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  Steve Jobs is hands down one of the greatest film of all time; about a selfish visionary man who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals; and history proved that he's right. Great af screenplay. This film made me wanna drop everything right now and go out to get the latest iPhone. 8/10

  Just wow. I am going through a movie marathon; a movie a day, for Quentin Tarantino's films, and I purposely left Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill to be watched at a later stage of my movie adventure even though I've become a movie lover for quite a while because as far as I've heard, these films are masterpieces. Now, I've watched Reservoir Dogs and I think it is, but after watching Kill Bill: Vol.1, man, I was just blown away. If Reservoir Dogs was the film that kick-started Tarantino's impressive directing career, then Kill Bill was his pinnacle of success. The story and the characters, which were set in their own Tarantino's movie logics were absolutely great and fun, and that iconic yellow jumpsuit was just, instant pop culture material. In fact, I think Kill Bill made it's way to the hall of "movies that shaped the pop culture", in the same league as Star Wars, Indiana Jones and The Dark Knight. And of course, how can I not talk about Uma Thurm

  Cult classic campy cheesy movie.  The worst movie ever made. George Lucas made this. The FIRST Marvel movie. So many attributes to this movie and it's so bad that it's so good is what making this as one of the movies you gotta watch before you die. p/s: Now that the multiverse is established in MCU, this is technically the first Marvel movie to be canon or adjacent to the MCU, and not Spider-Man . 3/10

It's not as bad as the critics make it to be. Actually Eternals was probably the most unique and freshest installment in the MCU yet, with the whole film feels like a Zack Snyder film instead of another MCU film.  I respect and like the fact that the story, the tone, characterisation, and underlying moral and philosophy questions are different than what we used to get from a MCU movie. Plus, this being a film from Chloe Zhao, the cinematography and the visual effects were fresh and outstanding. With that being said, the fact that it's being the most challenging and ambitious MCU film is also the reason for it's flaws. The pacings were off at times and the story got messy on the second and third parts. And to be honest, I think the Eternals line up is just too many. It will be better if they only focus on 5 or 6 Eternals instead of 10. Still, I respect the different route that it takes and the fact that at least it makes me feel that there could be new things to anticipate f

  What a disappointment. I appreciate the meta jokes and subtle commentary on modern Hollywood and endless reboot/sequel, but this film lacked that true reasoning for this franchise to come back. Halfway through, I keep wondering is this film necessary? A big Matrix fan here but a pointless sequel is just.. pointless.  Should've spent my money for second rewatch for No Way Home. One more thing, there were two films released in 2021 that heavily relied on nostalgia of their previous films and they did it right - Ghostbusters: Afterlife and No Way Home. Watch these films, Warner Bros. 5/10

  The end of an era. The quintessential Bond film, even with it flaws. It's not until the last 20 mins of this film that it truly hit me that Daniel Craig had been Bond since 2006 (much earlier than RDJ as Iron Man) and that he's basically the Bond that I grew up with; and this is his last outing. It stays with me even after the film ends, that it's finally the end of an era, just as Logan did for Jackman's Wolverine and Endgame did for RDJ's Tony Stark. As his last and the send-off film, I think the film worked well in delivering that and it is also one of the good Craig's Bond films. Definitely miles better than Spectre. But still far compared to Casino Royale or Skyfall. NTTD feels fresh with great action sequences in the early parts of the film - exciting action scenes since Casino Royale. Also, it's fresh because this is the first film in Craig era that we get to see James Bond as a normal guy, with quippy banters and romantic side to him. Overall, the

  Well, it was a better improvement over the first one, with new casts; and adding The Rock definitely improved your failing franchise. The action scenes were much better, more logical and enjoyable rather than the first film over-the-top cheesiness and those were definitely thrown out of the window in this one. Removing Stephen Sommers as the director and hiring John M Chu was clearly a good decision. You can see the movie was directed by a different director for the sequel and it was a good decision. Still, this movie was riddled with a lot of campiness, and a plot that seems to be taking inspiration from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. The funny thing that I noticed while I was watching this movie is that how the plot was really similar to Captain America: The Winter Soldier. An evil organisation who everyone think is dead but actually is running behind the scenes and slowly planning for a world domination, with the final act involving weapons of mass destruction that can target

A brave Malaysian political thriller but can do so much much more. It had a strong premise; basically a story of political maneuver after a big conservative party lost a GE. Sounds familiar huh? *winks However sadly, I think the film did not deliver very well. The film started with the introduction of the political titans & their plans to retain their positions. One party wishes to form an alliance with an Islamist party to make a comeback, and another leader, DS Anw-ehem I mean Ali, is trying to ensure that the current PM, Tun Maha- I mean Malik, is going to hand him over the PM-ship. Now all premises were set nicely. And we're gonna see these players play their game, right? Sadly, we didn't really got that.  Surely Mahsuri, Vanidah's character played her game well, and Tony Eusoff's character, but overall it is not truly Machiavellian enough like it's being promoted & not all characters engage in the game as they should be. Tun Malik and DS Ali

It was a light, fun entrance in MCU that was good, especially after we had been served with the momentous Avengers: Infinity War. The first Ant-Man movie is one of my top 10 MCU movies and Scott Lang's addition in the MCU was very well accepted by the fans as he was just a nice and decent guy who just want to did his best for his daughter. Comparing Scott to other big names of MCU like Tony Stark or Steve Rogers; a genius billionaire playboy and a stoic ripped super old war veteran, those are characters too big to be relatable to audience; the everyday's people and this is what makes Scott Lang stands out against them in this regards - relatibility. Ant-Man and The Wasp delivered as well as the first movie. In this one, relationship between Scott and Hope and the Scott-Pym-Hope dynamic were explored further, with the introduction of new characters; Janet van Dyne and the Ghost, Ava. The main plot is basically to rescue Janet from the Quantum Realm as they are against

It just sucks. I wonder how much they pay Tom Cruise to be in this one, most likely with promises that he's gonna be portrayed so macho and alpha af that even a 5000 years old undead prune wanna fuck him.  Cruise's epicness from the Mission Impossible movies was ruined for me by his participation in this film. I think now he is very well aware that he better be focused to be in only those movies. The most hilarious thing about this film was that it was supposed to kickstart a "Universal monster movies cinematic universe" named as the "Dark Universe". Universal was so eager to jump in the Hollywood's cinematic universe race as they eagerly fast-tracked this project and they even released a trailer commemorating the launch of this universe. And this plan failed miserably by its first movie in the supposed universe as The Mummy bombs commercially and critically. Every year Hollywood never fail to deliver a big budget bomb and this is t

Joker  is a beautiful portrait of a man disregarded and opressed by society and the system he's in. A perfect blend of a realistic adaptation of a comic book character that did not forget of it's comic book elements; Joker is a genre-changer for comic book movies. Obviously, Joaquin Phoenix is the biggest helm of the film. His performance as Arthur is the best performance from an actor I've seen in recent years, and it is about time for this guy to hold that shiny bold naked Oscar. He laughed, he cried, he ran, he danced, he beat and he killed. Todd Phillips, the director of Joker said that most of the scenes were improvised by Joaquin and I think that is pretty spot on. He totally embodied Arthur Fleck, the man who would then become The Joker, and he succesfully handled the burden of playing one of the hardest character to play ever in film history.  You would enjoy, sympathise and cheer, to see Arthur's descend to madness, and his rise as Gotham's Clow

Admittedly, this took me a while. Being busy and lack of motivation to write were factors to be fault. But here we go. So, my most hyped and anticipated film of 2018, does it deliver? Oh boy, yes it did, and exceptionally well. Now, I had watched Avengers: Infinity War (AIW) a total of three times in the cinema, as I was mindblowned by it after the first watching, and the second and third watchings were complimentary to the experience. In short, Marvel (read: Russo brothers) delivered on all their promises - a satisfying climax to Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a cohesive and tight story telling, a balanced story and sharing of screentime of casts with it being the most casts-crowded movie of all time, a nerve-jerking film that ends leaving you wanting for more, and definitely, a monumental mark in the superhero movies genre. The most casts in a movie ever. Too many praises? Let me break it down one by one. First of all, as we know, AIW was considered as the climax

What went wrong? Solo: A Star Wars Story is the fourth Star Wars movie by Disney, and the 10th Star Wars movie in total (not counting the 2008's Clone Wars movie). Considering how Disney never failed to impress with their other Star Wars products, which at least had made USD1 billion mark in the worldwide release, sadly, Solo is far from reaching this minimum threshold. After a month of release, Solo made only $344 million, worldwide . That was a major setback and downfall for Disney. Their non-stop success with their products, especially the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and Star Wars movies, should ensure their non stop money-raking movies trend. But Solo fell far from the 1 billion mark. It could not even rake $500 million. So, what went wrong? When Solo was announced, I was curious on how would they tackle the movie as fans would only relate the legendary character Han Solo to Harrison Ford and we know that Ford, already decided to stop appearin