What's the last movie you saw and rate it...

[red kryptonite]

Originally Posted by winson604

Back to the Past - Not even going to rate it with a number. The wife re watched all 40 episodes of the drama in the past few weeks leading up to it. The kids being around took some interest and watched when they were able so knew enough going into the movie. It was more nostalgia a ton of the original characters came back for the movie. As a stand alone it wasn't a great movie by any means but add in the nostalgia it hit the vibes well enough. Definitely don't recommend if you haven't watched the drama.

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.

[winson604]

Originally Posted by red kryptonite

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

, 71

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.

His character wasn't the best portrayed but all in all movie had a decent pace. Worth a quick watch.

[Traum]

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"



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.

[6793026]

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.