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[Movie Review]: Deadpool & Wolverine

  "Deadpool & Wolverine" takes audiences on a whirlwind adventure that stitches together the slapstick of classic comedies with the outlandish spectacle of superhero extravaganzas. Directed by Shawn Levy, this film not only resurrects Hugh Jackman's Wolverine alongside Ryan Reynolds' irreverent Deadpool, but it also joyously skewers the very fabric of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with a cheeky grin. May Contain Spoilers Now streaming on JustWatch, "Deadpool & Wolverine" kicks off with a promise of mayhem, and it delivers just that, wrapped in a meta-commentary so thick it might just need its own decoder. Hugh Jackman returns as the beloved Wolverine, coaxed out of retirement not by a dire threat to the world, but by a multiverse caper that can only be described as quintessentially Deadpool. The plot, a zany concoction involving Deadpool's mishaps with the Time Variance Authority and his multiverse-spanning shenanigans, serves more as a bac...

[Review] Taken 3

Ex-government operative Bryan Mills starting to show his age in this third installment of the Taken series - I can swear that I heard his panting almost every breath taking scene, which makes the acting by Liam Neeson real. In this series, Bryan Mills is hoping to reconcile with his ex-wife, Lenore St. John who is said to be not happy with her current husband. The reconciliation however cut short when she was brutally murdered. Bryan Mills was frame for the murder of Lenore and consumed with rage, he go on hiding to evade the CIA, FBI and the police and he intended to track down the murderer on his own with his skills. It doesn't take long before he realized that the murderer is from the group of Russians, which then leads him to his ex-wife husband - and he interrogates him until he told how he was forced to cooperate with the Russians which might target Bryan's daughter, Kim. So, in order to protect his daughter while he revenge, he gets help from his friends to bri...

Lucy [Review]

Lucy might be just a girl next door, but in the movie Lucy - Lucy was dating a guy with bad influence and give her a simple job to do - deliver a mysterious briefcase to Mr. Jang. But all hell break loose when Mr. Jang's guys capture Lucy and shot her boyfriend who was waiting right outside the hotel room. It turned out that the briefcase contain a new and powerful synthetic drug. Lucy is then turned into a drug mule for the new and powerful drug with few other guys to few different areas around the globe. When the bag she is carrying inside of her stomach leaks, Lucy's body undergoes unimaginable changes that unlocks her mind's full potential and with this new found power, Lucy turns into a merciless warrior intent on getting back at her captors. With the cerebral stimulated growth, she is expecting herself to be dead soon and seek the advice from the renown professor, Professor Norman on her situation. At the same time, she is busy rounding up the drug mule with ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [Review]

I'm not sure about you guys but I find the movie funny and entertaining. It wasn't the best that I expect but it's good.  I'm sure there are a lot of critics out there but this is by far the best Ninja Turtle's movie.  Watch the Turtles in action This new Michael Bay's produced movie is one of those movies that you can watch 10 years from now and still be entertained....flashy, funny, energetic and "explosions" though it's not as much as what expect from Bay...it's what is expected from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...silly, action, funny. But before we got into the movie, here are one thing that you will find how the movie has deviate from the comic. If you're a comic fan, you probably would not like the changes to it...but if you're cool with it, most likely you will be okay with the movie. MOVIE: According to the movie, the turtles and Splinter were "lab rats" in Sach's experiment with the ooze. The turtl...

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (released as The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of the Electro in some market) is a very entertaining movie if watched in 3D, especially the fight scene between spidey and the Electro. I quite like it; but I will say that overall the movie is just not bad - with some entertaining fighting scene. However, what I don't like is that the fighting scenes seemingly too short given that there are three villains in the movie; Electro, Green Goblin and Rhino. The movie started off with some sub-plots of Peter Parker's parents, before showing Spider-Man web swinging around the New York City before helping the police to catch a group of criminal before missing his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy's graduation speech, and just in time to attend his graduation. Having promised to have dinner with Gwen and her family, Peter Parker is still struggling with the conflict within himself as he is seeing Gwen's father around him whenever he is in his Spider-Man's su...

Transcendence

I would say that I'm quite impress with the movie Transcendence although there are not many good reviews about the movie. In fact, Rotten Tomatoes only give Transcendence 18%; while on average the movie is getting slightly below average rating. The movie is about Doctor Will Caster (Johnny Depp); a foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence who was at that time working on a machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His work made him famous and at the same time made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. An attempt of assassination finally become the catalyst for him to succeed in his experiment, by becoming a participant in his transcendence. In attempt to re-create Will, his wife, Evelyn and best friend Max Waters upload Will to the digital world, using the same concept of Will's machine, PINN - and eventually they succeeded.  ...

Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier

It's been two years since the Battle of New York and Steve Rogers is having tough time adjusting to the modern lifestyle. While on a mission to free hostages aboard a S.H.I.E.L.D. vessel from pirates led by mercenary Georges Batroc together with agent Natasha Romanoff, Steve Rogers realized that Natasha Romanoff secretly extract data from the ship computer to Nick Fury. Rogers confront Fury and then is briefed on the Operation Insight. Unable to decrypt the data recovered by Romanoff, Fury become suspicious about the Operation Insight. While on the way to meet Maria Hill, Fury was ambushed by assailants led by a mysterious assassin called the Winter Soldiers and he escaped to Rogers' apartment warns Rogers that S.H.I.E.L.D is compromised before gunned down by the Winter Soldier. During the investigation, Rogers and Romanoff realized that Hydra was amongst S.H.I.E.L.D before they were attacked. Rogers and Romanoff enlist the help from Sam Wilson, a former military parar...

300: Rise of an Empire

One of the movie that I watched recently in the cinema is 300: Rise of an Empire and overall, I would rate the movie average. The movie consists a lot of "blood splashing" scene as well as slow-mo during the fight, which somehow irritates me most of the time. For those who watched 300 before, Rise of an Empire is not actually the sequel to 300; but rather it tells the story before "300" as well as after King Leonidas and the a force of 300 discipline and committed Spartans were slaughtered by the Persians at Thermopylae - and Themistocles uses the death of these 300 Spartans as the martyr to unite the Greece in attempt to stop the invading Persian forces led by the mortal-turned-God Xerxes and and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

Frozen

If you have yet to watch "Frozen" in the cinema, now it is the time to get the Blu-ray version of the movie from Amazon and I personally think that Frozen is nice with catchy soundtracks - I like most of the soundtracks from Frozen and especially like Let It Go by Idina Menzel and kinda addicted to "Do You Want To Build a Snowman?" - the song that was sang by the three phases of Anna, from child to teenager and finally grown up. Frozen tells about the two princesses in the Kingdom of Arendelle - Elsa and Anna, with Elsa the special one with the power to create snow and ice. One evening while the two princesses were playing, Elsa accidentally hit Anna with an ice blast knocking her unconscious. and turning several strands of her hair white. Upon discovering this, the King and Queen rush them to the group of trolls where Anna was "healed" and the troll warn them that the power that Elsa possess can be used to destroy as well if Elsa did not learn to c...

Delivery Man [Review]

I got to admit...I really love comedy movie....especially the Hollywood's one, with a lot of beautiful stories to learn from.  Delivery Man is one of those....well, it's predictable, nothing new but it helps to give a good laughter and lift one up. A movie that I'll recommend to anyone who wanna watch with their friends or even loved ones. DELIVERY MAN Synopsis: “Delivery Man” is a story about an affable underachiever David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn), whose mundane life gets twisted in a knot when he finds out that he fathered 533 children via sperm donations he made twenty years earlier. In debt to the mob, rejected by his pregnant girlfriend, things couldn’t look worse for David when he’s hit with a lawsuit from 142 of the 533 twenty somethings who want to know the identity of the donor. As David struggles to decide whether or not he should reveal his true identity, he embarks on a journey that leads him to discover not only his true self but the father he could be...

She's the Man [Review]

The other day while I had nothing much to do, I decided to watch some old movies, preferably the comedy genre. I happened to find this movie: She's the Man . The title sound familiar but I forgot where I saw it before....after googling it, I realized that it was the movie by Amanda Bynes where she impersonate her twin brother so that she could played in the boys soccer team.  Anyway, I never thought the movie would be good but I'm glad I watched it. It was indeed an awesome movie, with a lot of jokes and I got to admit, Amanda Bynes was good. Throughout the entire movie, Amanda Bynes was simply a lovable character.  Bynes plays Viola, the twin sister of Sebastian (James Kirk), who at the start of the movie conveniently sneaks away to London for two weeks without telling anybody. Viola is the star of the girls' soccer team at Cornwall Prep, a school that seems to have enough money to supply every girl with her own soccer team. She thinks she's good enough to play for...

Police Story 2013 [Review]

Well, I have never missed on any of the Police Story series by Jackie Chan and I make sure that I did not missed out on the latest one even though there are a lot of negative reviews on the movies. Police Story 2013 is a reboot of the Police Story series, ditching the Chan Ka-Hui persona from the first four Police Story series and Chan Kwok-Wing from the New Police Story. While there are a lot of negative reviews on the movies, I must said....it's actually not that bad. It's just not good enough. First of all, one thing that Jackie really pull out of this movie is to prove movie critic, James Berardinelli who once said of Jackie's style in Police Story as an "action with a smile, not a grimace". In Police Story 2013, it is very heavy on grimacing...in fact, it's probably a bit too much. The movie is "grim and gritty". I tried to avoid any spoiler here...so here's a simple summary of the movie: Jackie Chan plays Mainland Chinese police...