Resident Evil: Retribution

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson

Casted by:

Milla Jovovich as Alice

Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine

 李冰冰 Li Bingbing as Ada Wong

Michelle Rodriguez as Rain Ocampo

Aryana Engineer as Becky

Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker

Johann Urb as Leon S. Kennedy

Story: 

Alice and the others on the Umbrella Corporation freighter Arcadia face an attack by a fleet of tiltrotors led by Alice's former ally, Jill Valentine. Alice is captured in the attack, while the fates of Chris Redfield, Claire Redfield and K-Mart are left ambiguous.

Alice awakens in an underground facility and is interrogated by Jill. During a power failure, Alice escapes her cell and the laser grid, finding herself in a simulated Shibuya Square, Tokyo. Fighting her way out against zombies, she enters a control room and encounters Ada Wong, one of Albert Wesker's top agents. Ada explains that they no longer serve Umbrella and the power outage was staged by Wesker hacking into the facility's computers. Wesker appears on a screen, revealing that the Red Queen now controls Umbrella. Ada explains that the facility is underwater, located in Kamchatka, Russia, that served as a former Soviet naval outpost. The facility was designed by Umbrella in manufacturing clones and created simulated outbreaks to show the effect of the T-virus. Ada and Alice plan to rendezvous with a rescue crew, which includes Leon Kennedy, Barry Burton and Luther West, Alice's ally from the prior film. Leon's team plants explosives near the entrance of the facility, which will detonate in two hours to ensure the facility's destruction. The group plans to meet with Alice and Ada in the Raccoon City suburbia area. In a New York City simulation, Alice and Ada defeat two Axemen. Leon and his team enter a Moscow simulation, but are attacked by armed Las Plagas Undead.

In the Suburban setting, Alice and Ada encounter Becky, the deaf daughter of another Alice clone who mistakes the real Alice for her mother. They also encounter clones of Alice's former compatriots the One, Rain Ocampo and Carlos Olivera, sent to capture them. Ada gives Alice her smart glasses so that she and Becky can find their way and become split up. They encounter another clone of Rain, who was a friend of Becky's mother and Alice gives her a weapon. She then rescues Leon's surviving crew from the barrage of zombies and a giant Licker. Once united, the heroes head for the facility exit but are assaulted by the clones and Becky is captured by the Licker. Alice rescues her, using Leon's bombs, kills the Licker and allows the heroes to escape. The good Rain clone and Barry are killed - while the rest escape.

However, on the surface, their snow-mobile is knocked over by Jill Valentine's submarine. They confront the heroes with Ada as their hostage. Jill and Alice begin fighting each other, while Rain - now also enhanced with Las Plagas, fights Leon and Luther West, killing the latter. Alice is able to tear the mind-controlling scarab from Jill's chest and sinks Rain through the ice where she is dragged down by zombies. Alice, Ada, Becky, Leon, and Jill travel to Wesker's headquarters, the heavily barricaded and fortified White House, staffed by S.T.A.R.S. and the United States Military. Alice meets Wesker in the heavily-barricaded Oval Office, where he injects her with the T-virus, returning her superhuman abilities; as only Alice successfully bonded with it, she is the ultimate weapon. On the roof, Wesker explains the Red Queen is trying to wipe out humanity, and all of the remaining uninfected are in the base; it is humanity's last stand. A pull-away shows the military defending the White House alongside the remaining Umbrella Corp. soldiers against enormous hordes of T-virus abominations swarming all over the walls. 

 L² Scored: 8/10 

L² Comment: 

Finally Resident Evil is back on the "good-to-watch" track again... Not sure why Michelle Rodriguez is back into the movie but luckily her part is not that heavy, kinda hate to see her nasty face lately~ As the Asian market is getting wider, the production decided to add in asian superstar Li BingBing in this movie as well. However, Li BingBing's style in this movie is kinda weird and look like those 70's shanghai hooker as well, totally spoil her nice image. The story wise is not bad, kinda love the scene when Alice is being chased by many zombies, so cool~ :)

1911 Revolutionary 辛亥革命

Released Year: 2011

Directed by 成龍 Jackie Chan & 张黎 Zhang Li

Casted by:

成龙 Jackie Chan as 黄兴 Xing         
赵文瑄 Winston Cho as 孙中山 Sun Yat Sen
李冰冰 Bing Bing Lee as 徐宗汉 Han     
孙淳 Sun Chun as 袁世凯 Yuen Sai Hoi         
房祖名 Jaycee Chan as 张振武 Wu     
胡歌 Hu Ge as 林觉民 Min

 Story:

 The war of Sun Yat Sen join force with Wong Xing to do a revolutionary for China in year of 1911

L² Scored: 2/10

L² Comment:

Seriously war movie is definitely not my type of movie, but as a movie blogger, i watched it for the sake of writing it... but i fell asleep multiples time...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 雪花秘扇

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 王穎 Wayne Wang

Casted by:
李冰冰 Li Bingbing as 妮娜/百合 Nina/Lily
全智贤 Gianna Jun as 苏菲亚/雪花 Sophia/Snow Flower
邬君梅 Vivian Wu as Aunt
Hugh Jackman as Arthur
Archie Kao as Sebastian
姜武 Wu Jiang as Butcher
Russell Wong as Bank CEO
Story:

In the 19th century in China, two girls named Snow Flower and Lily are bonded together for eternity. They are paired as laotong by a matchmaker who is also responsible for arranging their marriages. They are isolated by their families and communicate by writing in a secret language, Nu shu.

Snow Flower was from the rich family while Lily is from the poor, due to their laotong bonding, Lily manage to marry into a rich family while his husband precious her small foot a lot (at oldern time, woman are known to be precious if they have small foot). But poor Snow Flower marry to a butcher when her family gone poor in a year later. Lily's mother in law restrict Lily to communicate with Snow Flower until the mother in law passed away. Lily visit Snow Flower in her village but they met a strike, they hide at a far off place but Snow Flower's son was froze to dead, the butcher get angry and slap Snow Flower. Lily ask Snow Flower to leave the butcher but was rejected. Snow Flower feel that she has been a burden to her sister.

Cousin of Lily & Snow Flower get marry, both of them went back to Hunan. Snow Flower brought a lot of friends with her and cause Lily thought their sister bonding broke. Few years later, Snow Flower's daughter came and beg Lily to visit Snow Flower as she was seriously ill and miss Lily. Lily went and hug Snow Flower while she passed away.

Meanwhile, in the present day Shanghai, their descendants Sophia and Nina struggle with the intimacy of their own childhood friendship. As teenagers, Sophia and Nina were introduced to the idea of laotong, and they signed a traditional laotong contract. Then, they must understand the story of the ancestral connection, hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan, or lose one another.

In 1997, Nina was Sophia Chinese Tutor and they love Faye Wong's music a lot. But Sophia's stepmother restrict them to be friend. Though Nina and Sophia can't meet each other at Sophia's house but they love to hang out together with Nina's aunt. They even use the traditional laotong way to bond their sisterhood. But Sophia's father investment make the family broke and he passed away. Sophia's stepmother said that she will send Sophia back to Korea if she failed her final exam. Nina took the exam while Sophia flee from the exam hall. Out of idea, Nina wrote Sophia's name on the paper but was found out. Nina was restricted to took exam for 3 years. But three years of hardwork, Nina finally got a good result and get a good work in a bank, and even get the handsome Sebastian as her boyfriend.

Nina and Sebastian was offer to work in New York; Sophia met an Aussie guy name Arthur. But Sophia is actually using Arthur to comfort Nina so that she can move to New York with Sebastian. But an accident of Sophia has cause her in coma, Nina left Sebastian and stay back in Shanghai. Nina found out Sophia has been living poorly by herself and plan to write a novel of the laotong story, and Arthur has been a trick in this. Nina lie beside Sophia in the hospital and Sophia finally wake up from her coma.

L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

OMG~ this is so fine. I was shock when i finished this international screen yesterday night. It really took my breath away, so i score it a 10/10 :)

Storyline was great, though a mix of the 2 generations, but the laotong(sisterhood) of these 2 woman is shown well and kinda touching. I really feel Li Bing Bing's acting has gone into the next level and she look so pretty as well. Vivian Wu and Hugh Jackman has actually brighten up this whole film, i really miss Vivian's film :( And the way Jackman sang the chinese song is so funny~

Detective Dee & the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 狄仁杰之通天帝国

Released Year: 2010
Directed by 徐克 Tsui Hark

Casted by:
劉德華 Andy Lau as 狄仁傑 Dee
劉嘉玲 Carina Lau as 武則天 Wu
李冰冰 Bing-Bing Li as 上官靜兒 Jing
梁家輝 Tony Leung as 沙陀 Sha
鄧超 Deng Chao as 裴東来 Fei
吴耀漢 Richard Wu & 泰迪羅賓 Teddy Robin as 汪驴 Lu
Story:

Wu has been ruling China and will become the first female emperor in the history. Officers build the huge statue of hers in front of the kingdom, but 2 officers were burned alive. To solve this case, Wu released Dee from prison to investigate on this with the help of Jing & Fei.

They investigate and discover the golden bug might be the reason of the self burning of the 2 officers. They came to Lu who change his face by needles. Lu told Dee that the golden bugs were destroy but not sure about it. When Dee went back, he discover that Jing has the ability to change her look just like how Lu did it, and Jing is the one who help Wu in the ceremony. Jing didn't kill Dee in the end but was killed in the bamboo jungle.

Dee went back to save Fei who is locked up, but when Fei was exposed to sunlight, the golden bug's poison inside him cause him to burn alive in front of Dee. Dee went into the statue and discover his long lost friend Sha who is behind all these. Sha use hot amber try to ruined the tall statue so that it will break down and crush the palace during Wu's ceremony. Sha fought with Dee and pour the golden bug water on him. The hot amber broke the statue and it gonna crush down. Dee chase behind Sha on a horse and the golden bug water spill on Sha and he was burned alive under the sunlight.

Dee managed to get to Wu on time and save her life. Wu promise to be the good emperor while Dee live his life with Lu on the underneath world forever.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

This is definitely a good movie, too bad i missed it on the big screen. The storyline is good, the actors & actresses are good. Love Carina new change, this really won her a great reward in the HK film industry. Bravo!

The most haunted scene for me, will be the human burning scenes, i think its a bit scary but exciting~ weird huh? lol :)

The Messenger 风声

Released Year: 2009
Directed by 陈国富 Chen Kuo-Fu & 高群书 Gao Qin-Shu

Casted by:
周迅 Zhou Xun as 顾晓梦 Meng
黄晓明 Huang Xiao-Ming as 武田 Tanaka
李冰冰 Li Bing Bing as 李宁玉 Yuk
张涵予 Zhang Han-Yu as 吴志国 Guo
苏有朋 Alec Su as 白小年 Nian
Story:

During world war II, at Nanking, 5 person is working for the Japanese Government. The messenger Meng; the translator Yuk; army leader Guo; assistant gabenor Nian & army contacted Kim. Not long later all 5 of them are invited by the Japanese Lieutenant Tanaka to a mansion.

5 of them were suspected to be a spy for the anti-japan-group. To investigate who's the spy, 5 of them back-stab each other. Nian was the first to be tortured to admit that he is a spy based on his wordings are found the same from the spy list. Nian was tortured to death. Tanaka later on found out that the spy usually contact with an old man. Tanaka purposely invite the gang to a lunch and the old man appear to collect the information.

Tanaka forced to bring Kim out for investigate, but he get freak out and killed himself with a pistol. Yuk was the second one to drag out, but when she thought she will be tortured like previously by striping off naked, but she was inform to stay in her room.

Tanaka and gang left Meng and Guo in the room. They got the radio on and heard that Meng accused Guo of being the spy and putting a code on a cigarette. Guo trying to strangled Meng but Tanaka they all stop him. But Meng later on announce to Yuk that she's the spy and Guo was released in hospital. Meng later on was tortured to told out the person behind by rubbing her vagina on a rope. Suddenly an attack from Meng to bite off Guo's ear, and Meng was shot to death.

Tanaka's mission failed and he was slice on his throat when he was send back to Japan, and the person who killed him is Guo. Guo went back to find Yuk after the war, and he told her that actually he's the person who behind the spy and the spy is really Meng. Both of them know each other and try to find out a way to send the message out to their group and finally Guo managed to do it when he's in the hospital.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

The movie is damn good, never a part which is boring. Alec Su good performing although not a huge appearance. Li Bing Bing is surprisingly good in her acting and this brought her the best actress in a lot of awards.