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Legion Movie Review

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On February 2, 2010

We were supposed to only watch one movie. We ended up watching two, Paano na Kaya & Legion. Just one look at the poster & I knew that it would be a good movie considering Paul Bettany was playing the lead character.

I was very happy when I saw Dennis Quaid in the movie. Unfortunately, even though I admire the cast, I was not impressed with the story. The Powerhouse cast included Dennis Quaid, Paul Bettany, Tyrese Gibson, and Kate Walsh were just not enough to make a movie a great one because the story is just too weak.

The story is about God who wanted to make humans extinct. Fallen Angel Michael (Paul Bettany’s character) didn’t agree with God’s decision. So Michael helped a group of strangers in a diner, including a pregnant woman who is believed to bear a child that is the only hope or savior of the human race!

Actually, that’s the story, which is followed by people in the diner fighting for their life. Possessed men attacking the diner, biting people, etc. haaayy… felt like an apocalypse movie with a zombie twist in it.

I left the movie thinking what the story was all about and what lessons it was trying to leave with us.

My Rating for Legion: 2 out of 5 stars.

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White Noise 2: The Light Movie Review

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On January 1, 2010

While I was enjoying my vacation at home, I spent time watching movies on cable channel, Star Movies. One of the movies that I was able to catch is White Noise 2: The Light. It stars Nathan Fillon (Castle & Firely) and Katee Sackhoff (cast of Battlestar Galactica).

I described this as a suspense movie. I was very much entertained and I believe the movie was well-made. Though the story wasn’t that strong but still well-crafted. This movie was a follow up to the original starring Michael Keaton: White Noise. I should try to catch that movie via DVD or wait till it is shown on Star Movies hehehehe. I heard that it didn’t get good reviews though, not like this 2nd installment which got 86% tomatometer (Rotten Tomatoes).

The movie was about Abe (Nathan Fillon) who witnessed the murder of his wife and son right in front of him. It was such a devastation that he ended up taking his own life. But he was able to survive. Due to this, he got the ability to see the people who are about to die.

Abe was able to identify because the person would have a white light surrounding that person. He felt that he needed to do something with the premonition and ended up saving three lives from dying. Abe also learned that the guy who murdered his wife and kid was still alive. He started researching about the guy and learned that he saved his wife and kid before.

Abe later realized that the killer also had an ability to see death. As he investigated further, Abe discovered that whenever you try to save someone when they are supposed to die, natural forces will punish you for it. Like for example, the ones that were saved will be possessed by evil after three days. And those people ended up killing innocent people in the process.

This led to the conclusion that he needed to rectify what he did by killing the people he saved. Before he could do that though, he ended up getting killed and then the movie ended. Ofcourse there were effects to let the movie end smoothly.

White Noise 2: The Light reminded me of Final Destination. Final Destination was more of teeny-teeny bop movie (which was good). White Noise: The Light on the other hand took the plot more seriously.

My rating for White Noise 2: The Light is 3 out of 5 stars.

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The Ugly Truth Movie Review

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On October 5, 2009

I was able to watch this last saturday and I must say that I enjoyed the movie. Well, one big factor was Gerard Butler! I just love him (especially after watching him in “300”).

It’s a romantic story about a local tv show producer, Abby, and a man named Mike, who is host of a segment, “Ugly Truth”. Abby, after coming from a disastrous date, just so happened to watch Mike on TV. She ended up calling him, and arguing with him over the air regarding their thoughts on relationships.

The next day, the station owner hired mike so he could help save Abby’s show from being cancelled. They hated each other.

Finally, Abby met the man of his dreams. She and Mike reached an agreement. The agreement is, Mike will teach Abby how to get the man of his dreams. If he is successful, Abby will work with him. Otherwise, Mike will quite the show.

It worked! Let me share with you what Mike taught Abby, girls might find this useful (hehe!):

Don’t Criticize
Laugh a Lot!
Guys love to visualize – so look your best!
Don’t talk about your problems
Guys love long-haired girls

Somehow, Abby realized that the guy of her dreams learned to love her because of pretentions (religiously following Mike’s lessons). So they broke up. In the end, Mike and Abby fell in love with each other. How? You have to watch it! I don’t want to give too much spoilers (thought I kinda shared the whole story already :P)

Great lesson taught here. Yes, there are effective ways to get the man of your dreams but will you be happy by pretending to be that perfect girl?

My Rating for The Ugly Truth: 4 out of 5 stars.

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