Appleseed

Released date: 14 January 2005
Running Time: 1 hr. 45 mins
Genres: Sci-fi, Action, Animation
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Producer: Fumihiko Sori, Hidenori Ueki, Naoko Watanabe
Starring: Ai Kobayashi, Jurota Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka





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A legendary female soldier, Deunan Knute, was brought back from the ruins due to World War III to a Utopian world called Olympus. The bioroids, a new race genetically engineered from Deunan's father, are half of all Olympus residents.

Under the surface, there are some conflicting factions fighting for their own causes. Some humans felt threatened by the new race existence and attacked a facility of the utmost importance to the life of the bioroids.

Deunan and his former lover, Briareos who have become a cyborg, was caught in between the conflict which intensity keeps on increasing by the day. Later on, Deunan understands that there are much more things she is not aware about. Some much much more important things.


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R-man said:

Do you like watching Gundam with all its intrigues and storyline? If you do, you might want to let your eyes feast on this one. This is one of the many animes about cyborgs, robots and the far future.

Very good animation with smooth moves and awesome characters. The storyline is great, forcing us to think a little bit. Too bad, it doesn't hit the cinemas in my country, Singapore. Fortunately I can still enjoy it 3 years after its release.

Even though, the movie is not as popular as its hollywood counterparts products like Shark Tales, Flushed away, and the rest, I still think it deserves a thumbs up due to its artwork and creative storyline. It would be even greater if it is expanded to become a series but, all in all, it is a really good movie.

Rating: (4 popcorns)

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 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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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.

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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)