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Movie Review: Sara

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This movie was rated as R21 but not much love making scenes were seen in the show. Charlene Choi is over 30 years old when she is required to act like a teenager, she still look like one!

My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Why?

Choi has always been portraying a clean girl next door image and this movie has brought out a rare side of her: the rebellious one! Despite the fact that this might be entirely new for Choi, I personally think that she did a good job exuding that rebellious side. On the other hand, there isn’t anything very special about Yam’s role as he has been starring in many other Hong Kong soft films before. Both leads were able to engage in their respective roles fully.

In additional, I like the twist to the storyline which took me by surprise (shall not share too much spoilers). All in all, it does provoke deep thoughts and give a good shoutout on the sad truth of the sex trade industry. Nonetheless, I thought they could have called for a more conclusive ending as I felt hanging with question marks as the movie credits are shown! As such, I give the movie 3.5 thumbs up!

 

This movie has also won numerous awards like Films of Merit in 21st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and Special Mention Award in 10th Osaka Asian Film Festival. Both Simon Yam and Charlene Choi also got the Best Actor and Actress award in the 6th Macau International Movie Festival.

 

Synopsis:

Meeting with her past gave her the strength to confront her own demons.

Yuling/Sara has lost hope: her project is rejected by her boss, her estranged mother dies, and her boyfriend dumps her by text message. She takes out all of her savings and goes to Thailand to live out her life in a drunken stupor. As her money runs out, Yuling/Sara checks into a hotel where she intends to kill herself. Just as Yuling is about to take her own life, she meets a Thai child prostitute who would change her desire to end her life.

Somehow, the urge to rescue this prostitute gives Yuling/Sara newfound life and energy. As she gets to know the child prostitute and during the dangerous rescue process, Yuling/Sara confronts her dark past.

Watch the trailer here:

12 Golden Ducks (12金鸭)

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One of the first few best movies I have watched this year is 12 Golden Ducks (12 金鸭)!!

Watch the trailer before you read on..

For me, I had no idea what the movie was about. I know Sandra Ng (吳君如) is a damn good actress and Golden Chicken is a freaking comedy movie so I knew I had to RSVP for this movie.

When the movie started, I had no idea that the young handsome boy (during his school days) was Sandra Ng in disguise until James went “EHHH? She’s cross playing?!”

I must say that she makes a very good looking guy!!! Sandra Ng played as Future in the movie. Future has a very sweet tongue and is able to please and woo any girl since young and ever since, he lives off females and get scott-free for all the wrongs in school.

This was a playful shot of him and his buddy back then.

When he grew up, he became a duck….

When he finally fell in love with a girl, he got cheated of his money and feelings… and flew to Thailand working as an escort in a bar.

Someone finally brought him back to reality. He decided to pick himself up and return to Hong Kong…..

I don’t want to spoil your movie any further. This is a must watch in my list and I would rate this movie 4.5 out of 5 stars!!

A light-hearted comedy filled with heartwarming scenes. It is even funnier at the Thai scenes where they tried to speak Thai and a little bit of English. LOL.

Most of the casts are big-shot actors and actresses like Louis Koo, Nicholas Tse, Zhao Wei and more. FYI, Louis Koo is also one of the co-producer!!

The movie is already out in cinemas since 19 Feb 2015. Make sure you’re over 16 to watch it because it’s NC16!

Enjoy! 🙂

The Eyes Diary

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Thai horror movies are at my top hatred list because they are very scary and never fail to make me scream. But I never fail to resist the urge to watch them because they can be quite gooooood! Although I do get nightmare sometimes….

The latest Thai horror movie is The Eyes Diary which is already showing in the cinema right now.

It all started from a love story between PLA and NOTT. PLA (the girlfriend) died in an accident 3 months ago and NOTT was devastated and tried all means to see PLA again so he sets out to find ways to help him open his eyes to the realm of the dead by collecting items from the dead people.

He joined a body-collecting unit and secretly collects the personal belongings of the dead. Creepy stuffs began happening around him and his friends, scaring them off. Only MODTA (a female friend) stood by him as she too, had once lost her loved ones…..

I shall not spoil the movie further..

What I love about the movie is that it has a lot of comedy despite being a horror movie. The fat guy in the movie was hilarious!!!!! There were some frightening scenes but at the same time, too funny and we just couldn’t help but burst out laughing in the theatre.

There were also some parts where I had to put on the earpiece and blast my music so that the sound effects wouldn’t scare me.

Overall, this movie is seriously worth-watching! It can cheer you up for sure.

But….. do take note of the twist at the ending……..

Movie Review: Kung Fu Jungle (一个人的武林)

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Before I left for Taiwan, I brought J along for a movie review – Kung Fu Jungle because he likes action packed movies and which Chinese haven’t heard of Donnie Yen? Donnie Yen is one of the best Kung Fu movie star around!! Even my dad loves his movies.

This movie will blow you off because of Donnie Yen’s swift moves and twisted plots. At some point of the movie, I can’t tell if he is the bad guy or the good guy. You know a movie is good when you get all caught up with the suspense and thriller.

In the movie, Donnie Yen was serving his sentence in jail and in order to get the attention of the lead inspector of a case, he fought the prisoners on purpose. He was all along the role model inside so the inspector found it weird when he fought in jail.

Then… this movie isn’t solely about Kung Fu. A huge part of it goes to Love. She was the reason why he wanted to get out of jail – to protect her against a lunatic lover of Kung Fu who believed that Kung Fu is used to kill.

Wang Bao Qiang was the lunatic killer who loved his wife deeply. From the way he kills in the movie, I would even call him sadistic because he was ruthless and cold.

I shall not spoil you with too much details. This is definitely a must-watch! I would rate this movie 4 out of 5 stars!

Black & White: The Dawn of Justice

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I love action-packed movies from Hong Kong a lot and most of them are really good.

Black & White: The Dawn of Justice (痞子英雄) is a Taiwan movie but it is as good as the action-packed movies that were produced in Hong Kong!! There are more than enough thrillers to keep you in suspense. The movie is directed by Tsai Yueh-Hsun and will be in cinemas in from 9 Oct 2014 onwards.

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Attended the movie gala with J last night with the director and Mark Chao (I don’t know who is he until I googled him) present.

I had to googled for Mark Chao before watching the movie because I don’t know much about Chinese actors. But he acted really well in the show! My favorite guy however, is the guy who acted in Black Hawks for his heroic acts and Lin Genxin for his little comedy scenes.

I shall not reveal too much but it is always good for a little comedy to relax the nerves who were constantly kept in suspense on what would happen next.

Huang Bo had some touching and funny scenes in the movie as well. Not exactly touched to the extent of having tears in the eyes, but it teaches us to not take happiness for granted.

The graphics, the actions and sound effects of the movie were all good! Click below for the trailer (but I don’t think the trailer do justice to how good the movie is):

Plot (extracted from inSing.com):

Police office Wu Ying-xiong has been revered as a hero in the Harbor City ever since he stopped the terrorists on an airplane and kept the city safe. Unfortunately the peace is only temporary. Panic spreads the whole city as a series of bomb explosions happen within hours and this is just the beginning of a tight conspiracy. Wu is paired with the intelligent but arrogant loner, Chen Zhen to track down the mastermind behind the bombing incidents.

This 126 mins movie is out to blow your mind! I was honestly taken aback by how good the movie was.

I would rate this movie 4 out of 5 popcorns!

Thank you Clover Films Singapore for the invitation to the gala!