Ninja Assassin

A must watch for rain hardcore fans. Reportedly endure months of yucky food and daily of training to prepare for this movie. Rain is Raizo, some kid who was kidnapped as a child by some Ozunu Clan.

They trained assassins from young and then ripped rewards when they were hired to kill. But then rain can't be a baddie for his first movie, so he fled halfway after the one he loved, also from the clan was killed after being captured after escaping.

Raizo then found Mika, some europol agent who somehow can linked all the historical investigations of murders and killings with ninjas. As she and her boss dwelled deeper, they were hunted by ninjas, of course. Raizo found her and saved her. Asking her to help him find the Ozunu Clan but that didn't really need to work as they were finding both of them.

Lots of slashing, blood gore, limbs and hands flying around, halved heads and bodies. The blood still looked CGI but definitely much more realistic than the movie Blood. Mika's boss Ryan, bluffed her into getting Raizo to meet him but captured him. To no avail, the Ozuno clan came quickly, the agents/soilders were no match. Simply just there to be killed. Mika manage to free Raizo in time who saved her but he was badly injured.

They had a plan, letting the Ozuno clan captured Raizo but a tracking device allows the europol to track the location of the Ozuno HQ. Raizo recovered along the way by just doing some hand gestures with his palms closed, the sword wound looking like few foot long hot dog buns being cut opened just healed like that, "ninjaly".

At the HQ, it was final showdown between Takeshi and Raizo. Takeshi is the leader of the team send to get Raizo, also the one that killed his lover. He didn't die pretty definitely so did the teacher, Lord Ozuno. 7/10

A Christmas Carol

Robert Zemeckis's 3rd performance capture animation after Polar Express and Beowulf. This is in 3D as well. The 3D effects was quite abundance. Jim Carrey first appearance in a Disney film and also voice multiple characters in the movie. Christmas always gives a very nice, soothing and joyful feel, like a time to give and share.

The plot is nothing new as it is re-telling the Charles Dicken novel. JC is Ebenezer Scrooge, a guy who simply doesn't believes christmas. He refuses to visit his nephew, Fred, for the christmas dinner and had to asked his employee Bob to beg for day off during christmas, not to mention he is underpaid.


That night, Scrooge's previous business partner visited him, problem is he is dead. He warned him that he will be haunted by 3 spirits of Christmas. Ghost of Christmas Past is the also JC. This is the first spirit who brought him back to his past, the times he spend in boarding school where his father neglected him over the holidays. Finally his sister brought him home, then died after giving birth to Fred. Scrooge then became successful in doing his money lending business and also met Belle, his love. But it ended with her leaving him, as he became obesessed in growing his own wealth. He couldn't watched anymore and extinguished this spirit.

Then came Ghost of Christmas Present. This spirit showed him all the happiness of his nephew and employee Bob. Even though Bob can only eat Goose and also tending to a sick son, Tim. It showed them living happily within their means, their commitment to Christmas touches Scrooge. Before the spirit leaves, it warned him of him becaming a despicable individual. Lastly is Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, he saw what resulted of his greed. Tim died, he also died with Fred inheriting his wealth and even his maid robbed him after his death. He is devestated and awoken on his bed.

Still in time to ends well, he changed and starts to share and give. Immersed himself in the joyful moments of Christmas. 7/10

Paranormal Activity

This movie has made over 100 million since its full release in the US. Consider it having only a budget of $10,000 to make, it is the most profitable film ever.

The movie try to scare the shit out of the audience with 2 spine chilling theme, one is are things happening when you sleep ? Though towards the end, it even happens when you do not sleep.


The second is depicting some force or entity trying to do something. Comparing to the thai Shutter, this still lose out, probably because it does not really have a plot and twists.

It is shot in documentary style with the main guy Micah setting up a video camera in the house. Objective is to capture or verify the wierd things happening in the house or more specifically to his girlfriend, Katie. It seems these strange things has happened to her since she was young. The initial 15/20 mins was simply just trying to either lengthen the around 90 mins movie or setting the mood. Also introducing the only other character in the movie, this demonlogist, some Dr. He came over and explain what could be the probable reasons, this happened before all the creepy things got captured on camera.

The last 10/15 mins was quite creepy though. One scene was somehow surprisingly "hiong" as the previous night scenes with the video camera capturing their sleeps seems tamed. It captured Katie being dragged out of bed and the room's door and towards another room. Micah did grab her back in time. 7/10

This is it, 2012, My Girlfriend is an Agent

This seems a movie on its own. Like "This is it ... in 2012 .. my girlfriend is an agent" ? But of course not, the MJ movie,

This is it, seriously it is not a movie. Just a recorded version of his concert rehersal, was thinking there will be some snippets of his other parts of this life.

Basically, it was just song after song, towards the end, you get tired about it, probably this is for hardcore MJ fans.

But no doubt, it was nice watching most of his hits getting rehersed on stage, those are unforgettable tunes, even though I doubt I remember their names when I heard them when young. 7/10

In 2012, how do you show the world caming to an end in 2 1/2 hours ? This movie did quite a great job, though there are some "trying to lengthen" movie parts but still bearable. No big cast, In 2009, Adrian, an american scientist went to India to meet his friend Satnam. To verify the increasing temperature of the earth's core. Adrian flew back to US immeidately to tell Chief of Staff, Carl. They in turn met the President and he told the G8 head of states this bad news. The day will be Dec 12, 2012. This started a secret mission to build humungous ships that will be able to withstand the impact of this armaggedeon. Tickets to these ships are discreetly on sale for $1 billion euro.

Adrian's job will be predict the exact date and time this will be happening. Then it jumped to 2012, Jackson, a writer fetching his kids to camping from Lily his ex-wife place. They head to Yellowstone park and found themselves going into a out of bound area. They were brought by the army back to their temporary camp. Jackson met Adrian and Adrian "deliberately" by the plot, was reading Jackson's book. Jackson was freed and they camped overnight. At the same time, Jackson met Charlie, some over-doing wierdo running a radio station, spreading to the whole world his belief of armagedeon date and government trying to build some huge planes/ships. Jackson was quite convinced, almost there.

At the same moment, Kate and her husband, Gordon survivied a quake at the supermarket. Jackson send the kids home immediately, then went back to fetch the 2 russian boys, kids of his boss, seems like he is doing some chaffeur temp job. The kids blurted they have tickets and they will live and he will die. Then by the plot, he has to believe and pay some pilot to wait for him at the airfield. He rush to Kate and the kids, he arrived but the quake happend. The scene where they blazed through the city which was annihilated by the quake was quite awesome.

They reached the airfield but the pilot was dead. Why would you need a new husband in the cast ? Because he was suppose to know how to fly. They manage to fly off but only just, forced to land at Wyoming for more fuel. And Jackson ran off to Charlie to ask him about the map where the ships will be build. This scene where the whole yellowstone blazed into a splurting volcano, great CGI effects too. They flew off in time too but then they knew having to get to China, this plane is not possible. They landed at McCaran airport, they met Yuri, his russian boss and again why you need Gordon ? Because the Antonov 225 plane needs a co-pilot, Yuri's man Sasha will be the pilot !

They managed to flew off as Las Vegas was destroyed. The plan is to refuel in Hawwali but it was simply submerged in lava so they plan to crash land into the ocean but there is a problem. As the earth crust shifted, they are already at Himalayas, they crash landed with Sasha perished with plane. Out in the cold, Chinese helicopters landed and took Yuri and his kids as he had green ticket. How will Jackson and his family survive ? Now I know why the little lama was needed ? He appeared at the start as he wanted to save his family too. His brother who was working to build the ships found a plan to smuggle them into the ship. Jackson saw this lama driving by and by the plot he has to ferry them.

Suppose to have 6 ships, one was down so alot of people will be abandoned. But Jackson convinced the head of states to open their ship's gate and let the people in. This happened when Jackson they all trying to sneak in, as the gate was let down, it pulled in Gordon, he was crushed, no more flying needed, so he was "ended". Jackson and all was in safely but something was stucked, the gate cannot close fully. Quite an exhilarating ending. It ended well if you think so, as the ship head to South Africa. 7/10

My Girlfriend is a action comedy but it seems to try do do too much in 2 hrs. The gf was an agent thus trying so hard to hide her actions and whereabouts. It is almost impossible to hide so they broke up. 3 years later, the bf became an agent. Both on the same mission but different targets and from different government teams.

As a rookie, he tries hard to impress and wants on the field actions, thought not very successful but no choice, it needs the comical moments.


They met again in the toilet, she was disguising a lady cleane as she was staring so hard at a guy peeing. Then it revealed it was him, she beat him up like no tomorrow. They ended up in the police station, quite a comical scene too.

Then it was "both carry on with their jobs and trying to get back together", this carried on for quite long, it feels abit long till they messed up in one missions. The teams watching back the recorded tape, found each other and think they were the bad guys. Some professor trying to sell some virus to some russians is the action plot. This was filmed along with comical moments of the 2 main leads. One of the last scene was quite funny at some outdoor event, the bf trying to chase his gf who was chasing the russian girl. He got himself on some donkey or mule, the scene showed the bf on his mule donkeyed past the russian guy who earlier sped off in a bike, he was re-fuelling. 7/10

Saw VI

What is Saw 6 if Saw 7 and 8 are still coming up ? The first one was good, maybe so was the second one. The theme of the movie was quite interesting at that time but of course with the disgusted and gross way of how the human body was being designed to bleed, cut off, crushed, burnt, torn apart, exploded, etc, it adds to the entertaining level.

Quite a number of characters has evolved from 1 to 6, even when Jigsaw died since, the sequels kept going on. Missed the first 15 mins but from wiki, it seems as gross as 2 bodies were found. Mark Hoffman is the detective who was being informed by the FBI. He is the one who continued with Jigsaw's games. As he met Jigsaw ex-wife Jill, who gave him 5 envelopes as they started to plan the next game, involving William, some guy who is an executive on some insurance company who Jigsaw met when Jill opened her clinic.

Anyway, William was captured and asked to pass 6 tests in 60 mins. In the whole course, he met people he know. First he had to compete with his janitor to see who can breath lesser so as not to let the machine crushed his body. The janitor didn't make it.

Then as the go across doors and rooms, he found he was grabbing onto 2 steel like chains, each holding onto 2 colleagues, he has to choose which one to let go, the one he let go will be hanged to death.

Thirdly, he went into some boiler room where his attorney has 90s to run through a cage like structure before something strung around her chest activates which will fire a spike through her head. Also he has to stop jets of steam pumping at her by diverting it to himself. She did made it but only knowing there is a key which was in his stomach. Knowing that, she took up some saw and tried to cut him to get the key. She failed.

Then came 6 of his junior workers strapped around a merry go round, seems very theme park like but not if some shotgun is pointing at you. Each turn will stopped a person at the shotgun position. William can decide if he/she lives by putting his hand into something which will pierced through his palm but also elevating the shotgun upwards thus missing the person. Quite a frantic ride.

Lastly, he was into between 2 cages. One with his sister, the other a mother and son, whose William deny coverage for the latter's husband. There is a switch in the mother/son cage, "live" or "die". The mother couldn't bear to kill William but the son can. Doing that unleashed a bed of needles flunging down piercing William's back and with that, hydrofluoric acid was pouring through, disintegrating him into halves.

On the other hand, the FBI is close to finding Mark is into all these killings but he is faster as he killed them in the laboratory. He used Strahm's severed hand to leave prints behind. Jill attacked Mark and strapped him to a chair and attached the "reverse bear trap" on him but he did manage to escape but with a portion of his face/jaw torn apart. 6/10

Jennifer's Body

Jennifer's body is slow, tries to be scary and funny, simply disappointing. It was advertised this came from the people who wrote Juno, though I didn't watch Juno but it seems popular. The main elements are entertaining but somehow if strung together, it is really bad. Even Megan Fox's cleavage couldn't save the movie.

Anita and Jennifer were best friends in some school since young, wearing the same necklace bearing BFF initials. One night, J asked A to follow her to some bar where indie band low shoulder is performing, J soon developed a crush on the lead singer Nikolai. He and another member concluded that she could be an virgin. Then a fire started and N brought a distraught J somewhere. Soon J found they were worshipping Satan and wanted her to be some sacrifice. N repeatedly stabbed her.

But miraculously, J returned covered with blood and wound to A's house. A was shocked when J went to the fridge and stuffed herself with food. Then J just threw up disgusted blackened stuff of don't know what. Since that day, with the town people still grieving the bar's accident, the football captain was killed in a savage way. Then soon colin, some guy who asked J out for a date, was also killed. Coincidentally, A was having sex with her bf Chip at the same time, the horrifying scenes of colin getting killed flashed in her mind.

A finds it too weird and did some research. She thinks she is a succubus, some devil who is hungry and must feed on flesh to survive. Without that, she looked pale and haggard. A needs to stop her as she feels Chip is J's next target. A told C not to go to some dance event where low shoulder was invited by the school. C goes anyway and of course J was there to led her to some closed down house with a pool. A arrived but not really in time. As C try to save A, he pierced J with some javelin like object, J fled but C died.

A wanted to take revenge and later attacked J in her room. Eventually A did killed her and A was admitted to a mental hospital. 5/10