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Superman’ Review: A Charming but Chaotic Attempt to Restart the DCU with Heart — and a Lot of Noise

  James Gunn’s   Superman   had one job — to kickstart a brand-new DC Universe with clarity, confidence, and purpose. What we got instead is a quirky, overstuffed spectacle that bounces between heartfelt sincerity and Saturday morning cartoon mayhem, never quite settling into a rhythm strong enough to lift this hero off the ground. On paper, it all sounds promising:   Superman   skips the tired origin story and dives straight into Clark Kent’s third year as Earth’s protector. David Corenswet brings a sincere, wide-eyed charm to the role — equal parts Boy Scout and alien outcast — while Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane is, without a doubt, the best we’ve ever seen on screen. Their chemistry crackles, especially in the film’s most grounded scene: a sharp interview that pits Lois’ hard-nosed journalism against Superman’s unwavering optimism. In that moment, you can almost feel the movie it   could   have been — thoughtful, conflicted, real. Unfortunately, tho...

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 ...

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.  ...

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...

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [Review]

Have you watch The Hunger Games: Catching Fire already? If you have not, you are missing a big thing....but here's the thing...for those who missed The Hunger Games (1st episode) one year ago, I suggest you watch it first before going for this one in cinema...otherwise, you might leave the cinema satisfied, but with a lot of questions in your head.  Game On once more! Anyway, it is unfair to even compare The Hunger Games with movies like Twilight because there is so much more depth in the movie. Forget Thor either because The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is one class above the rest.  This time, there is a wedding gown as well In this episode, the theme centralize around this: "REMEMBER WHO THE REAL ENEMY IS" The movie start picking up not long after “The Hunger Games,” “Catching Fire” features a traumatized Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) preparing to embark on a “Victory Tour” following her “success” in the previous Hunger Games.  She soon discovers that...