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: The Avengers

Loki, The Asgardian, had a deal with The Other, the leader of the alien race, Chitauri. The Other promises Chitauri army to Loki to help him conquer the Earth as the exchange of Tesseract, a powerful energy from unknown source.


Meanwhile on the earth, Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D, was notified that Tesseract was active. Even Dr. Erik Selvig didn't know how it became active. 


Suddenly Tesseract opened a portal, and Loki appeared.


Loki then attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. base. He also influenced Clint Barton/Hawkeye, and Dr. Erik Selvig with his power, so they become Loki's minion.

Synopsis/Review: Battleship

With the advanced technology that NASA has, they found a planet that similar to earth, named Planet G, and decided to communicate with it. So they sent a signal to the planet, hoping they would return the signal to communicate with NASA.

Instead of getting a signal as a reply for their first signal, earth got a reply of 5 alien ships! 

One of the ship, believed to be a communication ship, hit a satellite and was destroyed to pieces, while the other 4 'landed' at the pacific ocean near Hawaii.

At that time, there's a RIMPAC event. RIMPAC is the world largest international maritime exercise that is hosted by the United States in Hawaii. Many countries joined the exercise, including Japan. 

When the 4 ships hit the ocean, Alex Hopper (Taylort Kitsch), Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgard), and Nagata (Tadanobu Asano), where each of them captained one battleship, were doing the exercise nearby that area.

Alex Hopper, Raikes (Rihanna), and another Navy soldier was instructed to check the alien ships. 

When Hopper approached the ship, the alien ships suddenly beamed laser and covered the area around them. The area included the 3 battleship that were captained by the Hoppers brother and Nagata, plus some islands that has some antennas that was used to transmit the signal to Planet G. 

With the laser covered the area, the 3 battleships were separated with the main ships armada that was led by Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson). They couldn't contact anyone beyond the area.

From the here, the battle between the 3 battleships and the alien ships begun ...

The Battle Begins at Sea ...

...

In the trailer, it said about Hasbro, the company that brought you Transformer. Hasbro is a toy company, and perhaps you remember the game Battleship. I like to play this game many years ago ... It's like I have one board that has a coordinate. And then I put my ships in random coordinates, and my opponent does the same thing. To attack, I just say some coordinate, and if my opponent's ship is in the coordinate that I said, then it will lose one life (depends how long is the ships). So this movie was based in this game! Interesting!

I really love this kind of movie, the human race VS the alien race, where the alien has bigger and more sophisticated gun, while we only have regular gun. I love to see, how the human with its limitation try to survive and attack the alien. 

Although there are a lot of movies with similar theme, but I still see Battleship as a great movie to watch! I watch this because of the cool factor, not the story :) and I was expecting this movie when I first watched the trailer, even when I didn't realize that Rihanna is also in the movie :D

Btw, I read somewhere telling that there's an after credit! I missed it :(. So if you want ... sit tight until the end :)

So have fun, and enjoy the movie. 

Synopsis/Review: REC 3 Genesis

A wedding and a zombie?

That's not a good match!

But that's what happened in Clara (Leticia Dolera) and Koldo's (Diego Martin) wedding.

It all started with an ordinary day ...

They were in the church for a holy matrimony  ...

Then they continued to go to the reception building to have a party!

That's all just normal ...

But then, something happened.

Koldo's uncle suddenly fell from a balcony. He laid on the floor motionless.

Synopsis/Review: Wrath of The Titans

What happen when the human didn't pray for their gods? 


The gods would lose their power, and as the consequence the wall of Tartarus, the underworld prison, would break.


That's what Zeus (Liam Neeson) said to Perseus (Sam Worthington) about what's happening. He then asked Perseus to help him and the remaining gods to battle this if something bad happened, but Perseus declined the offer. He didn't want to leave his only kid alone.


Finally, it's only Zeus and his other son, Ares (Edgar Ramirez), also Poseidon (Danny Huston) who were left to fix the wall. Zeus also asked Hades (Ralph Fiennes) favour to forget what had happened between him and Hades, and helped them. The unexpected happened. Hades released his minions to attack them, and Ares betrayed Zeus and helped Hades captured him.

Synopsis/Review: Hunger Games

When the name Primrose Averdeen (Willow Shields) was drawn in a lottery to become one of the tributes, her sister, Katniss Averdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), immediately volunteered herself to replace her sister. To accompanied Katniss, Peeta Mellark's (Josh Hutcherson) name was then drawn in the lottery. So Katniss Averdeen and Peeta Mellark were the tributes to represent District 12 in the 74th Annual Hunger Games. 

Hunger Games was a game where selected boys and girls between the age of 12 and 18 from District one to twelve, had to kill each other until there's only one remaining soul which would then become the winner. The game was also being televised. 

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. 

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: Chronicle

Andrew (Dane DeHaan) was an unpopular student in the school. One day, he went to a party and filming the party. Apparently there were people who didn't like it, and angry with him.

Upset with what just had happened, he went out to calm himself.

Suddenly he's approached by Steve (Michael B. Jordan), the popular quarterback in the school. Steve asked Andrew to help him and Andrew's cousin, Matt (Alex Russel), to filming something.

Reluctant at first, but then agreed to follow Steve to somewhere inside the forest.

Synopsis/Review: Underworld: Awakening

Selene (Kate Beckinsale) was held captive in a facility called Antigen, but then someday, she was released by something. Selene was the 'Subject 1' in this facility.

During her exit from Antigen, she saw something as if she saw it through someone else's eyes, and thought that this should be from Michael's eyes. During her search of Michael, she encountered another vampire, named David (Theo James), who has been following her for a while. Following the vision, she finally found the source of the vision ... which was not Michael, but a little girl, Eve (India Eisley) or the Subject 2.