Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor

Casted by:

Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider

Johnny Whitworth as Ray Carrigan / Blackout

Fergus Riordan as Danny Ketch

Ciarán Hinds as Roarke / Mephisto

Violante Placido as Nadya Ketch

 Story:

A French priest named Moreau warns the monks of a monastery about an impending attack by the devil's forces to obtain a boy named Danny, the monastery falls under attack; Moreau tries to help the boy and his mother Nadya escape, but the distrusting mother shoots at Moreau and flees with her son. Moreau manages to distract the men chasing Danny and Nadya, but nearly dies in the process and loses them. He believes that only the Ghost Rider is capable of protecting the boy. He finds the Rider and seeks his help.

Eight years have passed since the first movie, which dealt with Johnny Blaze making a deal with the demon Roarke (Mephistopheles), and becoming the Ghost Rider—a vengeful, fiery spirit who feeds on the evil of his victims and consumes the souls of sinners. No matter how small the infraction—anything from genocide to a white lie—the Rider does not differentiate. This drives Blaze into hiding, fighting the evil spirit within him. Moreau finds him with some ease and convinces him to save the boy in exchange for his priesthood's ability to restore Johnny's soul and remove the Ghost Rider's curse forever. Meanwhile, pursuers force Nadya and Danny from the road and bring them to their leader: her former boyfriend Ray Carrigan. Carrigan has Danny tied up and is about to execute Nadya when the Ghost Rider appears; the Ghost Rider kills several of Carrigan's men and then moves in on Danny. Nadya distracts the Ghost Rider, who then is shot with grenades into submission. Carrigan leaves with Danny in tow.

Johnny wakes up the next morning in a hospital. On the way out, he convinces Nadya not to trust him, but to accept his help to find Danny. However, Carrigan tells Roarke about the Rider, and Roarke speaks an incantation to Danny via phone; this, in effect, puts up a "firewall" preventing the Rider from sensing his whereabouts. He warns Carrigan it will not shield him from being sensed and gives him instructions to deliver Danny. Nadya later tells Blaze that as she lay dying, she made a deal with Roarke: her life in return for him impregnating her with Danny, making Danny a direct vessel for Roarke and the potential for him to have unlimited power on the surface world. Roarke lacks this power so far from hell. Danny nearly escapes, but breaks his ankle and is recaptured. That night, Nadya and Johnny interrogate a known contact of Carrigan's. Johnny takes off ahead of Nadya to deal with Carrigan. Nadya saves Danny as the Rider converts a mining machine (a Bagger 288[9]) into a massive fiery machine, destroying their hideout complex and mortally wounding Carrigan. When Ghost Rider catches up to Nadya and starts to use his Penance Stare on her, Danny is able to stop the rider with a word, exercising his hidden power.

Moreau catches up with the group as they ride off. Roarke is not done with Carrigan; using his power, he turns Carrigan into a demon called Blackout capable of instantly decaying anything he touches while shrouded in darkness. Johnny and Nadya bring Danny to Moreau's monastery with warm reception. Moreau delivers on his end of the bargain and, after explaining that the Ghost Rider is the twisted incarnation of the Spirit of Justice, Zarathos, after being captured and tortured to madness while in Hell, he exorcises Johnny of the spirit and Johnny becomes human again. The head monk Methodius proclaims that Danny will never be safe from the influence of evil and says he must die, taking Johnny, Moreau, and Nadya captive in order to execute the boy. Carrigan intervenes, however, killing the monks and taking Danny captive again to deliver to Roarke. The others follow, with Johnny not wanting to desert Danny after having promised to protect him. With the ritual to transfer Roarke's spirit and power into Danny underway, the three infiltrate the compound to save him. Carrigan kills Moreau, but Danny (who Roarke states has the same powers as he does) gives Johnny back the power of the Ghost Rider. Roarke manages to escape with Danny, and the Ghost Rider and Nadya give pursuit. After a vehicular struggle, Ghost Rider manages to defeat Carrigan and causes the SUV carrying Roarke and Danny to crash. The Ghost Rider literally sends Roarke back into hell while Danny, who had died in the accident, is returned to his mother. Channeling the blue flame of Zarathos, Johnny manages to revive Danny and assures him that his safety is assured.

As the film closes, the Rider, now covered in angelic blue flames, rides off on his motorcycle, saying "My name is Johnny Blaze. I'm the Ghost Rider".

 L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

Seriously this sequel movie is not as good as the first one. I find the storyline is a bit dull and a lot of times it makes me yawn~ And the acting of the actors & actresses also kinda disappointing as well~ 

World Trade Center

 Released Year: 2006

Directed by Oliver Stone

Casted by:

Nicolas Cage as John McLoughlin

Michael Peña as Will Jimeno

Maria Bello as Donna McLoughlin

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Allison Jimeno

 Story: 

On September 11, 2001, Port Authority Police officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, are patrolling the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, when they see a plane fly dangerously low overhead. As all of the police officers return to the station, they see on TV that the North Tower of the World Trade Center has been hit by a plane. Sergeant McLoughlin assigns many of the officers to assist in a precautionary evacuation attempt of the South Tower and they board a Metropolitan Transit Authority bus. On the bus, they hear reports that the South Tower has also been hit. When they arrive at the World Trade Center, they realize the extent of the disaster and see one of the first victims to jump out of the towers to certain death. The men proceed to get safety equipment and enter the concourse between the towers.

The group consists of McLoughlin, Jimeno, Dominick Pezzulo and Antonio Rodrigues. Officer Chris Amoroso appears to inform them of other events, such as the attack on the Pentagon, the second plane's hit on the South Tower and an attack on Israel though the group does not accept any of these as true. As the men prepare to enter the North Tower, the buildings begin to rumble. McLoughlin realizes that the South Tower is collapsing onto them and that their only chance of survival is to run into the service elevator shaft. Amoroso trips and does not have time to get up. Rodrigues is unable to get to the shaft in time. McLoughlin, Jimeno and Pezzulo manage to escape the huge amounts of dust and rubble flying down from the South Tower. However, as the rubble continues to crush the elevator shaft, the three are trapped. As the cascade of debris subsides, Pezzulo realizes he can free himself and manages to move nearer to Jimeno who, along with McLoughlin, is pinned under rubble and cannot move. Pezzulo tries but fails to shift the debris covering Jimeno's legs and is told by McLoughlin not to leave.

As Pezzulo becomes optimistic that they will live, the rumbling begins again as the North Tower starts to collapse. Although Jimeno and McLoughlin are not further harmed, Pezzulo is fatally injured. After he fires a gun through a gap in the rubble to try to alert rescuers to their position, he dies. Jimeno and McLoughlin spend hours under the rubble, in pain but exchanging personal information. McLoughlin is particularly anxious to keep Jimeno from falling asleep and Jimeno also realizes that by straining to grab a metal bar above his body, he can make a noise that rescuers might hear. Two United States Marines, Dave Karnes and Jason Thomas, who are searching for survivors, do hear it and find the men, calling for help to dig them out. Jimeno is rescued first, and then hours later McLoughlin is lifted out of the debris, barely alive. They are then both reunited with their distraught families at the hospital. Two years after the attacks, McLoughlin and Jimeno attend a barbecue with their families: McLoughlin's Wife Donna, Jimeno's wife Allison, daughter Bianca, and their newest addition Olivia.

 L² Scored: 4/10

L² Comment: 

This is the first time i watch this movie, i thought it might have more scenes on the damaging part when the plane crash into WTC, but its mostly on the 2 man who are stuck in the collapsed building instead. Well, the storyline is still acceptable but not as what i have prefer.

The Family Man

 Released Year: 2000

Directed by Brett Ratner

 

Casted by:

Nicolas Cage as Jack Campbell
 Téa Leoni as Kate Reynolds / Kate Campbell
 Don Cheadle as Cash
 Makenzie Vega as Annie Campbell
 Jake & Ryan Milkovich as Josh Campbell

 Story:

Jack Campbell is a single, wealthy Wall Street executive living the high life in New York City. He is in the midst of putting together a billion dollar merger and has ordered an emergency meeting on Christmas Day to ensure its success. Family clearly has no meaning for him. In his office, on Christmas Eve, he is surprised to hear that his former girlfriend, Kate, tried to call him after many years. After reminiscing a bit, he walks into a convenience store where a lottery contestant, Cash, barges in saying that he has a winning ticket. The store clerk believes that Cash is lying and refuses to give him his winnings. Cash pulls out a gun and is about to shoot the clerk before Jack offers to buy the ticket from him, thus averting disaster. Jack and Cash settle their business deal outside, and Jack arrogantly offers to help Cash before going to sleep in his penthouse.

The next morning, on Christmas Day, Jack wakes up in a suburban New Jersey bedroom with Kate and two children. Shocked and confused, he hurries back to his office and condo in New York, but not even his closest friends recognize him. Confused, Jack runs out to the street and encounters Cash, who is now driving Jack's Ferrari. Cash explains that Jack is experiencing a glimpse of an alternate universe in order to learn a lesson. What that lesson is unknown and is personal to Jack's life.

Jack realizes that he is living the life he could have had if he had not gone to London to study and become an investment banker but had stayed in the United States with his then girlfriend. He instead has a modest family life, where he is a tire salesman and Kate is a non-profit lawyer. Very soon, Jack's young daughter realizes his secret, thinks he is an alien and decides to assist him in surviving his new life. Jack struggles to fit into the role of a family man, making many serious blunders such as missing opening Christmas presents, flirting with a married woman, and forgetting his anniversary. He begins to succeed in his life, bonding with his children, falling in love with his wife, and working hard at his dull job.

He suddenly finds himself being offered a contract to work at the very same investment firm from his real life, having impressed the Chairman of the firm with his business savvy when he came in for a tire change. His old mentor once again gladly offers him a job, while a formerly sycophantic employee is instead in Jack's old position, with an assertiveness he did not possess as a subordinate. While he is wowed by the potential salary and other complimentary extreme luxuries, Kate argues that they are very happy where they are and that they should be thankful for the life they have.

Just as Jack is finally realizing the true value of his new life, he sees Cash again (now a store clerk) and demands to stay in this life, but, though sorrowful of Jack's situation, Cash informs him that there is nothing he can do. So, his epiphany jolts him back to his wealthy—yet as he now realizes, lonely and unfulfilled—former life on Christmas Day. In desperation, he forgoes closing his $130 billion pharmaceutical acquisition deal to intercept Kate, who had left the message the day before. He finds her moving out of a luxury townhouse. Like Jack, she also focused on her career and became a very wealthy lawyer. Furthermore, she had only called him to give back some of his old possessions. Before she moves to Paris, he runs after her at the airport and describes the family they had in the alternate universe in an effort to win back her love. Shocked but intrigued, she agrees to have a cup of coffee at the airport, suggesting that they might have a future after all.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Kinda meaningful movie, "what if" i make this decision instead of another? "What if" is such a mysterious thingy... Everyone always think about "what if", but in the real word, "what if" don't exist... choose your path/decision/option wisely dude...

Drive Angry

Released Year: 2011

Directed by Patrick Lussier

Casted by:

Nicolas Cage as John Milton
Amber Heard as Piper
William Fichtner as The Accountant
Billy Burke as Jonah King

 Story:

 In Colorado, John Milton interrogates the only survivor of a car wreck he caused, seeking Jonah King, the leader of a Satanic cult who murdered Milton's daughter and took her baby. In three days, King and his followers will sacrifice the child at midnight. After the man tells him where Jonah King is, Milton sets off for Louisiana to find his grandchild. He is then being followed by a strange man in a suit who identifies himself as "The Accountant".

At a diner in Oklahoma, Milton meets a waitress, Piper, who gives him a ride. After dropping Milton off, she goes to her fiance Frank's house to discover Frank is having sex with another woman. Piper viciously fights the other woman, and gets into an argument with Frank, who then decides to pulverize Piper. Milton rescues Piper, knocking Frank out, and they leave in her car. Later, The Accountant comes to Frank's house, still looking for Milton. Angry, Frank attacks the Accountant, who kills Frank with a broken baseball bat. Police arrive, and the Accountant presents an FBI badge, telling them to help him find Milton, who is supposedly an escaped convict.

Milton and Piper then stay for the night at a roadside bar/motel. Piper later spots Jonah King, who orders his men to find and kill Milton. In the motel, Milton is having sex with a waitress, and without stopping is able to kill most of Hill's men; Piper kills the final one. The Accountant and the police arrive to find Milton. Both officers get killed, and Piper and Milton escape. The Accountant pursues them, but is shot by Milton with a 5-barreled shotgun. This in turn causes The Accountant to lose control of the car and then crash. Despite not wanting anything to do with the situation, Piper agrees to help Milton to find his grandchild.

Further up the road, Milton and Piper come to a church where Jonah is inside with Milton's infant granddaughter. During the struggle, Milton is shot in the eye and left for dead. Jonah leaves with Piper in a RV. Soon after, Milton gets up, killing almost everyone in the church, and catches up with Jonah. He manages in rescuing Piper, but Jonah escapes with the child. Back at the church, The Accountant finds someone who is still alive and he tells the Accountant that they shot Milton but he survived. He tells the Accountant that they have supposedly made a pact with Satan and that sacrificing the child will bring hell on earth. The Accountant is, however, amusedly skeptical of this.

Nearing their destination and needing a new car, Milton stops at the farm of an old acquaintance, who is shocked to see Milton alive. Piper angrily demands an explanation for how Milton could've possibly survived being shot in the skull. He says that Milton was a career criminal, but was killed over 20 years ago. Milton explains that he was condemned to Hell, where the damned are punished by being forced to watch their loved ones suffer in real life. Claiming that his daughter was "the only good thing he ever did in his life", seeing King abuse and murder her enraged him to the point he was able to escape his bonds. The bizarre looking gun that he carries with him is called the "Godkiller", which he stole from the Devil himself, and has the ability to not just kill a person, but to erase their very soul from existence.

Just before storming the prison, the Accountant is finally able to catch up with Milton and Piper. The Accountant assures them that King and his followers have made no such pact with Lucifer (in fact, cults that kill in his name are apparently one of his greatest annoyances). He agrees to let Milton complete his objective, but is still going to return him to Hell when it's all over.

Minutes before midnight, Milton literally crashes the gathering, and he and Piper kill nearly all of King's followers. Just before he can kill the child, Piper is able to recover the Godkiller from the Accountant who tells her to hurry if she intends to help Milton. When she gets to the fight between Milton and the cult she tries to shoot King, misses and is blown back by the Godkiller's kick. King, while boasting of his power, then beats Milton while he is crawling to the gun which had landed next to the altar and out of King's view. Just when King is about to deliver the final blow the Accountant briefly distracts him allowing Milton time to pull out the Godkiller and shoot him at near point-blank range vaporizing King's body and soul.

With his mission completed, Milton asks Piper to watch after his granddaughter, which she agrees to. The Accountant arrives to bring him back to Hell. Milton graciously enters a car that the Accountant summons (only after demanding that he get to drive it) and cockily tells the Accountant that if he escaped Hell once, he can surely do it again. Almost hopefully, the Accountant says he doesn't doubt him. The film then ends with a portal opening, and Milton and the Accountant driving across a long fiery bridge back into Hell.

  L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Hmm, how should i rate this? If just based on my opinion, i love it and probably will score it even higher than 7/10. But the story is kinda confusing, beside the cult and sacrificing, i don't know whether cage is a human or devil in this film. And there's also a guy "Fichtner" who is a God? A protector of cage? OMG, i really don't know... But the action wise is good... except this, i found that Nicolas Cage is always stuck in this kind of film... a lil bit like "ghost rider"....

Trespass 2011

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Joel Schumacher

Casted by:
Nicolas Cage as Kyle Miller
Nicole Kidman as Sarah Miller
Cam Gigandet as Jonah
Ben Mendelsohn as Elias
Liana Liberato as Avery Miller
Jordana Spiro as Petal
Dash Mihok as Tye
Story:

Kyle is a diamond dealer whom almost face bankruptcy. Inside his glamorous house, Sarah his wife and Avery the daughter were arguing whether Avery can attend a party. Avery sneaked out from the house and climb out through fence after shutting down one of the alarm part to let herself escape to meet her friend.

Sarah wore her best lingerie & nice black dress to please Kyle but Kyle was worry about his business and decided to go out. But the security guard appeared on the telecom and request them to open the door to check whether there is robberies inside their house. But Sarah realize Avery has gone missing and shout to Kyle. Kyle realize the dangerous and wanted to shut the door but the security guards broke in. They are not security guards but 4 robberies instead.

The robberies seems like know everything about them including their life and the house alarm system. They shut down the system to prevent the security company from knowing it. They threaten to kill Sarah if Kyle did not hands out the diamond to them from the safety box. After a several punches, Kyle open up the safety and everyone was shocked that there are nothing inside. Kyle claims that he has face bankruptcy and has nothing left beside debts. On a disappointment, Sarah realize that one of the robbery is the security guard whom she almost has an affair with, Jonah. The rest of the robberies are, Elias (Jonah's older brother), Petal (a strip dancer, Elias' girlfriend) & Tye (Elias' debtor).

Avery came back from the party because a young boy wanna have chem sex with her by paying her cash. The robberies caught her and threw her with the parents. The robberies get freak off because there were no diamonds and cash for them. But from a picture, they saw that Sarah has a expensive diamond necklace, they went through the house and found the necklace. But Kyle claims that the necklace is fake and from a flee market. Elias crash it and discover it is really fake. Tye decided to kill the Millers, then Avery told them she can get them money from the young boy's party. Petal follow her along to the party, while driving, Avery turn the car and crash into a pole while unbutton the seat belt of Petal's. Petal get injured and Avery chain her up while getting back to her parents.

Sarah stole the narcotic from Elias and in the end Kyle injected it at Tye to make him unconscious. Elias realize Petal was in trouble and wanted to kill Avery but Sarah protected her. Jonah kill Elias instead to protect Sarah whom he has fall for. A fight in the house renovation part exposed the huge money which was hide by Kyle at there. Kyle use the nail gun to nailed Jonah at there and fire burn up to burn him alive. The Millers lost all including the house and money but they were safe in the end.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

I love this movie so much, kinda exciting and new to me. The storyline is good and almost all scene are important and exciting. The most exciting part will be the fighting part at the renovation house.

And its been a long time i didnt watch any movie of Nicole Kidman :) She still looks good but you can actually see the wrinkles~ lol...

G-Force

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Hoyt Yeatman

Casted by:
Sam Rockwell as Darwin
Penelope Cruz as Juarez
Tracy Morgan as Blaster
Nicholas Cage as Speckles
Dee Bradley Baker as Mooch
Zach Galifinakis as Ben
Kelli Garner as Marcie
Bill Nighy as Leonard Saber
Jon Favreau as Hurley
Steve Buscemi as Bucky
Story:

A special FBI organization of trained secret agent animals, equipped with advanced tools including an advanced earpiece that allows the mammalian members to talk to humans. In addition to a team of cockroaches, the primary field team consists of guinea pigs Darwin (team leader), Juarez (martial arts), Blaster (weapons/transportation), star-nosed mole Speckles (cyber intelligence), and fly Mooch (reconnaissance). Hoping to impress his superiors on the eve of a budgetary review, the unit's leader, Ben, orders an unauthorized infiltration of the residence of home electronics and appliances magnate, Leonard Saber - Owner of Saberling Technology, who has been under FBI investigation for years. The team is able to successfully retrieve considerable sensitive information about a sinister scheme that is set to occur in 29 hours.

However, when Ben's superior arrives for his evaluation, his astonishment at the team's capabilities and technology is overcome by his indignation at Ben's unauthorized mission and the fact that the downloaded intelligence appears to be useless information about Saber's coffee makers. As a result, the government agent orders the unit shut down, the equipment seized and the animals to be used as experimental subjects to be killed as security risks. With the help of their human compatriots, Darwin, Juarez, Blaster, Mooch, and Speckles escape with hopes of stopping Saber's scheme, but find themselves in a pet carrying case bound for a pet shop.

Now trapped in the store's pet rodent display case, G-Force meets Hurley, a gluttonous guinea pig, Bucky an irascible hamster and three sycophantic mice. Although Blaster and Juarez manage to get themselves sold to a family with plans to return to extract their comrades, Speckles' own attempt to escape by playing dead ends disastrously when he is thrown into and apparently crushed in, a garbage truck. Meanwhile, Mooch manages to return to Ben to tell him where his mammalian agents are, but Darwin escapes (with Hurley, pushed out of the cage by Bucky, also convinced that Darwin is his brother, tagging along) before he can arrive to collect them.

While Blaster and Juarez escape their new owners to return to Ben, he and his partner discover that the discredited intel has a destructive computer function that apparently hid the scheme. At this time, Darwin and Hurley make their own way to their superior. On route, Darwin sees a Saber coffeemaker and decides to investigate it, but his examination of the machine makes it come alive as a dangerous fighting robot that he and Hurley are barely able to defeat. Now with his suspicions vindicated, Darwin and Hurley transport the wreckage to Ben. However, upon arrival, Ben confesses the shattering information that they are not special genetically enhanced animals as previously told, but ordinary ones Ben took in and trained for the team. However, Hurley lifts them from their despair by reminding the team of the astounding feats he has seen them do and the fact that they obviously made themselves extraordinary on their own.

Emboldened but with little time to stop the scheme, Ben provides the field team with the means to infiltrate the Saber residence and plant a virus in the computer mainframe. Unfortunately, FBI agents are ordered to capture the animals dead or alive, forcing the team to elude them with an extended pursuit thanks to a high speed vehicle especially designed for them called the Rapid deployment vehicle(also known as the RDV that what Darwin called it). After that is accomplished and the team infiltrates Saber's mainframe, the plan is put into motion, and the resulting battle separates the group, only leaving Darwin and Mooch to take the mainframe down. At the same time, Leonard Saber is shocked to discover that his appliances have become killing machines, expecting them to simply be able to effectively communicate with each other, while FBI takes advantage of this obvious pretext to finally openly move against the industrialist. When Darwin reaches the mainframe, he finds out that Speckles, whose home and family had been destroyed by humans, is the mastermind of the plan, whose masterstroke is to cause a massive planetwide bombardment of space junk pulled from orbit to make the planet surface uninhabitable. Speckles promptly amalgamates the various appliances in the vicinity into a giant walking being, which, combined with a localized bombardment of orbital debris, soon overpowers the police forces gathered at the mansion. Darwin manages to persuade Speckles that his new family is with the rest of the team and Ben, who had taken them all in. Speckles consents, and tries to shut it down, but realizes that it has gone too far. However, Darwin uses the computer virus on his PDA to take it down.

At the end of the film, the guinea pigs are personally commended by the FBI Director who also appoints them special agents of the FBI. Furthermore, G-Force is reinstated as a unit of the Bureau and expanded with Hurley, Bucky and the mice inducted as new recruits. Meanwhile, Saber makes the largest product recall in history, and Speckles is given the punitive duty of personally removing the malicious chips from all Saber products, which number in the tens of millions.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

When i watch this movie, i remember my old hamster "Huang Rong" who passed away not long ago. Of coz my hamster is not able to talk or do all this martial arts thingy, but i just miss her appearance.

Well, back to the movie. It is cute and i love it, though it has been receiving a lot of negative critics. But heard that the second film is coming out soon~ really hope to watch it in the cinema this time :)

Season Of The Witch

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Dominic Sena

Casted by:
Nicolas Cage as Behmen
Ron Perlman as Felson
Claire Foy as Anna
Stephen Campbell Moore as Debelzaq
Robert Sheehan as Kay
Ulrich Thomsen as Eckhardt
Stephen Graham as Hagamar
Story:

Set in the 14th century, three women accused of witchcraft are hanged and then drowned by a priest. He performs rituals to prevent the witches from coming back from the dead, only for the third witch to gain a demonic appearance and hang the priest. Cutting to several years later during the Crusades, knights Behmen and Felson become disillusioned with the war upon seeing women and children being mercilessly slaughtered and return to England as deserters. They discover that the Black Plague has swept across the land and most people believe it to be from Hell. Upon entering a town, Behmen's sword shows his crest and they are identified as deserters and taken to Cardinal D'Ambroise who is infected with the plague.

The Cardinal asks the knights to escort an apparent witch to a monastery where the monks will decide whether or not she lives or dies, having been accused of causing the plague. The two knights agree, but under one condition, that she will be given a fair trial. The Cardinal agrees, and they set out accompanied by a priest Debelzaq, young man Kay, grieving knight Eckhardt whose family were killed by the plague, and swindler Hagamar who leads the way to the monastery. The witch, a young girl later identified as Anna, shows hatred towards Debelzaq and forms a bond with Behmen.

Shortly after setting off, the group camp for the night. Eckhardt volunteers to watch the witch for the 1st night after a while Debelzaq comes to relieve Eckhardt, but decides to stay and keep watch with him since he had trouble sleeping after the death of his family. Eckhardt talks about his daughter Mila who by resembled Anna. As Eckhardt leaves, Anna escapes after attacking Debelzaq from within her cage and flees to a nearby town. During the search for her, Eckhardt has visions of his dead daughter and is accidentally killed by Kay.

One man down, the group become less trusting of Anna including Behmen. The group manage to successfully cross a rickety rope bridge, Anna saving Kay from falling to his death by grabbing him with one hand. The group enter the dark forest called Wormwood, where Hagamar attempts to kill Anna so the group can go home, only to be stopped by the others. Anna appears to summon wolves, who chase the group and kill Hagamar cause he stood in her way. An enraged Behmen tries to kill Anna, but is stopped by Felson when the monastery is in sight.

Arriving at the monastery, the men find all of the monks have been killed by the plague but locate the Key of Solomon, an ancient book filled with holy rituals used to defeat evil. The men confront Anna, Debelzaq beginning to perform a ritual used on witches. However, Anna starts show her real form and reveals she has been deceiving them all along, melts her cage and reveals herself to be a male demon, using Anna as a vessel. The demon plots to destroy the last version of the book. That was why she killed Eckhardt and Hagmar because they stood in her way. The only reason she didn't resist when she heard she was coming to the monastery was to destroy the book and cover the world in darkness. The men prepare for battle, but find a room where dead monks are writing copies of the book. The demon appears, destroys the copies and possesses the monks' bodies to use as weapons.

During the fight, the demon kills Debelzaq by breaking his neck and then incinerates Felson. Behmen fights the demon and has Kay finish the ritual to destroy the demon, but is mortally wounded and dies shortly after, asking Kay to look after the freed Anna. After making graves for their fallen friends, Kay and Anna depart with the book in hand

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Woah, though i'm not a fans of Nicolas Cage, but this is a really good movie :) Love the witches things. The whole movie has zero yawning moment, every moment is so exciting. Love the most on the part when the gang crossing an almost broken bridge, omg~ my heart simply beat so fast.

A good movie not to be miss :)

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Jon Turteltaub

Casted by:
Nicolas Cage as Balthazar Blake
Jay Baruchel as Dave Stutler
Teresa Palmer as Becky Barnes
Alfred Molina as Maxim Horvath
Toby Kebbell as Drake Stone
Monica Bellucci as Veronica
Alice Krige as Morgana la Fay
Gregory Woo as Sun Lok
Story:

The evil Morgana is trying to kill Merlin in advance to learn "The Rising". The Rising is the highest and evilest magic to conquer the whole human being. Morgana has got one of Merlin's apprentice Horvath to betrayed them. Morgana managed to kill Merlin, but Veronica sacrificed herself and captured Morgana's soul together with her ownself in a doll. Balthazar the one left has to look for the prime Merlin's in future.

Finally the destiny came to Dave when he's in 4th grade. Dave found out he got the talent of become a sorcerer from Balthazar, but accidentally broke the doll has released Horvath. Balthazar fought with Horvath and both of them was trapped in a big vase. 10 years later, Dave has become a physic freak and found her dream girl Becky. Horvath and Balthazar both released from the vase. Balthazar found Dave while Horvath got a evil magician helper, Drake.

Balthazar and Dave both look for the doll in China Town but Horvath has got on it and broke one more layer which released a chinese evil wizard Sun Lok. Sun Lok used his evil dragon power to attack Dave but was killed instead. Balthazar and Dave managed to get the doll but lost it again. Horvath broke another layer and free a young wizard whom trick Becky into a trap. Horvath then killed Drake and the young wizard to gain their power to break another layer.

When another layer broke, both Veronica and Morgana were free. Morgana rise all the dead wizard to alive again. Dave tricked Morgana into his experimental things and killed her without the sorcerer's ring. This proves that Dave is really the prime Merlin. Becky accepted Dave is a sorcerer and both of them live happily together.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Basically, this fantasy and adventurous magic film is my cup of tea :) Love the storyline, the casting and all the magic. Been watching a lots of Jay Baruchel's movie lately... Though he's too skinny, but i think he'll be a hit like Shia Labouf in no longer time.

Gregory Woo is extremely hot! Try to google a lil bit about him but i get nothing at all... jst know that he's a dj or things like tat... 2 thumbs up

Astro Boy

Released Year: 2009
Directed by David Bowers

Casted by:
Freddie Highmore & 上户彩 Aya Ueto as Toby / Astro Boy
Kristen Bell as Cora
Nicolas Cage & 郭富城 Aaron Kwok as Dr. Tenma
Donald Sutherland as President Stone
Nathan Lane as Hamegg
Eugene Levy as Orrin
Charlie Theron as Narrator
Samuel L. Jackson as ZOGStory:

The spectaculars Metro City has float upon the surface with better people living up there with better advance of technologies. Dr Tenma, the powerful scientis there and Dr Elefun has created the Red & Blue Core atom. President Stone wanna use the red core for his Peacemaker machine to continue being elected as the next president.

President Stone force Dr Elefun to give up his red core which is the negative power. The machine was out of control and explode, causing Dr Tenma's son Toby who is nearby to die. Feeling depressed and sad, Dr Tenma created a robots with memory of Toby with the hep of blue core. Toby does not know he is a machine till later on when he discover he can fly. But he was quickly attacked by President Stone and Toby fall out of Metro City on the earth surface.

Toby call himself Astro and met with Cora and gang. Cora brought him to Hamegg who is very kind to all of the orphan. Hamegg has once work for Dr Tenma up in the Metro City and he found out Astro is a robot. Putting Astro on a ring to fight, ZOG the huge machine did not fight Astro as Astro has saved him before with the blue core.

President Stone has send spaceship from Metro City to capture Astro from earth. Dr Tenma finally decided to keep Astro and fought against Stone. Stone used the red core and insert into Peacemaker again. Out of control, the machine swallow in Stone and fought against Astro.

Astro boy finally zoom into Peacemaker heart and used his blue core power to destroy the peacemaker leaving himself die. Luckily ZOG still has the blue core power and gave Astro Boy back to life.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Astro Boy, originated from Japanases Cartoon Series, a super robot boy which wins everyone's heart including mine when i was small :) Not really been following the Japanese series last time due to no subtitles and it was translated in Malay, but heck, thanx to David Bowers :)