The Proposal
August 24th, 2009 by Eshin
With the better half back from her travels, I finally managed to get myself into a cinema and watch a film, albeit a chick flick. We ended up watching The Proposal
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Bangkok Dangerous
September 25th, 2008 by Eshin
2008 Remake of Bangkok Dangerous with Nicholas Cage
One-Line Synopsis
Hardened killer wants out and has no friends, befriends local guy and local girl, girl breaks his heart, hardened killer returns, moral crisis comes along and he realizes he can become the hero again and does so for the last fifteen minutes of the film.
Synopsis
Nicholas Page plays Joe, a hit man at the end of his career and he decides to do four more jobs before disappearing. Bangkok sets the stage for his closing act given its corruption and competitiveness. He recruits a local by the name of Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm) as his runner for things like logistics and receiving details of his mark, while Joe’s employers use Aom (Panward Hemmanee), a club hostess, as their go-between.
Things get complicated when Kong falls for Aom and Joe breaks his rules and begins training Kong to be his successor, while at the same time indulging in a romance with Fon (Charlie Yeung), a pharmacist who shows him what life could be like. Joe has to deal with betrayal, lost love and ultimately his own conscience before he can be free of his life as an assassin.
The Terminal
October 13th, 2004 by Eshin
A man arrives in New York only to find that while he was in the air, his country experienced a civil war. He is left in a state of limbo where the passport he travels under is no longer recognised by the US government or the his own country. As a result, he lives in an abandoned gate at JFK airport, finding ways to have fun and to earn money.
Alien vs. Predator
September 19th, 2004 by Eshin
Alien vs. Predator had the potential to be big since it already has a rich comic book heritage to draw from. The film wasn’t as great as I was expecting nor was it as bad as I was expecting. The Alien franchise lost its way after Aliens and the Predator never made a third sequel. This should tell you something about what essentially amounts to Alien 5 and Predator 3.
I, Robot
July 31st, 2004 by Eshin
Set in the year 2035AD, Detective John Spooner (Smith) is brought in to investigate the death of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), a robotics pioneer, at the USR conglomerate who has a monopoly on the sale of robots. His prejudice and his investigation leads him to suspect a rogue NS-5 robot, USR’s latest robotic offering, of the murder. Of course, this is inconceivable given the sacred Three Laws of Robots. The far reaching implications and potential danger to a human society so dependant on robot labour is almost impossible to imagine. Yet, in a film where 21st Century storytelling hits a 1950’s original story by Isaac Asimov, the impossible becomes all too likely.