Review - 47 Ronin

One of the movies at the end of 2013. Next to Hobbit, this movie is kind of asking me persistently to watch it. Starred by Keanu Reeves as Kai, Hiroyuki Sanada as Oishi, Rinko Kikuchi as Mizuki and also Kou Shibasaki as Mika.
This movie was sets in the 18th century where Shogun ruled Japan. In the land of Ako, a prosperous province, ruled by the Asano clan with his only child, Mika. They saved a half breed child, Kai, and Kai felt owe the Asano clan his life and swore to protect them in any way.
Since Ako is a prosperous land, there other lords whose intent to take Ako from the Asano clan. So, Lord Kira helped by a witch planned to take over Ako and become the ruler in the whole Japan.
The story goes, where finally lord Asano committed sepukku or we known as harakiri and left her daughter alone and forced by the current Shogun to married Lord Kira. All of the Asano samurais where shattered, and Oishi as the leader of the samurais were dumped to a pit for a year. After Oishi left the pit, he gathered all the samurai, including Kai for his skills and also his knowledge of witch craft. They sneak in to lord Kira's castle and the battle with lord Kira won by Oishi. The good finally won, and the bad loose.
I must warn you, that this is not a happy ending movie. The set looks like Japan, but somehow I can't feel the japan aura along the movie, I don't really know what's missing since I've never been to Japan. Keanu Reeves plays his role very well, as a samurai his act is undeniably marvelous. Hate the ending very much, but I guess it's OK. Seen the score in imdb.com and they give 6,8 /10 for this movie, and I guess I will also give this movie 3/5, since it's just an OK movie, really below my expectation.

Review - The Hobbit - Desolation of Smaug

If you haven't watch the previous of the Hobbit, you might kind of lost in this movie. Since this sequel is so related with the first one.
We still see the adventure of the dwarfs (Thorin, Nori, Bifur, Kili, Fili, Bombur-myfavourite,Oin, Balin, Bofur, Dori, Dwalin, Gloin, Ori) and surely Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf. My husband said, this movie shouldn't be titled as the hobbit since dwarves played the main lead. I think he forgot that there's still Bilbo in the picture who act bravely and creatively.
The movie starts with Gandalf meets with Thorin, this is the first step of the adventure. After the first plot, it moves directly to the real story of the whole entourage. The whole entourage is going to the lonely mountain, since they are chased by Azog the Orc, they are running and bump to beorn a shape-changer. Since they are still chased by Orcs, they decided to go through Mirkwood, a weird forest with creatures creeping in it. But Gandalf decided to go to other place, minus Gandalf the entourage walks through the forest.
In the forest, the entourage was captivated by giant spiders but thanks to Bilbo and the ring, he saves most of them from the giant spiders. The Elf get in the scene since Mirkwood is their teritory, finally the dwarves n bilbo was captivated again by the Elfs. Lots of captivation in this movie I suppose :).
Finally there are love spices in the movie, where one of the Elf , Tauriel was somehow attached to Kili. How I wish there are more love scene between these two....ahhhh
Anyway, the entourage finally get away from Rivendell and finally made it to the lake town and become near to the lonely mountain. They got help from Bard, if you have watched ER before, Bard is Dr. McSteamy ;P. Hawtttt alert ladiesssssssssssss...added with Thorin, this movie is full of hawt guysss.
The movie ended with most of the dwarves and Bilbo finally made it to Erebor and get in to Durin Kingdom. Bilbo once again show his smartness and creativity in facing Smaug the Dragon who guard all of the treasures. I really likes Bilbo in this movie, the title of the Hobbit is dedicated to him I supposed, because he plays the role of the burglar very well.
The ending is cut in the right place, makes you wonder what will happen next. Anyway, I think I have to see this movie 2-3 times again, like most of the previous movies, we have to watch it more to understand more.
I rate this movie 4,5/5, a must see movie and cant wait for the next one!

Review - 2 Guns

Why do i choose to watch this movie? It's because there's Denzel in it. I love his act since I watched Man On Fire, he played with Dakota Fanning. Although I haven't watch all of his movies, but he's kinda the main factor to watch a movie.
So, this movie cast by Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, a dynamic duo whose trying to save the world.
Started with accidentally the dynamic duo whom they found out later that rob a bank to lure a king pin to the prison. It becomes back fire, since the bank they rob is actually owned by the CIA. The action cost them their safety, since all the bad guys in the neighborhood is searching for the money they owned. It also costs Denzel's girlfriend - Paula Patton, although I don't know if she's fit for the role, since the outcome is quite a surprised.
Anyway, Denzel and Mark finally set a plan to meet up with all the bad guy. Then he drove all the money to the place, and let them fight for the money which end up he blew the cars loaded with cash.
The story is not deep, this might be an easy act for both of them I figured, since the storyline is so-so. Some kind of entertaining kind of movie, nothing more. It's fun to watch and it's not hard to understand.
I give this movie 7/10!