ive been waiting for this movie to come out for years now. since we dont get it in cinemas im still waiting for it to come out on streaming.

Off the heals of the movies success they announced an extended version to come our on Valentines day. The original movie was 107 mins and the extended will be 142 minutes.

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Under Current
director is the guy who did Internal affairs but this fell a bit short.
Aaron kwok is a lawyer who also was a karate teacher but honestly it didn't matter. THe fight scene sucked at the end; the action sequence editing was really poor towards the end. I did like the tension being built up and guessing what's going on which is something HK is famous and known for and that part was OK. Was it intense and edge of the seat.. nah, but you did have to guess what's going on.

All in all, it's a good breathe of fresh air to see decent movies.. i'm just not too happy the ending's action scene sucked, fighting scene sucked so that was my beef to have things fall apart.

There are a bit of flash back so you gotta be in line with wth is going on. Lastly, the color is really weird.. Flashbacks are different colored but then mid way it merged back to one color so it's a bit weird.

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Housemaid
Legit Mindfuck movie. First of all, not a fan of Sydney Sweeney or Amanda Seyfried; Brandon Sklenar I'm ok as he played the movie in DROP (another thriller) who became on my radar. Now he always plays the good looking guy, so seeing him in a different type of role was a good break thru compared to romantic movie - It ends with us - which sucked due to the script).

Back to housemaid, so the script was very typical until it hit the 1.5 hour mark then it takes a turn. Now that I was pretty happy about, cause the movie could have ended yet it didn't and had another 35 mins.

Casting was great; never liked Sydney Sweeney because I never thought any movie was memorable but she did well in this movie. She did not have to be so provocative (crazy push up bra in multiple scene; probably from director), but aside from that, her interpretation of the role was OK. At time she was too down to earth then at times she was too pretty and at times too pyscho. Amanda Seyfried was also a great cast. I did have a very tough time deciphering the two apart but the direct did a good job. Amanda Seyfried played pretty housewife, then transforms then changes so all in all, to see the emotional roller coaster was great.

I have to say, great movie because of the tension and thriller and it just came out of left field. You really wanted to stay towards the end.

Summary of movie - girl who is almost homeless lands a job being a live at home nanny, discovering the wife is psycho. Rest I won't put a spoiler. Boy, really good pulling things together with decent acting and a good script.

Few loop holes but all in all, decent ride. 35million budget, grossing 315M.. that's legit. BEcause of this, a sequel is in development.

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火拼 (2026)Ultimate Revenge
It wasn't that bad to say the least. I thought it was solid with decent action. Now the sequences were a bit weak on the final fights as you have one rising star that just got into acting and then you got 安志傑Andy On who has been leading action movies. The sped up type acting is just not the same.

There were a few action sequence with guns were good (given they are day time in HK, not sure if there is really bad foot traffic in HK or green screens) until they use AI for all explosions.. ugh.

Formula is always the same in HK movies, what was good was the cast that kept it along. Amazing to see asian actors never age they are 63
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, 71
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all plyaing roles as if they are 40s Can't do that for any Western actors.

The guy that saved the movie was him. Yes he's not the prettiest looking guy but he's actually professionally trained.
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His character wasn't the best portrayed but all in all movie had a decent pace. Worth a quick watch.

RS may or may not already know about this, but Cineplex is doing $5 Tuesdays for Feburary. I took advantage of it earlier this week to watch "Back to the Past 尋秦記"

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The movie is pretty mediocre if you measure it purely on technical merits. But if you have watched the old TV show 20 years ago, the nostalgia factor hits hard and at all the right places. In particular, Big Boss Koo snugged in a few lines here and there that would hit hard emotionally on Hong Kongers who are living overseas.

Our famil(ies) of 8 bought $5 tickets. I was waiting for the extended version but gues we can't wait and all are going to watch.

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爆水管| Busted Water Pipes - Mainland china movie that is fitted for CNY. Action comedy that's fast pace, with a great cast with humor and action all around. Anti Terrorist police leader gets reallocated to a small town cause he was the black sheep of an faulty tip. So Eddy gets station there for 1 yr that turns into 7 years. Being an anti terrorist leader, he cleaned up the entire town with zero crime rate. Now the senator is getting re elected so he wants to cut cost and decided to shut down the police department.

Eddy and his gang decides to fake a crime to 'save' his police department. Turns out, there actually is a gang going to commit a crime. From loan shark gang, to a bad cult leader to an escape convict.. so so many characters in the movie yet it all plays together.

Very fast paced, things turn sour, all actors gets involved and plays a unique part - wife and i are not mandarin speaking but can read the subtitles fine and found it decent.

Go enjoy a tight script with good cop turn bad cop to bad convict turn into good Samaritan and just a bunch of roller coaster of emotions.

I didn't even know there was 2 versions, just lucked into watching the extended with the alternate ending. I'm very very glad I was able to get that as I def thought that direction was the more interesting of the two.

Finally got to see One Battle After Another and it was 10/10 another PTA classic. Can't wait to rewatch it

Lol your synopsis made absolutely no sense so I went and looked it up.

Apparently the star, Eddie Peng, graduated from Churchill in 2000 and dropped out of UBC a few years later. Huh small world.

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Might be one of the worst movies i have ever seen, right up there with "Men who stare at goats"

Just absolutely nothing going on the entire time, with such a high filming budget

There's so much emotional depth in it!

Them carrying the baggage of their dead father with them the whole time only to dump it both spiritually and physically to catch the last train? No?

Soundtrack was banging as well

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Watched Finch & Midland today. It's supposed to be a story about HK immigrants to Toronto and their story. I was under the impression that it was going to tell the story of my (or my peers) parents and their time when they moved to Canada (90s-00s), but it was actually in present day. The story hit home for my friend who echo'd how hard it was for our parents - or you guys in your 50s to be here. Working shitty jobs. Can't say no. Getting taken advantage of by the white man. I personally felt the tension of the bickering between the caregiver daughter and her mother, with all the yapping that Asian people tend to do. Tho, I don't have that kind of negative relationship (for the most part) with my parents anymore. Still gives me PTSD tho. There's a deadbeat alcoholic estranged dad who's stuck in his past fame that I don't feel bad for at all. There's an older Cantonese man that speaks mostly English (cause of assimilation), who should be happy since he has a job and what looks to be a paid off home, but doesn't have a good relationship with his son, and always says the wrong things, but means to say the right things. Reminds me of my own father - tho we've been working on this. I rmb my father told me that he doesn't know how to do this, because his father/family didn't talk to him either, but over the years I can see that he's trying.

I'm not sure what to think of the movie, there wasn't really a conclusion and it was kinda depressing but it's a VIFF/TIFF, and HK/Canadian based so I thought it was cool. It's available at Silvercity Riverport (Richmond) or Markham.

The official about on Google shows
Cast is
Anthony Wong
Patrick Tam
Harriet Yeung

Trailer is here:

Can confirm the Churchill part at least, we were friends in HS and from the same grad year. I was absolutely shocked years after school to suddenly see him on the screen as I was watching a movie like wtf is that Eddie?

Very good explanation. It's a 4 story part and it's sad as F. I have yet to review this fully but please blame this with the director as he's young. Anthony Wong was actually in Toronto and in Van; my friend took a pic of him in Van but SHE was actually going to watch Back to the Past LOL.

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Waited to see the Back to Past Extended Version. Wife and family all loved it cause it was truly nostalgic. I recently watched Do Show who interviewed Louis Koo for over an hr.

It started off with him inserting all these funny references going back to the past. Now, what we didn't know was that he got so sick in the middle of the series, he was taken to the hopsital for 7 days and had to sleep there. That was his last TVB stint.

Back to the movie; it was good, i understand why they had to put in so much CGI cause heck, it's 20 years later, how can you have not made progress. Louis was also adamant on not just making a movie and using old IG, so the script made it into a more between master aka SiFu versus the pupil relationship. Extremely heavy hearted with all cast but also, he could have only invited so many people back. So there were zero story lines but truly only for nostalgic reasons.

Wife loved it and appreciated the alternate ending.
PS - he's been dead for 5 years. so it's very sad but the movie had been such a long time in the making... of course they filmed that part first.

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Eddington: 8.5/10

From the director of fucked up movies like Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau is Afraid, the movie is set in May of 2020. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler.

About a small town in New Mexico, and is an extremely exaggerated and fictionalized look at what happens when a town is torn apart by the COVID crisis, mask mandates, BLM, etc.

Enjoyable if you like dark, nihilistic humour. If you liked Begonia I think you would like Eddington.

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Mercy

So the funny thing is... Chris is epic and has charisma and yet the entire movie, he's sitting in a chair. As if he's sobering up and locked wearing PJs, like a grandpa as if he was pooping.

Then we got Rebecca Ferguson (MI 5,6,7,8,9 lol) who plays an AI. So yes, she has to look like Siri and be emotionless.

Premise. You get locked up and assumed guilty until you prove innocent above 92%. Now, this is so similar to Minority Report and a bit futuristic which caught my attention. Chris Pratt gets locked up and being judged and has 90 mins to prove himself innocent. Is he really innocent. How does he go from wth is happening to solving the case and keepign audience on their seats. It's a very simple and I have to say the script with good editing made it work really well. You ain't go no time for romance cause well.. you can kiss AI. There ain't no sex scenes cause Chris is sitting in a chair for 90 mins.

Go watch, turn off your brain, I think there are so loop hole towards the end but you're really buckled in waiting for the story to unfold guessing the whole time.

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Don't care if this was LIFF London Inter. Film Festival movie was not, a simple extremely simple movie just makes the director look lazy.

Little Red Sweet (Chinese: 紅豆) - movie about a 30 yr old dessert joint in HK having to move from one generation to another. Daughter and son both has to deal with HK gov't taking over a business to rebuilt.

Formula is linear, acting is ok, cooking the dessert was showcasing how unique and important it is... a minor love interest... so many directions yet it could be tied together much better if they put some effort.

If your script is simple, sure the director can always have the right to ask / change and provide guidance but if a movie is stuck in the 1980 formula without much superb acting (despite decent cast); it'll long be forgotten.

Just watched this with family today. Parents loved it. Brother and I relied on subtitles - I had to rely on subtitles with this movie more than Finch & Midland. I don't understand traditional / historical Cantonese. But I did find the HK/English references funny af, whereas my (younger) brother hasn't invested as much into learning honger references, so he couldn't follow.

Like the "this is not your life, it is your sickness" direct translation. The subtitles said "This is not your life, you are sick" which is incorrect in this case LOL.

Also LOL'd at the "hit your lung" "hah?" "din lei goh fei"

I didn't watch the first one/tv show, so the story line was a bit wtf for me in the beginning, but I quite liked how everything progressed. Not sure why the Antagonist's daughter decided to do smt stupid and basically get herself killed tho.

Alternate ending is also a wtf to me. But bro's a chad, he has not just two, but THREE wives? Who's the princess? Also how they portrayed present day (or future for the ppl from the past) is also really cool - it almost reminded me of how in the 00s there would be movies about the future - skyscrapers and flying cars. Still no flying cars, but I guess present day really is the "future" now.

Watch this.


40 min to refresh the entire series without watching it. No subtitles, so you just have to listen.

Few things - you were allow concubines back then (8-10+) and the princess was one of his "GFs." They made it a bit more PG13 so it's not like he had a lot of wives.

Mission Impossible Final Reckoning was the slowest action movie I've ever seen. It's like they were reluctant to let the movie end

Some cool stunts but that's it