Released Date : 28 May 2009 Genre : Action , Adventure
I was actually rather surprised that this film was an enjoyable as it was. Now, TS takes to the beginnings of the battles and war between SkyNet and humanity. Visually fantastic. Nice!
Synopsis: In 2003, Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) of Cyberdyne Systems convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) to sign his body over for medical research following his execution by lethal injection. One year later, the Skynet system is activated, perceives humans as a threat to its own existence, and eradicates much of humanity in the event known as Judgment Day (see Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines). In 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale) leads an attack by the Resistance on a Skynet base. John discovers human prisoners and the plans for the development of a new type of Terminator incorporating living tissue, but is the only apparent survivor of the attack after the base is destroyed in a nuclear explosion. However, Marcus emerges from the wreckage of the base and proceeds on foot to Los Angeles.John returns to Resistance headquarters located aboard a nuclear submarine and tells General Ashdown (Michael Ironside), the current leader, of his discovery. Meanwhile, the Resistance has discovered a radio frequency capable of shutting down Skynet machines. They plan to launch an offensive against the Skynet base in San Francisco in four days, in response to an intercepted "kill list" indicating that Skynet plans to kill the Resistance's command staff in four days' time. John learns that his own name is second on the list, following Kyle Reese. The Resistance leaders are unaware of Kyle's importance to Skynet, but John knows that it is because Kyle will later become his father (see The Terminator). John meets with his officer Barnes (Common) and wife Kate (Bryce Dallas Howard) and sends radio broadcasts to Resistancemembers and surviving civilians around the world......
Release Date : 23 April 2009
Origin : Hong Kong Genre: Action
Director : Jing Wong(王晶) Starring:Anthony Wong(黄秋生), Tony Leung(梁家辉), Eason Chan(陈奕迅), Yao Meng(孟瑶), Bowie Lam(林保怡), Alex Fong(方力申), Kate Tsui(徐子珊), Jing Wong(王晶), Yang Liu(刘洋), Lin Kong(孔琳)
The movie background is on the early 1970s, the dark age of Hong Kong under British colonial rule. During that time, all the polices were highly corrupted and believe that in the span of 10 years between 1963-1973, the amount of money involved in corruption amounted to 100 million. Until the real ICAC was established in 1974 to clean up the corruption in Hong Kong. I love one part of this movie because having fun of throwing all the Cantonese bad words in every scene. Haha!!!
Synopsis: There was once a dark age when Hong Kong was under British colonial rule. During that time, the police were highly corrupted. In the span of 10 years between 1963-1973, the amount of money involved in corruption amounted to 100 million.
The person who was the leader of the corruption practices was senior inspector Brother Lak (Nick Cheung). Whenever he was unable to solve a case, he would ask his subordinate Fiery Unicorn (Anthony Wong) to look for a scapegoat. This time, Fiery Unicorn caught university student Han Zhi Bang (Alex Fong Lik Sun) to admit to a spate of robbery, assault and molestation cases. Fortunately, Han Zhi Bang's mother manage to enlist the help of Zhu You Gao (Wong Jing) and Fiery Unicorn was forced to release the innocent man.
Chen Xi Gao (Eason Chan) was also Brother Lak's subordinate and was promoted to inspector. One day, he met drug pusher Rose (Liu Yang) who was pursued by drug dealer Chao Zhou Zhu. He was injured while saving Rose. Brother Lak was furious and he ordered Chao Zhou Zhu to give his territories to Rose. During the process, Chen Xi Gao and Rose became friends and he secretly backed Rose's illegal activities......
Rreleased Date : 21 May 2009
Genre : Action, Adventure
Cast : Ben Stiller - Larry Daley, Amy Adams - Amelia Earhart
There's an old saying in Hebrew that claims that if you try and catch as much as you can, you'll end up having nothing at all. After viewing Night at the Museum : Battle of the Smithsonian, I can sadly say that the same can when regarding this lesser sequel to the 2006 smash hit. Even though mist film critics despised the original movie, the first Night at the Museum was actually one of my favorite films of that year. It's funny but mostly useless.
Synopsis:When the Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Washington Museums. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's (Jon Bernthal) rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers, Fonzie's jacket from Happy Days, the still from M*A*S*H and Archie Bunker's lounge chair from All in the Family. After stealing a security guard's ID badge, Larry (Ben Stiller) slips into the Archives of the Smithsonian, where Kahmunrah, an evil Pharaoh will come to life with the reestablishing of a tablet as a magical force in the museum bringing the old exhibits (Such as Theodore Roosevelt and Dexter) and new exhibits (like General Custer and Al Capone) back to life, and in conflict with each other. Larry enlists the help of Amelia Earheart, who he develops a romantic interest in, and together they try to put everything back in order......
Released Date : 15 May 2009 Genre : Drama, Mystery
This story of Langdons brush with a shadowy secret society, the Illuminati, and his frantic quest for the worlds most powerful energy source, in the company of a beautiful Italian physicist whose father, a brilliant physicist, has been murdered. This film served a great tourism promotional video with a nice showcase of the many prominent touristy landmarks that would entice many around the world to go pay a visit.
Synopsis: Angles and DemUnder the watchful eye of Father Silvano Bentivoglio and Dr. Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), the CERN scientists start the Large Hadron Collider and manage to capture three vials of antimatter. Immediately afterward, someone kills Father Silvano, and uses his retina to break into the containment room to steal one vial of anti-matter.
In Rome, the Vatican mourns the passing of the Pope. The Vatican staff prepares for the Conclave of the College of Cardinals, which will select the next Pope. Until the Conclave selects a new Pope, the Camerlengo (Ewan McGregor) assumes day-to-day control of the Vatican. Reporters, nuns, priests and other faithful all crowd into St. Peter's Square, waiting for the white smoke from the Conclave. But the Illuminati, a 400-year old, underground secret society, kidnaps the four most likely candidates (preferratti) before the Conclave goes into seclusion. The Illuminati threatens to kill them at 8, 9, 10 and 11 PM, and then destroy the Vatican in a burst of light at midnight. A video feed shows the missing anti-matter vial, which will destroy the Vatican and parts of nearby Rome when the magnetic containment field fails.......
Released Date : 26 March 2009
Genre : Action, Drama
Cast : Nicolas Cage - John Koestler, Chandler Canterbury - Caleb Koestler, Rose Byrne - Diana Wayland
I like this movie very much, the Knowing actually adds something fresh and inspiring to the disaster genre. Certainly the action scenes are well staged.They are grand and tense as the previews would have you expect. In no way was it a generic "save the world" flick, like I feared going in but the ending will not happen in our real life. i definitely recommend the film. Synopsis:
The film opens in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1959, where a competition is held among the students of a new elementary school to celebrate its opening. The winning plan, from student Lucinda Embry, a seemingly mental disorder/mentally disturbed girl, is to bury a time capsule containing the students' drawings of the future to be opened 50 years later in 2009. She is prevented from finishing her image, which is actually a series of seemingly random numbers, and goes missing during the ceremony. Her teacher later finds her in a gym closet, frantically scratching the remaining numbers into the door. Fifty years later, the time capsule is opened and the pictures are handed down to the new generation of students. Caleb, the son of MIT professor and astrophysics|astrophysicist John Koestler, receives Lucinda's envelope. Initially dismissing them as random numbers, John notices a single random number sequence, 911012996, which contains the date of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks|World Trade Center attacks as well as the death toll of the attack. Further research leads John to realise the numbers are a list contain the dates and death tolls of every major disaster, natural and man made, that has happened over the past 50 years, with three that have not occurred yet. When a commercial plane crash kills 81, the legitimacy of the list of numbers is confirmed and leading John to believe that Lucinda had an ability to prognosticate since childhood until she died. It is also revealed through this incident that the numbers contain the coordinates for every event listed. As his wife died in one of the past events, John starts to believe his son was chosen to get Lucinda's prophecies.......
