Step Up

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars * *

About this movie:

See http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809279547/info

Theme:

This film teaches the audience to never give up too easily when the going gets touch and finish what you started.

Comments:

This was the first original movie to the next sequal of "Step up 2". However I realise that audience don't need to watch "Step up 1" in order to understand the background story of "Step up 2" as both movies were independant and did not relate to each other, except from the fact that the characters in both movies attended the same performing art school in Baltimore . The plot for "Step up 1" was a slow pace in building the characters and how Tyler meets the Nora with little dance sense and a normal dance choreography that didn't have the "WOW" factor as compared to "Step up 2".

Blades of Glory

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars * * * *

About this movie: Click here.

Theme:

Trying to get along with people you hate is always much harder than getting along with people you love. However it is possible for two enemies to become best of friends such as in this movie and the recipe for best friendships comes with having and sharing a common goal and spending time together.

Comments:

This is a very funny movie that will get any audience laughing most about the skaters' stupid and rideculous behaviours on and off the ice ring.

Step Up 2 - The Streets

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 * * *

About the movie:
Rebellious newcomer Andie (Evigan) is an outcast trying to fit in at the elite Maryland School of the Arts while still holding onto her old dream of dancing with an underground Baltimore street crew. The school’s hottest talent Chase (Hoffman) is a rising star who’s looking to break out of his mold – by forming a crew to compete in Baltimore’s biggest, most raw street dancing battle, “The Streets.” Now, as chase joins forces with Andie, the two simultaneously clash & sizzle, sending Andie’s two worlds into collision. With the pressure heating up on the dance floor & in her life, she must learn to build a bridge between love & loyalty, between freedom & opportunity, between who she is & who she believes she can be.


Theme:
Being "street smart" is not always about getting the best education, attending university and getting a degree paper because even the brightest academic students can also learn from others who don't have the background education up bringing and vice versa. In this example every body learnt that it's easy "to be themselves" rather than being somebody else they are not.


Comments:
This movie is heaps better than watching the TV series "So You Think You can Dance" because the actors and actresses can really dance, even better than Michael Jackson. Each individual moves and grooves brings uniquness and fresh individual expressions of their passion for music.

Jumper

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars * * * 1/2

About this movie:
A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between “Jumpers” and those who have sworn to kill them.

Theme:
Samuel Jackson played the bad detective cope whose job was to catch and kill people who has teleportation gifting because he believes that only God should possessed such power to be "omnipresence" and be any where at any one time. However Samuel forgot to ask himself the question, "If God should only be ominipresence than why did God allow people to have this power too?" The answer is not about what gifts people have but about what are you going to do with the gifts that you have. Will we waste our talents by doing nothing about it or use our God given talents for a good or a bad cause? If I had the gift of teleportation, I would use it to bless others by taking my family and friends to travel around the world.


Comments:
This movie is a bit like the "Matrix" with alot of special affect scene shots taken from around the world like Japen, China, London, Egypt, USA, Rome and Paris. Whether those places were real or taken from a CGI green screen it doesn't matter for the sake of the movie.

The Invasion

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars * * * *

About this movie:

A thriller nightmarish journey into a world where the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. The mysterious crash of the space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage. Those who come in contact with it are changing in ominous and inexplicable ways. Soon Washington D.C. psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) and her colleague Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig) learn the shocking truth about the growing extraterrestrial epidemic: it attacks its victims while they sleep, leaving them physically unchanged but strangely unfeeling and inhuman. As the infection spreads, more and more people are altered and it becomes impossible to know who can be trusted. Now Carol's only hope is to stay awake long enough to find her young son, who may hold the key to stopping the devastating invasion.

Theme:

Human beings naturally has the extinct of survival and fight to stay alive whenever their life is threaten or endanger in any way or kind. Having trust in someone and entrusting your life with that person is a comforting thought to know because you don't have to fight alone to survive as the person whom you have entrust your life to with will protect to keep you alive. So imagine what our lifes can be like if we also entrust our lifes to God.

Comments:

This is the best 2008 detective thriller I have seen so far with alot of unexpected plot along the way that keeps the audience guesting and making them think.

Rambo

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars * *

When a group of Christian missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast green inferno, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of mercenaries on a daring rescue mission to rescue them. Yet despite the fact that Rambo has long since traded his guns for a fishing reel, the world's longest running civil war rages into its sixtieth year on the nearby Thai-Burma border.

Theme:

Every human being must at least have somthing/someone that they believe in and care about. So either you live your whole life and die believing in nothing or risk your own life believing in something and live. The question is what is your belief that is worth dying for. "Whoever finds his life will lose it and whoever loses his for my sake will find it" - Matt 10:39. In this case, Rambo decides to believe in people again and hence tries to rescue the missionaries. The reason for his brave act was because I think that John may had been emotionally moved when a Christian missonary gave him a wooden cross necklace as a thank you gesture for transporting them across the river.

Comments:

This movie is only merited towards its very graphic and senseless violence with alot of body counts that is too much to record how many people Rambo had killed. Even with all the violence there is a basic plot with an underlying truth.

Cloverfield

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars *

This movie is narrated from the eye witness account of some civilians using only their amature video camera, to film the entire mysterious events of a giant creature invading and terrorising New York City. The plot does not explain how or why the creature exist, but only explains what is happening in the last 48 hours. Meanwhile the film image lacks proper and stable fotage scence as the camera frequently jerks causing disorientation while watching the film.