Thursday, March 29, 2012

Synopsis/Review: John Carter

John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), a rich man who was also an adventurous, was suddenly dead. He inherited all of his wealth to his nephew Edgar Rice Burroughs (Daryl Sabara) who also called Ned. Ned then was being told by Carter's lawyer about what John Carter doing lately. He was given Carter's diary, where he wrote all of his adventure there. The weird thing about John Carter was that he wanted to be buried in mausoleum which was locked from the inside. 


Then the story went back to the time in the past when John Carter, a cavalry officer, was being ordered by Colonel Powell (Bryan Cranston) to join his troop. But he declined. He just wanted to look for a cave where there're lot of gold. Because of this, he was locked in the jail by the colonel. Somehow he managed to escape the prison. 



Synopsis/Review: Man on a Ledge

When a man was accused to be a guilty man and thrown to jail, sometimes the man would do anything to prove that he's innocent.

That's what happened when Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington), an ex-cop, when he was accused of stealing a $40-million diamond from a businessman, David Englander (Ed Harris). He was caught and put in jail because something that he didn't do.

One day, his father died. Nick was allowed to attend the funeral with a supervision. So he want to the funeral and met his brother, Joey Cassidy (Jamie Bell) and his girl friend, Angie (Genesis Rodriguez), but then he ran away.

Not long after that, Nick checked-in in a hotel. After having a meal, he decided to go out through a window and stand on a ledge of the building. So he became the man on a ledge, or the police called it the jumper. 


Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Synopsis/Review: Hugo

Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) was living in one of Paris railway station ... ALONE. To be more specific, inside the wall of the railway station. His job was to maintain every clocks inside the train. So why he was living there alone?


Before, he actually lived with his dad (played by Jude Law), but then the father died in a fire incident in a museum where he worked. Before this event, his dad, who also worked as a clock maker, brought a broken automaton to his house. It's something like a robot, and mostly used by magician. It also could write. They decided to fix this together.



Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Synopsis/Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Jim Prideaux, an agent of British Intelligent (or was called 'The Circus'), was assigned to meet someone in Hungary. He needed to obtain an information from this guy. Apparently it was a set-up, and Prideaux got shot! 

Control (John Hurt), who was the Chief of the Circus was forced to leave because of this incident. He decided to bring Smiley (Gary Oldman) with him. But not long after this, Control died because of an illness.

After the departure of Control, The Circus was led by Percy Alleline (Toby Jones) and his allies Bill Haydon (Collin Firth), Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds), and Toby Esterhase (David Dencik).


Sunday, March 4, 2012

Synopsis/Review: Safe House


Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) was a house keeper of a not ordinary house. It's a safe house. A safe house of CIA. A safe house to protect the witness, or to keep a suspect before he's being transferred to another location. 
It's his 12 months of employment in CIA. His post was in Cape Town, South Africa. He's bored with his current job, where he only starred 4 walls every day. When he's asking for a promotion, he was not qualified enough for the position. Other applicants have more field experience than he's.
One day, Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), a former great agent of CIA that has been accused of selling information, showed up in Cape Town. He's meeting with another former MI-6 agent, Alec Wide (Liam Cunningham), who's going to give Frost a list of important name.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Synopsis/Review: One For The Money


Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) was just got fired from Macy's lingerie division, and she had a lot of debt. She needed to do something to pay-off her debt. Her mom had an option for her, to get married with Bernie Kuntz (Adam Paul), the owner of a furniture store. But her grandma Maruz (Debbie Reynolds) had better option for her. Stephanie's cousin, Vinnie (Patrick Fischler), whose business was in bail-bonds, needed an administrator. At first she was reluctant as he tried to kiss her on her wedding day, but it's a better option than to marry Kuntz. On her first day, she was asked to cover a job whose belonged to other bail enforcement agent who's just got an appendix operation. While she was looking at the case, she suddenly she saw a man in her past in one of the cases. His name was Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara). He actually was a cop, but then became a suspect. He was accused of murdering someone, but then he never showed up in the court. Plum was insisted to handle this case. If she managed to drag him to the court, she could get $50,000.