Monday, July 29, 2024

Hijack 1971 - The Amazing Story of the Actual Incident in the South Korean Aviation History

This movie was already released in Indonesian theaters more than a week ago, but as my wife and I were on holiday trip, we only saw it last Saturday. It was rather challenging as we also wanted to see another big superhero movie while this film only played in several cinemas. So we ended up having to move to different location just to see both on the same day. All right then, why don't I just get to it.

Brief Story Line

Set in the year 1971, a passenger plane was scheduled to fly from Gimpo to Seoul. The crew consisted of the experienced Pilot Gyu-sik (Sung Dong-il - Project Wolf Hunting, Ghost Doctor TV series etc), First Officer Tae-in (Ha Jung-woo - Ashfall, Narco Saints TV series etc), flight attendant Ok-Soon (Chae Soo-bin - The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure, Rookie Cops TV series etc) and Chang-bae (Moon Yoo-kang). 

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Deadpool & Wolverine - The Highly Entertaining and Still Very Hilarious Sequel to the Merc with the Mouth

After many weeks of seeing this movie heavily promoted on social media and internet, finally it was set for release on last Wednesday in Indonesia. Since I wanted to ensure seeing this in a studio with great sound system, we decided to wait till the weekend so we can buy the tickets for our favorite seats without fighting over with other people. And so we made it yesterday in the studio not far from our home. All right, let's get on with the movie now.

Brief Story Line

Six years after the events of Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds - IF, The Croods: A New Age etc) was already retired as Deadpool and working as used car sales together with Peter (Rob Delaney - Ron's Gone Wrong, The School for Good and Evil etc) and still friends with his ex girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin - Fast Charlie, Homeland TV series etc). When he was approached by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) high ranked officer Mr. Paradox (Matthew MacFayden - Succession TV series, Anna Karenina etc) to become one of their agents, Wade was very excited and decided to come out of retirement.

Saturday, July 27, 2024

(TV SERIES) Tokyo Swindlers - An Entertaining Long Con Thriller Series Based on Popular Novel

I was intrigued about this new series on Netflix when I read its brief synopsis. When it was released two days ago, I just finished completing another series so I could begin watching immediately. As it was pretty short with only 7 episodes, I managed to finish it in two nights time. OK here's more on the series.

Brief Story Line

Harrison Yamanaka (Etsushi Toyokawa - Midway, Kingdom 2: Far and Away etc) was the leader of a land swindlers group working primarily in Tokyo by falsifying documents of land ownership and selling them to real estate developers. He had been nurturing his right hand man Takumi Tsujimoto (Go Ayano - Yu Yu Hakusho live version series, Shinjuku Swan etc) for the past five years, teaching him all the tricks to handle the scheme. They were also having other team members like Takeshita (Kazuki Kitamura - Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead live version series, Minazuki etc) the informer, Reiko (Eiko Koike - Rebirth, Legal High TV series etc) the imposters recruiter and Yoshio Goto (Pierre Taki - September 1923, Sanctuary TV series etc) the legal advisor.