The Prestige
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale (batman lead actor & xmen lead actor)
Entertainment: 4.5 (got lotsa magic tricks)
Plot: 4.5 (lotsa unexpected twist & turns, quite intriguing)
Overrall: 4
Set against the backdrop of London, this movie is abt a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them.
Lotsa twists & turns in this movie, so it’s quite confusing actually, but everything will unveil at the end. Ending quite unexpected, fascinating thou, to see all the magic tricks as well as the secrets behind all the mysterious tricks. I’m captivated by the story along the way, u’ll keep guessing like wat’s real wat’s fake, how come it’s like dat, some parts quite exciting as u really dunno wat will happen making u feel intense. But the plot is really confusing coz the sequences will jump ard, then u wont noe whether is this b4 or after, so marks r minus for dat. So b4 u watch the show I think it’s best if u can jus rem these 2 names, coz I had a hard time figuring out who’s who as I’m poor at recog faces. Haha… but overrall it’s worth a watch lah! Something diff from the norm…
Death Note
Cast: nobody we noe, but the lead actor is quite shuai
Entertainment: 3
Plot: 3.5
Overrall: 3.5 (gg by asian movies std, since it’s a jap film)
This all started when Ryak, the God of Death, dropped a notebook in the human world where a Light Yagami, an extremely bright elite university student picked it up. “The human whose name is written in this note shall die”, it said. This was the notebook of death that determined people’s death… & Light decides to use it to create an ideal world, holding the scales to judge the criminals in his discretion. Meanwhile, ICPO (International Criminal Police Organization) has placed a mysterious detective called “L” in the Japanese police force to investigate the series of criminal dying suddenly. “L”, having solved many unresolved cases in the world, begins to tighten the investigative screws over these cases. But Light cleverly manipulates the notebook of death to toss and shake off the investigation.
If u’ve read the comic, then u’ll be disappointed by the way the actors actually acted in portraying the characters quite differently as well as how the plot is changed. Kian read the comic, & feels dat the movie is not as good as the comic coz the evil is not so evil & the righteous is oso not so righteous. Then the ppl who died all acted quite fakely. Maybe heart attack is diff to act ba… haha…
For me, I din read the comic, so it’s like a totally new show without knowing the plot at all. I find the show quite ok, ther’s oso lotsa twists & turns, & u’ll be surprised at how intelligent Light is. He’s so good dat everytime he pulled something off I’ll go “wow!” i think it's quite a nice jap show. There’s 2 parts to this show, part 2 is coming out in nov I think. So jus stay after the credits to catch the preview of part 2. thou cathay din show it when we watched it, lotsa ppl stayed behind too, but everyone got ‘cheated’, dunno y they nv show oso. Sianz…