I am a big fan of Liam Neeson – less so for that Star War film but more so for say “Schindler’s List” and “Michael Collins”. So naturally, I like “Taken”. Did you know that it is scripted by Luc Besson? “The Fifth Element” is my all time favorite. And surprise-surprise, “Taken” is directed by Pierre [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Action & Thriller'
Taken – I Squeezed Cynthia’s Hand So Hard That It’s No Joke!
April 27th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: Liam Neeson · Luc Besson · Pierre Morel
Fast & Furious 4 – So Vin Diesel is Back
April 13th, 2009 2 Comments
I have no clue what the rest of the Movie Review Squad like about the Fast and the Furious franchise. To me, it is the fast cars and the hot babes. Again, what’s the story about? Who cares when the car scenes are that hot? Though time and time again I have been saying that [...]
Tags: Vin Diesel
Gran Torino – Ah, So It’s A Car
April 5th, 2009 No Comments
I am inspired. If I do get to 78, I wish to have Clint Eastwood’s energy, passion, and creativity (and success too!). It must have been quite a while since we’ve watched our last movie. Life has been hectic lately. When TK proposed to catch a movie this weekend, the Movie Review Squad unanimously picked “Gran [...]
Tags: Clint Eastwood
Prefer Casino Royale to Quantum of Solace – My Quantum of Mad Rush from 1450 to 1658
November 9th, 2008 12 Comments
I think I had my fair share of action packed excitement prior to the five o’clock movie “Quantum of Solace”. At 1450 (timestamp from one of my messages to M), I stepped into my Aston Martin (OK, more like a … whatever) with one hand on my Nokia phone doing last minute checking on my [...]
Tags: Daniel Craig · Olga Kurylenko
The Dark Knight – Being the Rare One Who Cannot Connect to the New Bat Franchise
July 22nd, 2008 25 Comments
Erm. Yawn? Zzzz. OK. It is hard to write something knowing that over 90% of the population will disagree with. And if I am to continue my ‘review career’, I have some serious recalibration to do. Cynthia loves ”The Dark Knight”; I had a headache watching it. So what happens? I will get to that in [...]
Tags: Aaron Eckhart · Christian Bale · Heath Ledger
The Bank Job – Nothing Like My Job For Sure (LOL!)
July 12th, 2008 No Comments
OK. Bad joke. I can’t remember the exact dialogue. When I suggested to watch “The Bank Job” last week, my buddy TK was like, “Isn’t that your job? 9 to 5 is not enough and you have to watch it on big screen?” Duh! Cynthia couldn’t have put it better: Before “The Italian Job” and [...]
Tags: Jason Statham · Saffron Burrows
The Incredible Hulk – Reload
June 18th, 2008 10 Comments
It’s been a crazy time at work these days so I wanted some solid entertainment. For the lack of choices, I proposed watching “The Incredible Hulk” to my Movie Review Squad and unanimously, both TK and Cynthia loved my choice because of Edward Norton. Edward Norton as the Hulk?! What happens to my Hector of Troy?! [...]
Black Book – Great Plot Filmed with a Convincing Sense of Realism
May 25th, 2008 5 Comments
Gosh, it was the first time I saw an actress sitting (gracefully) in front of a mirror dyeing her pubic hair blond and I wasn’t even shy watching it. It was so artistically filmed. If you enjoy watching an espionage type of movie packed with high entertainment value of suspense, thriller, and seduction, this Dutch and German production [...]
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Chocolate – That Thai Girl Can Fight!
May 18th, 2008 26 Comments
Why is this Thai film so named as “Chocolate”? I still have no clue. Maybe I was too absorbed into the hot, explosive, fast paced, bone cracking, humanly impossible fighting sequence, I walked out of the theatre (at 1.30am) feeling shocked and awed unable to process anything like: Where or who is the chocolate? And our Asian [...]
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Street Kings – Originality Aside, It’s One Entertaining Flick
April 20th, 2008 8 Comments
I have to admit: the casting can’t get better than this. Perhaps, it’s a bit too good. Imagine these strong associations in my head while watching the movie. At the beginning scene, the supposedly alcoholic Keanu Reeves puked at the toilet bowl and I kept thinking of “Constantine” (it’s the cigarette and lung cancer instead of the booze but a [...]
Tags: Keanu Reeves