Killer Elite

 

Release Date: 29 September 2011
Language: English
Subtitle: Info Not Available
Genre: Action / Thriller
Running Time: 1 Hour 52 Minutes
Director: Gary McKendry
Cast: Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen

 

The film opens with Danny Brice and his mentor, Hunter carrying out a murder in Mexico. Everything goes right until a kid is unexpectedly in the car of the target. This leads to Danny reticent from the profession to Australia.

After a year later, he receives a packet with a plane ticket and information. Hunter is being held hostage in Oman. When Danny flies to Oman, the Sheik tells him how three of his four sons have been killed by British Special Air Services(SAS) officer. His sons death must be retaliated so that the Sheik’s fourth son can take over. The Sheik has six months left to live and Danny must complete the mission before then or Hunter will be killed. Just to confuse matters, all of deaths must look like accidents or natural causes and a taped concession must be gotten before they die. Upon accomplishment Danny will be paid six dollar million and Hunter will be freed.

After the first “accident” is noticed by ex-SAS Spike and a secret society of ex-SAS known as The Feather Men.  “Killer Elite” delivers a decent amount of action and suspense for Statham fans. Action movie fans may find it a little slow moving given the complexity of the plot. Worth seeing in the theatre.

The film is for strong violence and nudity. It is also not suitable for  kids. Next, I feel this film is not upright enough to walk away fulfilled and not bad enough to find any variety of wilful enjoyment. Killer Elite also feels like a freshener of better film shaken up and assassinated out to create a theatregoing experience so cold and flat you could skate on it. But a little problem is the director Gary McKendry and writer Matt Sherring have no idea what to do with that premise. The film tries to be action and dream and fails spectacularly at Both.

The film also is based on a book that is supposed to base on a true story. But the time is over and a highly doubtful claim. The characters make the poor decision and no motivation and even halfway into the lumbering 100 minute running time. I can not know who is fighting and why they are fighting.

 

By Wong Khai Ling 57446

Abduction

Release Date: 22 September 2011
Language: English
Subtitle: English / Malay / Chinese
Genre: Action / Thriller
Running Time: 1 Hour 40 Minutes
Director: John Singleton
Cast: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello

Synopsis: For as long as he can remember, Nathan Price (Taylor Lautner) has had the uneasiest feeling that he's living someone else's life. When he stumbles upon an image of himself as a little boy on a missing persons website, all of Nathan's darkest fears come true: he realizes his parents are not his own and his life is a lie, carefully fabricated to hide something more mysterious and dangerous than he could have ever imagined. Just as he begins to piece together his true identity, Nathan is targeted by a team of trained killers, forcing him on the run with the only person he can trust, his neighbor, Karen (Lily Collins).Every second counts as Nathan and Karen race to evade an army of assassins and federal operatives. But as his opponents close in, Nathan realizes that the only way he'll survive and solve the mystery of his elusive biological father is to stop running and take matters into his own hands.

(Source: GSC Movies)

     

Hello everyone. Today I am going to introduce a nice movie call “Abduction”. Taylor Launtner is the main actor of the movie. In this movie, he bring a lot of action scenes to us. The story begin with Nathan Price stumble across a photo of himself as a little boy on a missing persons website and his darkest fears all come true.

As an action movie, some of the fighting scene fantastic, I was amazed by the exciting fight scenes. Although fighting scenes is good but too bad to said, the director has made perfunctory for drag racing part. On the drag racing part, it just shows out the nice car BMW and the car marks. It should show more of the fast car scene to make this movie more exciting. Therefore, this part of the scene has become a fly in the ointment.

As the main character Taylor Launtner is the teen idol, the love scene sure will appear in the movie. I feel that the love scene quite like a game between kid. First of all, the leading actor and the leading actress are innocence of childhood friends. When they grow up, the girl has a boyfriend, the boy and the girls feeling becomes weak. In the end of the story, the girl say good bye to her boyfriend and be together with the boy. I think for the love scene, it still got a lot of improvement to make its become more nice and beautiful.

Anyway, I was spellbound with the storyline. It is quite easy to follow and easy to understand the film. It was an exciting, stimulate and touching movie. The movie moved us tears when he finds back him own father.

All in all, I would recommend this film to anyone especially for those who like Taylor Launtner, because it is a very nice film and Taylor Launtner show very good acting skills in this film too. It is a movie worth to watching. Therefore, I give it a 4 out 5. 



By Soon Car Men 57197

References

1.     http://www.gsc.com.my/

2.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_(2011_film)

Johnny English Reborn

Release Date: 15^th of September

Language: English

Subtitles: Malay and Chinese

Genre: Comedy

Running Time: 1 Hour 43 Minutes

Director: Oliver Parker

Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Gillian Anderson, Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Kaluuya

Synopsis:  Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) is a spy-thriller. He doesn’t know what is fear and danger in this comedy movie. He leaves the spy organization, MI-7 for few years and tempers his unique skills in Tibet. His latest mission is to stop a group of international assassins to kill the world leader and cause global chaos.

Hi, the movie I’m going to introduce today is Johnny English Reborn. Rowan Atkinson is a funny spy in a group name MI7. But he leaves for few years and went to Tibet to train his unique skills. But one day, the intelligent agency of England needs him to come back to do for a mission. The mission is to stop a group of international assassins to kill the world leader and cause global chaos.

And the saddest case is he utile by his best friend, and cause him to list as wanted. His best friend wants to kill him because he knows all the bad things of his friend. But luckily at the end, he fight for himself and kill his friends.

This is a very funny movie and suitable for all peoples. In this movie, I learn that we are not suppose to trust people easily no matter is our buddy or who else. Because of Johnny English too believe his best friend and betray by him. Not only that, I have learn the most important thing is not to give up easily.

Although Johnny English faces a lot of troubles in this movie, but he will never give up. He will still try to fight for himself and save others. I am proud of him. I think all of us have to learn all the good stuffs from him. And the last thing I want to tell is, this is a very good and funny movie. All of you must go for it, you will never regret after watching this movie. =D

Khor Huee Fern (56679)

FINAL DESTINATION 5

Realaese Date: 25 August 2011

Language: English

Subtitle: Info Not Available

Genre: Horror

Running Time: 1 Hour 33 Minutes

Director: Steven Quale

Cast: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher,P.J Byrne, David Koechner

(Source: http://www.gsc.com.my/Movie/MovieContents.aspx?search=2011.391.5naldestination.517)

Synopsis

In ''Final Destination 5,'' Death is just as omnipresent as ever,and its unleashed after one man's premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to survive, and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death's sinister agenda.

( Source:http://finaldestinationmovie.warnerbros.com/index.html#/synopsis)

Story of film

Sam and a group of his coworker are attending a corporate outing on weekend. In the way to the destination, all colleagues are enjoying their trip. While stopped in the traffic on a bridge, something is happen in horribly. The bridge that is under construction is starting to crumble and collapse. People are struggle and some of the most are death.

But wait it is just a dream? Sam wakes up and realizes the things that he imagines are start really to happen. He yells everyone gets off from the bus and run. After people are getting off from the bus, the bridge is starting to collapse and most of the residence is involved in the disaster. Sam‘s has a sixth sense and he was able to save 8 of his friend including himself. And so, local news call them as a ‘lucky 8’ mean they are the only eight people is survivor from the disaster.

However, that is just a lucky escape to Sam and his friend.  One by one of ‘lucky 8’ is start dying in terrible accident. In every accident, a man is appear in every death scene and made an uncomfortable feeling to surrounding. When questioned, the man tells the survivors are supposed to die on the bridge and death coming to balance the equation. However, they can be surviving if they replace by death or another, they are taking over that person’s lifespan. A few of them is thinking to kill someone in order to survive.

 ‘No matter where you run, no matter where you hide you can’t cheat death, Or can you?’

Death is everywhere around us.  Final destination is an American classic horror film since 2000. The film’s ides is unique and different from other horror film. What does it mean? In Final Destination, there is not simply appear death and does not have that violence scene, but just through the tension of music, emerging shadow and, etc.  The fear and frustration of life is bringing into the design of death in this film, so the audience is easily lead into sense.

As a fans of final destination, of course I will be watched all the series of FD. However, I have to admit it, final destination is outdated after FD2. If you have seen any of final destination, you already know what is the movie about and what would it happen ongoing the movie. The plot is too narrow. In FD5, the formula isn’t changed but there are a few tweaks. The main one is that survivors can kill someone to take their lifespan and maybe can escape death. The new tweak is the taking the new life can be defeat Death. Not only they have to worry about death, and they worry about what they are willing to do to survive among people.

The film was directed by Steven Quale which he marks as his first work. He was worked visual effect with James Cameron on terminator 2, titanic and avatar. He was expertise with that and this made final destination 5 is so crazy to watch. For the death scene, there is so disturbing and shocking at the all time. Steven Quale plays with the audience expectation. He design many things that can kills a character in certain scene and when you think this is a sharp object will kills them ,but this a totally different way. He kept the audience guessing. The buildup made the movie fun to watch and excited.

 As an overall, Final destination 5 is fun to watch. This has been much tension and creative since the previous installment, and the particular scene is filled with uncomfortable and a level of anxiety. However, the storyline are same with previous installment and plot too narrow. Although it seem so cruel and But who cares? We are there just for the death scene. If possible, please see in 3D.you will not regret it. =)

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Reference

1)Batman5723,( 12, August ). FTG-Nerd Review: Final Destination 5 (Movie) .Retrieved 10 september,2011 from http://fronttowardsgamer.com/2011/08/12/ftg-nerd-review-final-destination-5-movie/

Write by: NG WOON KUAN (56584)

The Smurfs

Release Date: 01 September 2011
Language: English
Subtitle: English / Chinese
Genre: Comedy / Family
Running Time: 1 Hour 43 Minutes
Director: Raja Gosnell
Cast: Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, Anton Yelchin, Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Alan Cumming, Fred Armisen, George Lopez

Synopsis: When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the Smurfs out of their village, they're forced through a portal, out of their world and into ours, landing in the middle of New York's Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

(Source: Sony Pictures Releasing International)

         Hello, everyone. Today, I am going to introduce a movie that I watched yesterday. The movie I watched is The Smurfs. The film is very funny and smurf ’s names were following by their character. For example, Clumsy. The film starts with the Smurfs preparing for the upcoming Blue Moon Festival. The little Clumsy helps the evil wizard, Gargamel and his cat Azreal to find Smurfs village accidentally. While on the run from Gargamel, Papa, Smurfette, Grouchy, Gutsy and Brainy go to find of the irritating Clumsy. Accidentally, they all turn out getting sucked into a porch that transfer them in New York City Central Park. The Smurfs ultimately end up in an apartment belonging to Patrick Winslow, a young marketing executive for cosmetics company Anjelou, who has newly promoted by his hard-to-please boss Odile.


         The little Clumsy has fallen into a box and Patrick is taking the box to home. All Smurfs want to rescue Clumsy so they also follow Patrick's car, but Patrick does not realize them. While their dog is barking, Patrick and his sweet-natured wife Grace only realize the Smurfs in their home. They shocked. But, Grace likes them. When Grace was charming by them, Patrick just wantto find their way home, Gargamel tracks them down and puts his shameful plan into motion. He extracts their essence which will turn him into an all-powerful wizard. A lot of things are going happened.


        At the end of the film, they success to find their way home and eliminate Gargamel. In this film, I can see Papa is trying to protect his smurfs although he knows he will sacrifice and the smurfs also are trying to escape their papa when there papa is at risk. Patrick did not like the smurfs ,but at the end he also tries to escape smurfs as he was touching by smurfs and his wife.

Thank you very much.

By Wong Khai Ling (Catherine)