Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011)

Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
  
Tag Line: Evolution Becomes Revolution

Running Time: 1 Hours 45 Minutes

Casts:  James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, Tom Felton, Brian Cox

Directed by: Rupert Wyatt

Produced by: Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa

Story:

An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
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Review: 
Rise of The Planet of The Apes is a reboot project. It just has two options here whether you like it or you hate it if it compares to the original. All I have to say is this is a really good reboot project. Everything seems so great, the story flows in a really good way without being excessive. The script is smartly incredible for the acts. I like the whole thing in this movie, I think it's one of the great movie of the year 2011. It's one powerful movie you should watch in the theater, I bet you'll like it.
The story is all about a guy named Will Rodman who is a doctor/professor who discovers a medicine to cure alzheimer disease. Before running a human test, he tested on chimpanzees and the effect was great. He decides to test it on human before a female chimpanzee goes crazy and harm the workers there. She is shut down by the guard and lately it is known that she acted like crazy because she tries to protect his new born son (chimpanzee). To protect the new born chimpanzee, Will take it home and raise him. He knows that the genetic is also in him like his mother was. The only purpose of Will created this medicine is to cure his father from alzheimer disease. Is everything going OK? Does that medicine cure his father? What about the chimpanzee named Caesar then? I can't tell you much here, it's something interesting you should watch. 
The plot moves slowly but sure. The timing is good. It's not too fast and it's not too slow. Some scenes moves so fast because it should be like that. The script for the acts is also perfect, it's not lame or boring. At the first part, it should be the boring part if it can't developed really good. The middle part increases its intense and you shouldn't feel boring about that. The last part which I wil say the last 20 minutes is the greatest part of this movie. Every great thing come into a great scenes. I bet you will feel amazed of that last scenes. It's beautiful yet scary but perfect. 
The acts like we know James Franco who was well known in Spiderman, 127 Hours, ect is a really great actor. I like his movies and he also did great on this movie. He raises his character to the max and I enjoy it. Since it's not a really love drama thing so, the main actress is not too much showing in scenes, but Freida Pinto as Caroline Aranha is not bad. I want to give credit to Tom Felton who we should have known him from Harry Potter Saga, really plays good here as a jerk. All the acts is in a good proportion of story here.
The effects since it is made by the same person who created the beautiful world of Avatar, it's perfect. All the chimpanzee is CGI effects and maybe some of you will not like it because they didn't use a real chimpanzees but I really appreciate all their work to make it real. I bet if they used the real one, they can't make it this great. The effects is perfect, everything looked so real. The last twenty minutes showed everything about it and you should enjoy it. You will feel the greatest of the effects in this movie. 
Overall, like I said, it's a great movie from its story to the acts to the effects and everything. I just can't for its next installment since it was set to be a trilogy movies. It's recommended to everyone, really. :D

Good points: 
-   All the scenes is in a good timing and proportion
-   Every acts is great in raising their character 
-   The effects to rise the chimpanzees is so real, you will feel it 

Bad points:
-   I don't know that there is really a bad point on this movie but if I have to mention one is I don't really like the ending. ;) 

Rating: 8.5/10.0 

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Genre: Action, Comic Book Adapt, Superhero, Sci-fi

Tag Line: Avenge

Running Time: 2 Hours 4 Minutes

Casts:  Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving

Directed by: Joe Johnston

Produced by: Kevin Feige, Stephen Broussard, Victoria Alonso

Story:

Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull.

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Review:  

Captain America, This is the super hero that I have waited for a very long time to be screened in a big cinema. I was really excited when I read the synopsis and watched the trailer. It seems that everything was so great. I also loved they picked Chris Evans as Captain America figure, ithink he suited really good as that American Superhero. I just watched it and this movie was really good. I love, after waiting for such a long time for this big hero, and it's not disappointing at all. For me, everything was great on this movie. Let's see it side by side. :D
The story, there is not much to tell about the story. It's again adapted from a successful comic book. Like we all know, it's all about a weakest kid on the block tries to be a superhero and there is he, at last be a superhero who stops the super enemy. I can say that superhero story is have many things in common from the customs, the powers, the enemy, the girls, the vehicles, even the story itself. It's cliche and nothing is new here. But Captain America, even it's cliche, but the story is good in proportion, I mean it's not too long and it's not too short, but it tells everything the audiences have to know. It's not lame just like the other superhero movie lately. I will call it good for Captain America.
The acting, I really want to give credits to all of the acts of Captain America here. Chris Evans is not really showed up in Fantastic Four, even worse in Push, but this Captain makes him really a Captain. He really suites the character. He is big, strong and of course American, he proves that he is capable to play that first avenger in the history. He gives a good proportion also to this character. The others are also did a good job, Sebastian Stan, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones, Dominic Cooper, and Hugo Weaving did a good play on their character. It develops in a right way. 
The Director, Joe Johnston, we all have known him from his great movie like Jumanji and Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. I also want to give him credit to direct this movie in a proper way. Everything seems to walk in a right way. It's not too much and too little. It's just complete by everything that he has done to the movie. Good job brother.
The effects, it doesn't show up much effects like the other superhero movie but again, the effects used in a proper way too. It's just good to see a movie like this. The greatest effect movie for me was when Chris Evans was made up to be a skinny short guy. That's not his body, it's all computer effects. But everything was well done here. At first, I just don't believe he was him, I mean Chris Evans, but that body was so real and I ever thought that they found another act who looked like Chris but skinny one, but I've got wrong. It's all Chris Evans himself with computer effects. What an amazing effect. 
Overall, this movie is great, it's recommended to watch it in a theater especially for you who have been Captain American fans for a long time. I know you all have been waited for this movie just like me. It's not a greatest superhero  movie of all time but it's still great. Can't wait for him in the Avengers next year with other superheroes. Just enjoy it. :D

Good points: 
-   It's not lame, well scripted
-   Proper effects make this movie greater than any other full effects superhero movie.
-   Chris Evans fans, this time is yours, he is great :D 

Bad points:
-   The story is similar like the other superhero movie

Rating: 8.3/10.0

Hanna (2011)

 

Genre: Action, Thriller

Tag Line: Adapt or Die

Running Time: 1 Hours 51 Minutes

Casts:  Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams

Directed by: Joe Wright

Produced by: Leslie Holleran, Marty Adelstein, Scott Nemes

Story:

Raised by her father, an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

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Review:  

When I read the synopsis not so long ago, I thought it would be one good movie. It has a good concept, great acts from Eric Bana to Cate Blanchett, and the story was quiet interesting. The story about revenge, espionage with CIA included is not a new concept in movie history. There are so many espionage movie involved CIA like James Bond series, Bourne Series, etc. But what makes it interesting to watch it, the espionage in this movie is a teenager, a girl teenager. She is not an ordinary girl but scary girl who had been trained by his father in a wood since she were kid. 
I think the story has a good script even it's not too detail for telling scene by scene. It's still ok and I can enjoy it from the beginning to the end. The focus is on this Hanna girl, she is beautiful, pretty, smart, calm teenager like everybody else, but she has  so much abilities inside of her. She had been taught by his father for fighting, archery, languages, and the important one is killing, killing without feeling sorry. The only point of well trained Hanna is to kill Marissa, the person who had been told by her father was her mother killer from CIA group. But inside of her, she just want to be normal like anybody else, lives a good life and doesn't want to kill but everything has been her fate and she can't deny it. And as you all can guess what will happen in the movie, the chasing is happened, and who's Hanna exactly will be revealed at the last scene with her father, it's all just cliche but still a good one. 
For the acting side, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett is great as always. This movie doesn't show their true act but still a good one to see. They prove that they are senior actor/actress who can play anything in the movie. The only main actor for me of this movie is this Hanna girl who is played by  Saoirse Ronan. She is still young but so talented. I give her 'A' credit for this movie. I think her act were absolutely brilliant. She is perfect for this character. Sometimes she can be an usual teenager, but the other time she is a cold hearted killer. She played it really good, When i saw this movie, I felt that she can brought me to the movie, made me feel what she felt about. It's really a hard life to live normal. Overall, everybody shows a great performance in this movie. 
I don't think this movie counts on the effects because it doesn't have many effects like any other action movie has. Everything seems so real without any mark up effects. Joe Wright has directed a good movie here. He just want to prove to everyone, a story without any great effects is still good to watch if the script is done perfectly.  
Overall, this movie is ok, it's still recommended to watch it in a theater or even rent it in any video rentals. It's not a very wow movie, it's not big, it's cliche, It's not a new thing but It's still a good entertaining for everyone. This Saiorse Ronan is really an actress you have to watch. Again, she is young, brilliant, and talented. Just enjoy it. :D

Good points: 
-   The story is good, well scripted
-   Good concept
-   Well played by its actor/actress especially Saiorse Ronan, She is brilliant 

Bad points:
-   The story has so many cliche part for me
-    It's not too detail for telling scene by scene

Rating: 7.0/10.0

X-Men: First Class (2011)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama


Tag Line: Witness The Moment That Will Change Our World 


Running Time: 2 Hour 12 Minutes


Casts: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Bryne, January Jones Kevin Bacon
 
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
 
Produced by: Bryan Singer, Gregory Goodman, Simon Kinberg

Story:

Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.

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Review: 

I was never a really big fan of the first 3 X-Men movies. The first one was okay, the second one was also just okay, and the third one, honestly I don't like it at all, it's lacking of something in the story I can't tell about, the story was so lame and I don't like how they eliminated the main characters. 
But in this last installment or prequel of X-Men, I may call it superb and amazing. I really like it from the beginning to the end. This one is different. A great different!
Normally prequel movies are made because the main characters of the first movie died (or in the end achieved their goals) and the producers still want to make money out of the franchise, but I cannot imagine that anybody will be complaining about that. Director Matthew Vaughn created a great, thrilling and sometimes even moving picture that without any doubt will get raving reviews and be a huge commercial success. 
The movie itself consists of 2 brilliant parts. The first half plays like a 70s spy thriller with Micheal Fassbender is playing the young Erik Lehnsherr, he is really nothing like the Magneto that we know. Fassbender owns the first half of the movie so well that we could really just want to watch the entire movie play out like some really cool spy thriller, where the hero just happens to have this ability to control metal. But then, the story at this point is split to showcase the other side of the coin, that of young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy). What we get is basically a glimpse into how their two different backgrounds inform their characters, their philosophies and the path towards their destinies. Comparatively, Erik's story is just the more compelling, but both are given due attention, and interestingly is how Mystique's (Jennifer Lawrence) story is woven in as well. I am really impressed by this young cast, she is playing really good as Raven.
The second half tells the story about the new team of mutants that make up the First Class of the title. Because the bad guy of the story has a team of mutants helping him, our heroes decide that they need their own team of young and very inexperienced mutants to help with the fight. The addition of these new mutants seem really superfluous, thrown in just so we do have some "X-Men" in the story.
For me, all the casts play really good part in it. They are really suit or their character in the movie. I give credit to Micheal Fassbender itself because I think he really suited for the Magneto character.  He is really well played actor. The biggest letdown in the movie, is January Jones as Emma Frost. True, she is appropriately ravishing, there can be no denying that, but she lacks the character she played. There is very little intelligence or even personality behind her interpretation of this most intriguing of mutants. She's just kind of stand there and look pretty.
Overall, this prequel is a smart and brilliant reset of X-Men movies. I give applause to the director Matthew Vaughn who did all the best thing in it. He deserved all the praises for this installment. The story develops so well, is not lame and chessy, it's well done script and plot, great acts, the visual effects are great as always, it's recommended for you all the fans of X-Men or wannabe to watch this one. Even there are so many characters in the story that needs to be developed later in the next story if there is. 


Good points: 
-   Great plot and script, the development of the story is really good
-   Magneto character is really suited and well played
-   The visual effects are absolutely great as always 
-   The direction goes very well in the hand of Matthew Vaughn 

Bad points:
-   Some characters are formed just to meet the title "X-Men"
-   Emma Frost character is too 'cool' to be true 

Rating: 8.3/10.0