The Forbidden Movie
I have been so busy that I have nearly forgotten about the existence of this blog. I apologise yet again for the lack of updates.I watched 2 movies over the last weekend The Forbidden Kingdom and Definitely Maybe. While Definitely Maybe is one which I will highly recommend, the Forbidden Kingdom should be banned in cinemas and not cheat us of our hard-earned money.
I will not talk much about the story of both movies here as they can be obtained easily on the web. For Definitely Maybe, if you like the movie Love Actually, you will definitely fall in love with Definitely Maybe as well. They are by the same producer. The little girl (Abigail Breslin) in this movie is so cute and perhaps too witty and intelligent for her age. I suspect my future daughter will be the same as well because of her genes.
Definitely Maybe is heart-warming and a delight to watch. The flow of the movie is nice and keeps you in suspense as the daughter tries to figure out who her mother is through the bed-time story which her Dad is telling her towards the end. And of course not forgetting this eye-candy Isla Fisher who possess this x-factor of me wanting to pamper her. It was until later when I learnt that she's already married. To Borat of all people.
This movie Definitely Maybe earns a high 7.5/10 in my list.
Watching Forbidden Kingdom is like watching a painful re-run of Chronicles of Narnia once more. The only difference is the magic wardrobe has been replaced by a magic rod (supposely the weapon used by Sun Wu Kong) and the chosen one is an American teenager rather than a couple of stupid little kids.
I always thought that the chosen ones are always the more glam ones - think Keanu Reeves in the Matrix. However in this forbidden movie, the chosen one is Michael Angarano, who just happens to have such a loser face. And he is also a loser in the movie who is a Chinese Kung-fu franatic who always gets bullied in the school by the school bullies.
This is the 1st time in recent years that I was so tempted to walk out of the cinema mid-way through the show. The only reason I stayed was because I have paid a weekend ticket price for this movie.
Jet-Li and Jackie Chan couldn't save this movie with a poor plot with their martial arts. The setting of this movie is in ancient China and I was astonished to see that everyone can speak English. Even the Great Jade Emperor of the heavenly Skies is conversing in English to all his subjects. Sun-Wu Kong would have gotten an A1 in our O level English as well.
I was certainly expecting more with the combination of both Jet Li and Jackie Chan, however it seems that they are playing second fiddle to Michael Angarano in terms of casting. Given such a plot and story, I honestly doubt that any actors would be able to save this bad movie.
Ratings: 3/10 (1 pt for the aircon, 1 pt for the comfortable chair and 1 pt for Liu-Yi fei)
Yes, its that bad.
posted by malmoncolo @ 8:27 PM
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