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Unknown (I) (2011)
8/10
Entertaining movie, worth the money.
20 February 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Very entertaining thriller with some good twists. This is NOT your Shutter Island or Inception as the hints they give out is pretty obvious if you pay attention.

The plot kinda falls a part in the end but is by no mean stupid. For example, they let the mastermind and female assassin die too easily. It's a shame a powerful character like Rodney Cole--played by the master Frank Langella--just sit in the car doing nothing while his subordinate getting his arse handed to him by Martin--Liam Nelson and then ended up died in the crash shortly after. That was pretty lame. And the female assassin--wife got blown to pieces because she decided that she have to disarm the ticking bomb for some unknown reasons and by trying to reach it through a wall???

Overall, it definitely worth the money considering how much junks are out there these days--hello, Justin Bieber.
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Case 39 (2009)
10/10
A powerful performance
9 October 2010
Almost every single actors in this movie played it to excel. I wonder if people are too insecure that they just have to give bad ratings to good movies. Yes, it's a horror movies, it's not about saving the world or anything like that. It EXCELS as a horror movie.

This is a must see for any horror fan. The plot actually give the audience time to bond with the characters--love them, hate them.

This is neither plain gore nor plain psychology. It is an excellent mixed of the two. It would have been an absolute masterpiece like Shutter Island if it didn't explain too many previously given hints to the audience. An open ending would have been better than a totally-explained happy ending.
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5/10
It'd have been great if it was a documentary
28 August 2010
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It is just like everybody said: there's not enough gore to make it a gory movie, there's not enough suspense to balance out the jokes the main actor was cracking to make it a thriller. The feeling I got after seeing this? Disgust, upset about the uncivilized world that still exist until these days. No, my friends. This should have been a documentary and nothing else. It would have gotten 10/10 if it was.

Of course, I get it that there always gotta be some less intelligent individuals in the theatre that laughing out loud for no reason. For me, the way I see this movie: it was a sad story. The girl was probably driven mad by the pastor--who certainly violated her while she was at the school. The father being a zealot who only believe in God doesn't help her at all. There was certainly no evil--Abalam or whatever. If you have happened to watch or read about the actions of an insane person, this makes totally sense. Just for example, a crazy person can do things that you'd never ever imagine they're capable of--like bending her body, talk in different tones, able to assault and harm much larger beings. Her brother was a follower of that pastor and his sick gang. If you think i's impossible, think KKK. That roaring fire was nothing more than an special effect he could easily perform.

Yeap, it would have been an excellent documentary. It failed at everything else they thought it would be--thriller, horror, etc.
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Step Up 3D (2010)
7/10
Entertaining movie. That was what movie suppose to do? Right?
7 August 2010
I enjoyed the movie. The dancing alone worth 7 stars. It was impressing in real 3D--not the type of movie shot on regular then made to be 3D to get more money. The screen actually blurred out if you take off your glass. That's real 3D for you. In a dance movie, they went together.

Sorry, not everyone paid to go see a movie to bust their brains out thinking about the plot. After a week of hardworking, we go TGIF and enjoy ourselves. Movies like Inception, Shutter Island, Brooklyn Finest, The Departed are great once in a while, not every week. At least there's no 12 year old girl running around killing everyone (and somehow people thought it was ... bad-ass) in this one.

The choreography in this movie is impressive. It only looks messy if you know nothing about break-dance.

All in all, the movie did what it set out to do, a entertaining dance flick for the general audience, not a masterpiece for 60 year old professors.
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7/10
Fun night, entertaining.
6 August 2010
Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. This is no an Inception, Shutter Island type of movie. This was made for good laughs, entertaining. I thought is was cute. Bathroom humor? Hardly. Do you make even more terrible jokes than those everyday? Yes, you do.

There are nights for Inception, Shutter Island, Avatar. And there're nights for movies like Dinners for Schmucks. Have you not read the title when you purchased the tickets? I bet you haven't. The people who actually bought a tickets for a movie entitled "Dinner for Schmucks" should know exactly what they're getting themselves into. If not, maybe having a good laugh once in a while isn't your thing after all.
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1/10
A complete disaster of a movie.
3 July 2010
I don't get why some people give the movie a bad review, yet still rate it at 4 or 5. Even movies like Grown Ups, where things are not supposed to be genuinely intelligent, the audience enjoyed a good laugh.

There are nothing to get from The Last Airbender. The entire cast is a disaster save maybe Zuko. The acting are horrible. Really, did you audit them from high school or the mall? They managed, for almost two hours, let the audience to one disappointment level to the next. The make-up is comparable to that from a third-world country movie. Whatever happened to the Hollywood-level makeup? One word to describe the cast: LAME.

I'm not a die hard fans. In fact, I've never read/watched The Last Airbender on books/TV. But this is just too much. At the end, the plot is left open for a follow-up. But clearly, no thanks. The Firelord and his Commander looks like some cab drivers from Middle East. The Firelord's daughter acts like she's just got a free ticket to go clubbing. Really? I didn't just paid 30 bucks to see this..
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