This week, summer movies continue to roll in from the road, whether you are on a car or motorcycles. Have a little adventure for the young and the old. Seeing Aaron Kwok again after and having a rare release of a Tamil movie on a Thursday.
So as I get back into the regular movie schedule, here are the trailers of the movies coming to cinemas for your consideration.
Director: Helmi YusofBikers Kental
Cast: Zizan Razak, Awie, Bront Palarae, Harun Salim Bachik
Running Time: 1 Hour 35 Minutes
Language:: Malay
Classification: U
Synopsis: A motorcycle adventure that follows Bidin Al Zaifa, an ambitious youngster who wants to own a powerful motorcycle and become a successful biker. He takes a long ride to Thailand with his Aprilia RSV4 together with his buddy Eddie and gang members. When Bidin reaches Thailand, he finds himself falling in love with a Thai girl named Saiya and decides to put his motorcycling dream aside for her.
Director: Charlie YoungChristmas Rose (聖誕玫瑰)
Cast: Aaron Kwok, Xia Yu, Kwai Lun-Mei
Running Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Language:: Cantonese
Classification: P13
Synopsis: Tim is a defense attorney with a heart of gold who quits his well-paid job to become a prosecutor at the Justice Department. One day Tim meets one of the most challenging cases he has ever handled when a handicapped piano teacher Jing, urges him to desperately help her with a sexual harassment case against her doctor, the renowned surgeon Zhou.
Trailer Impressions: This legal thriller starring Aaron Kwok, Kwai Lun-Mei and Xia Yu is the directional debut of Charlie Young, who I can't remember last seeing her in Cold War. She also wrote the screenplay which is also her first time, so I really don't know what to expect from this at all. The trailer looks sufficient, but doesn't seem to have an edge for me, even though Kwai Lun-Mie (who starred in the Taiwanese award-winner BF*GF and Xia Yue (who I last saw in Double Trouble) are strong performers. As a directional debut, it's always hard to say, especially from someone like Charlie who I don't have any inkling on her potential behind the camera, it could be mediocre or has a surprise installed for audience. I put this in my curious list.
Director: Chris WedgeEpic
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Colin Farrell, Beyonce Knowles, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler
Running Time: 1 Hour 42 Minutes
Language:: English
Classification: U
Synopsis: Best known for its production on "Rio" and "Ice Age", director Chris Wedge's animated fantasy-adventure comedy is based on the 1996 picture book, "The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs" by William Joyce. The movie is about a teenage girl who finds herself in a secret world, where she must help a team of fun and whimsical characters to save their world, which also saves the real world.
Trailer Impressions: If there's only one thing that is epic about Epic is just the voice cast behind it. Based on a children's picture book, you could pretty much tell who this movie is targeted at and are you going to see it. Reviews for it have said that Epic is pretty much as advertised, so I would say this is a seasonally suitable release as much as, say, Rise of the Guardians was upon its release last year. There is nothing extra to draw me in, so I might want to weight my options further before going for this one, without any progeny of my own.
Director: Justin LinFast and Furious 6
Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Sung Kang, Chris Bridges, Luke Evans, Gina Carano
Running Time: 2 Hours 10 Minutes
Language:: English
Classification: 18
Synopsis: After the events of "Fast Five", professional criminal Dominic Toretto and his crew of international thieves and drivers are wealthy, but their criminal records prevent them from returning to their home countries. Following his attempts to apprehend them, Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs is forced to offer the crew a deal; he will give them all full pardons for their crimes if they will help him take down a lethally skilled mercenary organization led by a former British special forces officer turned criminal mastermind Owen Shaw and his ruthless second-in-command, Dominic's thought-dead lover, Letty Ortiz.
Trailer Impressions: I may not be a big fan of the Fast & Furious franchise, but I did enjoy the new heist direction they took with Fast 5. This new entry does seem to still run along those lines, but the re-introduction of 'family above all' arc seems to turn me off a little. I never particularly got attached to any of the characters, and I just want to see some really strong set pieces from this, which this trailer has surely spoiled them (even the Gina Carano catfight) I wouldn't make this a must-see for me, so it might be something I would pick up later on for an easy watch when it has rolled out from the cinemas.
Director: P. RameeshOlli
Cast: Sasitharan Rajoo, Puspa Narayan
Running Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Language:: Tamil
Classification: P13
Synopsis: The story is about Vishnu, a geologist and his wife, Sumathi, a teacher. They have been married for the past seven years but have not been gifted with a child. Things change once Vishnu falls while carrying out his work in a cave. He then sees a bright ray of light. Since that day he experiences strange incidents around him and his wife. An old man who appears to know what is happening, passes Sumathi a book, telling her to read it and to be careful. It looks like Vishnu and Sumathi are targeted by beings from outer space...
Trailer Impressions: At first I was going to dismiss this sci-fi from Bollywood, but I eventually learned that this was actually a local production, so it's gets points from that angle. Looking at this from that angle, it does actually look quite impressive as very few local productions would dare to go for the sci-fi path (like the one I would like to dub as Malaysia's Transformers) because of its high budget and concepts that can be alienating. There is a lot of references to Hinduism in this one, so I'm not sure if I can get the full mileage out of this. Put this in the curious list.
Director: Dustin HoffmanQuartet
Cast: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins, Billy Connolly
Running Time: 2 Hours
Language:: English
Classification: P13
Synopsis: Beecham House is abuzz. The rumour circling the halls is that the home for retired musicians is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. For Reginald Paget (Tom Courtenay), Wilfred Bond (Billy Connolly) and Cecily Robson (Pauline Collins) this sort of talk is par for the course at the gossipy home. But they're in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean Horton (Maggie Smith). Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship and ended her marriage to Reggie, who takes the news of her arrival particularly hard. Can the passage of time heal old wounds? And will the famous quartet be able to patch up their differences in time for Beecham House's gala concert?
Trailer Impressions: This could have been easily my pick for the week if I hadn't already seen it on the plane whilst I was traveling. It has small charms for the directional debut of Dustin Hoffman, so I am looking forward to see more of his works if he is going to be sitting on the directors' chair more often. I would recommend this if you something slow from this week's releases.
FilmBah's Pick of the Week
Despite the hard and fast releases that are out this week, I have to say that I'm not too excited about any of them. Quartet, as I've mentioned would have been my pick for this week if I hadn't seen it, but there's nothing else to make me want to go the movies that badly. But if you hadn't seen it, I say go looking for the Quartet. As for me, I might just go looking for what I missed in the past couple of weeks. Maybe The Great Gatsby or Hummingbird. Any views of either?Releases according to CinemaOnline and check your nearest screenings at Showtimes.
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