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Chik loh dak gung (2002)
Surely watching paint dry is more entertaining than this "movie"
The obvious selling point of this movie was the number of scantily clad ladies battling each other. In bullet time. That's it.
It would've been more enjoyable if the action wasn't over the top...I mean come on, breaking glass that is thrown at you with your bare fists, catching the broken glass fragments, then throwing it back to where it came from? In one sequence? Please.
The dialogue was so cheesy, I couldn't tell if it was Swiss or cheddar.
I always thought that Daniel Wu was a decent actor, until this "action masterpiece" came along. He should choose his future roles carefully or get a better agent.
Another thing that bothered me was that there was this tree trying hard to act well....oh wait, that was Maggie Q. My mistake.
Do yourselves a favour...since they say this kind of movie is one where you leave your brain at the door before watching, make sure you know where you left it, because mine ran away realizing it doesn't want to go back in my head anymore after I saw this so-called, "movie". Go see "So Close" instead. At least the cast on that flick are proven "actors".
Could I have the 2 hours I wasted on this movie back please?
1/10. (1 for the effort)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Better than Phantom Menace, but........
To start things off, I'd have to say that George Lucas is a genius. He brought the first Star Wars film (now known as Episode IV- A New Hope) into our lives in 1977, The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983 and they still remain to be the most magical, imaginative, creative, innovative & influential films of all time. Simply put, they were classics.
Then in 1999, George had an idea - to bring the prequels to the big screen. Hence, Episode I - The Phantom Menace was released, leaving everyone who saw it confused, wondering where Lucas' magic went. To soothe the scars of abuse heaped on audiences by the impotent direction and blatant racial stereotyping of Episode I - The Phantom Menace, the only criteria this installment really had to meet was: be better than its predecessor. Not a difficult task, and Attack of the Clones is an improvement over the tragedy witnessed three years ago. Alas, "better than Phantom Menace" still doesn't mean Clones is a particularly good movie. The film's central focus - the "romance" between Senator Padme and Anakin Skywalker is tediously dull. How people as boring as they are made kids as interesting as Luke and Leia is beyond me. No chemistry whatsoever, Lucas probably thought, " That's ok, the Lightsaber duels scenes are gonna save this movie". This film offers some of the strongest casting of many recent films, yet the casts are never utilized, never given material, dimension, or direction which allows them to shine. Bombarded with 90's cliche lines like, "I hate it when he does that", is truly unacceptable, especially for a Star Wars film. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers punchlines more clever than that.
This film just suffocates itself so much trying to be legendary like the first trilogy but hip enough to fit the new millennium.
I guess all I have left to say is the Force may have been with George Lucas directing Episodes IV-VI, but since viewing the first two prequels, he may have turned to the Dark Side.
Spider-Man (2002)
Great Comic to Screen Adaptation
Never before have I been excited to see a certain movie. I wasn't excited at all to see Star Wars Episode I then, nor am I excited to see the coming Episode II. Spider-Man though, had me hanging (pun intended) since they mentioned it was going to the big screen. I've been a Marvel Comics fanatic pretty much more than half my life, and I was afraid it wouldn't live up to expectations. But after seeing it on the opening night (I just had to), I just couldn't believe it. The opening credits, the introduction of the main players in the story, the retelling of Spidey's origin - is perfect. Let me put it this way: Kirsten Dunst IS Mary Jane Watson, Willem Dafoe IS Norman Osborn/Green Goblin and Tobey Maguire is definitely the perfect Peter Parker/Spider-Man just as Christopher Reeve is Superman or Michael Keaton is Batman. Maguire actually pulls off the character better than I'd expected, managing to exude the perfect geeky awkwardness in his encounters with MJ, as well as nerdish enthusiasm during the scenes in the laboratory and the exact over-exuberant reaction you'd expect from someone who's just discovered that he can do whatever a spider can. They all have played their respective roles to perfection, not to mention the supporting cast: Rosemary Harris as Parker's beloved Aunt May, J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson and James Franco as Harry Osborn (who we might see in the sequel as the 'resurrected' Green Goblin). Perfect casting. A lot of credit goes to director Sam Raimi, for his depiction of Spider-Man has done this film justice. This movie owes a lot to the success of another Marvel comic to big screen adaptation of 'X-Men', which is the standpoint for all future superhero films. Great film, from start to finish. Go see it.