(2024) Drive - A Suspenseful Thriller with Plenty of Surprising Twists

The second movie that my wife and I saw last Saturday during our movie marathon was this South Korean thriller that had been promoted in the coming soon section for a while now. I just need to read the very brief synopsis to be fully intrigued, so naturally I would not want to miss seeing it in the cinema. OK, let's get to it now.

Brief Story Line

Yu na (Park Ju-hyun - Project Silence, Mouse TV series etc) was a famous influencer who had a lot of followers/subscribers to her online streaming contents. Her manager Choi PD (Kim Do-yoon -Concrete Utopia, Song of the Bandits TV series etc) had been coordinating her works including attending to the release of brand new cosmetics.

(TV SERIES) The First Responders Season 1 - A Series with Intelligent Combination of Rescue Mission and Mystery Solving

After promoted by my wife frequently as she believed I would have liked this South Korean series, I finally started watching it few days ago as the final episode released on Disney+ just before the end of the year. Without further ado, here's more on the series.

Brief Story Line

Story was set in the city of Taewon, South Korea where the police and fire brigade join forces to become the first responders on cases that required urgent and immediate response. Detective Jin Hogae (Kim Rae-won - Decibel, Love Story in Harvard TV series etc) was just transferred to the police station under Chief Baek (Seo Hyun-chul) and partnered with Sergeant Pil (Kang Ki-doong - Reborn Rich TV series etc). 

The people in the fire station such as the intelligent fire inspector Bong Do-jin (Son Ho-jun - The Light in Your Eyes TV series, Stellar etc) and Song Seol (Gong Seung-yeon - Bulgasal: Immortal Souls, Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency TV series etc), the kind hearted paramedic were not too thrilled with the appearance of Hogae (nicknamed Jindo dog) as he seemed to only concern with catching criminals and did not care about the victim.

Horizon Line - A Standard Survival Thriller Movie Which Took too long to Get to the Suspenseful Part

I was actually aware that this movie was released on HBO Go some time ago but did not got the chance to watch it then, and I forgotten all about it. That is until it was suddenly released in one cinema chain in Indonesia 2 days ago that made me gain interest. So, I decided to watch it last night. OK, here we go.

Brief Story Line

Sara (Allison Williams - Get Out etc) was planning to attend the wedding of her best friend Pascale (Pearl Mackie) in Mauritius. Due to some reasons, she had no choice but to ride in a small airplane from a small island piloted by Freddy (Keith David - Nope etc) to the location. Unexpectedly Sara's old boyfriend Jackson (Alexander Dreymon - The Last Kingdom TV series etc) also board the plane.

Decibel - An Entertaining Sound Terror South Korean Movie

I found out about this movie in the social medias of few Indonesian cinema chains and was really interested with the premise. Though it was shown in several cinemas last weekend, my wife and I were not able to go then. So yesterday we set our mind to see it in the theater not far from our home. And now here's more on the movie.

Brief Story Line

Naval Commander Kang (Kim Rae-won - Doctors TV series, Crazy Romance etc) was getting phone calls from mysterious terrorist (Lee Jong-suk - Big Mouth TV series, Romance is a Bonus Book TV series etc) who was threatening to detonate two bombs in different location and asked him to choose which one he should focus on. To dispose the bombs, sergeant Jang Yoo-jung (Lee Sang-hee - Juvenille Justice TV series etc) was asked to specifically handle the threats because of the message from the terrorist. However the bombs were not the normal type as they were sound sensitive and were set to speed up with the increase of noise. Kang had no choice but to work together with a reporter named Oh Da-oh (Jung Sang-hoon - The Lady in Dignity TV series etc) to face these threats.

Hard Hit - An Almost Nonstop Thrilling Movie with Some Dramatic Moments

This month, there were plenty of new interesting movies released on Catchplay+. Although mostly I have seen in the cinemas before, there were still few films that I have not, including this South Korean movie which has truly interesting premise. I was definitely intrigued by the movie and decided to watch it as soon as it was available last night at 9 PM. So let's get to it then.

Brief Story Line

Lee Sung-gyu (Jo Woo-jin - Kingmaker, Seo Bok etc) started his day like any other when he drove to work together with his daughter Hye-in (Lee Jae-in - Racket Boys TV series, Svaha: The Sixth Finger etc) and her younger brother Min-joon (Kim Tae-yul). While driving, Sung-gyu got a call on a mobile phone left in his car with the voice on the other line telling him about a bomb below the car seats. Sung-gyu who at first did not believe the call, started to panic when he found out it was not just an empty threat. 

(Mini Series) Clickbait - Limited Series that Started of Brightly, Slow Paced Story Telling in the Middle and Ends with a Bang

On Wednesday, I was surprised to see 2 new series released on Netflix. One seemed like a drama mystery series, while the other was a very intriguing and seemed suspenseful Limited Series. Since I am in the mood for a series that would really finish in few episodes, I chose to see this one. Well here we go then.

Brief Story Line

Pia Brewer (Zoe Kazan - Ruby Sparks, The Big Sick etc) has been having strained relationship with his older brother Nick (Adrian Grenier - Entourage TV series, Marauders etc) for a while and had a major fight in front of Nick's wife Sophie (Betty Gabriel - Get Out etc) and their children. But when the following day a video emerged showing Nick in captivity admitting to abusing women and he would be killed if the video views reached 5 million, Pia immediately did whatever she could to find him.

I See You - One Well Crafted Psychological Thriller with Multiple Twists that would Truly Shock Audience

Last night there was a new movie that premiered on Fox Movies which I never heard of, but when I saw the very brief synopsis on it, I was really intrigued. And so when the film finally showed at 8PM, I poured my attention to this interesting movie. OK, I'll just get on with it now.

Brief Story Line

Jackie (Helen Hunt - Twister, As Good As It Gets etc) was having a strained relationship with her husband Greg (Jon Tenney - The Closer TV series) and their only son Connor (Judah Lewis - The Babysitter etc) due to something she did before. They lived in a big house which for some reasons started to have strange things happening without proper explanation.

Meanwhile Greg was appointed as lead detective partnering with Officer Spitzky (Gregory Alan Williams - Baywatch TV series etc) in the case of a young boy's disappearance which seemed to be related with similar cases from the past. 

The Neighbor - A Better Than Expected Suspense Thriller Movie

It was a a day of election for Jakarta governor for the second round yesterday, and hence it was also a holiday in Jakarta. My wife and I were enjoying our free time after we cast our votes and I saw that this movie started to premier. As I noticed that it was a thriller movie with interesting premise, I asked my wife whether she would like to accompany me watching it. After she read the synopsis from a movie website, she decided to see it too. So I immediately bought the tickets in Plaza Semanggi and was lucky enough that I could still got them despite a very long queue, obviously for people to see The Fate of The Furious. Now let us move on to the film.

Brief Story Line

A young couple of John (Josh Stewart- The Finest Hours, Transcendence etc) and Rosie (Alex Essoe) were enjoying life at a small town called Cutter where they were working for John's uncle named Neil (Skipp Sudduth - Flawless, Ronin etc). John was thinking of doing one last assignment for Neil and then leave the city for good.