Shutter

Cast: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, David Denman

Director: Masayuki Ochiai

This movie is originally from Thailand. I decided to walk in the cinema to watch the re-make of this movie due to "boreness" and to "spice" up the night a bit after a stressful day.

9.30pm show and with HSBC credit card (Mon to Wed) with S$1.00 off, the ticket still cost S$7.00 as today is the sneak preview at golden village.

After my experience watching "The eye" re-make few weeks back, I am certain that this is not going to be as scary as the original, which I am quite right, but this is better than re-mark of"The eye".

After a horrible accident during honeymoon, a pair of newlyweds sees evidence of a supernatural presence in their photos. Strange things starts to occur to the wife (Rachael Taylor) as she is experiencing strange encounters and photos. Movie is around 90 mins with some frightening scenes, which will cause some ladies screaming here and there...

For those whom had watched the original will find this re-make moderate or satisfactory. The only thing which is value for money in my personal opinion is that I get to see Mount fuji and Japan scenes, building, train and land mark. For those whom had not been to Japan, maybe can watch this movie for some scary effects and treat it as a "warm up" before physically visiting Japan :)

Vantage Point

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker

Director: Pete Travis

Genre:Action/ Adventure
Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Mathew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror.

When President Ashton is to make a speech about war on terror, he was shot. Chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American tourist who thinks he had captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for his kids back home. Also there, relaying the historic event to millions of TV viewers across the globe, is American TV news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver). As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place and it will become apparent that shocking motivations lurk just beneath the surface.

Watching the movie needs patience, if you lack of it, I would suggest you skip this. While watching this movie in Jurong Point GV last saturday, heard some people curse and swear when the camera takes you back to the same time, but showing what happened from a different person's aspect.

This show leave you in suspense when Thomas Barnes saw something on the video in the broadcasting room. I was actually quite frustrated on that scene, but I am happy somehow that I manage to uncover some plots myself :)

An intense and dramatic movie I would say. Watch it if you like cracking your brain while watching..ahead of the scenes and guess what happened in the end.

The Eye

Cast: Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola

Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud

Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner (Alessandro Nivola) helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen (Parker Posey), Sydney learns to see again.

But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see.

The movie starts with how the donor killed herself as she cannot tolerate the fact that she can see death of others which will happen in future. Whenever something is going to happen, there is this "spooky" figure which do not like to be seen by others appearing before the eye of Sydney and previously her donor for the corneal transplant.

The story did somehow follow the original movie. There is a difference between the chinese restaurant scene.

Original movie, the boss's wife was dead and she was back licking on the "char siew". This one is that she is in the chinese restaurant, just that everyone cannot see her. Then she realized that she is in the shop which is burnt down few weeks back.

Anyway, this movie is not at all scary as even the first time she opened her eyes and in the middle of the night, the patient beside her was "escorted" by the hell guard. She went out of her room to search and only to see the "white figure" which approaches her and mumbled "it's freezing"...it is so not scary with that kind of tone...

The only interesting thing throughout the whole movie is this guy sitting beside me with his girlfriend, sort of shout out loud to one scene towards the end, which is obviously not scary....Maybe he did not watch the first one at all..

My friend named this guy, "a gay with his girlfriend"!!!

Do not waste your money to walk in the cinema unless you are in the following categories:

1) Extremely Boring or too much cash to spare
2) Want to see Jessica Alba
3) Hope to see the "ang mo" old man in the lift whom he did not cut his toe nails
4) The boy whom speaks in English "did you see my report card"

***YAWNS***