Review-Jack Ryan The Shadow Recruit

Actually I thought I've written this review, but after I checked my blog yesterday, I found out that I haven't write this.
I've watched this movie about two months ago. If I'm not mistaken it was a 2013 movie with Chris Pine as Jack Ryan and Keira Knightley as Cathy Ryan, his fiance.

If you already love Chris Pine, then this movie won't disappointed you :), just like how I love Jason Statham..hah! This movie was an adaptation from Tom Clancy's novel Jack Ryan, I never read the book so I could not give any opinion if this movie was as good as the book.
Jack Ryan is a smart, dedicated young man who graduated from college and then go to the military service to serve his country. He was placed in the middle of war and got hit, the military put him in a hospital to regain his health. This is where he met Cathy his doctor that helped him to get his strength back.
Even though he was hospitalized, he was never neglected by the government, a CIA director watch him recover and offers a job as a CIA agent. Jack accepted the offers and he was posted in a Financial Company to learn and notice how the money flow.

After a few years working in the Financial Company, Jack found something suspicious and he was assign to Russia to investigate. This was his first time gone abroad, and the first time also he was almost got killed by the Russian. His investigation lead him to a Russian Tycoon named Victor Cherevin. Trouble comes when Cathy somehow came to Russia, cause she thought that Jack is having an affair.

Like any happy ending movie, this movie also ends well. Unfortunately, I'm not really enjoying the detective side, the investigation was too shallow and too easy for me. Keira's acting was also not an enjoyment, cause she was placed just like an accessories in this movie. I hope in the future, if they wish to made another sequel of the movie, they have dig and explore it more to show the audience the complication of the investigation or research. The movie for me is just entertaining, I prefer Chris Pine in This Means War.

I give this movie 3/5 stars!

Review - The Kite Runner

Adapted from the book with the same title written by Khaled Hosseini, this movie touch my heart. I've read in Rotten Tomatoes, that this movie only gain 65%, but that's fine by me, everybody has their own opinion.
The movie sets in Afganistan, in Kabul in the year of 1979. Where Kabul lives with many flowers, everybody was happy and no war.
This movie tell a story about best friends who finally vanish because of the betrayal of one of them. It is Amir and Hassan who become very best friend. Amir is the son of a wealthy man, while Hassan is the son of the servant. Amir always wear this leather jacket that made him look very chic, while Hassan just like any other servants, dressed himself in a modest jacket. Their difference doesn't stop them from being good friend, and most of the kids on their age mock them since they don't have any friends but themselves.
Amir's father told them, when he was their age he won a kite competition and beat 14 other kites. With that kind of spirit, both of them tries their best to won the competition. Eventually, Amir won the competition, as a good buddy Hassan run and chase all the kites they have won. After waiting for some time, Amir looks for Hassan, and found that a few bad kids was bullying Hassan, but he just watched the bullying without doing anything. Hassan come in bleed, and a crippled feet. This was the turning point of the movie.

After sometimes, a war breaks in Kabul. Amir and his father was running away to Pakistan and finally flew to America to start their new life. His father own a shop, and in the weekend they went to the local market to sell some stuff there. Amir has become an educated and handsome American-Arabian man. His father has grown old, and become sick. In the journey of his life, Amir finally become a writer and married a beautiful arabian woman.

After a few years of their marriage, something happen and force him to return to Kabul. The place was beyond his imagination, since Kabul was left in ruin. During his childhood in Kabul, his father has a very dear friend named Rahim Khan. He supports Amir to become a writer, after reading all his writing. During their meeting, he surprised Amir with a secret about Hassan, whose none other is actually his step brother. Hassan is already dead, shot by the Taliban, and Rahim Khan asked Amir to look after Sohrab, Hassan's son.

Finding Sohrab has become an opportunity for Amir to repay his mistakes in the old days. Of course, taking sohrab is not as a simple as just come and take him to America, since the Taliban is everywhere and without hesitation in killing every human being.

The movie tells us about our regrets, and how regrets haunts us even until we are older. As a human being we are longing to pay our old mistakes, and becoming a good human being to our surroundings. This movie will show how violence never ends well, no matter how strong the violence is. Please watch this movie and tells your opinion. In my opinion, I give this movie 3,8/5 stars!

Happy Watching!