Deaf community / culture movies.
Magnificent and powerful action-thriller that brings me more excitement! This is one of my favourite Bruce Willis action movie since 1988's Die Hard. This movie reminded me a little of Navy SEALs, though grittier and more believable. Willis is his usual mostly expressionless self here, yet somehow he manages to get the part of the troubled Lieutenant across very well indeed. Monica Bellucci is an incredibly gifted actress and she really believed in this project. Her character comes across as having strong religious and moral convictions, prepared to die to help and protect others. The director, Antoine Fuqua, brings a strong moral theme to his characters and the story. The whole visual manner of filming, camera angels, close ups etc adds to the intensity here. The choice of filter during filming, that gives a subdued and darker feeling visually, was perfect. The use of Africans as extras was an interesting and a suitable choice, given their backgrounds. Many of these extras were showing genuine emotions which was captured on camera, as they relived traumatic moments in their lives when certain scenes were filmed.
Clever and jokey tale of a DA and lawyer teaming up to get performance artist off a murder rap. Redford, Winger and Hannah are great performance as a team.
Robert Downey Jr is fantastic as the title role on his comedic acting that gives me memories of the real Charlie Chaplin's silent films. I'm a fan of silent-film comedian.
Michael J. Fox is a dodgy ghostbuster in cahoots with the spooks he's paid to bust. Criminally underrated and still largely unseen, Peter Jackson's spook flick is a special effect extravaganza and the last word in afterlife comedy thrillers. Think Ghostbusters meets Natural Born Killers. Highly recommended.
Superb zany, riotous slapstick comedy of the 1970s! It makes me can't stop laughing heaps. Silly, simple and superficial, with no lowbrow, leering takes or hidden moral messages lurking, "What's Up, Doc?" is pure, unadulterated fun. Bugs Bunny should be proud. Barbara Streisand and Ryan O'Neal are my favourite comedy-romantic due uniquely endearing in screen history. Streisand delivers like a sniper and actually looks sexy and desirable and O'Neal is a perfect foil as an uptight college professor completely bamboozled by Streisand. Director Peter Bogdanovich's version of the car chase which closes the film is so tremendously funny and entertaining - that's my favourite scene.
Really funny and great entertaining as one of my number one favourite Anime. I really love A-Ko's incredibility actions against her sworn enemies to protect her best friend, C-Ko, she's from different world. C-Ko is driving me little crazy like she acts like a childhood girl, not teen girl. And B-Ko is fabulous as brainy, gorgeous and filthy rich teen bitch and enemy of A-Ko. I totally loved it!
This is also one of my favourite Clint Eastwood movies and he does an excellent performance as the title role. Eastwood did his own stunt by jumping onto a moving school bus from a bridge - that's true.
One of my favourite Sarah Michelle Gellar films in a comedy-romance story that her main character should be a 'Sabrina' chef. I love and would watch it again because it's full of fun and magic. Hopefully it will release on DVD in Australia real soon.
This movie I haven't seen since I bought the DVD this year. It's really hilarious and outrageous illegal road race. Whoo! And a silent moustache motorcyclist is heaps of funny in his accidents.
S-S-S-SMOKIN'! Awesome, hilariously funny and crazy action-comedy of a wise-cracking love-crazy and crime-fighting green tornado. Jim Carrey brings an awesome acting on his rubber-faced when wearing a green mask. The success of the film wholly depends on Carrey, as he has to sell his characters' frenzied insanity so that it's believable as a reflection of Stanley's inner self while at the same time likable but teetering on the edge of becoming obnoxiously overbearing. Of course, the amazing special effects and make-up help, as well as the clever script and more than competent directing and cinematography, but with the wrong actor in the part, the whole affair could have easily collapsed. And Cameron Diaz is a real knockout in her debut, even keeping pace with the rubber-legged Carrey in the dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed. I like the scene of The Mask in a hilarious part where he dances and makes the police squad dance either. It really makes one wanna dance. Based on Dark Horse comic book series created by writer John Arcudi and artist Doug Mahnke, and based on a concept by publisher Mike Richardson.
What an incredible Hong Kong action of John Woo's gangster melodrama with bullet hailstorms. Chow Yun-Fat's portrayal of Jeff is charismatic and compelling. Danny Lee does an excellent job as Inspector Li.
Brilliant karate movie I first ever watched when I was 11 on the video tape. Pat Morita was a cool mentor by teaching his protege Macchio in karate skills before the competition against the bullies.
This French adventure-comedy movie reminds me in my childhood based on the comic book. When I looked at Bellucci is so beautiful and sexy in her Cleopatra costumes.
This sci-fi-thriller story was incredible like a father and son from between the past and present in the whole things changing. Then I was terrific at the final scene by seeing a father and son reunited together at the present.
In the cinema, that film really shocked me alot when the UFO alien appears Mel Gibson's character at the crop field, alien's hand out under the door, TV breaking news and in the basement. Fantastic shocking!
This is my childhood favourite friendship of alien-human film I ever like it - more emotional and family fantasy classic. A winner, not for the special effects but the extraordinary performances from the kids. Henry Thomas is delightful and the middle child, Elliott who find and befriends ET. He is not "too cute", but gives a terrific performance, especially when ET telepathically makes him drunk. Drew Barrymoore is so cute as Elliott's little sister throughout the whole film and she captures the audience every time she appears on screen. Peter Coyote does great with the minimal screen time they chose to give him. The relationship between E.T. and Elliot can be marked as one of the greatest friendships in Hollywood history and in the farewell scene that tears me up.
Excitement and superb action. It is like watching a James Bond film, only with real death-defying stunts what Jackie Chan and Michelle Yoeh did. It's true - check out the end credits of this film.
The best one of Clint Eastwood's comedy movies and I love the scene of old Mama scaring the motorcycle gang hell out of her lawn with use her shotgun. That makes me laugh so much.
Newcomer Thai martial artist Tony Jaa is amazing on his own skills and stuntwork without the computer graphic. Unbelievable! He must be the new Asian action-hero of 2000s since Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
Melanie Griffith is superb as the ambitious secretary who discovers that new boss Sigourney Weaver has been passing off her ideas as her own. This is one of the funniest, sharpest and liveliest fairy tales of the decade.
This is a riotous account of two feuding used-car businesses. Jack Warden and Kurt Russell are both excellent in this overlooked comedy. Fine support is offered by Frank McRae, Gerrit Graham, and Deborah Harmon.
This is the best and funniest moments of competing car and girls in nudity. Whoo!
Excellent mystery of a sole survivor who has no injured or scratch on him after train crash as what I suppose he should be a superhuman with it's power.
Amazing action of Hong Kong's Le Femme Nikita meets Charlie's Angels. Maggie Q is fantastic in her martial arts/action sequences, she surely appears in M:I III as one of agents.
Amazing biographic of famous African-American boxer Muhommad Ali and his political martyrdom and compulsive womanising; most of the major events of his life are given the epic widescreen treatment, as is his controversial and much glossed over conversion to Islam. Will Smith was the best chosen and made excellent performance as heavyweight boxing champion in his boxing scenes.
Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate are excellent as best friends and career singles undertake a road trip in an effort to locate a specific guy who initiated more than a few sparks during a brief nightclub chat. This ribald sex farce, belying its name, is a tawdry little flick lacking anything in the way of redeeming social values, which panders to crude and smarmy sexuality, demeans the very nature of love, and turns the battle of the sexes into a sparring ground of smut.
This is one of my favourite 'Three Musketeers' movies as well as Sheen, Sutherland, Platt and O'Donnell are amazing as the swordsmen and allies in this Disney's action-adventure.
This film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterpiece and Gregory Peck did an excellent performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape.
One of the bestest Cynthia Rothrock movies where it filmed in Hong Kong with co-star Yuen Biao. Cynthia's stand-out fight scene is a weapon's duel with another American martial arts mistress Karen Shepard - amazing!
Chow Yun-Fat's bit hilarious and the balletic martial arts fight between crazed Gordon Liu and Conan Lee that provides the film's kicker. Did I mention that it's performed with chainsaws?
It's astonishing combination of high-flying acrobatics, hilarious comedy, excruciating torture scenes, and unabashed heroism from powerful female characters is like watching one of the old-style martial arts movies through a kaleidoscope.
Quack! Quack! Quack! The Mighty Ducks return again to play at the college. Joshua Jackson is great as the captain of ice-hockey team and acts alike Emilio Estevez's side.
Van Damme makes this damn fantastic and thrill-action ride film with the train out of control and takes on the terrorists to save the lives of everyone on board.
This is my first film where I watched it in my old live - Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The most thrilling action I ever saw with Bruce Willis fighting the terrorists in the building by himself. I like Bruce's quote - 'Welcome to the party, pal."
Superb mix of non-stop action and little romantic comedy. God - Jamie Lee Curtis' bloody hotter in stripping and dancing that makes me feel like womanizing on her.
This groundbreaking 3D animated adventure is even better than the original with five toys plan to rescue Woody from being kidnapped by a greedy collector.
This midly amusing comedy keeps threatening to be brilliant, but never quite make it. Nonetheless, the characters are so much fun that's still all quite a laugh.
Extraordinary true-life story of friendship between black activist and white newspaper editor in South Africa who told against the backdrop of a turbulent but beautiful land rich in everything but common humanity.
Amazing adventure and hunting on an arcane board game for the older children and adults like a rollercoaster ride. Robin Williams does fantastic acting like an adventurer to save the world from wild jungle.
Wow! First time I ever see Michael Jordan appears in his debut movie with the Looney Tunes cartoons. This is the cleverest and funniest animation/live-action capers ever made in the basketball court game.
Excellent drama of boxing movie since Rocky. Great story and relationship between the coach and female boxer are like a father and daughter who discover a shared spirit.
The most and best hilarious of Adam Sandler comedy movie I ever like it. Also the funniest golf comedy since Caddyshack. Sandler scores a hole up one for gut-busting wit and outrageous slapstick - what a hit!!
This hard-edged little dream deserves plenty of credit for avoiding the light comedy and fairy-tale conclusions by which underdog sports sagas usually are known, and would deserve an even higher rating were it not for Keanu Reeves's wooden (as usual) performance in the lead role. Really fantastic and emotional home run story.
Really brilliant Chaplin feature film I ever like so much, a geniuinely hilarious comedy which shows the Charles Chaplin in his happiest and most characteristic moods. I love the final scene that gives me good tears to see the Tramp and blind girl, whose finally can see, reunite together.
Really outstanding and gorgeous comedy for a woman at 30 acting like a 13-year-old girl since Big. Jennifer Garner makes a fantastic performance that makes me laugh.
This is FUCKING hotter and hilarious than American Pie series in the frat campus. Plenty of nudity girls and sexual references - WHOO! I fucking love it. If any of you boys will gotta like this.
Terrific comedy of an Italian-Australian schoolgirl's life with her relationships and fantasties that reminds me from my favourite US TV series' Ally McBeal. Pia Miranda does an excellent performance in this Aussie cult film.
This is the best one of Lethal Weapon series I ever watched. Because this is simply one of the greatest, funniest action pics of all time. A tough woman cop Rene Russo is cool.
Russell Crowe has an excellent performance in this Aussie film as the hell-raising skinhead leader of the gang. Because he won the AFI Award for best actor.
The bestest drama and emotional story I ever watched. It features all the moving, bittersweet honesty of Terms of Endearment, Field of Dreams and American Beauty.
Really interesting drama family tale of a genius chess boy. I love the final chess championship competition. (I'm disappointed it has no English subtitles in DVD only.)
This is my all-the-time favourite Meg Ryan's comedy-romance film that makes me laugh heaps. I always never forgot that movie while I watch it again and again.
This is more incredible sci-fi with amazing martial arts where a real-life female kickboxer champion Kathy Long kicks the ruling cyborgs' asses. I believe this is the highly recommendation of martial arts movie.
I'm such a fan of the manga comic book, Ranma 1/2, a gender and shape shifting, romance, martial arts and mass confusion. Brilliant funny and adventure of Ranma and Co. come to rescue Akana who is kidnapped by the Seven Lucky Gods of martial arts.
Shakespeare with kung fu? This is the mostly amazing action of Jet Li's debut US Joel Silver-produced martial arts fest takes its cues from William Shakespeare's crossed lovers and adds lots of CG enchanted fight scenes.
I love this very favourite sport film - beach volleyball. Lots of beautiful and sexy women at the beach and more exciting in the contests that C. Thomas Howell and Peter Horton make fantastic volleyball skills sequences.
Excellent non-stop action of the Japanese comic book superhero character than the first one. It entertains amazing battle choreography, visual effects, and great monster makeup.
These three short films are fabulous, funny and incredible adventures. But I like A Close Shave the best because it makes me laugh heaps with Wallace and Gromit and their new sheep friends including Shaun, a lamb. The Wrong Trousers seems exciting at the final scene of Wallace and Gromit chasing a mysterious new lodger (a penguin) on the toy train.
Charlie's Angels has a sense of humour and a splashy style not present in the original 1970s TV series. Chock full of cool, it's a top piece of fluff that delivers great action, stunts, kung-fu and sex appeal. Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu get the star treatment and are looking damn fine. Bill Murray as Bosley is the sort of casting that reveals much about the film - dry sarcasm and satire being the order of the day - this isn't a serious action piece - you won't see people die in a hail of bullets, you won't see splashes of blood or heroes saving the world with deep meaningful glances - what you will see is a great deal of MTV editing and shooting, Matrix-quality special effects and a tongue in cheek performance from every single actor.
One of my very favourite legal movie adaptation of John Grisham's bestseller. A very delight, emotional and exciting drama about an idealistic young attorney who takes on the case of a lifetime from start to finish.
The exciting one of martial arts cop movies I ever watched that partners Jeff Wincott and Karen Shepard are superb in their actions. This film is full of greatly choreographed fights by stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt who also appears in a supporting role.
Incredible and exciting action on fast and slow motions what director John Woo created. The battle between good and evil surley doesn't get any more bullet ridden than this.
This is the largely enjoyable martial arts action film I ever liked, two rival siblings must average their father's murder. Well-choreographed fight scenes, which are a thrill a minute.
Amazing and absolutely kickboxing teams brothers go against their father, the mastermind behind a bank robbery. Great action and decent performances as well as Jonathan Ke Quan is really incredible in his fast-packed martial artist since Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
One of my bestest epic movies of the 1930s of a woman's coming of age against the background of the American Civil War is also a love story packed with adventure. Vivien Leigh is a perfect portrayal of the beautiful and willful Southern bell Scarlett O'Hara.
AMAZING... THEN SPECTACULAR! Excellent and exciting with plenty of fast motion actions in Spider-Man's next adventures against his three new villians better than the sequels. The characters in this film give me great memories from the following Marvel comic books I read that director Sam Raimi does an excellent job. I like the final battle of Spidey teaming up with the New Goblin against his two dangerously villians. The visual and special effects are much as spectacular. Tobey Maguire remains a perfect fit as ever for the humility and heroies we associate with the title character.
Excellent ambitious multi-narrative drama which a gunshot in Africa has consequent repercussions in Mexico, the United States and Japan. I like two different individual stories are a wound American tourist who got shot in a bus by one of Moroccan brothers; and a deaf mute Tokyo teenager who struggles with an inattentive father, an inquisitive cop and a voracious sexual awakening. An unknown Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi does an impressive performance by playing as a deaf-mute teenager where I could see her sign languages - I understood some, but very different from my own, because I'm a supporter of the deaf culture.
Really exciting and very long supernatural movie about few immune survivors gather into two camps: the forces of good and of evil after a "super-flu" virus decimates the United States. Great strong emsemble cast including Gary Sinsie, Molly Ringwald and Rob Lowe. I like Rob Lowe's character as an innocent deaf-mute and his training sign languages and gestures are very impressive. This is the bestest and based on a novel by Stephen King TV movie I ever watched.
Magnificent sci-fi film of the 1970s that I first watched it at the drive-in. Director George Lucas set out to make the biggest possible adventure fantasy out of his memories of serials and older action epics, and he succeeded brilliantly.
Carrie Fisher is delightful as the regal, but spunky princess and Harrison Ford is outstanding as the likable mercenary pilot, Han Solo.
Brilliant action-comedy film as Richard Dreyfuss gets rather more heavily involved with the object of his and partner Emilio Estevez's surveillance than police regulations usually permit.
Highly Recommendation! Part of the beauty of this erotically romantic-drama (bit thriller) is we're never certain where to place our loyalties. We want to feel for sexy Spanish flamenco dancer, now bride-to-be, who looks for security and hopes to heal a lifetime of hurt by marrying loser and rich Englishman. Then at her bachelorette party, she meets and kisses an unemployed Brazilian actor who ignites a passion within her. What begins as a traditional romantic triangle spirals madly out of control, challenging the participants and thus the audience with its many plot twists and devices. Spanish actress Natalia Verbeke is fantastic and sexy I ever saw.
Really fantastic drama-romantic (sometimes funny) of French economics student Romain Duris goes to Barcelona for his re-education from his job and takes a room in a shambolic flat shared by seven other from different European countries - strangers who become his scrappy substitute for family.
Excellent special effects of two robotic clans (Autobots and Decepticons) in their transform of any types of transport and the battle in Los Angeles - really exciting. I like two Autobots, the leader Optimus Prime and Bumblebee as well as Autobots are also so funny by hiding around in and out a house.
Amazing true-life of legendary Frank T. Hopkins who entered the Ocean of Fire, a death-defying 3,000 horse race across the Arabian Desert. Viggio Mortensen makes fantastic performance as a hero and horse rider in this epic adventure film.
WHOA! OW! WHOO! AMAZING Thailand martial arts epic film with Tony Jaa since Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior. Jaa is terrific and more better than Hong Kong's Jackie Chan and Jet Li in his incredible fight scenes. He delivers "bone-breaking thrills and amazing gravity-defying action" performed without stunt doubles, wires or CGI. I love final showdown of battle scene between Tony Jaa and Nathan B. Jones that gave me a big jaw-dropping.
OHHH!! Very sexy and thriller film better than Basic Instinct I ever watched in director's cut on DVD. This film can make you feel more hot and thrilling.
Jennifer Love Hewitt is the best choice in her marvelous performance as the title role about her life before being a performing star of Hollywood. I believe Audrey Hepburn's life was so innocence as she's a very sweet actress as one of my very favourite idol.
Brilliant!!!! This is the most action-loaded, funniest and most complex Bud Spencer/Terence Hill film that was ever made as one of favourite Italian buddy movies I always watch several times. I love the final fighting scenes in the hall that made me exciting and laugh alot.
Jonathan Silverman does a fantastic performance as an average office worker who realises that everything is happening exactly as it did the previous day after his shock accident at 12:01am. I like what Silverman's character is doing his job to stop the murder and the time loop - exciting sci-fi adventure, funny and thriller unlike The Groundhog Dog.
This is my second all-the-time favourite Charlie Chaplin silent comedy film that makes me laugh heaps in the scene of Chaplin as the policeman against the head tough guy of Easy Street at the street. Marvelous!
Much hilarious! Marvelous! Plenty of laughs! This Charlie Chaplin silent film becomes my number one and all-the-time favourite I always watch several times. Chaplin out-kicks his proficient adversary in an encounter and as usual performs mirth-provoking acrobatic stunts - very clever!
This is the one of the best dangerously cat-and-mouse thriller movies that makes me exciting to see young actor Henry Thomas (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) as a highly imaginative boy who often plays pretend games of espionage with his fantasy friend finds himself involved in a real-life-and-death situation when he stumbles onto the evil doings of a group of spies. It's suspenseful and fast-paced but not so scary and violent as to upset the kiddies - it's true when I was 10 years old.
The best action flick since Bourne. This is much thrilling and fulfilling three course meal for me. Liam Neeson's several action sequences are amazing as a smart retired super-spy I ever saw. Robert Mark Kamen and Luc Beeson's script is fantastic.
Really magnificent, cute, funny and the best 2008 CG animated film. The gurus of modern animation have done it again - in fact WALL-E could be Pixer's best film yet (and I still have The Incredibles on high rotation at home!). It runs an amazing gamut of emotions from sadness to joy, amusement to wonder - which isn't bad for a movie starring a couple of robots! It has heart is an unconventional romance and a ripping homage to science fiction classics, most notably 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Magnificent action-drama based on the TV series into a TV movie after the Season 6. I'm glad to see Kiefer Sutherland returns as agent Jack Bauer at finally for a very long-awaited (say two years) as, due to the much-publicised Hollywood writer's strike. Absolutely adventure of Bauer who must stop a ruthless warlord from drafting innocent children into his murderous militia where it was filmed in Africa and familiar between Blood Diamond and Tears of the Sun. There's never a dull moment in 24, and this taster of what's to come can have me even more excited than ever about the upcoming new series - Season 7. Go Jack!
Full-thrill ride as hell on dangerously racing cars like Mad Max 2 in the prison. Amazing and excitement action with a total assault on the senses and visual effects, Death Race also boasts some top-notch performances from Jason Statham as the hero with his life on the line, while Joan Allen is formidable as the steedy-eyed warden with a heart of stone. Highly recommendation!
This is TOTALLY hilarious that I couldn't stop laughing. Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms and Bradley Cooper fall so perfectly into the circumstances of a night out without the wife/girlfriend - a bachelor party, no less - that I'm happy & safe in the audience clucking my tongue but secretly envying every single moment (one that includes the ever watchable Heather Graham). These boys fall and fall hard, and trying to pick up the pieces of a night they strangely can't remember brought more laughs than the last time I laughed this consistently. I felt like I wish I would be one of them - lol! Galifiankis has the most unique character (well, besides a naked Chinese fellow, but you can discover that one for yourself) and he's wonderful to watch. Not everything he does comes off 100%, but when he scores, it's so far out from our own comfort zone, that when the jaws of the other characters drop, I'm right there with them. Rachel Harris deserves special mention as the girlfriend who demonstrates why marriage can be so fearful. Mike Tyson generated a few laughs for everyone. By the way, if you love Old School, you will LOVE the ending.
Experience the magic! Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's animated award-winning film is gorgeous to look at, and his storytelling is superb; the result is a genuine treat for all ages.
Highly recommendation!
This is the best and favourite Larry McMurtry western movie than the original Lonesome Dove. James Garner made his magnificent performance as the role of Capt. Woodrow Call, and his final scene is at once heart breaking and resonating with strong quiet hope. A wonderful cast does memorable work, especially Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard and Randy Quaid. In this film, pure of heart may not necessarily mean pure of deed, but at least evil is evil and good is good. It bravely balances the aformentioned violence with scenes of wry humour and gentleness.
A joy to watch! Pirates are hilarious!!! What an incredible animated family adventure of two leads, Pazo and Sheeta who are on explore to the mystery castle in the sky. I believe this is one of my best Studio Ghibli animated films ever seen since Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. There is plenty of adventure, but not blood and gore. The animation is smooth, detailed, and cinematic ally composed - not a lot of flat shots. The backgrounds are wonderful.
This story is inspired by The Little Mermaid as I love it because two little kids are so cute. There are no pop culture references or adult jokes here; Ponyo is children's film in its purest form. While the strange images may confuse adults, children will love the cute characters and sweet story. The animation is remarkable in its simplicity. each frame has been hand drawn and is incredibly detailed, resulting in about 170,000 separate images - a record for a Miyazaki film.
Most exciting and magnificent! This is the impressively natural Na'vi who validate James Cameron's 12-year break since Titanic. The whole effect is mind blowing! I think it will be regarded by most cinema goers as another milestone in the history of the art. The level of realism achieved is remarkable, and although the film is relatively long in real time, it retains it's excitement and holds the audience's attention to the end. Heading towards the explosive showdown between imperialist money-grubbing bastards and Pandora's nature-loving population, Avatar seriously dives into a tangled web of soul trees, interconnected energy, glowing floating jellyfish auras, and guiding entity Eywa. Star Wars is effectlessly recalled by a "force" surging through hippy-dippy Pandora, while several mass meditation scenes unfortunately echo that rave scenes in The Matrix Reloaded. Aussie Sam Worthington makes the job well done in the leading role as Jake Scully. Zoe Saldana, who plays Neytiri, a Na' vi huntress, is thrilling and electrifying. Stephen Lang, as the rock hard Colonel Miles, takes on a villainous turn to a new level in science fiction. He offers actual emotion and emotes evil to the audience and gains our hatred easily. Sigourney Weaver as the beautiful Dr. Grace, is sufficient enough to have on screen again teamed with Cameron. She lives inside her role with effortless ease, but suffers from some of the typical James Cameron cheesy lines.
Up unfolds like an adventure story from your childhood. It's all tremendous fun, but Up's first act turns out to be merely a prelude to a rollicking action-adventure story that includes talking dogs, and a big brightly coloured bird called Kevin, plus a fair few surprises. To make a film that has bone fide family appear is almost a lost art, but with the combined creative nous of Pixar and Disney, it's been achieved here. Up is the successful marriage of astounding 21st century CGI animation with good old fashioned, unapologetically sentimental, storytelling. It's also very funny - especially those talkative dogs with the electronic devices on their collars that enable them to speak. Mr. Fredricksen (voiced by Edward Anser) - a character whose looks are based on screen legend Spencer Tracy - is especially brilliant, with his square jaw and equally square fingertips.
I loved Chocolate in all its glory. Look out for the amazing fight-scene with the Adidas Capocira kid. Thai actress JeeJa Yanin is an amazing female martial artist and stuntwoman since Tony Jaa in Ong Bak as what I thought she's following Jaa's steps. And she is so cute!!! An autistic girl (played by Yanin) with the powerful martial arts skill attempts to collect on the debts of her sick mother. This movie is not well written, and requires some patience from the viewer to slug through the early moments. Once the 30 minute mark arrives, however, the viewer is treated to one of the most amazing displays of asskicking by a female protagonist in the history of action cinema. There are a few homages that last a few minutes at most (a few Bruce Lee references, a locker scene reminiscent of Jackie Chan, and some footage from Tony Jaa's movies).
This is an anime at the best! This is all-the-time my favourite sci-fi-action anime just before I bought the Manga comic book series. The movie works because it's small. Everything is good but not exceptionally good. Because of this running time of only one hour is perfect. Be advised, though an animated feature, Battle Angel is graphic violent. It is NOT a cartoon. No cute bunnys. At first the whole thing with Gally being built as a "warrior" machine fails to impress me, I know It's a vital part of the plot but the fighting parts... It's just taking pleasure in super-violence, the monsters are really but-ugly. But then I figured the violence-theme is really just contributing to the sense of this grim fictional-world and the contrast to this which is the love story of the film.
This is the best and enjoyable teen flick known as Some Kind of Wonderful of the 1990s, but more fun and entertaining to watch Brad (played by Will Friedle), a high school teenage boy, running around looking for a condom on a hell night. He's more funny in this role. Jennifer Love Hewitt plays the role of his best friend, who is in love with Brad. This is one of her best movies. Love's acting ability has never been a question, but this performance is one of her best, while it is not Oscar worthy, she embraces the character and took a simple role and owned it. I couldn't stop laughing at the scene of a black dog chasing bully Eric Balfour's balls that made his face go red because he couldn't dare scream - OOOWWWW!!! HA! HA!
Excellent and worth seeing this dark story since Let the Right One In as what I thought it's a bit familiar to The Silence of the Lamb. This Swedish thriller/arthouse hybrid miraculously manages to be faithful to late author Stieg Larsson's novel without seeming slavish, and it doesn't hurt that he's cast the movie perfectly. This was very well-made with superb cinematography. The actors all portray their respective characters perfectly, although Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander, avenging cyberpunk angel, Michael Nyqvist as Michael Blomkvist, an obsessive reporter, and Sven-Bertil Taube as Hanrik Vanger, an aging corporate executive, deserve a special mentioning. They are all very likable and believable. The Lisbeth Salander character is an inventive take on a heroine. She is a believable and obvious contrast to the sadistic, women degrading evildoers. This female hacker is depicted as being the craftier, stronger and more energetic of our heroic duo. This does however hurt Blomkvist's character a bit, leaving him seemingly not too bright and kind of helpless. I DO like a female heroine though, which is a welcome twist to the classic detective genre. The film's story is very exciting and puzzling (for those I haven't read the book) and the pace is steady with some really tense situations. The investigation part of the story is excellent. Although it is 2.5 hours long it is never boring.
Highly awesome period action Hong Kong film. Powerful, logical and heartbreaking. This is about the assassination attempt of Dr Sun Yat Sen in Hong Kong. The first hour of this movie is entirely about setting up the characters, making you understand them and care about them. I really enjoyed this film has avoid to use mindless clichés, like ultimate fight of good vs. evil. Five 'bodyguard' characters were very brave for their life to fight over a group of assassins to protect the revolutionary Dr Sun Wen. The acting is excellent all around, many of the actors are major stars, such as Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Leon Lai, and Tony Leung Ka-Fai, but the film is an ensemble piece and each star disappears into their character, many of whom are playing against type. The action is top notch, as expected with Donnie Yen's involvement. Yen has a brutal fight with Cung Le that involves some very nice choreography and some parkour action as well. Set, editing, camera work, action direction all become an integral part of this top-notch motion picture, which must be recognized as among the very best of Chinese language motion pictures in recent memory. I highly recommend this one.
The third and final instalment of Millennium series was magnificent as a political thriller. This story picks up from a near-cliffhanger, the heroine traumatised after being shot in the head and buried alive in The Girl Who Played With Fire. Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), super-genius and spiky Goth punkette, is also finally in the hands of the authorities who have systematically ruined her life, facing recommittal to the asylum where she was abused. So, in the great serial tradition, things do not look good... Leftover business with Lisbeth's evil father is settled unexpectedly and new villains are introduced to weave a web of menace, assassination, subterfuge and double-dealing for journalist hero Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and imprisoned Lisbeth to cope with. It's jarring how moods change between the three films, but this is a gripping piece than the middle movie. There's even suspense as to how much of Lisbeth is left after explicit brain surgery in the first act. She becomes even less communicative, only to show up in court to reveal a new set of tactics for dealing with outclassed official men. In the cast, Rapace is again brilliant as Salander and manages to bring yet another level to her character - she's intelligent, resourceful and independent, but at the same time, shows a hint of fragility not seen in the previous films. Nyqvist is perfect cast as the headstrong journalist who will stop at nothing to expose The Section and prevent friend and former lover Salander from being re-institutionalised. And Annika Hallin as Blomkvist's sister and Salander's lawyer Annika Giannini, also brings the right amount of compassion and determination to her role.
I wasn't expecting much from this... but WOW! Marvelous and excitement! This fifth instalment ditches the street racing that made it's name in favour for being a heist film. It packed with jaw dropping, eye popping action from beginning to end. The film does a good job of not wasting any time and most of the serious moments are kept to a minimum in favor of heist scenes or action. And in the action department, it delivers tenfold. Far bigger, louder, and more exciting than any Fast and the Furious film before it, action junkies should find themselves thrilled by the impressive set pieces and testosterone-laced mix of car and foot action. There's seven supporting characters from every instalment featured and brought the wonderful reunion in this fifth film since 10 years. Adding Dwayne Johnson to the cast finally gives Vin Diesel someone imposing to match up with physically. Johnson's character Hobbs is a tough guy who lives like there is a strict line between black and white. In the big bang finale with Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) yanking a bank vault and travelling down the streets of Rio at top speed, in what would be a fittingly noisy last act destroying everything, and I mean everything, along their path, that has to be seen in a cinema to enjoy this guilt trip in sense surround glory. Check out the end credits roll with a sneak peek of where the franchise is headed to next, you'll be cheering for the sixth and final Fast and Furious film.
This is the knock-out sporting drama has trained hard to be. A passion project for Mark Wahlberg, who grew up worshipping the real-life boxer he plays on screen (both are from working-class Boston suburbs), David O. Russell's handling of the complicated bond between Mickey Ward and his brother Dickie Eklund is nothing short of raw and reverential. But with perfect conditions for a heavy-hitting testimonial to the weight of family and overcoming self-defeating compulsions, The Fighter can swing and jab without connecting. Which is bizarre, because Christian Bale's frantic, ravaged performance as manipulative junkie Dickie is enough to power several films. Bale reaffirms his status as one of his generation's finest actors, transforming into a wiry, scrawny, mile-a-minute crackhead who never loses his childlike enthusiasm and misguided optimism, despite his eyes being dulled by drug abuse. . Despite Wahlberg and Bale being extremely close with the men they play on screen, there is no varnish to Dickie's selfishness or Mickey's detrimental devotion. While it's a pleasure to see Amy Adams in a strong role, as opposed to the wimpering ones she seems to favour, Melissa Leo's feisty matriarch elicits both audience empathy and anger in a career-defining turn.
One of the greatest animated adventure movies of all time that comes from director Hayao Miyazaki (his directorial feature debut) in the late 1970s before Studio Ghibli founded in 1985. It is funny, romantic, dramatic, action-packed: everything! This movie is heavily based on sight gags, and just setting up characters in the right place at the right time to generate something hilarious. It is based on Japanese Manga series (comic book). I like two characters are Lupin III, the world's greatest thief and Inspector Zenigata, a Japanese Interpol inspector who is so devoted to capture Lupin III. Miyazaki's attention to detail is what truly elevates this beyond typical animation quality. There are enough moments of quietness and atmosphere to balance out the loud scenes. A strong sense of setting also comes from the imaginative "photography". Too many animated movies disorientate the audience with frenetic direction and over-indulgence, but The Castle of Cagliostro works so much better by taking its time and choosing the best angles to cover the action. His trademark flying machines and overeating scenes make their first big screen appearance here.
Deano78 posted 2 years ago
A lot of my faves to! We have similar taste....if you haven't seen it Yet check out The Mist think you will love it.
wongmsm posted 2 years ago
great list. reminds me alot of Hong Kong movies