Monday, February 17, 2025

The Gorge - An Enjoyable Combination of Love Story with Some Intense Action Sequence

I only saw this movie last night after my weekend vacation out of town with my wife. It was released by AppleTV+ during Valentine's day which I thought was a bit funny considering other streaming was promoting their line up for romance/romantic comedy genre. Anyway, I'll just get on with it then.

Brief Story Line

Levi Kane (Miles Teller - Top Gun: Maverick, Fantastic Four 2015 version etc), a sniper with terrific record was hired by mysterious woman called Bartholomew (Sigourney Weaver - Avatar: The Way of Water, Alien etc) for a seemingly simple job. He was to be stationed in an unknown location to be guardian of a large building called the Gorge for a year, replacing the previous guard named J. D (Sope Dirisu - Mr. Malcolm's List, Gangs of London TV series etc). There was another Gorge on the East side which was guarded by Lithuanian elite sniper named Drasa (Anya Taylor-joy - Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaThe Menu etc) while Levi was on the West side. 

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Captain America: Brave New World - Entertaining in Term of Action but not So Great on Other Aspects

Last night my wife and I went to see this new movie that was just released in Indonesian cinemas. It was not because we were so excited that we could not wait, but merely due to us having a planned out of town trip during the weekend. Since it was having Advance Ticket Sales from a week before, we were able to buy the tickets easier and good thing we did cause the studio was quite full. All right then, I'll just get right to it.

Brief Story Line

After taking the mantle of Captain America, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie - We Have a GhostThe Adjustment Bureau etc) was working to keep peace and doing various missions together with his sidekick Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez - Top Gun: Maverick, Chestnut etc). When the two of them together with Sam's friend and former super soldier Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly -Obliterated TV series, The Life of Chuck etc) were invited to an international event held by elected US President Thaddeus Ross (Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Fugitive etc), they were somehow caught in an incident.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

(TV SERIES) The Day of the Jackal Season 1 - An Entertaining and Critically Acclaimed Thriller Series Based on Best Selling Novel

While browsing for interesting new thing on Max few weeks ago, I saw this series that immediately intrigued me. But when I wanted to give it a try, apparently not all the episodes have been made available. I rechecked the status last Sunday and the first season was finally complete. So I started watching and finished it last night. Without further ado, here's more on the series.

Brief Story Line

Story focused on a professional assassin with code name Jackal (Eddie Redmayne - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Good Nurse etc) who had shown his amazing skill by killing from a long distance. After the latest assassination, MI6 was asked for help by the Germans where Bianca Pullman (Lashana Lynch - No Time to Die, Bob Marley: One Love etc), a weapons expert believed she could find out more and convinced her supervisor Osita Halcrow (Chukwudi Iwuji - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Split TV series etc) and their ultimate boss Deputy Chief of Staff Isabel Kirby (Lia Williams - The Crown TV series etc) to kick start the investigation. Later with the help from Vincent Pyne (Nick Blood - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D TV series etc) they went on various dangerous operations to find the Jackal.