Synopsis/Review: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

In the beginning of the movie, Sean (Josh Hutcherson) was chased by the cops, and got arrested. Why? It's because he accessed the government satellite. A young kid accessed a satellite? What for? That's because Sean received a signal from his grandfather, Alexander (Michael Caine) who was on his journey to find the mysterious island, so he needed the satellite to boost the power of his signal receiver :)

His mom's boyfriend, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), who at first didn't believe that the signal came from his grandfather, finally helped Sean in deciphering the code from his grandfather, and realized that The Mysterious Island existed. Sean then decided to help Hank to find his grandfather, hoping to fix the relationship with Sean.

Synopsis/Review: Seeking Justice

The movie started with a guy being interviewed than got scared because of what he said. Then when he just went out from the parking lot (which is located at the top of the building), a car hit him, and push his car so it fell from the top.

Any idea what kind of movie is this? I didn't know what kind of movie is this, also didn't watch the trailer. So, it's really a surprise movie for me :)

Will (Nicholas Cage) is an English teacher in a school, while his wife, Laura  (January Jones) is a musician - cellist. They have just celebrated their first anniversary. But one night, after Laura finished her music practice, a guy assaulted her.

Synopsis/Review: Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

The movie started with the penguins and the monkeys going to Monaco with their super jet to gamble (and a lot of gold and diamond too!!) and left Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) in Africa. 


Rather than waiting for the penguin and the monkeys to pick them up and going back to New York, Alex decided that they should go and meet the penguins in Monaco. So Alex with Arty, Melman, and Gloria swim (yes ... swim!! Haha) to Monaco.


After they found the casino, they wanted to enter the casino from the window ceiling (well after they turn-off the light of course :D). But then, they started to argue, who's the right person to go down to the casino and meet the penguins (just to let you know, that they are standing on the window ceiling) First Alex, then Marty ... Melman ... and ... GLORIA!!! *nightmare* the glass breaks, and all of them fell to the casino, and everything turned to chaos.

The casino security guard then decided to call Monaco animal control, named Captain Chantel Dubois, and that's when their nightmare started. A nightmare? Yes, because Captain Dubois (Frances McDormand) is the collector of the animals head that she caught, and she still missed one head. Lion's head. That means, it's a super duper nightmare for Alex! 

This is when their journey started ... 
Will they succeed in going back to New York?


...


I really love this Madagascar movie, compare to previous one.
Actually I didn't really want to watch it, but as many of my friends saying that this movie is really fun, and has many good messages, so I watch it. 


And yesss ... they're right!!


In the beginning, this movie gives you fun, and laugh especially when Dubois chased them ... Then in the middle, the movie went to more drama mode and gives touchy feeling, and the last part gives you the excitement!


I watched the 2D version, but I guess that's enough to enjoy the movie.


So don't miss the movie, and enjoy it ;)

Synopsis/review: Dark Shadows

Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) was a son of a wealthy family in Maine, where the business of the family was in fishing. 

One of the maid, Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), in Barnabas' house fell in love with him, but he didn't return her love. Instead his love went to Josette. What Barnabas didn't know was that the Angelique was a witch. She killed Barnabas' parents and put a spell on Josette so she jumped from the Widow's Peak. Barnabas was sad, so he jumped too, but ... he didn't die. Apparently Angelique has turned him into a vampire.

Then Angelique told all the people in Maine that Barnabas was a vampire, and they locked him in a coffin and buried him. 

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. 

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.

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).

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.

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.

Synopsis/Review: This Means War

How if two CIA agent used CIA technology to compete with each other to get a girl?

Well that's what FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) did to get Lauren (Reese Witherspoon).

FDR and Tuck were two of CIA Agents and best friends. They were signed to a mission but then the mission went wrong, which resulted they're being suspended by their boss, Collins (Angela Bassett). So they're back working behind the desk. 

While they're not on duty, Tuck who's a divorcee with one kid, tried his luck to find a girl by joining a dating online website.