Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Johnny Depp, as usual, attracting the ladies with his charm of speech, behavior and comedy. Actions you'll see: He jumped from a great height from a cliff into fast flowing stream. Thriller portions in the middle, created by the swarms of scary mermaids that seeks to attack Johnny and his crew. One of his crew member fell in love with the mermaid and much of it will be lead to a part 5 sequel of this film. Yes, there'll be a part 5. Stay till the end credits to know what leads to it. Johnny did a short dance with Penelope. Don't need to consider the 3D version. It doesn't make a difference. The important thing is to follow and understand the storyline. 4/5. Watch to find out the rest.

Fast and Furious 5

If you love action movie, this is a freaking awesome movie. Its not just about high speed fast cars chase across town but its using these cars to pull a whole huge load of heavy container across the entire city. Smashing down every possible glass windows, denting every possible lamp post and breaking down concrete walls as the load swings from side to side. Literally destroying the entire city. How could that ever be filmed? From mission impossible to mission insanity. This time its going into the police headquarters, stealing piles of money from the riches man in Rio De Janerio, Brazil. It keeps you at the edge of your seat for almost 20 minutes towards the end. In the middle portion, you see high speed chase as they train; racing up winding roads of a multistory car park to beat the split second capture by the CCTV. All action with less humor. How about casting Martin Lawrence instead of Ludacris or gibson? More humor would be appreciated to moderate the film with some light-heartedness instead of overwhelming you with full of intensity. The Rock, Dwayne Johnson vs Vin Diesel in an engaging physical fight. 3.5/5.

Thor (28/4/11)

I like this film. Looks like its gona be like one of those Tron film. But I'm thankful it isn't. It much better than Tron. The plot was good. The acting isn't anything more than ordinary. The leading actor, played by Chris Hemsworth took this role as his debut 'Mighty' film; a character that displays power, energy and strength. Not too bad. He's an Australian, his character brother, a British and Natalie, an American. Nice mix of English accents. Its a film that speaks about jealousy and competition between brothers for the King's throne, conspiracy with evil and love between a human and another out of this world. The human mind is so limited. No matter how we try to design another species, to represent the outside world, its always something similar to the human race. Watch to find out how thor landed on earth, interacted with Natalie and had feelings for her but had to depart to go back to his planet to destroy his brother's plan to succeed his hibernating dad's throne due to greed and conspiracy with evil. In 3D, its not exactly great but it'll definitely enrich your movie experience. 3.8/5

The ultimate winner (14/4/11)

This show is unlike the usual king of gamblers series which we see through the Mediacorp channels in the past. Its about how uncontrolled greed in a professional gambler's life can destroy a person. From living a wealthy lifestyle, riding on continuous inflow of riches to a life less than ordinary. Some bits of lame, cold humor enhances brought the movie to a slightly lighter side. Li Nan Xing plays a really loyal dad and husband who is driven to use his talent gambling to win the wealth back for his family. After some high speed car chases and small matches, he was given a game to take on the real fight. He lost and he ends up turning over a new leaf through a help of the Christian community. Lots of Christian influence throughout the show. However this movie lacks excitement. I'm sure the audience would love to see more display of tricks. 2/5

RIO (7/4/11)

Its not just a movie for kids or teenage girls. Its a family movie and everyone of all ages is suitable watch it. Its not just cute, its expressive and enlightening. From the trailer, you'll get to see only a very small segment of the movie. The plot is much more elaborated that birds encouraging one another to fly. Its about bringing together two rare birds of its similar kind in hope that they would reproduce to carry on their breed. In the midst of that, there were many obstacles such as both of them became a stolen bird and the owner has to hunt everywhere in Rio for it. 4.5/5

Source Code (21/4/11)

Source code? Na.. I learn nothing about C++ or java or php. Not even the most basic HTML code is found in there. You got your title wrong, director and producer. You attract the IT geeks to watch only to find out its just a movie about a computer program that enables one to control a human being to go back into time to identify certain clues, rectify errors in the past and maybe return back to future or current state to bring back useful information. Yes, that is good, especially for a country's security. But you name it source code. How bout showing how the codes did it or explaining how your program algorithm work. Is that too boring? Then don't name it source code. Some reviews give like 4/5. I totally disagree with it. My rating is 3.5/5. Much of the show is repeated over and over again over different scenes. Its like the director had such good life to simply just repeating the plot, scene and the exact same setting, just changing some lines and style of approach for Jake to play it. Not that I didn't like the film but I guess it could be expanded alittle more for a more complicated crime plot instead of just going back again and again to the same train setting to find the suspect for the bomb blast. Recommended to watch it to understand my frustration.

Drive Angry 3D (21/4/11)

This film production is in association with Millenium films, the same company that produced the series, the girl with a dragoon tattoo, the girl who played with fire and the girl who kicked the hornet's nest. So you can trace some similarity in characteristics, like the gruesome scenes. You'll see nicholas cage shoots a gun at someone's hand and his whole hand blew off with blood spilling out. I guess, some of these scenes might have been reduced for Singapore audience. Picture nicholas getting shot in his eye with a zoom in view of it. Yucks, I turned my sight away from that. Some sexual scenes involved with a nude lady which was funny and exaggerated to show that Nicolas had the ability to shoot down his enemies while having sex. There is also scenes that tries to show a tone down version of some anti-christ ceremonies, like kidnapping nicholas's grand daughter who is still a baby to sacrifice her for the saviour of human being. This is the reason for nicholas to be on this journey to save his grand daughter. Along the way, he made a hot chic to be his partner throughout. This chic, Amber Heard, can fight. Its such a pity that they couldn't be together at the end. He had to return to, I supposed hell. He came back to earth just to save his grand daughter. From the beginning of the movie, there is a guy who is after nicholas, for that, I'll leave it for you to watch the film. But then again, I dislike the anti-christ parts and the gruesome parts. So for that I do not recommend this movie. 3/5.

Love and other impossible pursuits(14/04/11)

No singapore didn't change the title. This is the original title of the movie. Very meaningful film, especially for young married couples or couples with a newly born kid. You'll get to learn that these infants can be suffocated just by the act of breastfeeding without having an eye on the baby. Natalie plays a new wife whom her husband is a divorcee and has a kid. She tries really hard to get along with the kid, taking him out for ice cream, even when she knew he is glucose intolerant and got him to learn ice skating. He's really cute to watch and intelligent in conversing. Natalie gets very emotional every time when she thinks about her lost child and she thought she had suffocated her own child. Much of the plot centered about her whole fear and hopeless state of losing her baby. She had to even participate in a ceremonial walk that helps mums who lost their baby. However through investigations, the baby just died because it did and that eases her fear. 3.5/5

Let the bullets fly (31/3/11)

I don't like this film at all. Got deceived by the title without checking it out before I watch. So much conversation till some parts of it put my to sleep. Couldn't understand the way of humor. 'Let the bullets fly' the title is coined by the characters simply spraying their bullets around to lure or fake out an attack. Just skip this film. 2/5.

Limitless (7/4/11)

This review just confirms with many others that its a good film and everyone should watch it. IF you like complexity or a movie that makes you think and something that probably reminds you of creativity that you can express, this is the movie for you. Bradley cooper starts of this film as a fiction writer and ends up being a trading consultant. This life changing experience thrills him up with just one tiny pill. This pill not only gets him to finish writing his book in 3-5 days but impresses his boss and take on new jobs that requires him to predict the future as a trader. He earns millions in months and thus was given a chance to be a trading consultant to one of the top traders. However this pill has a negative side. If something is too good to be true, it is something not worth while taking on. This pill makes the body age faster and one would die earlier. One cannot stop taking the pill the moment one is hooked or else one would suffer great symptom of it like headaches and all other sorts of illnesses. However if one continues to take it, he won't suffer aging that quickly. So the question is, what if the pill runs out one day? That is the other side of the movie which expresses how some people is after his life for this pill. 4/5.