苏乞儿

The fighting scenes are not bad, better than the 14 blades ones. But too much censored scenes and bad editing just irks the watching. Not to mention the need to have Jay Chou and Michelle Yeoh to appear in the movie. 赵文卓 is 苏粲 who braved the enemies liar with his team of soldiers and rescued some Prince. Though the Prince wants to promote him but he rejected and recommended his 义兄 袁烈 as he went back to his home town and lived with his wife and son.

Years later, Mr baddie 袁烈 is back after acquiring some 5 poision mastery skill. He is back to kill 苏粲's father who killed his father who was a baddie too, no marks for guessing that. With his new skill, he killed his father with ease. 苏粲 was at his kungfu training shop opening, by the time he knew, he rushed back to his home. Having to deal with a brother and sister, 2 KKs under 袁烈. They didn't manage to stop him thus, leading him to 袁烈. 苏粲 was no match for him, he was poisoned and injured by him but was spared when his nephew 锋儿 stopped him.

袁烈 threwed his body into the ocean, his wife 周迅 as 阿英 jumped too. In the pugislitic world, people never die when they either jumped in ocean or being thrown, this is still true in this movie. Washed to the shore, 阿英 still managed to drag him up some mountains, as usual only a feat found in the puislistic world, though she slipped at the last mintue. Don't fret, Michelle Yeoh as 余大姐, some miracle herbalist living in the mountains. She has to be there to treat 苏粲.

While the poison clears, 苏粲 tried to recover his right hand mobility and strength. Somehow that involved 2 imaginative friends, Jay Chou as 武神 and some giggling monk. This is really not needed, if need it has to got to be better ways. It is like trying to extend the length of the movie. After several rounds of sparring, it seems 苏粲 recovered his confidence and ready to get back his son. Though he didn't seems to learn any new skills. 阿英 as advised by 余大姐, knew 苏粲 seems to be "walked fired into demon" left to find his brother 袁烈 to get back their son.

苏粲 chased after but was too late, 袁烈 buried her and killed the men who did before their duel. 苏粲 defeated 袁烈, crushing through his so called don't know what armoured shield which was sewed into his skin. 苏粲 realized too late as he rushed out to find 阿英, it was too late. He couldn't face the reality of losing his wife and led a wondering begging drunkard life with his son. During one occasion where he stormed into a inn for wine, he gone into hallucination again, thus Mr Jay Chou had to appear, this time as 醉仙, do we really have to do this ? This inspired him to come up with 醉拳.

Then came when his old KK had to fight with WWE wrestlers in a death duel where he was there to watch with his son, he stepped him when his son was in danger. Entertaing action sequences but the censoring just flawed the movie. 6/10

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

This is a action fantasy with attempted comical elements in a Greek mythology style. Reviews is comparing this to Boring Potter which the director quickly disagreed. Percy is more direct, less dark, more action and more monsters. Percy is a normal kid attending school till he finds out he is a demi-god, that is when a god do it with a mortal. It was overwhelming to him though not really shown by him as the movie tries to do it in a humorous way.

Ex-007 Brosnan is a centuar hiding in modern world protecting percy, not letting him being discovered by others till Zeus suspect Percy of stealing this lighting bolt. Percy is the son of Poseidon which possesses magical power with water. Knowing that, also knowing his friend Grover is a satyr, half man half goat was quite a dramatic change in his life. From the relief teacher turning into some devious flying monstrous bat and some Giant Minotaur chasing them on their way to Camp half blood, though he managed to kill it but before it somehow dissolved his mother.

In camp, purpose is for Percy to know Luke and Athena. Ares came to camp asking Percy to hand over the lighting bolt and he will return his mother. Percy had to go to underworld even knowing he don't have the lightning bolt. With Luke's help, telling him to get 3 pearls before leading him to underworld. The pearls are the only way to get them back from underworld.

He need some help thus Grover and Athena had to follow. They overcame Medusa, Multiple headed dragons which grew more heads if you cut them off and stucked in Lotus Casino where they eaten some Lotus flowers which made them staying there. Anyway, they did reach underworld and met Ares whom still believe Percy had the bolt was furious but when Percy dropped the shield Luke gave him, the bolt was hidden there. Ares took it and told Perspehone feed them to the souls. But Perspehone tricked Ares and killed him with the bolt. She returned the bolt to Percy and freed them. But Grover had to stay since they have only 3 pearls which I believe he had a good time with Perspehone.

Back from underworld, Percy found out it was Luke who stole the bolt. He wanted to Gods to go into war. Percy prevailed and returned the bolt to Zeus thus preventing a God of war. 7/10

锦衣卫

There seems no excitement in the movie and fighting scenes are so so nothing to shout about. Story wise seems more interested to introduce the other characters into the movie which seems disparate. Donnie Yen as 青龙 leads a group of highly skilled bodyguards serving the Emperor, they are trained from young as orphans and do not question the tasks being ordered to do.

During one mission, he was ordered to retrieve some imperial seal from some righteous officials. But another party was interested but failed while 青龙 escaped injured. 青龙 made his way to some 镖局 and requested to escort him to somewhere. Though along the way, he seems to be protecting them more than they protecting him.

He took 赵薇 as 乔花, daughter of the 镖头 in exchange of them diverting the enemies attention till he gone to his destination. He knew who betrayed him when one of the failed assasins told him. 戚玉武 as 玄武 in cahoots with the 太监 贾精忠 to steal the seal to sell to soms Prince who want to revolt. 玄武 as the bastard is inferior in so many ways as to 青龙, skills, confidence and stance, not sure why his character being protrayed this way.

And this 太监 贾精忠 is just a greedy baddie, the person to defeat is the assasin from send by the Prince, 徐子珊 as 脱脱, are we lacking words in thousand of years of chinese history ? What a name ? Maybe 睡睡 ? 插插 ? coming up. As 青龙 finds out more of the revolt plot, he met 吴尊 as 大漠判官 which is totally too modern, boyish and suave looking to be some bandits 老大. They raided some gold together prepared for the 太监 贾精忠 by the prince in some "T" city.

So it is up to 青龙 to stop the war and get back the seal in time but also to duel with 脱脱, seems wierd Donnie fighting a woman. The last fight scene was just so so. 6/10

New York, I Love You

Not your typical kind of romance movie. 11 short film together in a single movie, that meant each was real short. Not only they were short but also not along the main stream type, each story is like imagination of one can come up with.

Not to mention the huge cast of international stars starring in it, Bradley Cooper, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Christina Ricci, Maggie Q, Olivia Thirlby, Julie Christie, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Cooper, Cloris Leachman, Shu Qi, Andy Garcia, etc.

A desperate artist in search of someone worthy to be painted by him, though initially reluctant, this someone being Shu Qi, some herballist relented but too late. He died when she went to find him. Ethan Hawke as a writer trying to pick up Maggie Q while sharing a moment of smoke. His vivid description of how he can make her attaining the ultimate moment of sexual enjoyment was quite .... funny. Though it didn't really realize into action as she told him she was really a hooker.

Some of the films leave you to fathom what was the director/writer trying to achieve. A guest at a hotel had a mysterious encounter with Shia LaBeouf as a bell boy, this one was really like trying to grab you off your seat and out of reality. Then a young man prom's date ended up with a surprise relevation in the end. His date apparently was on a wheel chair but on their way back, they had their intimate moments, hard to visualize. The relevation came when she was off the wheelchair and walked right up to her door. This is a light hearted movie with love as a main theme but 11 seems too much. 6/10