Watched another old movie. A bit of a suspense thriller this time. To be honest, it is pretty average, but well worth your time if you are into this genre.

Basically, it is about an assassination attempt of a (I think) politician whose family is going to lodge in a hotel, where the protagonist is a staff. This staff, a lady, is going on a hellavu adventure on a flight. The standout point here is that there is no blatant hijacking of the plane, but rather a relatively helpless lady is being dominated by a scheming guy who has her dad’s life in his hands.

Perhaps you might want to see how she managed to salvage the lives of everyone from the hotel, to the plane, and her dad and herself. But otherwise there isn’t any exceptional themes to be found in the movie, so just treat it like yet another time entertainer.

2009 movie. Limited release. Rated R for grisly and disturbing content, some sexual images and language.

This is definitely not a show for the faint hearted. It is not what I would call scary, but its the deep psycho effect. Detective Aidan Breslin is dragged into a series of perverse twisted deaths, which soon is revealed to revolve around the prophetic initiation of hell on earth by the 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse.

(Note that there are quite a number of different versions of the persona of the 4 horsemen, and I’m not sure which ones the show exactly used, coz there seems to be some conflicts with the color themes and the names of the horsemen)

Plot wise, some of the early parts is more or less story building, and quite fine and dandy. But it became more predictable towards the end. (Especially the last horseman is quite easy to figure out, jize…) Central to the theme is something simple. It sends a brutally honest and heartchilling message across. All parents should not leave your kids alone in their fucked up world until it is too late.  I would actually suggest people to watch it (if you feel you are ready) in anticipation of parenthood, or if you are already a parent.

First of all, I’ve watched this pretty late coz I didn’t when it came out. And when it came out, there were some pretty huge bashings about Maggie Q and the costumes. I’ll join in the bashing here too. This is definitely so unlike the chinese military armor in the three kingdoms era. So factual marks minus, and its not like it is especially flashy and cool anyway.

Ok onto the plot I know adaptations mean changes from history (or even the novel) and rehashing the same thing over and over again is just boring, but I just wanna gripe haha… First of all, Zhaoyun was already an established general by the time Liu Bei fled from Cao Cao southwards. The movie however portrays him as a little soldier at this point and earned big credit after the rescue of ah dou. I felt it was quite lame really, you don’t send a little dude for this kind of mission. (In actual fact you don’t even send your generals, zhaoyun was the one who made his own decision to recover the lost family without letting anyone know)

Next! As everyone knows Cao Ying is just a fictional character but I don’t really care, at least it adds some female role into the show. I really forgot much about what was shown, didn’t pay too much attention. Zhang Fei’s death was wrong in the movie because they wanted a more honourable death for him hahaha.

Zhao Yun did not die in battle, he did not die in battle. He was rescued in Feng Ming hill by Guan Xing & Zhang Bao. And he did lose battles… just not many. Nobody is invincible lah hahaha. I also disliked the fact that Guan Xing Zhang Bao have that kind of rivalry in the show, coz I think they are supposed to be good buddies like their dads.

Zhao Yun had 2 sons, who weren’t outstanding in history. So might as well be good it wasn’t in the show He looks sad in the show, don’t even have a spouse. Manz, of the 5 Tiger Generals he had the best end.

Now onto the positive parts. This is a show to immortalize Zhao Yun, hahaha. I kind of like that. He rightfully pwned the 4 sons of Han De (as in history too) and solo ride to rescue the family of Liu Bei. That was THE shining moment for him, and his horse. Alas they didn’t pay more attention to the horse. I would have liked it to be white (by popular folklore his horse is called White Dragon aka Bai Long, and is pure white and majestic) and cool looking. But in all it is still a quite watchable show. Sorry that I’m a three kingdoms buff

p.s. The imba Zhao Yun in novel is the amalganation of the historic Zhao Yun and Chen Dao (another brilliant general).

This is one curious story about an extraordinary man. I don’t think I need to go into long reviews and whatnot considering the amount of coverage this has in the media being multiple winners of the Academy Awards. So I will just sum up some feelings, extraordinary feelings about this.

I don’t know how to imagine the circumstances in which a person can experience reverse aging. It may be a work of fiction (adapted from the novel of the same title), but it touches the heart. No matter what you look like, no matter what happens in the future, there are some things that will not change… The thoughts of looking at the people you love and care for grow old and die before you. The fear of what is going to go on in your life as you grow younger with the days.

This is a classic love epic that should be watched by everyone. I don’t know if I can accept the bizzare scenarios if I was put into this kind of situation…