Synopsis: A fighter needed to play a match to rescue his brother
Pas banget, film ini mengangkat beladiri MMA (bener ngga nih?) yang lagi happening dimana-mana. Di Indonesia sendiri, ada channel swasta yang nanyain pertandingan beladiri ini juga dan kayaknya penonton lumayan banyak. Intinya, bisa dibilang film ini pas banget karena ngangkat beladiri yang lagi banyak-banyaknya digemari orang, di Indonesia sama di luar negeri.
Ace's madness in starting the game
Big Match adalah film aksi komedi yang disutradarai oleh Choi Ho dan aku sih jujur aja belum tau tentang track record sutradara yang satu ini dan Big Match ini jadi penentu apakah aku bakal bisa berharap dengan sutradara ini atau ngga. Untuk aktor dan aktris film ini, ada banyak nama besar yang menaungi film ini. Bayangin deh, ada Lee Jung Jae (Assasination, The Face Reader, Il Mare), Shin Ha-Kyun (No Mercy for the Rude, Welcome to Dongmakgol, Save the Green Planet), and BoA (ngga perlu dijelasin dia ini siapa). Untuk plot, cerita ini berkisah tentang seorang petarung bernama Choi Ik-Ho yang diancam oleh seseorang yang misterius bernama Ace untuk memainkan game yang sudah dia persiapkan. Kalau dia tidak mau bermain, maka saudara laki-lakinya telah diculik yang akan mendapatkan akibatnya.
Film ini penuh dengan aksi laga yang menampilkan betapa atletisnya Lee Jung Jae. Banyak adegan yang mengharuskan dia untuk beraksi selincah dan segesit mungkin. Ngga kebayang betapa lamanya persiapan dia untuk main film ini atau dia memang dari awalnya biasa berolahraga seperti itu. Film ini juga dipenuhi dengan berbagai scene yang komedi yang bikin aku ketawa. Karakter Choi Ik-Ho yang dia perankan adalah karakter yang bisa dibilang cukup polos dan awalnya dia tidak percaya kalau saudaranya benar-benar diculik. Namun, pada akhirnya, dia tahu kalau permainan yang sudah dipersiapkan oleh Ace bukanlah sebuah permainan biasa, nyawa saudara laki-lakinya benar-benar dipertaruhkan disini.
I believe I can fly
Selain Lee Jung Jae, kemunculan Shin Ha-Kyun sebagai Ace juga membuat film ini semakin menarik. Karakternya bisa dibilang lucu tapi di balik itu, dialah villain paling berbahaya yang sudah menimbulkan kekacauan di hidup Choi Ik-Ho. Belum lagi, adanya BoA di film ini membuat film ini semakin menarik. BoA bukan hanya sebagai pemanis di film ini, tapi dia turut menampilkan beberapa aksi laga disini.
Beware of BoA's punch
Hampir sesuai dengan judulnya, Big Match menampilkan 'pertandingan besar' dimana ladang permainan Choi Ik-Ho berpindah-pindah dan dia harus siap untuk beradaptasi dengan permainan yang sudah direncanakan oleh Ace. Kalau diliat-liat sih, film ini hampir mirip dengan film Arena yang dimainkan Samuel L. Jackson dan Kellan Lutz. Bedanya film ini bisa tampil dengan lebih lucu dan tidak se-gore dibandingkan film Arena. Buatku, Big Match benar-benar entertaining dan aku ngga bosen-bosennya nonton film ini.
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Credits:
Asianwiki for film poster
FilmIsNow Movie Trailers International @ youtube for the trailer
Stars: Dario Grandinetti, Maria Marull, Monica Villa
Origin: Argentina
Runtime: 122 minutes
Sinopsis: Six tales of the wildest revenge that you've ever imagined
Just you wait
Didn't expect anything when my friend told me to watch this film. Thought it would be a mere thriller movie since my friend had known that I favored thriller movies and she, sometimes, recommended some for me. The first tale is quite amazing, to be the beginning of the movie. It's impressive and I really didn't see it coming, that the first story would be happened in such way. The simple premise, which later, developed into amazing story. The first story initiated the other tales which also has great developing plot. The director, Damian Szifron, ensured the audience, from the very beginning, that this movie would blow your mind.
Such a happy couple, really?
Since the movie was kinda omnibus, you had several stories to favor. There were Pasternak, The Rats, Road to Hell, Bombita, The Deal, and Till Death Do Us Part). Personally, my favorite was Road to Hell because it was so ridiculous, too ridiculous I reckon. But, it's the wild tales, what could you expect? It's the wildest imagination of the director. Ah yes, the stories in the movie mirrored everyone's daily lives which made the movie was so natural, naturally strange, though. Because it didn't end up like your everyday lives. For me, it was worth watching because it was witty, funny, and surely different. Two thumbs up for the director for thinking these tales and successfully, projected those into a movie. No wonder Almodovar was the producer and it was the nominee for best foreign movies. Well done, Sir! Great actors and actresses, too!
Sinopsis: A story about a mother who just loses her son and come to Barcelona, to inform the father
Manuela and her son
I have mixed and indescribable feeling after watching this movie. First, I'm not too familiar with Spanish movie, other than telenovela that I've watched in my childhood and some of Del Toro's films. It's been a new experience (and experiment) for me to watch a comedy drama Spanish like this (I don't really think it's a comedy but, Roger Ebert said so, then...I'm just referring to his genre). The story begins with the story of a single mother with her son. The mother worked in a hospital and her son is in brink of adulthood, aimed to be a writer. Once, the mother and her son watched All about Eve together and his son complained about how the dubbed version always changed the title of the movie into something which is completely different with the original one. Well, I think this is how the title All about My Mother or Todo Sabre Mi Madre is chosen. It might be a personal taste of the director, that he has something to do with All about Eve and her mother which eventually inspires him to make this movie (later, I found that there is a slight plot of All about Eve reflected in the movie).
Instead of Huma Rojo, it's the mother who's the star, as in the picture
Honestly, it takes three times for me to watch the movie in a full concentration. I ended up sleeping at my first attempt, doesn't pay a lot attention in my second attempt, and finally, I know why this movie is interesting in my third attempt. Based on my experience, this is not a movie that you will find exciting in the first time. I mean, there are some bizarre moments crawled in my mind during my experience in watching this movie. The first is I'm kinda speechless when Manuela can work with the one who indirectly cause her son died in accident, without feeling any anger. In other hand, she can sosialize well with her. I find it weird but, maybe it's just because I've watched many thriller which has a lot of revenge issues. But, well, I let it pass and keep watching it. Then, the other bizarre moment is when Sister Rosa is having a baby and the father of the baby is a transvetite. I can't compherend it well, maybe it's just cultural barrier that makes me kinda confused. But, truth is sometimes stranger than a fiction. This might be happened in the real life and the director wants to show that. Other than those two, I have some others but, people just need to find it by themselves.
One of my favorite scenes
Beside all of the new experiences that I've had after watched it, I find that this is a very straight movie. There is no exaggerating moments. It just flows as it is. While Agrado, one of the characters, seemed to steal the center spot. This movie still revolves around the mother, Manuela. Especially, it's about her and Esteban, her husband and the father of her son, her deceased son, and the son of Sister Rosa who is actually the half-brother of her deacesed son and the son of her husband. Quite entangled, eh? There are three Estebans in the movie and all of them related to the Manuela. So, I think it's quite understandable why the title of this movie is All about My Mother. The mother has to lose her second Esteban to force herself in meeting the first Esteban, and eventually she's the one who reunites the first Esteban with the third Esteban. It's been a quite journey to watch all of extravaganza performances in the movie, other than I've mentioned in here. It's been fun and entertaining to watch this movie. Not to mention the music that comes together with the attractive scenes which spoilt you with its colors. It's just amazing
Okay. Always Bring Protection. Good tagline. Well, I don't where should I start with. It's a pretty mediocre for me. I guess, the purpose of this movie is about making it as funny and scary as it can be. But, it's just another-saturday-night-movie which will make me sleep in five minutes or less than that. I mean, dorks in zombie world, how original. The thing which is different is just the scouts things, but I've never been a fan of scouts. Even more, I'm used to hate it because I had to standing in the schoolyard at NOON because of this scouts thing. Euh...
Eeerrr...maybe I can talk about the plot. A janitor messed up in a lab, making this zombie creature alive, terrorizing human beings. Then, there are three scouts boys who later will save the day. Ah ya, romance in the air is also important as one of the scouts boys had his own dream girl. And he saved the day because he wanted to save his girl, too. Yah, it's all about. Maybe I forgot a one or two things in this movie but, can't tell you much now. Maybe later, I'll change my opinion and edit this post.
