Red Cliff

Released date: 17 July 2008
Running Time: 2 hr. 20 min.
Genres: Drama, War
Director: John Woo
Producer: Terence Chang, Han Sanping
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Hu Jun, Lin Chi-ling




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In the early third century, the southland of Wu is invaded by the Prime Minister Cao Cao and his soldiers. The ruler of Wu, Sun Quan (Chang Chen), accepted the offer of rival warlord Liu Bei (You Yong) to join forces, but their two armies are still badly outnumbered against the 800,000 men Cao Cao lead. However, the strategists Zhou Yu (Tony Leung) and Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) see that Cao Cao's army consists mostly of northern people which is not used to battling on the sea. With 100,000 men and far less battleships, it is up to Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang's ability to fight a seemingly losing battle for the sake of their lords.


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• R-man

R-man said:

Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Guan Yu. I guess not many people in the world who never heard about this. If that's wrong, at least every chinese in the world should have heard about them one war or another. These are some of the main characters in China history that were brought life in this movie.

Red Cliff is one movie that people have been waiting for the longest time. Ever since the San Guo Yan Yu TV series, the popularity of this story has increased so much.

Statistics in Google confirms that people have been looking forward to this movie from 3 years ago.

This is a must-watch for Romance of the Three Kingdom fans. If you have vowed to watch only one chinese movie in one year, this has to be the one. This is the biggest budgeted asian movie to date with US$80million. With John Woo in command of a bunch of Asian superstars like Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhao Wei, and Hu Jun, there is no way you can go wrong watching this. The other San Guo movie picturing Andy Lau as Zhao Yun, that was released a few months before, can be taken as introduction to this main event.

The main characters are brilliantly portrayed to show their own supposed personal values and principles. The plot is not draggy and there is a good mix of battle scenes, serious talks and light jokes. One of scenes to remember is when both Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang play chinese string-based musical instruments with all the dynamicity. It is great music.

Rating: (5 popcorns)

Hellboy

Released date: 2 April 2004
Running Time: 2 hr. 2 min.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Producer: Lawrence Gordon , Lloyd Levin , Mike Richardson
Starring: Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, Ladislav Beran, John Hurt





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In 1944 the NAZI, with the help of an prominent Russian legendary evil monk called Grigori Rasputin, tried to bring a monstrous evil from different dimension into earth using a specially made portal. A battle broke out when the American attacked during the summoning. A devil-like red-skinned boy mistakenly entered the portal and came into the earth. The adventure of Hellboy just began.


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R-man review:

Longing to see a hero with horns and dark red tail? Luckily this guy doesn't hold a fork-like spear as well. However he really was hell dwellers. That's before he came to earth through a portal created by some idiots.

Hellboy is a dark-themed action sci-fi movie with a bunch of human-like creatures that looks like a frickin' freak show. But Hey! who cares! As long as we have the action, explosions, hard-to-defeat boss and a unique storyline, we'll gladly become vegetables for one and a half hour.

For those who read the comics, probably this is not new, but for the rest, this is really awesome. If I haven't said so, this movie is adapted from a comic with the same title. I am not sure if this movie for primary school kids or older or adults since at times the red devil acts like a clown but one thing for sure, kids watching this movie definitely need parental guidance.

Verdict :
This is one movie I enjoy watching since I like dark-themed shows such as Van Helsing, Underworld, etc. You have to make sure that you come in early otherwise you'll miss how this devil boy comes to work for US government. Come with your popcorn and drinks, you can afford to miss any scenes to thoroughly enjoy the best out of this movie.

Rating: (4 popcorns)

Kung Fu Panda

Released date: 6 June 2008
Running Time: 1 hr. 35 min.
Genres: Animation, Comedy
Director: John Wayne Stevenson, Mark Osbourne
Producer: Melissa Cobb
Starring: Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Ian McShane




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The story started with Po (voiced by Jack Black), the fat Panda who lives with his dad, selling noodles in the Valley of Peace. Dreaming to be a kungfu warrior, but in dilemma for his dad's wishes to make him the successor of their family noodle's business.

One event lead to the other, surprisingly he became the chosen one, the prophesied Dragon Warrior, who will save the valley from villain Tai Lung, the snow leopard. It takes time for Po to gain his trust & acceptance from his peers. (Tiger, Monkey, Viper, Mantis, Crane who are the 5 students of the Shifu.) It also needs more patience & hard work to change Po to master all the kungfu skill. Luckily, Shifu found a natural talent in Po when Po tried to get the food. This trick is used by Shifu to train Po. Eventually he become a winning hero after all, after regain his self confidence & support from all.

The other characters are:
Oogway (Randall Duk Kim): The senior, yoda style master. The 'oogway' is derived from 'wu gui' which means 'turtle'.
Shifu (Dustin Hoffman): the Kungfu master
Monkey (Jackie Chan): playful, friendly
Mantis (Seth Rogen): sympathetic
Crane (David Cross): moderate, avoid conflict
Viper (Lucy Liu): smooth, sexy, flirty, deadly
Tiger (Angelina Jolie): ambitious, strong, bold
Tai Lung (Ian McShane): the villain snow leopard


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CJ Tan Said:

The first section of the movie, is quite thrilling, with a bit of suspense of the scary Tai Lung haunts. But later on, it becomes lighter & funnier to the end of the movie. Tai Lung doesn't seem to be scary as imagined from the earlier description. It becomes more fun & funny to watch the fights which is good. Because after all, this is a G rated movies, which includes kids of all ages, and as young as 3 yr old boys, just like my son. :)

The kungfu scenes run smoothly but too fast, I think. I couldn't catch all the movement, but it doesn't matter. As I enjoy it as the whole story. And of course, there are some slow motion scenes that you can see those funny expressions of Po with his bouncy tummy & sexy butt. He.. he.. :)

Jack Black, I don't normally like him in film because usually he played a character with rude jokes & acts,and some can be said as sarcastic. But as Po, I applause his effort, because somehow, I can get the image of Po as though he is a bit of 'kampong boy', but he is sincere, honest & kind at heart. :)

Verdict:
It's a really fun & entertaining movie to watch for the whole families.

Rating: (4 popcorns)