Friday, December 19, 2008

Painted Skin (2008)Photobucket

During an invasion General Wang Sheng(Chen Kun) saves Xiao Wei (Zhou Xun) and takes her home. Except General did not really save Xiao Wei. She was a demon that feeds off human hearts. She wears a beautiful human skin to cover her demon face and the hearts keep her skin fresh.

General's wife Pei Rong (Vicki Zhao) treats Xiao Wei like a sister. The three of them live together happily and Xiao Wei starts to fall for in love with the General. The General has feelings for Xiao Wei too.

Pei Rong starts to suspect Xiao Wei is a demon because when she arrived there was cases of heart-taking murders and Xiao Wei's hand miraculously heals after an accident. Pei Rong asks Pang Yong(Donnie Yen)for help.

Pang Yong was an ex-general that ran away from the army when he became tired of war. He was the General's superior and Pei Rong's ex-lover. He came back after being missing for years to see Pei Rong.

Pang Yong recruits a decedent of a family of "ghost busters", Xia Bing (Betty Sun), to help him fight Xiao Wei. No one would believe that the sweet Xiao Wei was a demon and they couldn't find any hard evidence.

Xiao Wei finally takes off her skin in front of Pei Rong and she was made up of worms. Xiao Wei asks Pei Rong to leave the General. Pei Rong made a deal to drink poison and tell everyone herself was the demon so Xiao Wei would not hurt anyone.

The General loves his wife so much that he doesn't care whether she is the demon or not. He saw that she was dying and kills himself. Xiao Wei saw that the General had such a devotion to love and everything she worked for was useless she decides to trade her life for his life. She spits out her life energy and gives it to the General. Once Xiao Wei dies everyone that was under her poison comes back to life.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Isabella (2006) Photobucket

 Ma Chen-Shing (Chapman To) thought that Cheung bik-yun (Isabella Leong) was a prostitute that he had slept with. Cheung hits Ma in the head and they are both bleeding in the hospital. Cheung tells Ma that she is his daugther. 

Cheung tells him that she needed the money to get in to her arparmtent. Her mother died last June of lung cancer. She has no money to pay rent for 4 months and the landlord has locked her door. Her dog, Isabella, is locked inside. The landlord has thrown the dog out. Cheung and Ma walks around looking for the dog and he asks her why call the dog Isabella. Cheung says that her mother gave it to her not long after her illness. She later found out the dog was named after her mother.

There is a large investigation that is following the handover of Macau back to China of crocket cops. Ma is planning to go on refuge. Cheung is excited to go with and goes shopping for toiletries the need to hide. They go out at night to drink and have lots of fun. She tells him that she always run into him when she was little.

Cheung tells her school friend that she has a new boyfriend that is a gangster and she is going to run away with him. The friend is concerned for her and calls Ma. The friend tells Ma to convince Cheung to stay. He only wants her to be happy.

Ma picks up Cheung's cellphone while she was gone and it was a call from Cheung's mother's friend. It turns out that was Cheung's biological father. Ma meets up with the man and the man told him that Cheung's mother had actually aborted the child she had with Ma. Cheung was the child she conceived with the man and they had broken up after that. Turn out Cheung's mother never told her that Ma was her father. She guessed it because her mother would I was look upset and turn away when they ran into Ma in the street.

When Ma goes home he thinks long about what to do with Cheung and decides to give her a normal live. He admitted he was very scared when Cheung's mother got preganent and he stole to get money for her abortion. He sold his Rolex to pay for rent enough for Cheung for three years and the money from the refuge should be enough for her live on.

The day of court Ma shaves and dresses in a suit. Cheung drives him in her scooter to the court house. When he is on the stairs, Cheung tells him she will wait for him outside.

Connected (2008)Photobucket

Grace Wong (Barbie Hsu) gets kidnapped by a group of men. Fok Tak-Nang(Liu Ye) keeps asking her "where is it?" but she has no idea what they are talking about. They kill her maid, her brother's friend and kidnaps her daughter too. While captive in a barn in middle of no where she was able to tap a broken phone. Using the pulse from the broken phone she finally gets connected to Bob's (Louis Koo) cellphone.

Bob doesn't want to help Grace at first because he was in a rush to see his son off at the airport. Bob's character is an incapable man to take care of his family. His wife left him and his son is leaving Hong Kong with Bob's sister. He has a crappy job as a debt collector.

He has a good heart and tries to save Grace's daughter from the kidnappers. Then he tries to save the brother from the kidnappers but all fails. He gets really hurt and even becomes a wanted by the cops.

The cop, Yu Yan-fai (Nick Cheung) gets involved in this when Bob pulls him over to report Grace's call and even got Nick to talk to Grace on the phone. Yu doesn't believe Bob and leaves. Yu has a very good instinct for crime solving. He decides to go to check out the address that Grace said was her house. He finds a suspicious woman saying she was Grace. He didn't believe her so he sneaked in the house and the woman started shooting at him. They fight and he kills her. Then her badge drops out of her pocket and Nick finds out she works for the Interpol.

While following the bad guys Bob finds the stuff they were looking for. It was a video tape Grace's brother accidentally recorded of the men. The men are corrupted Interpol agents. They had executed a bunch of drug dealers and then keeps the drugs for themselves.

Bob sends the bad guys to the airport and tells them to release Grace and her family. If they don't then he will give the cops the tape. After a long struggle, with Yu's help and airport police they arrest the bad guys.

BUT Yu's supervisor was one of the bad guys. He gets to the scene and releases the bad guys and steals the camcorder from Bob. Then Nick finds out in time to save Bob. They come into a big struggle and all the bad guys die.

Grace and her family gets free and the news reporters rush to the scene. They report that Bob was the hero that's been helping Grace's family. Bob's son see's Bob on TV and rushes out of the airport to be with his father.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008


KOIZORA

AKA SKY OF LOVE

COMING SOON!!

Beast Stalker (2008)Photobucket

Sergeant Tong Fei (Nicholas Tse) meets his team at a dim sum restaurant to prep for a bust. They charge up to an apartment and one officer gets shot. After the bust Tong screams at one of his team mates for not paying attention that led to another officer being shot. Tong is a very serious cop that is very passionate at his work.
On the street Tong and (Liu Kai-Chi) eyes Cheung Yat-Tung(Philip Keung) and other suspected armed robbers getting into a car. They tail the suspects which leads to a massive car crash. Cheung jumps into another car. Tong chases the car and starts shooting at it. The car swirves uncontrollably and stops on the side walk. Tong carefully walks up to the car but everyone is dead or unconciou. He sees that there's blood leaking from the trunk. There was a little girl dead in the trunk from his shots.

3 months later, Cheung is indicted for armed robbery that was before the massive car crash. His prosecutor is Ann Gao (Zhang Jingchu). [It turns out that the little girl in the truck was Ann's daugther. They had hijacked Ann's car after their car crashed] Tong is stuck with gilt and has become friends with the little girl's twin, Ling (Wong Suet-Yin).

Cheung hires Hung (Nick Cheung) to kidnapps Ling to extort Ann into destroying evidence in Cheung's case. Tong goes through trash to find the caller that was trying to extort Ann.
Hung is willing to do anyone's bidding to earn money. One of Hung's eye is blind and another is going blind because there are pieces of glass stuck inside. Nick cares for his wife (Miao Pu) who is paralyzed and can only use her thumb to text Nick messages.

Ann does what the kidnappers request for fear the loss of her remaining daughter, Ann is adamant about not informing the police. However, Tong witnessed the kidnapping and is already on the case, and will stop at nothing to make sure that Ling is safe from harm. Tong finds Hung's hideout and his paralyzed wife. Tong puts Hung's wife in an ambulance to the hospital. Hung gets back in time to kidnapps the ambulance. At the end Hung, Hung's wife, Ling and Tong is in an empty construction site. Tong begins a long fight to return Ling safe and unharmed.  

From the fight Hung ends up completely blind and asks Tong to take him to his wife. At her bedside, Hung remembers the day she became paralyzed. Hung's profession is a killer. One day while walking in the street with his pregnant wife, they get chased by thugs that want to kill him. They jump into a car and Hung's wife goes into labor. Hung pushes the gas peddle to get her to a hospital and thats when they get into a nasty car accident. [coinvidentally, the accident also involved Tong and his car chase with Cheung in the beginning of the movie] 

At the end Hung is arrested and his wife taken away. Tong brings Ling safely back to her mother.