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Wreck-It Ralph (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : He wants to be a good guy this time

Posted on December 19, 2012 by kaist455

 Disney’s new digital animation film “Wreck-It Ralph” reaches to my nostalgia with a handful of video games I played during my childhood and adolescent years. I had little interest on playing video games unlike my schoolmates, but I was drawn … Continue reading →

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Dredd 3D (2012) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : A judge’s rough day with a psychic rookie

Posted on December 9, 2012 by kaist455

 Here is a good news; “Dredd 3D” is better and more enjoyable than that forgettable 1995 film based on the same British comic book by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. While we have seen its dystopian world countless times before … Continue reading →

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Skyfall (2012) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4) : James Bond returns to his root on a gloomy day

Posted on October 27, 2012 by kaist455

After I walked out of the screening room at last night, one audience wondered whether “Skyfall” was a Halloween movie. I was not so surprised about that reaction, because “Skyfall” is probably the gloomiest chapter in the fascinating series which … Continue reading →

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Looper (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A SF thriller with clever loopholes

Posted on October 12, 2012 by kaist455

There is nothing particularly new about one of the time-honored traditions in science fictions in new SF thriller “Looper”, but this smart film cleverly finds good ways to deal with its subject, and I like it. Its law of causality … Continue reading →

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Brave (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : She deserves her next adventures

Posted on September 27, 2012 by kaist455

I have never imagined the day will come – the day when I struggle to find any way possible to talk about a Pixar animation. I cannot deny that “Brave” is a good animation film which can be enjoyed by … Continue reading →

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The Bourne Legacy (2012) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : By the way, where is Bourne?

Posted on September 9, 2012 by kaist455

One major problem of “The Bourne Legacy” is that the movie is not so much about Jason Bourne, whose precarious quest for his identity was well told and shown in three previous films “The Bourne Identity”(2002), “The Bourne Supremacy”(2004), and … Continue reading →

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Total Recall (2012) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : It can unnecessarily remember it for you

Posted on August 16, 2012 by kaist455

Len Wiseman’s “Total Recall”, which is a remake version of the 1990 film with the same name, has several amusing things to talk about after watching it, but most of them are the faint echoes from the 1990 version. They … Continue reading →

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Minority Report (2002) ☆☆☆☆(4/4): A great multifaceted entertainment from Spielberg

Posted on July 3, 2012 by kaist455

Watching Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” (2002) again through Blu-ray made me muse on how much my life with movies has changed during the last 10 years. When I watched it with my father at one of the big movie theaters … Continue reading →

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Haywire (2011) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Don’t mess with her…

Posted on June 15, 2012 by kaist455

“Haywire” is an entertaining film based on a seemingly bland premise of spy action movie. Although its plot is a little shaky(I do not exactly understand what the bad guys gain through their scheme though their motive is explained later), … Continue reading →

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Machine Gun Preacher (2011) ☆☆(2/4) : He’s still with guns…

Posted on May 26, 2012 by kaist455

“… one of the wild ones. Oh, we’ve some of them in every generation. You can’t tame them, you can’t bring them into the community and make them live in law and order. They go their own way. If they’re … Continue reading →

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