#36 Eagle Eye

This is quite a roller-coaster ride, despite of the complicated bits and pieces of information. You just need to keep your attention to every single details in the movie and you'll find the enlightment at the end!

GV Marina 5

Oct 01, 2008

5.55pm

#35 Painted Skin

Heard that this movie will be representing to be nominated for Oscar Best Foreign Film.

Anyway, watched the second time, but in original Chinese this time round!

GV Max

Sep 29, 2008

9.20pm

#31 Mamma Mia!

It's really not easy to shoot a musical. But this is rather a fun movie / musical to watch.



Pierce Brosnan is really not suitable to sing in this musical!!


GV Max
Sep 19, 2008
9.20pm

#28 The Dark Knight

I watched 'The Dark Knight' again!

This is good stuff!

GV Boon Lay 1
August 6, 2008
9.10pm

#27 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

I like both Mummy movies - both entertaining films that had a lot of action and a lot of humour.



The third one, honestly.. The action sequences were pretty well done. But the dialogue is boring and that happened in between the action sequences was kind of boring.



GV Grand 6
August 1, 2008
9.40pm

#24 The Dark Knight

I didn't really like 'Batman Begins' although many movie-goers and critics were giving great feedbacks about it.

But, 'The Dark Knight' is really different. This is edgy stuff. This movie explores the ugliness of human nature and regularity in chaos.



Christopher Nolan (producer/director/writer) is really talented. So is The Joker (the late Heath Ledger). In fact, The Joker really stole the whole show away.


GV Jurong Point 2
July 17, 2008
8.30pm

#23 Red Cliff

John Woo is back... He's my favourite director of all time ever since he wnet to Hollywood with 'Hard Target', 'Broken Arrow' and 'Face Off'.

Since then, he had directed 2 not-so-good films - 'Windtalker' and 'Paycheck'. But, like what I said in the first line, 'John Woo is back'.

With all the hype, his latest epic 'Red Cliff' is truly the most anticipated Asian movie this year. Every sequence is designed to interlock the script.

Takeshi Kaneshiro as Strategist Zhuge-Liang and Chang Chen as Sun Quan are not compelling enough, but characters like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are as good as it gets!



As compared to 'The Warlords', it may not be as good probably because we still have a sequel to complete the whole story of the three kingdoms.


GV Grand 6
July 14, 2008
9.30pm

#19 Get Smart

I have been looking forward to this show since the beginning of the year.

In the tradition of 'Spy Hard', but a bit more serious and well-blended, 'Get Smart' gives the best out of Steve Carrell, Anne Hathaway and The Rock!



Humour, at its stupidity, is not too low-class for the mass to appreciate!

GV Max
June 18, 2008
9.00pm

#18 The Incredible Hulk

This is much more better than Ang Lee 'The Hulk' After all, Ang Lee is more suitable to do Brokeback Mountain and Lust Caution kinda movies, not so for summer blockbusters like Marvel superhero flicks!



This is good - simply one of the better Superhero movies in recent times! On par with Iron Man!


GV Max
June 14, 2008
11.50pm

#14: The Forbidden Kingdom

Visually this movie was pretty good, although not as lush and glamorous as you might expect. It felt kind of hazy, almost like the entire thing was a dream sequence (i.e. not very interesting to me).



Anyway, the only sequence that excited me is the 7 minute one-on-one fight between Jackie Chan and Jet Li.


GV VivoCity (GV Max)
Apr 18, 2008
11.50pm

#13: Three Kingdoms - Resurrection of the Dragon

It's just too close the 3 epic movies came to screens within 6 months (i.e. The Warlords, An Empress and The Warriors and this). And Andy Lau is in 2 of these. Luckily, he's in the better ones out of the 3.



Anyway, the adoption of the 3 Kingdoms story is a moderate effort. It's better than the Empress, but still not anywhere close to the Warlords. Andy Lau and Maggie Q acted rather well too.

I'm neutral on this. I still prefer The Warlords.

Trivia: The Chinese name of the movie is 'Seeing the Dragon taking off his armour'!


GV VivoCity (GV Max)
Apr 05, 2008
9.10pm

#11 An Empress and the Warriors

Looking forward to Donnie Yen after 'SPL' and 'Flash Point', he steals the whole show (but he looks a bit modern to be part of the show). On the other hand, Kelly Cheng plays the title role (Jiang Shan Mei Ren) - but she simply can't act and speak well. Unconvincingly, she learns the art of war and led the troops to war very soon after. Leon Lai is 'per usual', look like a piece of wood!



Hoping this show will be as good as the recent 'The Warlords', the cheesy and clunky script disappointed me greatly despite the well-choreographed battle scenes and Donnie Yen.


GV Tiong Bahru
Mar 21, 2008
4.55pm

#10 Vantage Point

What can I say? This is the best movie I watched for recent months...

Shooting from various perspectives, giving the audiences multiple views of the shoot-out... This is simply one of the more brilliant movies in recent history! Frankly speaking, I think the movie distributor under-marketed this movie.

This movie was so well-paced. When pieced together the sum of the parts combines to tell the whole story. The car chase sequence was by far the best scene since 'The Rock'!



You'll get to hear and see the same story from different views. You never know if a character you meet in the beginning of a movie, say a little girl with an ice cream cone, will come back at the end of the film to play an important role.

'Vantage Point' was a thrilling, twister of a ride that will leave you guessing right up until the last moment.


GV Grand
Mar 16, 2008
9.10pm

#9 10,000 BC

I was expecting something like 'ID4' or 'The Day After Tomorrow' from director Roland Emmerich, but 10,000 BC is really nothing close to his previous efforts.

The setting is in 10,000 B.C. and people are speaking English?! As compared to the recent Apocalypto (by Mel Gibson), 10,000 BC is definitely a bigger movie. On the other side, if you are comparing the pace of the movies, 10,000 BC is slightly weaker.


I'm neutral about this movie!

GV Jurong Point
Mar 06, 2008
9.20pm

#8 Charlie Wilson's War

Instead of watching 'The Leap Year' on Feb-29, I'd gone into 'War'.

Not knowing exactly what the story is about, "Charlie Wilson's War" is in fact a true story of how a playboy congressman (which happened to be Tom Hanks), a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Their efforts contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, with consequences that reverberate throughout the world today.



Anyway, there is some nudity in the beginning, then followed by a lot of vulgarities in this entertaining show. Philip Seymour Hoffman is as good as ever, and Tom Hanks really played this playboy very well!

p/s: One line really sunk into my head: "Why is Congress saying one thing, doing nothing? That's tradition, mostly!"

GV VivoCity
Feb 29, 2008
9.45pm

#7 CJ7

It's purely coincidence my 7th movies this year is CJ7. Despite hearing many positive reviews about the movie, I was still expecting some slapstick comedic moments from the Stephen Chow film.

I must say this film is way apart from the typical Stephen Chow comedy. You see him preaching and preaching to the son not to fight, not to lie and not to do whatever bad things. And they looked very poor and pathetic (and Stephen Chow looked very old indeed).

If you are looking forward for another Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle, you may be quite disappointed. But if you are going in to watch a good movie, this may be something for you!



Anyway, when you leave the theatre, you will feel the urge to leave something behind you and start working on your family relationship.


GV VivoCity
Feb 26, 2008
12.40pm

#6 L Change The World

Expecting a battle of wits like what happened in the first two Death Note, and what I see was nothing close. This Death Note spinoff is really nowhere close.



Boring! Draggy! Formulaic. If there is grade A for good and grade L for worst, I'll give it a L!

GV VivoCity (GV Max)
Feb 23, 2008
12.30am (midnight show)

#5 Jumper

Despite hearing horrible reviews from the movie critics, I caught Jumper by responding to the slick marketing campaign. The story is not engaging, but luckily the theme is very fresh.



Super-slick trailer, but Hayden Christensen acted badly too! The sexy Jamie Bell saved the show!

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GV VivoCity (GV Max)
Feb 18, 2008
9.30pm

Full House on Valentine's Day

I was trying to book tickets for Jumper and the GV website (and in fact, other website like Eng Wah too) was experiencing high traffic. I couldn't get the tickets online and hence, I went down to GV Jurong Point personally with my dad.

When I reached there at around 9pm, all the shows were already 'in red' (selling fast) and the queues were quite long. When I reached the box office guy, almost all the shows were sold out or left with only a single seat.

It's been a long while since I personally queue for movie tickets (since there's Internet purchase) and thus, I ended up heading home since it's too late to get tickets elsewhere.

#4 Ah Long Pte Ltd

Contemplating between 'CJ7' and 'Ah Long Pte Ltd', we finally committed to watching the latter.

This is is the second time I watched a Jack Neo film - 'Money No Enough' being the first one! And since then, I have not frequent his movies despite of his critically-acclaimed films. I'm kinda anti-Mark Lee, but this trailer interested me where Mark Lee acted as a sissy dancer instructor with a typical Malaysian accent.



I was slightly disappointed as some of the jokes were too childish. I don't give this film a must-see status.

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GV Marina
Feb 07, 2008
3.10pm