Sunday, December 15, 2024

Kraven the Hunter - Probably the Final Movie in the Sony's Spider-man Universe which could Diminish All Hopes of Possible Major Cross-over

As fans of superhero movies, my wife and I certainly do not want to miss out on this, even if we are not familiar with the character. Originally we wanted to see this in the cinema with Dolby Atmos system near our home but it did not play the film. So we ended up seeing it in another studio with standard sound system not far from there yesterday. OK, I'll get straight to it now.

Brief Story Line

Sergei (Aaron Taylor-Johnson - The Fall Guy Bullet Train etc) and his half brother Dmitri (Fred Hechinger - Gladiator IIThe White Lotus season 1 TV series etc) were the sons of Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe - Thor: Love and Thunder, Noah etc), a Russian crime lord who had been grooming them, especially Sergei to become his heir. However, Sergei decided to become vigilante hunting criminals and got the nickname of Kraven the Hunter. Kraven was able to become a hunter with amazing powers after an incident he experienced during a hunting trip years before.

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Carry-On - An Entertaining Action Thriller that Should Excite Fans of Such Genre

After few weeks of no exciting new movie released in Netflix on Friday, yesterday there was this film with interesting premise. Obviously I decided to watch it once I was ready after finishing work. All right, let's just get on with the movie then.

Brief Story Line

Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton - Sing 2Robin Hood etc) was a Transportation Security Administration-TSA officer working in the Los Angeles airport together with his girlfriend Nora (Sofia Carson - Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists TV series, Purple Hearts etc). On the day before Christmas during the very busy period, Ethan was stationed at the luggage scanning post. However, he soon got a message from mysterious person referred to as Traveler (Jason Bateman - Thunder ForceThe Outsider mini series etc) who threatened him to let a luggage past during inspection. As he tried hard to reject the threat, Ethan could not avoid as Traveler was assisted by Watcher (Theo Rossi - The Penguin mini series, Emily and the Criminal etc) who had vast knowledge about him.

Thursday, December 12, 2024

(TV SERIES) Cross Season 1 - An Enjoyable Adaptation of James Patterson's Best Selling Novel Series

I have been meaning to watch this series that was released on Prime Video on 14 November, but since I was in the middle of other series plus my holiday vacation last week, I only started it three days ago and finished last night. Without further ado, let's get right to it.

Brief Story Line

Dr. Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge - Black Adam, Leverage TV series etc), a Forensic Psychologist was working as homicide detective in DC with his partner John Sampson (Isaiah Mustafa - It Chapter Two, Boy Kills World etc). Cross was struggling with his personal life and had to have help from his grandmother Regina (Juanita Jennings - Meet the Browns TV series etc) to take care of his children Damon (Caleb Elijah) and Jannie (Melody Hurd). 

Alex was beginning to have a relationship with Elle (Samantha Walkes), a director of Non profit organization who introduced him to some high powered people including the very wealthy Ed Ramsey (Ryan Eggold - The Blacklist TV series, New Amsterdam TV series etc). Ed himself was taking an interest on a young woman named Shannon Witmer (Eloise Mumford - Fifty Shades trilogy etc) whom he met through dating app.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

I Did It My Way - A Suspenseful Enough Action Thriller Movie With Nice Performance from Andy Lau and Gordon Lam

As mentioned in the post before this, I was on holiday with my wife for the whole last week. During the flight to our destination by Cathay Pacific, I enjoyed the variety of Hong Kong and Chinese movies which either did not play in Indonesia or only played at limited cinemas in short time that I did not have the chance to see them. Anyway there were several films that I watched during the flights to and return, but I prefer to write about this movie. Well here's more on it.

Brief Story Line

The Hong Kong Cybercrime unit led by Eddie Fong (Eddie Peng - Duckweed, Wu Kong etc) had been eyeing to capture leader of major drug syndicate referred to as the Boss. During a bust, the police managed to apprehend Uncle Chiu (Philip Keung - Warriors of Future, Trivisa etc) who was suspected as the Boss. Chiu later asked to speak to his lawyer George Lam (Andy Lau - Shock Wave 2The Great Wall etc).

Monday, December 9, 2024

(TV SERIES) Black Doves Season 1 - An Interesting British Spy Thriller Series with Some Nicely Done Action and Good Enough Story Telling

As I was on holiday during whole last week with my wife, I did not have any chance to see new movies in the cinemas and only watched series on Netflix. This one though, I started watching yesterday and managed to finish in one day. It was a series that intrigued me and made me opt to watch it first ahead of other series available. All right then, why don't I just head to it.

Brief Story Line

Helen Webb (Keira Knightley - Official Secrets, Pride and Prejudice etc) was the wife of Secretary of State for Defence Wallace Webb (Andrew Buchan - All the Money in the World, Broadchurch TV series etc) who was actually a spy working for an organization selling secrets to highest bidder called Black Dove. When some people were mysteriously killed in one night, Helen's handler Reed (Sarah Lancashire - Coronation Street TV series, Everybody's Talking About Jamie etc) got worried that it might implicate the Black Dove. To help Helen deal with this problem, Reed called her former Triggerman Sam (Ben Whishaw - No Time to DiePaddington etc) to come out of retirement and protect Helen.