Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Underworld: Blood Wars (2016) Review

Jessica
  • Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
        For a horror action with mediocre quality, surprising indeed could still see the Underworld franchise can still stay standing for over 13 years. It may then not be too surprising if you look the facts that, how the benefits the four series of Underworld. Its about  458 million dollars, from the budget of 177 million. Of course, This project is still promising to continue, as long as the demand is still high enough then the production will continue to exist.
        From Awakening series, Blood Wars is still in the same grip, eternal enmity vampire and werewolf (lycan).  Selene (Kate Beckinsale) the Death Dealer formidable been the focus of the seizure of the two clans. She has been on the run from the vampire because she has killed Vampire’s leader and the second reason, She and hisr daughter, Eve have  a special quality of the blood that supposedly capable of giving extraordinary powers to anyone who drank it. Selene is not alone, now after the death of his beloved boyfriend  Michael , Selene with David, the son of Vampire leader (Theo James) tried to stop this war forever.
Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

          Perhaps , Consistency is the key why this franchise can still exist until now. The best part is still put up Kate Beckinsale as a Hero, even after 13 years Beckinsale still gives the same  charm when we first saw it in a sexy tight black latex. Yes, basically Blood Wars is still the same with other movies before, although it was changed the directors for three times (Now Anna Foerster). The bad news is the script that never really be fixed. Still suffering with all the complexities that seemed endless, The war between vampire and lycan repeated without a really strong motive except the eternal past revenge, although it since Awekening focus is shifted to the private Selene with all the romance and its evolution as a super vampire who later became the basis for the narrative Blood Wars.
Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
           It not like that there is nothing new here, it's just not something that is to be made Blood Wars into a series of more privileged than its predecessor, not by the presence of Tobias Menzies as the new commander of the lycan or Lara Pulver as Semira sneaky, including shock at the end of the story seemed very impressed too forced without giving sufficient explanation. As for the action, Blood Wars is still the same fascinated with its predecessor, although, I prefer a final scene of Awakening than this, but once again, the feud physical in Blood Wars are still on the stage entertaining, especially Beckinsale still look just as cool and bad ass his as they had done with all the physical charms and his vampire capabilities are outstanding.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Fast & Furious 8 - Official Trailer 1 Review

Jessica

Fast & Furious 8 - Official Trailer 1 Review

The first official trailer of "Fast & Furious 8"  has just been came up, and the movie will release on April 14th, 2017. Ok, let's talk about trailer.





This is my review about that 3 minutes trailer.

From the sequel "fast and furious" seven movies before,  maybe, in this fast and furious 8 is not going to offer anything surprising anymore, just hunting

criminals with luxury cars and also a blast ,  great explosion. Sequel fast furious has changed from a wild street car racing  to be less street racing anymore.  now , the movies are dominated by the action of hunting criminals, many  big explosion and advanced technology.

From the trailer looks that there will probably be a lot of talk about "family". It is seen from  3 minutes trailer. There are  good people become evil, and  instead there are evil become good. There will be a scene where Tej Parker (Ludacris) said "oh shit" in walkie talkie. And naturally there will be drama of endless joshing murder. The word family is mentioned four times for three minutes in this trailer. Seen from the voices between "Hooray, we're a family", to "How dare you do this to your family?".Also, just to underline the point, the word appears in text.

Extrapolating from this, given that this film is likely to be two hours or  two and a half hours long, we can expect the film to contain upwards of 150 or more usages of the word family.

Furthermore, the main power of this film (besides we can see cool action of luxury cars) seems to be that Vin Diesel has gone from being the good guy to being the bad guy seduced by the mysterious woman, Cipher (Charlize Theron) and wondering the reasons why he changed. Dom looks turn into evil and cooperate with Cipher (Charlize Theron) and to stop Dom being evil, the "furious" families asking for help to a former enemy, namely Shaw (Jason Statham) by sending Hobbs ("The Rock" Dwayne Johnson) to the prison to persuade him help stoping Dom. But don't forget the Dom's Girl friend,  Letty "Ortiz 'Toretto (Michelle Rodriguez),who was good and then went bad and is now good again although we probably shouldn’t rule out the possibility of her temporarily turning bad to win the trust of Vin Diesel (who is now bad).

However, despite all old player in this movies, the Fast & Furious franchise is still capable of surprising its audience.