After Earth Review

What are we looking at Dad?

After Earth review – So…after a disaster that was The Last Airbender (which thank God I didn’t waste my time or money watching), M. Night Shyamalan is back with another flop…ops I mean flick! I don’t know what happen to him after his Oscar nomination for Best Director for 6^th Sense. He sorta lost his sense to direct a good movie ever since. Just one painful movie after another, but enough about him let’s now focus on Will Smith…this dude is also kinda falling off the blockbuster films radar. Sure, he made black suit look good in Men in Black (the first one) but did you watch the sequels? How about I Robot? Hancock? I Am Legend? Why Will? Why? Tsk tsk tsk Can you go back to you Independence Day, The Pursuit of Happyness, Ali time for Will sake. No pun indented but if there’s a Will there’s a way rite? Don’t get me started about Jaden…just don’t! Please go back to school…acting school if you want to match your father’s heyday glory you little boy!

Like Son, like Father...eh or it is the other way around? o.O

As for the movie…so we finally fucked up till we can’t live on Earth anymore and have to pindah to another planet which looks like kena nuclear boom! Not only that, the humans have also compete for space with a nasty looking creature called Ursa. Being a legend that he is, Will’s character, General Cypher Raige is gifted with skill referred to as 'ghosting', where you don’t feel fear (Cewah! Terrer kan?). I kinda wonder if this skill extends to show lack of love for your own child because that’s how he treats his son. So damn cold, silap haribulan the poor boy could have a breakdown! Luckily the mother was a bit ok and she suggest some father and son bonding time in another planet while carrying other extra actors and also the dangerous Ursa (smart ey? sigh).

Errrr....u jump I jump? No?

Their kapal kena crash land lepas kena whack in some space ribut and mana lagi to land except Earth, which is now classified as BAHAYA. I don’t know about you but the place where they crash landed looked green, yet dia kata tempat tuh bahaya pulak! Huh? How? Go figure…because all I saw was green forest, crystal clear water, albeit the animal seems to be ganas. A pacat looking bug almost caused Kitai to have a plastic surgery but other than that. The only animals featured were baboons, harimau looking like harimau…big bird…aik tu je? Apa yang bahaya sangat? Alien yang you carry in your spaceship lagi bahaya kut kan?

Apa tengok-tengok?

Daddy gets badly injured so the Son have to save the day, nasib baik backpack dia canggih so Daddy can guide him through this so called ‘Dangerous Planet’ so he can locate and send signal to the space to rescue this two survivors. So good kan? They aculi send crew of more than 10 people to rescue a black guy and his chickadee son. Guess racism is out of the window in the future. Thank God! In between got lah some boring, Daddy being ‘listen to me, am your Father’ scene, Son going ‘but Dad, I can do this’ scene. Perfect time to bring your Dad to watch over Father’s Day weekend if you don’t have other plan. Or not. The end.

 

Now You See Me Review

Yes! I finally saw you guys in action!

Now You See Me Review – First of all, check out the awesome cast members, you got Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Woddy Harrelson, Melanie Laurent! It’s like the Avengers of ensemble cast yo! If you were following my earlier reviews, you would know that I scored preview pass to this flick but I choose to watch Hang Over 3 instead (yes, you can slap me for the silly choice Next Time You See Me). That stupid decision caused me 2 failed attempts to aculi buy the tickets. Dalam banyak-banyak gamba yang tengah tayang, this one asik sold out jer! Chet!

Pick a card...any card....errr....nice hair #eh :)

But as a movie MANIac yang kena kutuk for passing this movie preview, I finally got my hands on the precious ticket! Felt like I won ticket to watch The Four Horseman live magic show itself pulak! Heck after watching this movie, I wish I could attend such awesome magic show for real.

Can I have all of them to my birthday party?

Now as for the review, with such awesome cast, you know you are in for an amazing ride! The stories have its own lightning fast and slow as a snail phase. The music that accompanied the tricks was simply awesome. The CGI tricks were chun giler. The camera work however gave me some slight headache here and there. The illusions performed by the magic troupe amazed me, no matter how many times they tell you, the closer you look the less you see, you can’t help but look closer and get misdirected. I got fooled so many times just like Special Agent Dylan but the French Interpol chick (played brilliantly by Melanie Laurent) kept things in sight. I was kinda surprised at that because let’s face it, she’s really calm for a French girl, wasn’t she?

Abracadabraaaaaa.....

As for the cast, Jesse with less curly hair still reminded me of him playing Mark Zuckerberg, still talking waaaaaaay too fast for me. Kena slow-mo baru can catch up sometimes, Isla Fisher was less menonjol character wise but she most definitely caught my attention whenever she appeared on screen for obvious reasons. Woody Harrelson, dude you can hypnotize me anytime you want! Dave Franco was charming, way charming compared to his brother James Franco (Thank God) Mark Ruffalo pulak…I can’t help but to wait for this dude to change into Hulk whenever he was getting agitated.  As for Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, they maybe just supporting cast members but you know they are legends that doesn’t require loads of screen time to exude their legendness!

Morgan : Wasup Mike?
Michael : Noooothing...wasup Morgan?

I have no idea how this movie did escaped my radar as a must-watch-movie-of-the-year but I’m glad I caught it and secretly hoping for a sequel now that my ‘EYE’ are opened. Would be awesome to find out what else can The Four Horseman come up with right? Just pray it won’t be a stinker! Till then I’m gona add this to the list of FUCKING AWESOME MOVIE WORTH WATCHING OVER AND OVER AGAIN!  

Hmm...mebbe I will try this trick one day! :D