The Star Screening-Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Thanks to The Star for free movie. This was my first time went to The Star office to redeem tickets.



Release Date: 22 December 2011--->Watch on 20 December 2011 (Monday), 9.30pm at GSC, Mid Valley
Language: English
Subtitle: Malay / Chinese
Genre: Adventure
Running Time: 2 Hours 9 Minutes
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams

My Penny of View : Irene Adler, Sherlock Holmes' lover, was delivering a package to Dr. Hoffmanstahl. He opened the package and triggered a hidden bomb but detonated by Holmes. Adler later met up with Professor Moriarty for clarification for the incident and showed intention to quit. Unfortunately, she has been poisoned due to her love, Holmes, always the one that failed Moriarty's business. It was Dr.Watson's wedding and he went to see Holmes to remind him about the wedding. He found out that Holmes was investigating on unrelated murders, terrorist attacks and business acquisitions but somehow all the incidents seems related to Professor Moriarty. Holmes brought Watson to a bar for his bachelor night with intention to investigate on the missing of Adler. He met with Simza and at the same time an assassin appeared to kill her. Holmes managed to defeat him and Simza ran away. During the honeymoon of Watson and wife, Moriarty's men attacked them and Holmes showed up in time to rescue them. Seems like another adventure of Holmes and Watson has begin. What will happen to them? Will they able to solve the mystery?

Another series of Sherlock Holmes. For those who like to read mystery and investigation story, this movie is a must watch movie. Robert Downey Jr. the most well matched for the character of Sherlock Holmes. He enlighten the movie with his catchy, funny and smart acting. Sherlock Holmes has great analytical skill and also good fighting skill. His partner, Dr.Watson always is the one who understand Sherlock Holmes and they are the perfect partner. The beginning of the movie makes you confuse, then slowly the mystery reveal and finally bad guys defeated. Besides magnificent actors and fine story line, the movie incurred some slow motion effects. One of the scenes which Sherlock Holmes and gang escaped from a weapon factory, the bullets and bombs flying between them, the effects was awesome. The movie used old fashioned British English and they keep talking. Some people might find boring with this kind of movie but I'm the opposite because of my curiosity. I'm glad that I can understand the whole movie.

Rating : ★★★★★

The Star Screening-Hong Kong Ghost Stories(猛鬼爱情故事)

Thanks to Daniel and The Star for free movie.



Release Date: 27 October 2011--->Watch on 26 October 2011 (Wednesday), 10.30am at MBO, Tesco Kepong
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Horror
Running Time: 1 Hour 38 Minutes
Director: Wong Jing, Patrick Kong
Cast: Jennifer Tse, Chrissy Chau, Stephy Tang, Him Law

The movie consisted of two parts. First part was about a horrible incident happened in a school. A temporary teacher went to this school for teaching and she was assigned to a problematic class. She tried to help but later she discovered weird things and she suspected it was related to the incident happened 20 years back. What will happen to the teacher?
The second part was about a group of tourists from Hong Kong murdered innocently. The reason behind of the murder was about a large amount of money. After get killed, the group of tourist came back to find the person for revenge. Will the bad guy get what he deserved?

To be frank, I can't remember the last time I watch such traditional Hong Kong type of ghost movie. Nowadays, all movie more towards high technology instead of good story line. I was kinda looking forward for the show but I found quite disappointed with it. Ghost story is about mystery features with sudden sound effect. Both of the stories are good but the effect make the ghost looks fake. The second story was funny and most of the actors are from TVB. When you see familiar faces, you even feel comfortable with the movie. Anyway, the movie is better than Don't be Afraid of the Dark but Paranormal Activity 3 is the best among all the recent horror movies I watched.

Rating : ★★★☆☆

The Star Screening-Abduction

Special thanks to Daniel for free tickets.



Release Date : 22 September 2011--->Watch on 22 September 2011 (Thursday), 9pm at GSC, One Utama
Language : English
Subtitle : English / Malay / Chinese
Genre : Action / Thriller
Running Time : 1 Hour 40 Minutes
Director : John Singleton
Cast : Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello

My Penny of View : Nathan was a high school teenage that always find something missing between him and his parents. He has crush on his neighbor, Karen but he not dare to make any further action. In a school project, Nathan and Karen found a childhood picture of Nathan on a missing persons website. Later, Nathan found evidences shows the display picture was genuine. When he wanted to confront with his parents, two guys showed up and tired to catch Nathan. The parents were killed to protect Nathan. Karen saw the whole incident and she have to go on run with Nathan. Who exactly Nathan's parents? Why the people try to catch Nathan? Will Nathan be safe from the bad guys?

One word for this movie-CHEATED. Again the trailer was very successful to attract attention with Taylor Lautner as the lead actor in the movie. The story seems interesting in the beginning because of curiosity, try to understand what's going on and who are those people after Nathan. In between, there were hide and seek game between Nathan and bad guys but still Nathan successfully escape. The most exciting part was the baseball game with thousand of audiences in the stadium. Although Taylor Lautner has muscular sexy body but his acting was messy and incompetent. He still so Jacob Black to me. I really hope he can improve in acting because you can't keep depending on your body. People is looking for excitement and thrilling movie.

Rating : ★★☆☆☆

The Star Screening-Unstoppable

Thanks to Daniel invites me for the screening.



Release Date : 11 November 2010--->Watch on 2 November 2010 (Tuesday), 9.30pm at Cathay, E@Curve
Language : English
Genre : Action
Running Time :1 hour 40 minutes
Director : Tony Scott
Cast : Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson

My Penny of View : The movie was based on true story the "Crazy Eights" unmanned train incident in year 2001. Due to human error, an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying flammable goods was wiping out a city on the main railway. Frank was a going to retire engineer and Will was a young train conductor. Coincidentally, both of them were on duty together on this day and they almost bang with the unmanned train. They chased the runaway train in a different locomotive in order to bring the runaway under control before it is too late. Will they able to stop the train?

The storyline was simple and it was all about the train. As we can see, these all incidents happened because of human error and irresponsible attitude. They never realize how bad is the consequences. This kind of incidents always happen among the public transport. Other than that, we also can see that human will come out many stupid and funny solutions when we are desperate. The real heroes will never stop trying and willing to scarify for everyone. I think this movie is great because it makes me felt nervous, scare and worry for them. When we see a hope or solution but it didn't work it out as we thought. Never give up is the best solution. This movie is not about high technology effect but the heart trilling scenes make you excited and frighten.

Rating : ★★★★☆

The Star Screening-Edge of Darkness

Thanks to Daniel invites me for the screening.



Release Date : 11 March 2010--->Watch on 10 March 2010 (Wednesday), 9pm at GSC, 1 Utama
Language : English
Subtitle : Malay, Chinese
Genre : Thriller
Running Time : 1 hour 56 minutes
Director : Martin Campell
Cast : Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston

My Penny of View : Story began with Thomas Craven who picked up his daughter-Emma who came home for visit. During dinner preparation, her nose was bleeding and she threw up violently. Thomas quickly brought Emma go to the nearest hospital but once they stepped out from the house, someone with mask shouted 'Craven' and shot Emma. Thomas was so upset because it was happened too fast and Emma died in his arms. Everyone thought Thomas was the target of the gunman because he was a police detective and the gunman shot Emma accidentally instead of Thomas. When Thomas unpacked Emma's belongings, he found a pistol and he suspected that Emma was the gunman's target. He traced from Emma's diary, contacts in cellphone and work place. The more truth he found out, the more dangerous he was. Can Thomas reveal the truth behind Emma's death?

Mel Gibson is famous of Lethal Weapon series with action movement. I can see from this movie he is getting old but his fighting movement still not bad from the scene he was attacked by Emma's boyfriend. Now only I noticed he is not that tall especially when he standing side by side with another person. There is too much of talking in the movie and it quite boring. Luckily there were a few scenes that able to wake me up. First was the scene that Emma was shot. The bleeding was so scary. Then, it was the scene which Emma's friend bang by a very fast car right after she gave information to Thomas and ready to get down from the car. I knew she can't stay alive after gave the information but never think that the moment come so fast and the sound effect really scared me. The story line was logical and I kinda like the ending. Father will do whatever for the lovely daughter no matter what happen. I think probably this was an uncensored version of movie, I still can hear many 'fuck' words in it.

Rating : ★★★☆☆