Quantum Of Solace - 007

"Fast Action!" - E! online

Review
Quantum Of Solace continues the high octane adventures of James Bond (Daniel Craig) in Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White who reveals the organization which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined. Forensic intelligence links an M16 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille, a woman who has her own vendetta. Camille leads Bond straight to Dominic Greene.

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My rate & Comment	* * * It doesn't feels like James Bond film. Less gadget. Its more like Bond personal stuff. Hes more like a killer machine, brutal but more action.
Directed by	Marc Forster
Produced by	Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Novel/Story	Ian Fleming (Characters) Michael G. Wilson (Plot)
Starring	Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Gemma Arterton, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	October 31, 2008 (UK, EI) November 14, 2008 (NA) November 19, 2008 (AUS)
Genre	Action
Running time	106 minutes
Budget	US$230 million
Gross revenue	US$422,277,480

Plot

The film continues immediately after the events of Casino Royale with Bond driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy. With the captured Mr White in the boot of his car, Bond is attacked by chasing henchmen. After evading his pursuers, Bond and M interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard Mitchell is revealed as a traitor, attacking M and allowing White to escape; Bond chases Mitchell across Siena, through the crowd assembled for the Palio di Siena, and kills him. Following a lead resulting from forensic investigation of Mitchell's apartment, Bond heads to Haiti to find Mitchell's contact, Edmund Slate, whom he kills in a struggle. Posing as Slate, Bond learns that Slate was sent to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her lover, Dominic Greene, the chairman of an ecological organization called Greene Planet. Bond pursues her by motorbike and watches her meet with Greene. Bond learns that Greene is helping Bolivian General Medrano stage an overthrow of his government in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert land.

Greene has Camille escorted away on Medrano's boat to "sweeten" their deal, but Bond rescues her. Bond then follows Greene to a private jet, which flies to Austria accompanied by CIA agents Gregg Beam and Felix Leiter. Beam offers the United States' support of the overthrow in return for preferential leases to Bolivian oil, which he believes Greene to have discovered. In return, Greene requests that the CIA eliminate Bond's interference. Beam agrees.

On the Austrian shore of Lake Constance near Bregenz, members of Quantum – including Greene and White – gather at a performance of Puccini's opera Tosca. Quantum members in attendance hold a conference via concealed earpieces and finalize plans for their Tierra Project. Among the plotters is Guy Haines, an advisor of the British Prime Minister. Bond obtains an earpiece and disrupts the meeting, and then takes photos of various Quantum members as they flee the theater. As Greene abruptly departs from the opera, he is intercepted by Bond and a gunfight ensues in a restaurant. Bond confronts Haines' bodyguard on a rooftop, who is subsequently killed by Greene.

On learning of the bodyguard's death, M revokes Bond's passports and credit cards and demands that he return to London. Bond instead travels to Italy by boat, where he reunites with his old ally René Mathis. Bond persuades the retired agent, once stationed in Bolivia, to accompany him to La Paz. They are greeted by Strawberry Fields, an MI6 field operative from the British Consulate. Fields demands that Bond return to the UK on the next available flight, but he disobeys and seduces her in their hotel suite. That night, they attend a fund raiser being held by Greene, where Camille reappears. Bond and Camille leave together with help from Fields, but are pulled over by the Bolivian police. The police order Bond to open the boot of his vehicle, revealing a bloodied Mathis. As Bond lifts Mathis out of the boot, the policemen open fire and fatally injure Mathis. Bond disarms and kills the policemen and comforts the dying Mathis, who asks Bond to forgive Vesper Lynd.

Bond and Camille drive to the location of Greene's intended land acquisition, surveying the area in a Douglas DC-3 propeller plane. They are intercepted and shot down by an Aermacchi SF-260 fighter and a Bell UH-1 helicopter. They escape from the crippled plane by parachuting into a sinkhole. Attempting to escape the cave, Bond and Camille learn that Greene's Tierra Project involves water: Quantum is blockading Bolivia's supply of fresh water, normally flowing in underground rivers, by damming it into hidden reservoirs beneath the desert. Bond also learns that Camille's family was raped and murdered by Medrano and that she is seeking revenge. After these revelations, they return to La Paz, where Bond meets M and discovers that Quantum murdered Fields by drowning her in oil. Believing that Bond has become a threat to both friend and foe, M orders him to disarm and end his activities in Bolivia, but he escapes by overpowering the MI6 operatives accompanying him in a lift, telling M before departing that he is not finished with his operation.

Bond later meets Felix Leiter at a local bar, who advises that CIA is after Bond, and discloses the location where Greene and Medrano will later meet. Bond flees when American forces arrive to eliminate him. Bond and Camille go to a hydrogen-powered eco-hotel in the Bolivian desert, where Greene and Medrano are finalising their plans. As the various parties depart, Bond attacks and kills the departing Colonel of Police for betraying Mathis, and sets off a chain of explosions when a hydrogen fuel tank is hit by an out of control vehicle. Camille kills Medrano, and Bond captures Greene. After interrogating him, he leaves Greene stranded in the middle of the desert with only a can of motor oil. Bond drives Camille to a train station, where they kiss before she departs.

Bond goes to Kazan, Russia, where he confronts Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef Kabira. Yusef is a member of Quantum who seduces high-ranking women who have valuable connections, to get them to give up government assets as ransom for himself in fake kidnappings where he is supposedly held hostage. He is attempting to do the same with Canadian agent Corinne Venneau, even giving her the same kind of necklace he gave Vesper. Surprising them at Yusef's apartment, Bond tells Corinne about Vesper and advises her to alert the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Bond leaves Yusef's apartment and is confronted by M who is surprised that Bond did not kill Yusef, but rather left him alive for questioning. M reveals that Leiter has been promoted at the CIA to replace Beam, and that Greene was found in the desert, shot dead with motor oil in his stomach. Bond doesn't volunteer any information on Greene, but tells M that she was right about Vesper. M then tells Bond that MI6 needs him and fully reinstates him as an agent. Bond walks off into the night telling M that he never left. As he leaves, he drops Vesper's necklace in the snow.

Plot source: Wiki

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What If You Had a Universal Remote....
That Control Your Universe?

Review:
Adam Sandler portrays Michael Newman, a family man whose busy career as an architect doesn’t leave much time for his wife, Donna (Kate Beckinsale), and two kids. Unable to figure out which of his many remotes turns on the television, he goes shopping for a universal remote and finds the perfect device through Morty (Christopher Walken), who gives him a one-of-a-kind remote with magical powers. With each click, Michael is able to control his career and personal life. But complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.

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My rate & Comment	* * * Just fun to watch. Click!
Directed by	Frank Coraci
Produced by	Jack Giarraputo, Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe, Adam Sandler
Written by	Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren
Starring	Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner, David Hasselhoff
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	Australia June 22, 2006 United States June 23, 2006 United Kingdom Ireland September 29, 2006
Genre	Comedy
Running time	107 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$70,000,000
Gross revenue	$237,681,299

Plot:
Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is an architect whose desire for promotion leads him to assume many tasks on behalf of his boss John Ammer (David Hasselhoff), with the result that he is often missed by his family. One night, Michael goes in search of a universal remote control for his appliances. Finding most stores closed, he enters the still open Bed, Bath and Beyond, where in the "Way Beyond" section he meets Morty (Christopher Walken), an eccentric inventor who gives him a remote control answering to the description of "universal", warning Michael that it can never be returned.


To Michael's amazement, he finds out that the remote is literally universal, in that it controls the universe (as seen from his perspective) and interprets his wishes, even learning to anticipate them. After having used it to fulfill momentary whims, Michael "fast-forwards" himself to the promotion that he thought to be three months away, but which is in fact one year in his future. Further use of the remote control reveals that it is automatically programmed to skip or fast-forward through sickness, sexual intercourse, bathing, traffic, arguments with Michael's wife Donna, and promotions. In each case, he is alive but "on autopilot" during the interim, so he has no conscious experience of it. This presents a problem, in that during such interims his behavior is mechanical and unresponsive to the actions of others, alienating him further from his wife and children. Having learned of these effects, he attempts to rid himself of the control, but cannot.


Michael later goes to work by bicycle, wearing his bathrobe, to avoid automatically fast-forwarding through traffic or showering. When he arrives at work on his first day as his ex-boss's business partner, Ammer queries his lax dress-code and is convinced by his explanation. He is so impressed by Michael's answer that he, again, gives him a promotion. Thereafter, Michael is put into "autopilot" for ten years until the year 2017, where he finds that Donna has divorced him and married their son's former swimming instructor Bill while Michael himself has become grossly overweight, as has his son Ben. Samantha, Michael and Donna's daughter, has become prone to attending orgies. Later, Michael and Donna begin to argue, whereupon Michael's remote control "fast-forwards" him to the year 2023, just as Michael is knocked unconscious by the family's third dog. Having been, in his concussion, diagnosed with cancer, he is "fast-forwarded" through a period of serious sickness. When he wakes up, he is no longer fat, but retains copious quantities of loose skin as a result of liposuction. Later, he finds that his son Ben has lost weight and is now taking over his father's work, while Samantha has become her brother's friend. Here, Ben reveals that Michael's father Ted died during Michael's sickness. With the aid of the remote control, Michael attends his father's grave and learns that he had insulted his father shortly prior to the latter's death, but had never apologized. During Michael's grief, Morty appears and reveals that he (Morty) is the Angel of Death, a revelation that may explain his name, which includes the syllable "mort", a French synonym of the English "Death". Upon hearing this, Michael tries to attack Morty, but is unable to do so owing to the other's ability of teleportation.


Michael then transfers himself seven years into the future, to arrive at Ben's wedding in 2030. There he hears Samantha calling Bill "Dad" and is thereby shocked into breaking one of his own arteries. He is saved by Ben and Samantha, who transport him to a hospital. There, Ben suggests that he, like Michael, will attend more to his work than to his wife Julie, frightening his father. Michael, despite Morty's warnings, discards the instruments keeping him alive and walks out into a heavy downpour to warn Ben of the danger. He succeeds, but dies in the act of doing so. His death is witnessed by Ben, Samantha, and Donna, who mourn him as he loses consciousness.

There is then a white flash, and Michael wakes up on a displayed bed in Bed, Bath and Beyond, alive. Believing his misadventure to have been a dream, he rushes to visit his father, ultimately atoning for his insult and inviting his parents to dine with him each day. He then hastens to reassure Donna, Ben, and Samantha of his affection for them and for his dog Sundance. At the end of the movie, Michael finds the familiar remote on his kitchen counter, bearing a note from Morty stating "Michael, like I said, good guys need a break. I know you'll do the right thing this time, Love Morty. P.S. Your wife's rockin' body still drives me crazy". This shows that the misadventure was not all a dream, but Morty has rewound Michael's life back to this point to give him another chance. Learning what he must do as well as what he must avoid doing, Michael throws the remote aside and begins to enjoy life.

Source: Wiki

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

"A Rush of Non-Stop Action!" - Lou Lumenic, New York Post

Review:
The film start five days after the end of the Civil War. When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Bens great-great grand father is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincolns death. Determined to prove his ancestors innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him ancestor’s innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America. This journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations - but to the trail of the world’s most treasured secrets.

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

My rate & Comment	* * * * Its all like puzzle even not so much like the first. Just more action. Entertaining :)
Directed by	Jon Turteltaub
Produced by	Jon Turteltaub Jerry Bruckheimer
Written by	Story: Gregory Poirier, Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott Screenplay: Marianne Wibberley & Cormac Wibberley
Starring	Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	December 21, 2007
Genre	Action
Running time	125 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$130,000,000
Gross revenue	$457,363,168

Plot
Five days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth and Michael O'Laughlen, both members of the KGC, enter a tavern and approach Thomas Gates (Ben Gates' great-great-grandfather). They produce a diary containing an encrypted message, and entice Thomas, a well-known puzzle solver, to decode it. Thomas recognizes the message as using the Playfair cipher and begins to translate it. While he does so, Booth leaves for Ford's Theatre to assassinate President Lincoln. Thomas solves the puzzle, a clue to a treasure map, and realizes the men are still loyal to the Confederate cause and have a sinister motive for finding the treasure. Unfortunately, he realizes this too late. O'Laughlen pulls a gun on him, threatening to shoot him if he does not hand over the diary, however he is distracted from Thomas when chaos erupts in the bar over news of Lincoln's assassination. Thomas rips several pages from the diary and throws them in the fireplace. The gunman shoots him and attempts to retrieve the pages, only succeeding in saving a fragment of a page. The dying Thomas gasps, "The war is over," but the man disagrees, stating, "You're wrong about that, the war has only just begun," and rushes from the bar. As he lies dying, Thomas tells his distraught son, Charles Gates, "The debt that all men pay…"

Over 140 years later, Ben Gates is telling his great-great-grandfather's story at a conference on Civilian Heroes to great acclaim until black market dealer Mitch Wilkinson shows one of the 18 missing pages of John Wilkes Booth's diary, with Thomas Gates' name on it, convincing everyone that Thomas was not only a conspirator, but the grand architect of the Lincoln assassination. Ben sets out to prove the innocence of his great-great-grandfather.

Using spectral imaging, Ben discovers a cipher pointing to Édouard Laboulaye hidden on the back of the diary page. He travels to Paris, where he finds a cryptic clue engraved on the torch of the scale model of the Statue of Liberty on the Île des Cygnes in Paris, referring to the two Resolute desks. Ben heads to Buckingham Palace, seeking out the closer of the two desks. With the help of his friend Riley Poole and estranged girlfriend, Abigail Chase, he is able to sneak into the Queen's office to find an ancient wooden plank hidden in the desk. He is then pursued by Wilkinson, who, having broken into his father Patrick Gates' house, has cloned Patrick's cell phone in order to track Ben's whereabouts. Wilkinson eventually obtains the piece, but not before Ben manages to photograph the symbols carved into the plank.

At Ben's insistence, Patrick reluctantly asks his ex-wife, Dr. Emily Appleton, a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, for help in translating the mysterious glyphs. She does so, but points out that some of the glyphs are partial, leading Ben to conclude another plank must be hidden in the other Resolute desk, which is located in the Oval Office. With the unknowing help of Abigail's new love interest, who works for the White House, Ben and Abigail coax their way into the office to see the desk, where Ben discovers that the second plank is missing. However, he does find a stamp bearing the seal of the Book of Secrets. According to Riley, the Book of Secrets contains documents collected by Presidents for Presidents' eyes only, covering such controversial subjects as the JFK assassination, Watergate, and Area 51.

To find the location of the book, Ben manipulates the President's staff into moving his birthday party to Mount Vernon by booking all of the other approved locations. When Ben sneaks into the party, he convinces the President to follow him into a secret tunnel under the House where he confronts him about the book; the President sympathetically warns Ben that his actions will be interpreted as an attempt to kidnap the President, confirming a conclusion Ben and his companions have already reached; Ben is now wanted for committing a federal offense. Appealing to the President's well-known love for history, Ben convinces the President to reveal the location of the book (which turns out to be in the Library of Congress). The President also tells him to read page 47 as well as the information he needs. In the book, Ben finds a picture of the missing plank from the desk and an entry by President Coolidge, who found it in 1924, had it destroyed, and comissioned Gutzon Borglum to carve Mount Rushmore to erase the map's landmarks in order to protect the treasure.

At Mount Rushmore, Ben, Riley, Abigail, and Patrick meet Mitch, who has kidnapped Ben's mother. Mitch provides a clue to the entrance of a cave containing the legendary native American city of gold, Cíbola. Despite several traps they manage to find the city, but rising flood waters force them to leave. In the last room before the exit, a mechanism requires one person to stay behind while the others could leave. Mitch forces everyone to let him go first by threatening to kill Abigail with a knife, and a terrified Ben agrees to stay behind. However, rising water forces Mitch to be the last person left. Ben tries to help him out, but Mitch cannot come to Ben without the door closing.

Mitch decides to sacrifice himself and allow the others to escape the flooding cavern, and Ben agrees to give him credit for finding the treasure. Ben clears his family's name with the discovery and is cleared of all charges when the President tells everyone that Ben saved his life after the door to the tunnel closed accidentally. Ben also ensures Mitch receives joint credit for the find. The President then asks Ben about what he read on page 47 of the Book of Secrets, to which Ben states that it is "life altering".

Source: Wiki

Righteous Kill

From the writer of Inside Man

Most people respect the badge. Everybody respect the gun.

Review
A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't.

Before they can hand up the badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing.

When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own-take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question. Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

My rate & Comment	* * * * I like both actors. Interesting when they could play in the same movie. Gotta watch it :)
Directed by	Jon Avnet
Produced by	Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Daniel M. Rosenberg, Lati Grobman, Randall Emmett
Written by	Russell Gewirtz
Starring	Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo
Distributed by	Overture Films (USA) Lions Gate Entertainment (UK)
Release date(s)	September 12, 2008 (USA)
Genre	Thriller, Drama
Running time	100 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$60,000,000
Gross revenue	$71,335,208

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The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

The adventure of a thousand lifetimes

Review
Explorer Rick O'Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all new adventure by son Alex, wife Evelyn and her brother, Jonathan. And this time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service.

The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Trailer

My rate & Comment	* * * * Nothing really special with the story. The Movie is definitely rich with special effects. I meant with Jet Li, I was expecting more. It just entertaining..
Directed by	Rob Cohen
Produced by	Stephen Sommers, James Jack, Bob Ducsay, Sean Daniel
Written by	Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Starring	Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Luke Ford, Isabella Leong, Michelle Yeoh
Distributed by	Universal Studios
Release date(s)	United States: August 1, 2008 United Kingdom:August 8, 2008 Australia:September 11, 2008
Genre	Action
Running time	114 min
Country	United States
Language	English, Mandarin
Budget	$145 million
Gross revenue	Domestic $102,277,510 Foreign $281,665,176 Worldwide $403,701,015

Plot

Han (Li), a warlord in Ancient China, conquers his enemies and becomes the first Emperor of China, known as the Dragon Emperor. As his first act as emperor, Han orders the construction of the Great Wall of China, burying his former enemies beneath it and cursing them to hold it up for all eternity. Han orders a witch, Zi Yuan (Yeoh), to search for the secret to immortality with the aid of Han's second in command, General Ming Guo (Wong). Zi Yuan and Ming fall in love, angering Han who desired Zi Yuan for himself. After Zi Yuan supposedly casts the immortality spell on Han, he kills Ming and wounds Zi Yuan. She then reveals that she has in fact cursed Han and his army who are encased in terracotta, becoming the Terracotta Army, permitting Zi Yuan to escape.

In 1946, 13 years after the events of The Mummy Returns, Alex O'Connell (Ford), son to Rick (Fraser) and Evelyn (Bello), locates Han's tomb with the financial backing of Roger Wilson (Calder), an archaeology professor. Alex is attacked by an unknown woman, but succeeds in bringing Han's coffin to Shanghai. Meanwhile, the British government entrusts the O'Connells to take the Eye of Shangri-La back to China as a good faith gesture to the Chinese. It is revealed that Wilson is in league with a paramilitary group led by General Yang (Chau-Sang) and his second-in-command, Choi (Meng), who see Han as the only one who can bring order and greatness back to China. The mysterious woman from the tomb attacks Han in his coffin, which only turns out to be a decoy. Yang and Choi use the Eye to remove the terracota encasing Han and resurrect him. Han accepts the service of Choi and Yang but kills Wilson. The woman from the excavation site tries to kill Han with a dagger cursed by Zi Yuan, but is unsuccessful and Han takes the dagger.

The woman reveals herself to the O'Connells as Lin (Leong), Zi Yuan's and Ming's daughter, who is immortal due to the power of the waters of Shangri-La. The group, along with Evelyn's brother Johnathan Carnahan (Hannah), travel to a tower in the Himalayas that will reveal the path to Shangri-La when the Eye is placed on top of it. They hold off the soldiers under Yang with the help of three Himalayan Yeti summoned by Lin, but are ultimately unable to prevent Han from learning the location of Shangri-La. He also tries to kill Alex to keep him from starting a avalanche by throwing a dagger at him, but Rick jumps in and takes it in place of his son. The avalanche triggered by Alex allows them to reach Shangri-La before Han and meet with Zi Yuan. Zi Yuan heals Rick's wound. Alex and Lin have grown attached to each other but Lin pushes the relationship away due to her immortality. However, Han attacks them in Shangri-La, where he bathes in the waters which restore his human form and youth, replenishes his powers, and gives him the ability to shapeshift. He transforms into a three-headed dragon, kidnaps Lin, and flies to his tomb where he raises the Terracotta Army. Han announces that once he leads his army across the Great Wall, an ancient spell will make them invincible.

The O'Connells and Zi Yuan pursue Han to the Great Wall where Zi Yuan sacrifices her own and Lin's immortality to revive those buried beneath the Great Wall and General Ming. The undead army and the Terracotta Army fight while Zi Yuan fights Han, sacrificing herself to steal back a cursed dagger- the only weapon that can kill him. Han transforms into a Chinese demon and goes beneath the Great Wall in order to use his powers to draw Ming's army back underneath it. Rick and Alex tackle Han with the dagger but are outmatched and the dagger is broken. Rick challenges Han to a fair fight, and when Han transforms back into human form, Rick manages to plunge the dagger broken hilt into Han's heart while Alex stabs Han with the tip of the blade, piercing his heart and killing him. With Han defeated, his army crumbles and turns to dust. Ming's army celebrates briefly before going back to rest.

The O'Connells return to Shanghai, where Alex and Lin fall in love. Jonathan decides to move to Perú with the Eye of Shangri-La, which he had stolen himself, believing there won't be any mummies there. An ending sentence appears, explaining that shortly after his arrival, mummies were soon discovered.

The Happening

We've sensed it. We've seen the signs. Now.. It's happening.

Review
The film opens in New York. People start to get confused in Central park, repeating their words, standing still and sometimes walking backwards. We hear a few screams. A cop on the road shoots himself in the head. A driver gets out of his car, takes the gun, and also shoots himself in the head. We see a pair of high heels walk over and a hand starts to pick up the gun.

My rate & Comment	* * * Mark Wahlberg is a good actor but this movie just silly and nonsense. So weak thriller but it didn't bore me.
Directed by	M. Night Shyamalan
Produced by	Barry Mendel, Sam Mercer, M. Night Shyamalan
Written by	M. Night Shyamalan
Starring	Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo
Distributed by	Flag of the United States 20th Century Fox (except India) Flag of India UTV Software Communications
Release date(s)	June 11, 2008: Belgium, France June 13, 2008: United States, United Kingdom, India, Brazil
Genre	Thriller
Running time	90 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	US $60 million
Gross revenue	Domestic $64,505,912 Foreign $98,834,810 Worldwide $163,340,722

The Happening Trailer


Plot
In New York City, people inexplicably begin committing mass suicide. First they become disoriented and motionless, before resorting to the most convenient means of killing themselves. Initially believed to be a bioterrorist attack, the pandemic quickly spreads across the northeastern United States.

Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), a high school science teacher in Philadelphia, receives news of the pandemic at school and decides to leave the city by train with his estranged and well-nigh-unfaithful wife, Alma Moore (Zooey Deschanel).

They are accompanied by his friend and fellow teacher Julian (John Leguizamo) and his eight-year-old daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez). The train abruptly stops in the small town of Filbert, Pennsylvania, after the crew mysteriously loses radio contact with civilisation. Suddenly unable to contact his wife via cellphone, Julian decides to leave his daughter with Elliot and Alma in order to travel to Princeton, New Jersey, to find her. It is by now clear that the pandemic is transmitted by air. Travelling in a Jeep, Julian and his fellow passengers fall victim to the pandemic soon after arriving in an already-hard-hit Princeton: the infected air filters through a hole in the vehicle's roof, compelling the driver first to bring it to a halt and then plunge it into a nearby tree. Only Julian appears to survive the crash, but, when he exits the car, apparently unharmed, and sits himself on the tarmac, he proceeds to slit his wrists with a shard of glass.

Elliot, Alma and the now-fatherless Jess manage to hitch a ride with a botanist (Frank Collison) and his wife (Victoria Clark). The botanist believes that trees and plants are responsible, attacking people as a defence mechanism by releasing toxins into the air. Although initially sceptical, given his idiosyncrasies and apparent obsession with plant life, Alma and Elliot become increasingly enamoured of this view. After driving for some time through the country, they find themselves at a desolate crossroads surrounded by infected towns. Other cars soon join them. A U.S. Army soldier suggests that they move away on foot from roads and populated centres, which he regards as obvious terrorist targets, to avoid being infected.

The survivors split into two groups and begin to travel across an open plain. The smaller group, in which Elliot, Alma and Jess find themselves, suddenly hears gunshots from the direction of the other group: they deduce correctly that the pandemic is upon them. An overwrought Elliot, striving to concentrate amidst the pandemonium, draws on his scientific creed to conclude that it is conveyed by an airborne neurotoxin exuded by grass and plants. He suspects that the larger the group of people the more likely it is to trigger the defence mechanism. With a menacing gale approaching, Elliot splits the group into smaller pockets, thus further isolating himself, Alma and Jess, although they are accompanied by two teenage boys, Josh (Spencer Breslin) and Jared (Robert Bailey, Jr.).

Elliot, looking for food, comes across an old house with survivors inside. He tries to communicate with them, but they are unwilling to open the doors. When the teenagers try aggressively to force entry, the denizens shoot them dead. Elliot, Alma and Jess, now completely on their own, continue to travel cross-country. They stumble upon the isolated house of one Mrs Jones (Betty Buckley), an elderly oddball who keeps no contact with the outside world and is, therefore, unaware of the happening. Although she permits the trio to sup with her and stay the night, she proves a harsh and paranoid host, constantly accusing them of conspiring to rob or murder her.

The following morning, while standing in her garden, impervious to Elliot's supplications, Mrs Jones becomes infected and commits suicide by smashing her head through the windows of the house. Terrified of sharing her fate, Elliot locks himself in the basement. He is separated from Alma and Jess, who are playing in the neighbouring spring house. They are able to communicate, however, through an old speaking tube, with which Elliot warns them of the threat and has them shut the windows and doors. Conversing with his wife, Elliot expresses his love for her before deciding that, if he is to die, he would prefer to spend his remaining time with her. They all leave the safety of their buildings and embrace in the yard, surprised to find themselves unaffected by the neurotoxin. The outbreak seems to have abated as quickly as it began, just as a scientist predicted on a television show the previous day.

Three months later, Elliot and Alma have adjusted to their new life with Jess as their adopted daughter. On television, an expert interviewee, comparing the event to a red tide, warns that the pandemic may have only been a warning, like "the first spot of a rash". Elliot takes Jess to the bus stop for her first day of school while Alma stays at home, timing a pregnancy test, which turns out positive. When he returns, Alma embraces him with the news in front of their apartment.

In France, at the conclusion of the film, the pandemic appears to reoccur when people walking through a park suddenly cease to move as the wind rustles through the trees and the sky turns dark.

Source: Wiki

We Own The Night

"A tense, terrifically action dazzler" Peter Travers, Rollong Stone

Review
Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has turned his back on the family business. The popular manager of El Caribe, the legendary Russian-owned nightclub in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, he has changed his last name and concealed his connection to a long line of distinguished New York cops. For Bobby, every night is a party, as he greets friends and customers or dancers with his beautiful Puerto Rican girlfriend, Amanda (Eva Mendes), in a haze of cigarete smoke and disco music.

But it's 1988, and New York City's drug trade is escalating. Bobby tries to keep a friendly distance from the Russian gangster who is operating out of the nightclub a gangster who is being targeted by his brother, Joseph (Mark Wahlberg), an up-and-coming NTPD officer, and his father, Burt (Robert Duvall), the legendary deputy chief of police.

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My rate & Comment	* * * * Great movie about New York police vs gangster.
Directed by	James Gray
Produced by	Marc Butan, Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Nick Wechsler
Written by	James Gray
Starring	Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Robert Duvall
Distributed by	Flag of the United States Columbia Pictures Flag of Australia Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	October 12, 2007
Genre	Action
Running time	117 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget
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Plot
The film is set in Brooklyn, New York from November 1988 through early April 1989. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is the manager of the very successful El Caribe nightclub in Brighton Beach that is frequented by Russian gangster and drug lord Vadim Nezhinski (Alex Veadov).

Bobby has distanced himself from his police chief father Burt Grusinsky (Robert Duvall) and his police captain brother Joseph Grusinsky (Mark Wahlberg), preferring to remain on the sidelines and enjoy a hedonistic life with his girlfriend Amada (Eva Mendes). When police forces led by Joseph make a raid on Bobby's nightclub, hoping to net Vadim, Bobby refuses to cooperate. The incident strains his relationship with his father and brother even more, to the point that he and Joseph exchange blows.

The police are unsuccessful in capturing Vadim, who decides to retaliate. At 5:43 pm on the evening of November 24, 1988, Joseph is shot by a masked assailant, and his 1988 Ford LTD Crown Victoria police cruiser firebombed. Joseph survives the ambush, but the extent of the injury requires him to be hospitalized for months. Bobby visits his brother in the hospital and, undergoing a change of heart, resolves to help his father and the police. Despite Burt's apprehension, Bobby goes undercover inside Vadim's drug-smuggling operation. Bobby and Amada are placed under constant police protection and their relationship begins to deteriorate.

On February 20, 1989, Vadim escapes custody while being transported to a hospital. The police prepare to move Bobby and Amada to a new location. During a white-knuckle car chase in a blinding thunderstorm, the police convoy is intercepted by Vadim's men and Burt is killed.

To avenge his father, Bobby decides to officially join the police force without the consent of Amada, who leaves him. Bobby and his brother Joseph work together to organize a final sting operation, set for April 3, 1989. During a raid, Joseph is emotionally paralyzed by the memory of his shooting. Bobby ends up hunting down Vadim by himself. The film ends on November 3, 1989, exactly a year after the film's opening with Bobby graduating the NYPD Police Academy to become a full-time police officer, and still grieving over the loss of Amada.

Suburban Girl

"A wonderful romantic comedy" E! Online

Review
Based on stories from the bestselling book The Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing, Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Grudge) stars in this funny and disarmingly wise romantic comedy set against the exhilarating backdrop of New York City. Gellar is Brett, a naive associate book editor embarking on her first big job. Brett is overwhelmed until she develops a romance with the seasoned literary star Archie Knox (30 Rock's Alex Baldwin) and is introduced to a glamorous new world. But when she faces a family crisis, Brett must make the decision of a lifetime as this girl from the burbs finds herself at a big-city crossroads.

My rate & Comment	* * * * Archie who keeps a photo album of his ex girlfriends? lol .. Cute, sexy and funny... is a joy to watch
Directed by	Marc Klein
Produced by	Catch 23 Productions/ Odd Lot Entertainment
Written by	Marc Klein
Starring	Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alec Baldwin, Maggie Grace, Chris Carmack, Vincent De Paul, Vanessa Branch
Distributed by
Release date(s)	2007
Genre	Romantic comedy
Running time	97 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget
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Plot
Brett Eisenberg (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a Manhattan literary assistant with dreams of a life doing what she loves: reading and editing books, being part of the great scene of New York idea culture. The movie intro shows her working on a manuscript using the standard proofreader markings, in pencil.

Brett, a young woman working her way up New York City's publishing ladder. Eager to get ahead, Brett attends a book signing with hopes of meeting influential publishing giant Archie Knox (Alec Baldwin).

So Brett meets up with Archie and she sees that they have more in common than just books. What begins to happen between Brett and Archie is an unplanned romance. But before anything can happen, Brett decides to break up with her immature boyfriend Jed (Chris Carmack) and her and Archie begin to date.No sooner do they trade glances than Archie is wooing Brett with extravagant dates, expensive gifts, and career assistance.

The relationship is a storybook romance from the start, but things later get complicated due to the age difference also when Brett gets a de-promotion at her job because of a new boss (Vanessa Branch) and she finds out that her dad, which she is very close to begins to have health complications. Brett also discovers that Archie has an awful relationship with his daughter and is a recovering alcoholic.

While dating Archie and going through real life hardships, Brett begins to discover herself and starts to become a more confident editor.

Death Sentence (2007)

".. brutal and satisfying..." USA Today Claudia Puig

Review
If I didn't read the review first and just following the first scene.. I would not think this gonna be a brutal action thriller. When a family falls victim to a vicious attack perpetrated as a gang initiation ritual, the vengeful father vows to tract down each person involved in the crime in Saw director James Wan and screenwriter Ian Jeffers feature adaptation of author Brian Garfield's original novel. Aisha Tyler co-stars as the sympathetic homicide detective who questions her pledge to assist Bacon's character after suspecting that he may have turned to murder as a means of exacting his revenge.

My rate & Comment	* * * * Violent .. but also emotional. Its kinda predictable but still entertaining.
Directed by	James Wan
Produced by	Ashok Amritraj, Howard Baldwin, Karen Elise Baldwin
Written by	Screenplay: Ian Jeffers, Brian Garfield (uncredited) Novel: Brian Garfield
Starring	Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston, Jordan Garrett, Stuart Lafferty, Aisha Tyler, John Goodman
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	August 31, 2007
Genre	Thriller
Running time	110 min.
Country	United State
Language	English
Budget
Gross revenue	$9,109,405

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Plot
The story revolves around Nick Hume, a loving husband and father of two sons, Brendan and Luke. After a hockey game, Nick and his oldest son Brendan are driving home and flash their headlights at two passing cars with their headlights off. They then make a quick stop at a gas station to get some fuel. While Brendan is getting a smoothie inside, the two cars they passed earlier, containing gang members about to rob the gas station, arrive. The station owner reaches for his gun, but is spotted by one of the gang members and shot to death. It is then revealed that a new gang member named Joe must prove himself to "become a man", so he slits Brendan's throat with a machete. Nick attempts to ambush the thugs, and manages to tackle Joe, who was making his escape out of the gas station. Nick pulls off Joe's mask and sees his face, but the murderer escapes and is hit, albeit not killed, by a car. Nick rushes Brendan to the hospital, but he later dies from major blood loss.

Nick later discovers that, if the case goes to court at all, Joe will only get a maximum of a few years in jail for his crime, so he forces the police to drop the case, deeming it a waste of time. Joe, now a free man, becomes the target of Nick's revenge and is eventually stabbed by the enraged father.

The gang, led by Joe's older brother Billy, wants revenge for the murder of one of their own. The gang attempts to, and almost succeeds in killing Nick, but he is able to escape while killing one in the process. The police, aware of what is happening, do not take Nick into custody, but grant him protection. The officers watching over the house of the Humes are killed, and the gang members make their way inside, where they shoot Nick, his wife Helen, and his other son Luke.

Nick survives, and learns that Luke did too. After paying a short visit to his son, who is in a coma, Nick escapes from the hospital to go after the remaining gang members. He pays a visit to a person named Bones, a gun shop owner and buys a .357 Magnum revolver, a Colt .45 pistol, and a double barrel shotgun. It is revealed that Bones is the father of Billy and Joe, but Bones allows Nick to carry on with his plans anyway. When Bones attempts to warn Billy of Nick's plans, he is shot and killed by his own son.

Later, when Billy arrives at the gang's meeting place, dubbed the Office, it turns out Nick is already there, and has killed some of the gang members. A fire fight breaks out, but ends when Nick and Billy both run out of bullets. They sit next to each other and Billy tells Nick to realize the murderer he has become. Nick then pulls another gun from his jacket and asks Billy if he's ready. Billy responds with a sigh. The next shot shows Nick walking out of the building, implying that he just killed Billy.

When Nick arrives at his house, he turns on the TV to watch the videos of his family. The police arrive and tell him that his son started moving, and that he'll probably make it through. Nick shows a sign of relief and looks back to the TV. It shows Luke, Helen, Nick and Brendan singing on the couch.