Review: Inception

Directed and written by Christopher Nolan

Starring:

Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb

Ken Watanabe as Saito

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur

Marion Cotillard as Mal

Ellen Page as Ariadne

Tom Hardy as Eames

Cillian Murphy as Fischer

Tom Berenger as Browning

Michael Caine as Professor

This film is not a simple film that easy to follow. You need to think quite hard, open your eyes and stay focus. The cinematography is innovative and the stars can play the characters are praiseworthy.

The story of Inception is about a man called Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), a criminal as well as a genius, who can steal ideas through extraction of other people’s minds. By using sophisticated technology Dom can access mind in the dream. Once an important man offers him a job that can free him from an accused crime. The job is inception, putting an idea into somebody’s mind. Cobb, with a team of experts, accept job. Cobb and his team create a dream world, luring their victim to enter it and fill it with secrets. The team infiltrates the dream to search the secrets. So, it creates conflict in the mind between the normal state and the infiltration. The team then is introduced to some men who patiently wait for hours every day to enter life in dream state. Being in the dream state, they look like dead because of the chips attached in their body, but actually they are still alive. These men dream to be brought back to reality and to be asked what is going on in their dream. However, their dreams have become their realities, and for these men, real life is not worthed anymore.

Cobb’s wife the later, named Mal, keeps haunting him in his dreams and wants him to stay with her in the dream forever. Cobb tries hard to fight his feeling about his late wife, his dream, subconsciousness, but he knows that in reality his wife has already died. On the other hand, his team members all possess totems that can distinguish reality from dreams, but Cobb is always in the state of dream.

If you like shooting, guns, or fighting movie, Inception is not the one you would like to see. It is a story which is rather complex. The best parts of Inception is exploring the stages of dreams that someone would like to leave reality and live in dreams.

REVIEW: The Princess Diaries

Mia, a used-to-be normal teenager who apparently turned out to be a royal princess of Genovia is so busy doing her whole new daily activities. This year her life is way different. But still, being princess doesn’t mean she can run from her school works waiting on her desk like a mountain. In her diary it is written every detail of her day, her problems with her Grandma who insisted that Mia that she should really catch up with her study on how to become a good princess, on the other hand she also need to manage her time for her friends and also her boyfriend. Yeah, now Mia has a boyfriend, her old crush Michael Moscovits.

Although Mia seemed to be so stressful with a bunch of to-do lists that she has to do, but she has to admit that her world is full of new things that really turned her flat world into one very colorful world. She now has a new full nuclear family, as her mom got married with her own science teacher, and they’re going to have a new member in the family. because, her mom is pregnant.

REVIEW: UP

UP is an animated film produced by Pixar. I think UP is the best animated films I have ever watched. I really like it because the stories in this film is very heartfelt. This story tells about the struggle for life. Lifetime, Carl Fredricksen (Edward Asner) is always dreaming of a great adventure. He always wanted to explore new areas and go around the world. Unfortunately until he was 78 years old, it's all just a dream and never become a reality. After his wife died, Carl got a new problem. Her home will be evicted and he ended up in nursing homes is threatened. Feel nothing else can stop him doing what he dreamed of such adventures, Carl was determined to bring her home to go around the world. To achieve its objectives, Carl thousands of balloons tied to her home and make the whole house a balloon flight. Unfortunately, there is one that he had not previously calculated. Without realizing, it was Russell (Jordan Nagai), an eight-year-old children who had excessive curiosity, was carried on in the trip. Finally, inevitably Carl Russell also had to carry away and hope that they would not be involved major problems caused by this Russell.

REVIEW: HACHIKO

The movie of Hachiko – A Dog’s Story is the great movie that family should watch together. It tells about a loyalty of a dog ‘Hachi’ for its owner Richard Gere. The real dog and its owner were actually lived in Japan, but the films adopt the American re-telling story using the character and set of America. But it’s not important, the important thing is the moral that we can get from the film. The love and loyalty of the dogs to its owner can touched the conscience of people who watch this film.

This is a sad a story about a dog and its owner. The story begin when Richard Gere who finds a lost puppy in the train station. The real owner of the dog was unknown, so Gere was keeping the dog and named ‘Hachi’ according to the Akita dogs breed, that told by his friend Japanese professor. The bond between the owner and the dogs is increasing day by day. Hachi always wait for his owner every time the owner comes back from the work at the station.

Until one day, the owner didn’t come back from his work because of his sick and he finally died in hospital. Hachi didn’t know if his master already gone and he still keep waiting in front of the station at usual with full loyalty. Day by day past after the master gone, but Hachi is still waiting for his master to come back in front of the station. Until finally, Hachi dies in front of the train station but its still waiting for his master.

The film is overall very touching and sad ending story. I suggested to watch this movie because the moral inside the movie itself. I think that even though it’s just a dog, its can show a full loyalty to its master.

REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone

At the age of one, Harry Potter had become an orphan. Hagrid, Albus Dumbledore’s assistant, put him in front of his closest relatives’, the Dursleys’, house. Unfortunately, his uncle and aunt hated him.

As he grew up, he never received love from his aunt and uncle, the way his cousin Dudley did. The whole family often bullied him and treated him like an unworthy thing.

One day, before his 11^th birthday, a letter came. Before Harry could open it, Uncle Vernon had thrown it into the fire. More letters came, but Uncle Vernon made efforts to prevent Harry from obtaining them. He brought the whole family to a shack in a deserted island in the middle of the sea.

In the middle of the night, a giant came to give Harry his letter personally. The giant was Hagrid. Hagrid told Harry that he is a wizard and he was to go to a school called Hogwarts.

Hagrid helped Harry prepare for everything before he went to Hogwarts. On the train to Hogwarts, he met a family of redheads called the Weasleys. He made friend with the youngest boy, who is just his age, Ron. Harry and Ron became firm friends. They both got into Gryffindor, and so was a clever girl named Hermione, whom they hated at first, but also became their friend after a troll attack.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s Defense of the Dark Arts teacher was Professor Quirrell, a young and nervous man who appeared to be paranoid and scared of anything that moves. Their Potions teacher was Professor Snape, an irritable and seemingly evil man. There was a stone that could made the owner live eternally, and the three was sure someone was going to steal it.

They thought it was Snape. The truth was, Snape was preventing Quirrell from stealing it. Turned out, Quirrell was possessed by Lord Voldemort himself, the most powerful dark wizard that ever lived.

REVIEW: Confessions of a shopaholic

This film is about a girl, Rebecca Bloomwood, who really likes to shop until her credit cards blew out and chased by debt collector. Her dreams is to join fashion magazines but when she wanted to interview, someone else has gotten the position. The receptionist told her that she can apply to “Successful savings” magazines as her springboard. Slowly, she began to fall in love with Successful saving editor, Luke brandon, and he was showing the same feeling. She always lied to the editor about her debt collector because she will be ashamed if people knew she is a shopaholic and her credit card has blown out. Later, the editor caught she was lying to him and he was angry with her. Moreover, her best friend caught her was lying to her too. After that, she asked forgiven from her best friend and she sold all of her goods to pay the debt collector. In the end, she and the editor met again. She ends up working in editor’s new office and being in relationship with him.

REVIEW: Quarantine

Quarantine is a horror movie to which there was a television reporter, Angela-Vidal, with her crew are assigned to cover the fireman jobs. With fortuity, there was a emergency call telling that they heard screams from an old woman who has locked herself in her apartment, and need to be investigated. However, everything went unright, they were stuck in an apartment where there were deadly viruses spreading by a sick dog. Without the knowings of people in the apartment, the old woman was actually infected by the virus from the dog, and has bitten the police and investigator. With the fireman and police officers, Angela Vidal and her crew tried to find a way to go out from the apartment. However, the government were alarmed with the issues and so they locked all the access in and out of the apartment, even the windows. After several hours, all the residence were left either killed or infected. At last, Angela Vidal were the last one who tried to survive. However, she was attacked by an infected man and left her fate unknown.

REVIEW: Prince of Persia

This movie tells about an orphan kid named Dastan was adopted as the son by the King of Persia. The King himself has two son that are Gastiv and Tus. Several years later, they start to expand their area by fighting with other Kingdom. One day, Tus heard from their spy that The Holy City of Alamut supply guns for the Persia’s enemies. Then, Tus send Garvis to lead the war with Holy City of Alamut without invite Dastan to participate in that war. However, Dastan follow them quietly and he success to enter the gate of Alamut. Tus want to marry the princess of Alamut named Tamiya. The princess does not want to marry him, she just wants to protect the digger. The digger called Sand of Time. It has the ability to turn back time. Moreover, Dastan found the digger and want to give it to Tus as a gift of his wedding. But, their uncle, Nizam does not agree and want to keep it by himself. Therefore, Nizam make a plan to kill the King of Persia and accuse Dastan as a killer. Then, Dastan runaway with Tamiya and he found out that the digger has special ability to turn back time. So that, he use the digger to shows to his step brother that he is not the murderer. Dastan also remind his step brothers that they should believe in each other as one family and do not easily being cheated by other people. Finally, Dastan can prove that the real murderer is Nizam. After that Dastan return the digger to Princess Tamiya and Tus ask Dastan to marry the Princess.

REVIEW: Knowing

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random number instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of student examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb's father, Professor John Koestler, who makes the starting discovery that the encode message predicts with pin point accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past fifty years. as John further unravels the document's chilling secrets.

REVIEW: Ip man 2

Ip man 2 is a semi-biographical martial arts movie that is released on April 29^th 2010. This movie is the continual of the previous series that is “Ip man. In beginning of the movie, it was shown that Ip man survived and escaped to Hong Kong after the Japanese invaded Fo Shan – China. Ip man has lost his wealth, respect, and everything he had once in China. In this movie Ip man lived poorly on the roof of a citizen of Hong Kong that knew he was a Kung Fu Master. He tried to open a Kung Fu school to get more money. Then, he succeeded and got a number of students. However he was challenged by Master Hung that is the ruler of the particular area. Ip man needs the approval of Master Hung by challenging every Kung Fu Master that existed in Hong Kong. He duel a number of Master and won, but he ended up by a Draw in the middle of the duel against Master Hung. Master Hung was a Businessman who opened an international ring for people in the other side of the continent to have a boxing tournament in Hong Kong. However, Twister that was invited wasn’t much excited with Hong Kong’s Kung Fu and Challenged Master Hung to a duel due to the accident that he makes in the ring during the tournament was running. Master Hung accepted the challenged and lost his life due to several Exploding punches that The Twister Delivered. Ip man was depressed due to one of his most respectful man has died. Then, Ip man challenged The Twister to a duel. The Twister accepted arrogantly and he had the confident that he will win the match. Ip man trained himself weeks by weeks, and showed up in the ring to challenge the twister, and he won. He claimed the American audience that this duel wasn’t about to compare which one is strong, Kung Fu or Boxing, he wished that this duel will open the americans’ eyes that they must respect Chinese martial arts and other country’s martial arts. This movie was adapted to The legendary Wing Chun Master Ip Man once in 1950.

REVIEW: Stardust (2007)

Do you ever feel bored of nowadays' movies? Most of the movies that are in theatre right now are either science-fiction or thriller,and sometimes romance or animation. If you feel so then you should try watching Stardust,it is a romance-fantasy movie by Matthew Vaughn,it tells the story of a regular boy named Tristan Thorne who lives in a village called "The Wall". Tristan is living quite a boring life,he had a crush on village beauty named Victoria. Unfortunately for Tristan,Victoria is ignoring his feelings and uses Tristan to help her with everyday chords;such as carrying her things around. One night when Tristan and Victoria is sitting on the hills,a star falls. Seeing that,Victoria asks Tristan to get the falling star for her,in exchange for that Victoria agrees to marry Tristan. Having marrying Victoria in his mind,Tristan goes on a journey to get that fallen star. Unfortunately, Tristan is not the only one who wanted to get that star. There are three witches that wanted to eat the heart of the star,in order to stays young forever. The movie tells us the adventure that Tristan go through in order to get and protect the star. What happens next is going to change Tristan's life and finds his true love. This is really a beautiful movie and a must-watch even if you only liked romance movie a bit. This movie is different than other fantasy movies in any way. Although maybe some parts of the movie is cliche, it really makes the movie more likable. This movie is suitable for couples,or even to watch together with family. Now go buy yourself some Stardust DVD's!

REVIEW: Karate Kid

Karate Kid is a story about an American boy (Dre Parker) and his mom who move to China. When he arrived at China for the first time, he don't like it. Suddenly, he met a girl named Mei Ying, than he start to fall in love with her. Unfortunately, their friendship didn't run smoothly. Mei Ying father's and Cheng didn't like Dre Parker. Cheng is a boy who's good at karate. Because of something Dre Parker and Cheng was quarreling, and in the end he must compete with Cheng in a karate tournament. Dre Parker was not good at karate, then he began to feel desperate. Until one day, he met with Mr. Han (a karate expert). Mr. Han teach Dre Parker with patience, and finally he can win that tournament.

REVIEW: Day Breakers

At a time in the future , the earth infected by vampire virus. Almost all of the human being turned into vampire. Human population is less than 5 % . Human arrested and put into a giant laboratory for blood drawn continuously. They sell the human blood to the vampire. The human blood supply is steadily decreasing and becoming rare. The vampire began to prey fellow vampire in order to survive. They are slowly transformed into a vicious, scary and very wild vampire . A vampire scientist trying to create a human blood substitute to fulfill the vampire needs and also to stop them from capturing the human population who is nearly extinct. He has been realized by a group of human , that there are a better way beside creating a blood substitution .They can return the vampire into a human again.Before practicing these to the other vampires, the scientist tries to his own body . the process is very painful. But at the end , they succeed turn into a human

REVIEW: Shrek 1

Shrek is an ugly green orge, live in a swamp. Someday, many of fairy tales creatures comes to his swam with order from Lord Farquaad and disturb him. Shrek, acompanied with donkey (one of fairy tales creature) came to see Lord Farquaad with purpose to ask for given back his swamp. After they succed to met Lord Farquaad,Lord Farquaad said he will gives back Shrek's swap if he could save Princess Fiona from the evil dragon. Shrek agree with that term, he go with donkey to save Fiona.

Shrek succeded in realease Fiona, but Fiona feel disapointed because she is been saved with an ogre not a prince charming. In the way back to Lord Farquaad's kingdom Shrek and Fiona felt some chemistry. At one night, donkey knows Fiona secret that Fiona will turn into an orge after sun set. Shrek got misunderstanding with Fiona's conditions and go to call Lord Farquaad to pick up Fiona to get married as soon as possible. Shrek get his swamp back, but his heart is thinking about Fiona. He realise that he fell in love with Fiona and go to the Church to stop the wedding. When he got there the secret of Fiona is revealed. Lord Farquad wont marry Fiona after he know Fiona's secret. Shrek and Fiona get married and live happy in the swamp.

REVIEW: Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity is a horror movie that made most people fear every night. It is a true story from other experience. The movie tells about a couple who lived in ordinary house. They live as usual at daytime, but not for night. The woman feels something different at night. To know what happened at night, the boyfriend put many cameras in every room. The ghost conducted activities only at night and to that woman. As a boyfriend, he always accompany and give support to her. He also put a trap but it is useless. Every night was recorded; every afternoon discussed what to do. Until finally, the ghost is also in action in the daytime. What will happen to them later on?

REVIEW: The beauty and the beast

A handsome prince treated a old poor lady badly. Suddenly, she turned into a beautiful woman with magical spells. Because of the prince didn't had a big heart to help a old poor lady but treated her badly. The lady thrown a spell of ugliness and loneliness to the prince. The prince becomes a beast. it is because she wanted the prince to learn to love a person and treat them equally.In the village, live a beautiful and lonely young girl named Belle. Her father was trapped in the beast's castle , in a way to save her father Belle needed to stay in the castle. This was the beast's wish. And a few days after Belle lived in the castle , she decided to go home and saw her father. But the beast was shock and got sick. The beast want Belle to stay in the castle with him. after knowing that the beast is sick, Belle decided to come back to the castle. And Belle said to the beast that she loved him and the spell is gone.the beast turned out to become a handsome prince. after that they lived happily ever after.

REVIEW: Barbie as the Princess and the Pouper

This story tells about Barbie in an exciting dual role as a princess and a poor village girl, who look alike. The princess Annaliese always have herself parenthesis in the castle. On the other hand, the poor Erika also being parenthesis to work at madam Carp's boutique to pay her father's debt. One day, they met and could know each other. By time pass with lots of problem in the castle, it gives the Preminger an opportunity to kidnap princess Annaliese in purpose to take over the throne by marrying the princess's mother. In order to replace princess Annaliese, the princess guider, Julian ask for help to Erika till he could bring Annaliese back to the castle. After that, Erika start her life in the castle as princess Annaliese and try to recover every situation in the castle and also spend her time with King Dominick, who falls in love with Erika , mistaking her for Annaliese. In the meanwhile, the Preminger find out that the girl in the castle is Erika, he report it to the Queen that Princess Annaliese has dead and throw Erika to the dungeon. In the gap, to save the people, the Queen accepts the proposal from Preminger to marry him. In a rushing time, with the help of Julian, Annaliese could run away from the kidnappers and go toward the castle to stop her mother's wedding with the Preminger. Beside that, King Dominick also save Erika from the dungeon, and he still fall in love with Erika after he knew the truth. After all problems over, they got married each other and lived happily ever after. The end. 

REVIEW: Cleopatra

This movie is showing us the history of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. The story starts when the Roman caesar, Julius Caesar, was obsessed by the 18-year-old queen until finally he got a son by her. As Julius caesar had only a daughter by his wife, so he dicided to pick Octavian as his successor. Unfortunately, caesar's son from Cleopatra was seen as a threat for the Roman Empire. By that time, Brutus and other Roman legislators decided to kill the caesar. After the death of the caesar, the Roman empire had divided into two by Marc Antony and Octavian. Marc Antony took Egypt and soon takes up the affair with Cleopatra. However, after the death of Marc Antony, which was caused by the mortally wound after finally defeated by Octavian, Cleopatra commited suicide and sent her son away to India.

REVIEW: Dorian Gray, Forever Young, Forever Perfect, and Forever Cursed!!

The horror film, born by the classic novel, Oscar Widle who creates Dorian Gray that tells the story of a beautiful young man named Dorian. When he was arrived in London, he starts to mingle into hedonistic class by getting help from charming person, Henry Wotton. When a portrait of Dorian formed, such is its beauty that he makes a pledge, he would give anything to stay as he is in the picture - even his soul. The picture is actually the reflection of Dorian itself. He cannot get old, but his picture was getting older. Let us reveal what is next on the Dorian Gray?