Thursday, June 7, 2012

Play Game and Making Money - ANNO1777

ANNO1777 is online browser based multiplayer strategy game.

ANNO1777 is an online game that can be played straight from a browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, etc, and no further software required or downloads. The game is an economical, political and military simulator, like the real world. Virtual money can be exchanged into real money and back and the time spent in the game can become, gradually, very profitable.
Open your ANNO1777 account now, it's absolutely free!!
  • First social game in which you can change virtual currency into real money.
  • is 100% FREE. Setting up an account takes 2 minutes.
  • You can be a company owner, politician or a military mastermind. 
  • There are 17 kinds of companies from restaurants to banks and magazines.
  • You can make money with your magazine regardless of the topics you approach.
  • You can buy and sell everything, including other players.     
  • Invite your friends and earn taxes for life from them. 
  • It takes about one hour to manage your business. 
  • Its easy!
  • there is no harm in checking it out! 
ANNO1777 is MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game) that simulates an economic, political and military system, like the real world. You are a citizen of the 17th century who fights on all levels to advance the social hierarchy. You can open businesses, become governor or you can build a military empire. Everything is up to you. Unlike other games of this type, the virtual money from ANNO1777 can be exchanged for real money and vice versa. In other words, a financial success in the virtual world of the game becomes a financial success in the real world.
In order to be able to play ANNO1777 you have to reach the site through a link provided by another player. 
So you just CLICK HERE Or visit this link http://www.anno1777.com/index.php?i=283038
You need to go on the home page and click the link Open Account. Carefully fill-in the details and in less than one minute the account is opened.
GOOD LUCK! :)

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The House Bunny

For the girl of ZETA house college, life was no party, until Shelly showed up

Review
When Shelly, a playboy bunny, is tossed out of the mansion, she has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Seta. The members of the sorority – who also have got to be the seven most socially clueless women on the planet - are about to lose their house. They need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelly can provide… but they will each learn on their own to stop pretending to be what others want them to be and start being themselves.

The House Bunny Trailer

My rate &
Comment
* * *
Not Funny even it says comedy movie.
Chicky but not sexy. It just good for killing time.
Directed by
Fred Wolf
Produced by
Allen Covert, Anna Faris,
Jack Giarraputo, Adam Sandler,
Kirsten Smith, Karen McCullah Lutz
Written by
Kirsten Smith, Karen McCullah Lutz
Starring
Anna Faris, Colin Hanks,
Emma Stone, Kat Dennings,
Hugh Hefner, Christopher McDonald,
Beverly D'Angelo
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)
August 22, 2008
Genre
Romantic comedy
Running time
94 min.
Country
USA
Language
English
Budget
$25 million
Gross revenue$70,123,558

Plot

Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) is a Playboy Bunny living the life of luxury. The day after her twenty-seventh birthday, she awakes to find a note from Hugh Hefner asking her to pack up and leave. Sadly, she gets out on the road looking for a new life, and happens to see girls who remind her of herself: beautiful and fun. She immediately follows them and sees that they live in luxury too. She tells them her situation and asks to join, not knowing that they are in a sorority, and is rejected because she is not a student, as well as the fact that the girls are completely stuck up. She sees there are ladies that watch over the girls and live there also, but after asking them to join, she is rejected again.

As she carries on, she finds another sorority, Zeta Alpha Zeta, whose members are socially awkward, although they reject her also. However, once they see that she is able to attract boys and friends, this changes. She turns the girls around and teaches them everything they need to know to surpass the other girls. In particular, Shelley becomes close with Natalie (Emma Stone), a bespectled virgin who acted as leader of the Zetas. During this process she meets a guy named Oliver (Colin Hanks), and although she can teach everyone else how to flirt, she has to get help from her new "students" on what to do in order to socialize with him.

As the girls of her sorority become more popular on campus, they realize that they changed themselves too much to please other people and blame it on Shelley. Conveniently, she gets a call from the Playboy Mansion informing her that she was set up, and they never wanted her to leave. It would seem perfect for her to go back to her old life, but when she tries, she sees she cares far too much for her girls, who reciprocate the sentiment. She decides to fix the devastation that the Phi Iota Mus have done to Zeta Alpha Zetas while she was gone, but does it with help from everyone. The Zetas also play matchmaker, and manage to fix Shelley up with Oliver.

Source: Wiki

Monday, February 2, 2009

The Haunted Mansion

Check your pulse at the door... if you have one

Review
When a man (Murphy) and his family encounter a ghost while visiting a haunted house during a job interview, he learns the value of family, and the lesson that he should make sure he never neglects them. Based upon the popular Disney theme park attraction.

The Haunted Mansion Trailer


My rate &
Comment
***
Even the tittle suppose to be a horror movie but
it's not scary at all nor funny even Murphy on it.
But good visual.
Directed by
Rob Minkoff
Produced by
Andrew Gunn, Don Hahn
Written by
David Berenbaum
Starring
Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Tilly,
Terence Stamp, Marsha Thomason,
Nathaniel Parker
Distributed by
Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)
November 26, 2003
Genre
Fantasy, Comedy, Family
Running time
89 min.
Country

Language
English
Budget
$90,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue

Plot
Jim and Sara Evers are proprietors of Evers and Evers Real Estate and parents of 10-year-old Michael and 13-year-old Megan. Jim is a workaholic who has not been spending time with his family, much to the disapproval of his wife. On a weekend trip in which he has promised to devote time to the family, they make a detour through the swamps of New Orleans, Louisiana to Gracey Manor, a decaying but valuable property. The owners had earlier contacted Sara with interest in selling,but they end up seeing ghosts at the house.

Once the Evers arrive, a violent rainstorm erupts, and they are led inside by Ramsley, the creepy butler who is immediately disturbed that Sara did not come alone. The family is introduced to Master Edward Gracey, the heir of the house, and invited to stay the night as the roads have flooded. Michael and Megan are sent to one bedroom, Jim and Sara to another.

As Jim and Sara are separated, and Jim finds himself trapped in a secret passage, Michael and Megan are led by a floating blue orb into an attic room where they discover an antiquated painting that looks exactly like their mother. They encounter Ezra and Emma, a footman and maid respectively who work for the mansion and also warn the kids of impending danger. Megan and Michael discover that Emma and Ezra are actually ghosts, as is Master Gracey, and that Master Gracey thinks their mother is his lover Elizabeth returned to him from beyond the grave; years ago, she had seemingly committed suicide.

Meanwhile, Jim discovers the animated head of gypsy Madame Leota stored inside a crystal ball. Through her help, he is led to his kids and together, they follow her instructions through a ghost-populated graveyard to find a key that will help them flee the mansion. Jim, Michael, and Megan learn that there is a curse binding the souls of everyone who has died in the mansion to walk its premises until it is broken.

Jim and Megan go into a mausoleum, per Madame Leota's instructions, and locate the key in question, only to be attacked by hundreds of zombies. They find themselves trapped in the mausoleum, but Michael overcomes his fear of spiders (which are crawling all over the outside of the crypt door) and frees his father and sister just in time. They use the key to unlock a trunk, inside of which is a letter from Elizabeth declaring that she loved Master Gracey and that she did want to marry him. It is revealed that Ramsley, also a ghost, did not like the idea of Master Gracey and Elizabeth getting married. So he wrote a different letter (which was taken as Elizabeth's) stating that Elizabeth felt differently than she really did, and poisoned Elizabeth to prevent an interracial marriage between her and Gracey. Ramsley traps Michael and Megan in a trunk suitcase, and literally throws Jim out of the mansion, locking him outside. He confronts Sara and makes it clear that she will either proceed with the marriage (and a suicide), or that her children will die.

Jim, attempting to break back into the mansion but finding it magically sealed, sits outside in vain until the head of Madame Leota rolls up to him to encourage him to keep trying. Jim drives his BMW E65 through the wall just in time to stop the wedding and confront Gracey with the truth. When all is revealed, Ramsley becomes enraged and invokes the fires of Hell. The multiple windows of the mansion shatter as evil spirits fly around the room. Then out of the fireplace comes a giant demonic dragon. The dragon sucks Ramsley into the fireplace for his eternal punishment in Hell. Unfortunately, Sara has had enough of the poison given to her before the wedding to die. Just in time, Elizabeth's spirit, which is actually the blue orb, moves into Sara's body and revives her, breaking the curse and saving her life. After everything he's put the Evers through, Master Gracey repays them by giving them the deed to the mansion. Thus all of the spirits in the mansion, including Elizabeth, Master Gracey, Ezra, and Emma ascend into the light of Heaven, their curse broken.

Jim has learned an important lesson about family, and his son and daughter have learned bravery in the face of evil. The family, now in possession of the deed to the house, head out on their vacation to the lake (with the encased head of Madame Leota in the back seat and a quartet of singing busts strapped to the back of the car singing their own version of "When the Saints Come Marching In").

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Fool’s Gold


Review
Fools Gold stars Matthew McConaughey as Ben Finn Finnegan, a good-natured, surf bumturned-treasure hunter who is obsessed with finding the legendary 18th century Queens Dowry 40 chests of exotic treasure that was lost at sea in 1715. In his quest, Finn has sunk everything he has, including his marriage to Tess Finnegan (Kate Hudson) and his more-rusty thantrusty salvage boat, Booty Calls.

Fool's Gold Trailer


My rate &
Comment
***
Hmm It's okay.. It's just about fun, adventure,

entertainment
and chemistry.
Kate and Matthew are great but
weak acting
of other crews. Well
enjoy the movie.
Directed by
Andy Tennant
Produced by
Donald De Line
Written by
John Claflin, Daniel Zelman,
Andy Tennant
Starring
Matthew McConaughey,
Kate Hudson, Alexis Dziena,
Ewen Bremner, Ray Winstone,
Donald Sutherland
Distributed by
Summit Entertainment (distributor),
Warner Bros. Pictures (co-distributor)
Release date(s)
February 8, 2008
Genre
Romantic comedy, Adventure
Running time
113-mnts
Country
USA
Language
English
Budget
$70 Million
Gross revenueDomestic: $70,231,041
Worldwide: $110,564,851

Plot
Benjamin "Finn" Finnegan (Matthew McConaughey) is a treasure hunter looking for a treasure from a Spanish galleon known as the Aurelia, that was lost at sea with the 1715 Treasure Fleet.

In his search to find the treasure, his wife, Tess (Kate Hudson) divorces him. Tess has been working as a steward on a huge yacht owned by multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland). Finn finds a clue to the location of the treasure and manages to get on Honeycutt's yacht The Precious Gem and convince him, his daughter Gemma (Alexis Dziena) and Tess to join him in searching for the treasure. A local gangster named Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart) and Finn's mentor Moe Fitch (Ray Winstone) are intent on finding the treasure first.

The Precious Gem and Moe's vessel compete to find the treasure in The Bahamas. As Finn attempts to secretly take down Moe's search grid, Finn discovers a sword which is a clue to finding the treasure. Finn and Tess follow the clues to an ancient church and discover a diary describing the location of the treasure. Bigg Bunny and his associates, who have been following Finn and Tess, take Tess hostage and assume (incorrectly) that Finn was killed. Bigg Bunny forces Tess to aid him in the search for the treasure in a blowhole, the location revealed in the diary. Tess finds the treasure in a cave beneath the blowhole. Meanwhile, Finn and the Honeycutts enlist the help of Moe in taking the treasure out of Bigg Bunny's hands. They arrive as Bigg Bunny sends one of his associates to bring him the treasure, and the other to take out Moe as he swims towards Bigg Bunny's seaplane. The blowhole kills Bigg Bunny's employee and traps Tess and Finn, while Moe tries to stop Bigg Bunny from taking off. Finn saves Tess only to have Bigg Bunny kidnap her from him again.

Gemma gets Finn to Bigg Bunny's plane on her jet ski and Finn leaps on the plane's pontoon as the plane takes off. As Bigg Bunny attempts to shoot Finn, Tess kicks Bigg Bunny out of the plane and sends him into the ocean. The final Bigg Bunny employee, is taken prisoner by Moe (after he has shot Moe in the leg with a speargun).

Finn and Tess are reunited and save the treasure together. Finn, Tess, Nigel, Gemma, Moe and those who contributed in helping or finding the treasure open a museum displaying all of their finds.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Transporter 3


This time, the rules are the same, except one..

A device attached to his wrist which will explode if Frank goes more than 75 feet from his car

Review
Frank Martin (Jason Statham) has been pressured into transporting Valentina (Natalya Rudakova), the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbe), the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Ukraine, from Marceilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea, through the use of a device attached to his wrist which will explode if Frank goes more than 75 feet from his car.

She got high - at gas station

Along the way, with the help of Inspector Tarconi, Frank has to contend with the people who strong armed him to take the job, agents sent by Vasilev to intercept him, and the general non-cooperation of his passenger. Despite Valentina’s cynical disposition and his resistance to get involved, Frank and Valentina fall for each other, while escaping from one life-threatening situation after another. Statham again drives an armored Audi A8 W12 in the film.


Transporter 3 Trailer


My rate &
Comment
****
It’s the same movie as the other two.
Fast cars, loose women, kinetic kung fu.
Jason Statman takes his shirt off then kicking
the bad guys in the face. Pretty cool.
Directed by
Olivier Megaton
Produced by
Luc Besson, Steve Chasman
Written by
Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Starring
Jason Statham, François Berléand,
Robert Knepper, Natalya Rudakova,
Eriq Ebouaney
Distributed by
EuropaCorp, Lionsgate
20th Century Fox (United Kingdom)
Release date(s)
November 26, 2008 (USA)
December 5, 2008 (UK)
Genre
Action
Running time
1 hr. 43 min.
Country
Flag of FranceFrance
Language
English
Gross revenue$54,046,260
Preceded by
Transporter 2

The cool fights

Friday, January 2, 2009

Changeling

*A True Story


To find her son she did what no one else dared

Review
Los Angeles 1928 on a Saturday morning in a workingclass suburb Christine (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son Walter and left for work. When she came home, she discovered he had vanished. A fruitless search ensues and a month later a boy claiming to be the nine year old is returned. Dazed by the swirl of cops reporters and her conflicted emotions Christine allows him to stay overnight but in her heart she knows he is not Walter. As she pushes authorities to keep looking. She learns that in prohibition-era L.A. women don’t challenge the system and live to tell their story slandered as delusional and unfit. Christine finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (Malkovich), who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy. Based on the actual incident that rocked California’s legal system, Changeling tells the shocking tale of a mother’s quest to find her son, and those who won’t stop until they silence her.

Changeling Trailer


My rate &
Comment
****
I always interest to a true story movie.
This is a powerful true story.
Directed by
Clint Eastwood
Produced by
Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer,
Ron Howard, Robert Lorenz
Written by
J. Michael Straczynski
Starring
Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich,
Jeffrey Donovan, Gattlin Griffith,
Jason Butler Harner, Amy Ryan,
Michael Kelly, Geoff Pierson, Colm Feore
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date(s)
Cannes Film Festival: May 20, 2008
United States:
October 24, 2008 (limited)
October 31, 2008 (wide)
United Kingdom: November 26, 2008
Australia: February 5, 2009
Genre
Drama, Thriller
Running time
141 min
Country
United State
Language
English
BudgetUS$55 million
Gross revenueUS$66.7 million

Plot
In 1928 Los Angeles, single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) returns home one day to discover her nine-year-old son, Walter (Griffith), is missing. Reverend Gustav Briegleb (Malkovich) publicizes Christine's plight and rails against the Los Angeles Police Department for its incompetence, corruption and the extrajudicial punishment meted by its "Gun Squad", led by Police Chief James E. Davis (Feore).

Several months later, Christine is told her son has been found alive. A public reunion is organized by police, who believe the positive publicity will negate recent criticism of the department. Although "Walter" (Conti) claims to be Christine's son, she says he is not. Captain J. J. Jones (Donovan), the head of the LAPD's Juvenile Division, insists the boy is Walter and pressures Christine into taking him home "on a trial basis".

After Christine confronts Jones with physical discrepancies between "Walter" and her son, Jones has a doctor visit her. He tells Christine that "Walter" is shorter because trauma has shrunk his spine and that the man who took Walter had him circumcised. A newspaper story appears that implies Christine is an unfit mother. Christine meets with Briegleb, who tells her the story was planted by police to discredit her. He also tells her of the corruption rife in the department, and of the Gun Squad's despotic rule over the city's streets. Walter's teacher and dentist give Christine signed letters confirming "Walter" is an impostor. Christine arranges a press conference during which she tells her story.

At Jones' order, Christine is taken to Los Angeles County Hospital's "psychopathic ward". Christine is befriended by inmate Carol Dexter (Ryan), who tells Christine she is one of several women who were imprisoned for challenging police authority. Dr. Steele (O'Hare) deems Christine delusional and forces her to take mood-regulating pills. Steele says he will release Christine if she admits she was mistaken about "Walter". She refuses.

Detective Ybarra (Kelly) is called to a ranch at Wineville, Riverside County to arrange the deportation of 15-year-old Sanford Clark to Canada. The boy's uncle, Gordon Northcott (Harner), has fled after being unwittingly alerted by Ybarra to his visit. Clark tells Ybarra that Northcott forced him to assist in kidnapping and murdering approximately twenty children and identifies Walter as one of them. Jones tells Briegleb that Christine is in protective custody following a mental breakdown. Jones orders Clark deported, but Ybarra makes Clark reveal the murder site. Briegleb secures Christine's release by showing Steele a newspaper that details the Wineville killings and names Walter as a possible victim. "Walter" reveals his motive was to secure transportation to Los Angeles to see his favorite actor, Tom Mix, and says the police told him to lie about being Christine's son. Northcott is captured in Vancouver, Canada. Christine has an attorney (Pierson) secure a court order to release the women unfairly imprisoned by police.

On the day of the city council's hearing into the case, Christine and Briegleb flee police whom they believe want to prevent her testifying. Outside Los Angeles City Hall, they encounter thousands of protestors who are demanding answers from the city. The hearing is intercut with scenes from Northcott's trial. The council concludes that Jones and Davis should be removed from duty, and extrajudicial internments by police must be reviewed. Northcott is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. Two years later, Christine has not given up her search for Walter. She is told Northcott is willing to admit killing Walter on condition that Christine meets him before his execution. Northcott refuses to tell her whether or not he killed her son, and he is executed the next day. In 1935, David Clay—one of the boys assumed to have been killed—is found alive. He reveals that one of the boys with whom he was imprisoned was Walter. David, Walter and another boy escaped, but were separated. David does not know whether Walter was recaptured, giving Christine hope he is alive.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Taken

A spy relies on his old skill to save his estranged daughter.

"One of the most action movie this season.."

Review
A former spy (Neeson) relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter (Grace), who has been forced into slave trade. In "Taken", Neesson will play an ex-CIA "preventer" that faces his daughter is kidnapped by sex-traffickers while traveling in Paris, France. The soldier must track her down before she's shipped off and lost forever.

Taken Trailer



My rate &
Comment
* * * *
Great movie and great performance of Neesson.
Great action and the story. There are also
some sensitive / sentimental scenes.
Worth to see.
Directed by
Pierre Morel
Produced by
Luc Besson
Written by
Luc Besson
Robert Mark Kamen
Starring
Liam Neeson
Famke Janssen
Maggie Grace
Xander Berkeley
Holly Valance
Katie Cassidy
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Europa Corp.
Release date(s)
France:
February 27, 2008
Genre
Action, Thriller, Drama
Running time
93 min.
Country
France
Language
English, France
Budget$45,000,000
Gross revenue$61,144,470

Plot
The film follows an ex-CIA "preventer" faced with recovering his daughter after she is kidnapped by sex-traffickers in Paris, France.

Bryan (Liam Neeson) is a divorced, former US intelligence agent whose 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) lives with his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) and her new husband Stuart (Xander Berkeley). The nature and dispositions of the major characters are established early in the film: Kim is a happy, affectionate girl who loves horses and has aspirations of being a singer, while her mother maintains a frosty, somewhat antagonistic demeanour towards her ex-husband. Bryan’s skill and quick-thinking are demonstrated when he agrees to escort a pop diva - Sheerah (Holly Valance) - the diva is attacked, but Bryan efficiently disables a knife-wielding assailant and gets her safely out of danger. Thankful, Sheerah expresses some interest in Bryan’s daughter and furnishes him with some contacts to get Kim’s career started.

The next day we discover that Kim wants to take a vacation in Europe with her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy) to follow U2’s European tour. Kim’s mother has no objections, but Kim also needs permission from her father. Fearing that the over-protective Bryan will not consent, Kim pretends (with her mother’s implicit agreement) that they will only stay in Paris to visit museums. Reluctantly, Bryan agrees, and only discovers their real itinerary at the airport.

Arriving in Paris, a seemingly friendly young man named Peter (Nicolas Giraud) proposes to share a taxi with Kim and Amanda to the house where they are staying; the girls agree gladly. However, the man works for an Albanian criminal organization to which he reports the address out of earshot.

In the house, Kim receives a phone call from her father which she answers in the bathroom. From the bathroom window she sees men entering the main room and abducting Amanda. Bryan is able to gain critical information about the kidnappers in the final moments after Kim is kidnapped by telling her to shout out everything about them that she notices. Briefly, Bryan talks to one of the kidnappers, warning him that unless Kim is released, he will pursue him and kill him; the kidnapper wishes him "good luck" before smashing the daughter’s phone.

Exploiting his contacts in the CIA and the business connections of his ex-wife’s husband, Bryan travels to Paris to find her, informed that the kidnappers are sex-slavers and that he has only 96 hours to recover his daughter before she will disappear forever. The particular kidnapper he talked to is revealed to be an Albanian named ‘Marco’.

Under the eye of Jean-Claude, himself a former operative and now deputy director of Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur, Bryan pursues the kidnappers. He uses digital photos from the smashed remains of Kim’s phone to locate Peter, who is hit by a truck while trying to escape. By hassling prostitutes Bryan gets himself threatened by an Albanian mobster, and is able to plant a covert listening device on him. With the help of a translator he discovers that the kidnappers have a brothel in a nearby construction site; before leaving, Bryan obtains an Albanian–English dictionary from the translator.

On arrival, Bryan acts like a customer; once inside he begins to search for Kim. Unfortunately, he finds only her jacket next to another woman. He is then discovered, and escapes under fire with the semi-conscious woman.

Nursing the girl back to health from an involuntary drug addiction, Bryan finds out where the kidnappers took her after she was abducted. Bryan heads to the address and poses as an official negotiating a new "rate" (i.e. a bribe) to overlook the illegal activities going on within. Before leaving he asks the apparent leader to translate from Albanian the words "good luck," which confirms his identity as Marco; he quickly subdues Marco and kills most of the kidnappers. He searches for Kim, but instead finds Amanda, handcuffed to a bed and dead of a drug overdose. Later, through torturing Marco, Bryan ascertains that Kim was sold to a man named Saint Clair.

Bryan visits Jean-Claude’s home and chats amicably with his wife while she prepares dinner. Jean-Claude, however, failing to have Bryan arrested for the mess he has caused at Paris, brings his gun to the dinner table. Jean-Claude angrily points the gun at Bryan when accused of complicity in Kim’s abduction, but to no avail: Bryan unloaded it earlier. To demonstrate that he is serious Bryan shoots Jean-Claude’s wife on her arm and, by holding Jean-Claude’s family hostage, extracts Saint Clair’s location from Jean-Claude.

By impersonating a police officer, Bryan gains entry to the building where new girls are being sold, and secures entry to one of the buyers’ viewing booths. When he sees his daughter being sold, he forces the client to bid for her, but is captured and knocked unconscious moments later. Suspended from the ceiling, Saint Clair questions his identity before leaving his security guards to execute him. Bryan escapes and kills the guards before finding Saint Clair, whom he kills after learning that his daughter is being taken by Arab clients. Bryan manages to follow the car his daughter is being taken in to see her being taken away on a large motorboat. He jumps on to the ship from a bridge and eliminates all the people inside, finally killing the client and freeing his daughter.

Back in the US, Kim is reunited with her mother. Bryan introduces Kim to the diva he saved at the beginning of the film, having arranged an audition with her vocal coach.

Plot source: Wiki

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Juno

"A Fresh, Unusually Intelligent Comedy" - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Review
Juno (Ellen Page) is a Mid-Western highschooler, who decides one day, out of boredom or curiosity, to have sex with with her friend Paulle Bleeker (Michael Cera), a member of her school's track team. She likes him well enough, but isn't hung up on him. This one time encounter results in Juno's pregnancy. She and her best friend Leah (Olivia Thiriby) decide to take control of the situation by browsing for prospective adoptive parents in the local Pennysaver newspaper, and Juno settles on seemingly the perfect, affluent couple mark (Jason Bateman) and Vanessa Loring (Jennifer Garner) who is desperate to have a child.

Juno Trailer


My rate &
Comment
* * * *
Actually the reason I watched this film
because of Jennifer Garner on it.
But then I found this movie very interesting.
The story is kinda slow but its different and not boring.
This movie is cool.
Directed by
Jason Reitman
Produced by
John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon,
Mason Novick, Russell Smith
Written by
Diablo Cody
Starring
Ellen Page, Michael Cera,
Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman,
Allison Janney, J. K. Simmons,
Olivia Thirlby
Distributed by
Fox Searchlight
Release date(s)
September 1, 2007 (Telluride)
December 5, 2007 (limited)
December 25, 2007 (wide)
Genre
Comedy - Drama
Running time
96 min.
Country
Canada
United States
Language
English
Budget$6.5 million
Gross revenue$229,911,304

Plot

Sixteen-year-old Minnesotan high-schooler Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) discovers she is pregnant with a child fathered by her friend and longtime admirer, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). While at first she intends to have an abortion, she changes her mind and decides to make a plan for the child's adoption. With the help of her friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby), Juno searches the ads in the Pennysaver and finds a couple she feels will provide a suitable home.

Along with her father, Mac (J. K. Simmons), Juno meets the couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner), in their expensive home and expresses a desire for a closed adoption.

Vanessa is extremely anxious around Juno and their initial interactions are uneasy. However, Juno and Leah happen to see Vanessa in a shopping mall being completely at ease with a child, and Juno encourages Vanessa to talk to Juno's baby in the womb, where it obligingly kicks for her. On the other hand, Juno more easily forms a friendship with Mark, with whom she shares tastes in punk rock and horror films. Mark, who has set aside his rock band youth (now confined to memorabilia displayed in the one room of the house allowed him by Vanessa), works at home composing commercial jingles. Juno hangs out with Mark a few times, ignoring a warning from her stepmother Bren (Allison Janney) that she should not spend time alone with a married man.

As the pregnancy progresses, Juno struggles with the emotions she feels for her baby's father, Paulie, who is clearly—although passively—in love with Juno. Juno maintains an outwardly indifferent attitude toward Paulie, but when she learns he has asked another girl to the prom, she is hurt and angrily confronts him. Paulie reminds Juno that it is at her request they remain distant and tells her that she broke his heart. He also suggests that she has feelings for him she is unable to admit.

Not long before her baby is due, Juno is again visiting with Mark when their interaction becomes strongly emotional. Mark then tells her that he will be leaving Vanessa. Vanessa arrives home, and, to her shock, Mark tells her he does not feel ready to be a father and that there are still things he wants to do first—dreams Vanessa does not share. Juno watches the Loring marriage fall apart, then drives away and cries by the side of the road before coming to a decision. Returning to the Lorings' home, she leaves a note.

After a heartfelt discussion with Mac, Juno accepts that she loves Paulie. Juno then tells Paulie that she loves him, and Paulie's actions make it clear that her feelings are reciprocated. At his track meet, when Paulie notices Juno is not in the stands and realizes she must be in labor, he rushes to the hospital to be with her (she had not told him because she did not want him to miss the meet). He arrives to find Juno has given birth, and comforts Juno as she cries. Vanessa comes to the hospital where she joyfully claims the newborn boy as a single adoptive mother. On the wall in the baby's new nursery, Vanessa has framed Juno's note—addressed only to her—which reads "Vanessa: If you're still in, I'm still in. —Juno."

The film ends in the summertime with Juno and Paulie playing guitar and singing together, followed by a kiss.

Plot source: Wiki

Monday, December 1, 2008

Jumper

The best scifi movie of the year" - Alex Markerson, E! Online

Review
A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.

Jumper Trailer


My rate &
Comment
* * * *
"Jumper" is a pretty okay action sci-fi movie.
It's not that bad. You may not be totally
satisfied at the end but you'll probably have fun.
Directed by
Doug Liman
Produced by
Simon Kinberg, Lucas Foster,
Jay Sanders, Stacy Maes
Written by
Screenplay: David S. Goyer,
Jim Uhls, Simon Kinberg
Novel: Steven Gould
Starring
Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell,
Rachel Bilson, Samuel L. Jackson,
Diane Lane, Max Thieriot,
AnnaSophia Robb
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
New Regency Productions
Release date(s)
February 14, 2008 (U.S.)
Genre
Action, Sci-fi
Running time
90 min.
Country
USA
Language
English
BudgetUSD$85 million
Gross revenue

Plot
David Rice, a 15-year-old student in Ann Arbor, Michigan, discovers he has the ability to "jump", teleporting to any location he has seen after falling into a frozen river. He decides to leave his alcoholic father, his mother having left him when he was five, and goes to New York City, using his powers to rob a bank for funds. Eight years later, David lives a luxurious life from his penthouse apartment, its walls covered with pictures of places around the world which he "jumps" to on a daily basis. However, a lead from the bank robbery has finally led a man named Roland Cox to David, who knows of his ability and has the technology to disable him - electrified restraints. However, as Roland believes someone is protecting David, he hesitates in killing him long enough for David to escape. Roland tells his associates to be prepared at the various sites that David has on his walls.

Hayden Christensen to teleport himself anywhere - including the Great Pyramids of Egypt for lunch

David returns to Ann Arbor, and seeks out his old high-school girlfriend, Millie, working at a local bar. During their conversation, Mark, another classmate who bullied David in school, recognizes him and he and David get into a fight. Once out of sight of the onlookers, David teleports Mark to the bank vault in New York City, and returns. He invites Millie to join him on a trip to Rome, which she accepts. The two arrive in the city and sightsee. David uses his abilities to gain them access to the closed Colosseum, but runs into another Jumper, Griffin, who has been watching David for some time. Griffin explains that his flagrant jumping has attracted attention - two men who approach with weapons identical to Roland's. The ensuing battle displays both Griffin's Jumping talent and the hunters ability to sense Jumps, but Griffin is victorious, welcoming David to "the war" with a short explanation - the men are "Paladins". Paladins kill Jumpers. Griffin kills them first.

Rachel Bilson learns the truth behind the teleporting abilities of “Jumper” Hayden Christensen - in Rome

The battle has attracted attention, so David collects Millie and departs, but they are caught trespassing by the police, and David is put in jail. Mary, David's mother, shortly arrives and helps David get free, telling him he has little time, but does not give David any time to ask questions. David goes to find Millie, who is highly suspicious of David's behavior, but he is unable to explain, and makes sure she is safely aboard a plane back to the United States while he goes to Griffin for further explanation.

In JUMPER, a genetic anomaly allows Jamie Bell and Hayden Christensen to teleport anywhere in the world

At Griffin's desert lair, Griffin explains to David about the Paladins; they are fanatical religious fundamentalists who believe that Jumpers are an affront to God. They have been hunting Jumpers for centuries - Griffin attributes the Inquisition and witch hunts to them. Part of their method in hunting Jumpers is to target their loved ones as well; Griffin has been on a personal mission to kill Roland after he killed his parents.

David quickly jumps back to Ann Arbor to find his father mortally wounded; Roland had used the appearance of Mark in the bank vault to trace David to Ann Arbor. Realizing that Millie will not be safe when she lands, David asks for Griffin's help to meet her at the airport. However, they arrive to find that the plane landed an hour earlier; David jumps to Millie's apartment to find that Roland is waiting for him there. Before Roland can react, David grabs Millie and returns the two of them to Griffin's lair.

Samuel Jackson, stars as the leader of the Paladins, a secret sect sworn to destroy the “Jumpers.”

Griffin, who has been arming himself to fight Roland, is furious with David; the Paladins have a device that permits them to traverse the phenomena by which Jumpers teleport - David has just led Roland right to Griffin's lair. A battle ensues between the Jumpers and Paladins, but Griffin is able to drive the Paladins back to Millie's apartment with a flame thrower, though Millie has been captured as well. Griffin attempts to teleport a bomb to the apartment, but David tries to stop him; the two begin a world-spanning fight, but David eventually traps Griffin in a downed power transition tower. As David leaves, Griffin claims that Jumpers don't have the ability to protect their loved ones - he will die if he attempts the rescue.

Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson are trapped by the deadly Paladins, a secret sect sworn to destroy the “Jumpers.”

David jumps to Millie's apartment and is quickly snared by the Paladins. Risking his life, David manages to teleport the entire apartment to a nearby river, including Millie and the Paladins, but seemingly falls unconscious in the process. However, the couple are then teleported to the library where David made his first jump - along with Roland. David recovers first, grabs Roland and teleports him to a cave high above the Grand Canyon, noting to Roland he could have left him somewhere more dangerous ("...with the sharks"), proving that he is not the abomination Roland believes him to be. Sometime later, David and Millie travel to Mary's home, and learns that Mary herself was a Paladin; when David was five, he began jumping, so she left to avoid having to kill her own son. She asks him to leave, giving him a head start before she must hunt him down; David and Millie jump to an unknown location.

Plot Source: Wiki