Verdict: Despite the cliche and reminiscences of Avatar and Ice Age, it still delivers as a family comedy, with occasion touching scenes.
Rating: 6.5/10
Verdict: Randomly fun romantic comedy
The movie has a lot of talking, but even if you ignore those noise, you can still get it.
The fact that this movie is so random that I didn't have time to really digest or remember what they had said.
Just follow their acting is entertaining enough: especially Jennifer Lawrence, who acted as a bit overreacting person, due to her post-trauma of her husband's death.
You'll see some cliché(as this is romantic comedy after all) in the end but I'll still say Jennifer Lawrence deserves the award as she's partially acting out herself.
Rating: 9/10
Verdict: occasionally funny moment with slightly sluggish script. An OK fantasy film.
So, you've got a cute actor, trying hard to act but he acted a Shakespeare drama at Broadway.. That's how it feels like thru out the film.
I can say the fantasy part, was more interesting than Tim Burton's Alice in the Wonderland (which tried too hard to explain every tiny little things too detailed), but the 130 minutes could be trimmed to 100 minutes.
I like how this movie used the magic or illusion to counterattack witchcrafts (which might be the same thing after all)
It's more like a movie for kids but, with RM10, you can spend 2 hours for some good laugh, during this hot Malaysian weather.
Why not?
Rating: 6.5
Verdict: Fan of 'Cloverfield' would love this. One of the best mockumentary in recent years. This mockumentary is about two policemen doing their daily routine. Sounds boring it may seem, but the criminals are what you and I heard of: drug trafficking, human trafficking, weapons trafficking etc. Gun fights scene checked, fighting with the triads checked, tears on losing someone checked. Its always hard to explain in detail what does a documentary talks about, but this movie does seem like a tribute to police forces for their bravery on daily life. Rating: 8/10
Verdict: No focus, too much shadow of LoTR made this unnecessarily long movie far from being the greatest movie of the year
It's been 9 years after we started following the great LoTR trilogy. It really is one of the greatest epic films that were made this century, yet.
So no wonder Peter Jackson et al were ambitious to make another trilogy: The Hobbit
I have to be frank: the film productions' screenplay and film editing departments need to be fired from attempting the next installment. In this film, the first 45 minutes should have been replaced by a few minutes summary that tells how Bilbo met the thirteen dwarfs and started the unexpected journey.
For the rest of the film, I felt that they over explained a lot of other things, too many cliché (of LoTR), nice scenes a la LoTR, no climax and in the end, no significant death to mark the end of first episode: the head of orcs was still there, the dragon was just awaken.
As a matter of fact, there's nothing much to tell in this film, which should have been 90 minutes instead of 180 minutes.
As a person who appreciates LoTR, I'll definitely watch this and the next two episodes.
Even Snow White & Seven Dwarfs did better by having character development with each and every dwarf - but this Hobbit's 13 dwarfs - I can't remember any of them having special ability or any of them being unique.
They really need to re-look at their film editing: a film is supposed to be entertaining, instead of making the audience questioning why did they make it unnecessarily long.
Rating: 6/10
