Good Times, Bed Times (戀上你的床 / Luen seung ngei dik chong -2003)

Starring:
Ching Wan Lau - Raymond
Sammi Cheng - Carrie
Louis Koo - Inspector Paul Ko Chi Keung
Charlene Choi - Tabbie
Sandra Ng Kwan Yue - BoBo Au
Philip Chan - Superintendent
Pinky Cheung - Ah P
Sui-man Chim - Uncle Lam
Niki Chow - Girl at hair salon
Tien You Chui
Suet Lam - Judge Chow
Tats Lau
Lik-Chi Lee
Tony Leung Ka Fai
You-Nam Wong
Yuk-Man Wong

Bored judge Raymond (Ching Wan Lau) indulges himself in one-night stands and flirtations, causing his girlfriend Ah Qiu (Sammi Cheng) to leave him. Ah Qiu, a journalist, doesn't lose any time in falling in love with Keung (Louis Koo), a super-cop she is sent to interview. The only problem is that after a narrow brush with death, Keung is now unable to perform any conjugal duties. Raymond, on the other hand, meets his match in a spoiled 18-year-old (Charlene Choi).

This movie was actually quite hilarious in certain parts. Okay, the jokes about a certain male body part was off the scale. There is a part where they (Raymond and Ah Qui) try to help Keung and use weights to strengthen...well....THAT body part. LOL! It was a riot. I laughed so hard.

The story gets slow most of the time. This movie really had two stories but if they focused on Keung's story, it would have been even better. The story about Ray and the young girl was actually quite sick to me. So I rolled my eyes quite often when it came to them.

The movie was actually worthwhile. I'm not big on Chinese comedies but this has some substance to keep me intertained. Louis Koo wasn't so bad to look at either. Not the most handsome but nice enough for the story.

The Twins Effect (千机变 /Chin gei bin -2003)

AKA: The Vampire Effect

Starring:
Ekin Cheng - Reeve
Charlene Choi - Helen
Gillian Chung - Gypsy
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang - Prada
Edison Chen - Kazaf
Jackie Chan - Jackie
Josie Ho - Lila
Maggie Lau - Nurse Maggie
Karen Mok - Ivy
Winnie Leung - Deborah
Mandy Chiang - Momoko

EKIN CHENG plays REEVES, a veteran vampire hunter from the ANTI-VAMPIRE LEAGUE who has lost all of his female partners in the past. Even tougher to bear than their actual deaths at the hands of his fanged foes is the fact that he's almost always fallen in love with them before their untimely demise. Vowing never to become romantically attached to his next partner, we meet GYPSY (played by the ever so cutesy GILLIAN CHUNG) who's assigned to him to train in vampire bashing. But alas, why did she join up? Well, as it turns out, he's been her idol, love interest, and motivation to continue on since her parents were murdered by the dreaded toothy ones. Or so she says. EKIN's sister, HELEN (the other TWIN, CHARLENE CHOI) doesn't care much for GYPSY and her advances towards her older brother.

Meanwhile, over on the vampire front, big bad Euro blood sucker, DUKE DEKOTES (played by actor MICKEY HARDT) and his crew has shown up in Hong Kong in search of the last remaining vampire prince who holds the fabled vampire bible, "DAY FOR NIGHT", a book which will enable the undead bearer to walk in the daylight without harm. Enter our young vampire prince, KAZAF (played by actor EDISON CHEN), who along with his servant PRADA, (actor ANTHONY WONG) have decided to become passive vampires who option to drink manufactured bottled blood and not steal it by killing hapless human victims. They even set up house in a church to prove that they are indeed "New Age" vampires. KAZAF meets and ends up falling in love with HELEN (sister of the number one vampire stalker). Since true love can never be denied, the two start to date and through VERY creative methods, KAZAF manages to fool her into believing that he's a normal fellow until the inevitable truth surfaces. And as you can probably already predict, REEVES, GYPSY, HELEN, and DUKE DEKOTES all soon converge on KAZAF and company in what becomes a free-for-all battle with the most important treasures available for the winner to take.

With the basic story and plot said and done now, since normal people obviously don't possess the supra-strength needed to combat vampires in fisticuffs, the members of the LEAGUE drink small doses of vampire blood before battle. This allows them to temporarily obtain the necesary skills and attributes required to bring down those pesky blood suckers in all out battle. But when the scuffle's finally over, they need to drink an anti-serum that dissolves the vampiric effects. Of course, there will be times that the antidote isn't readily available and you better bet that our hero in question who drank the vampire blood will soon turn to the darkside and become a full fledged creature of the night. Secondly, the swords that the LEAGUE used were really cool. Almost like a bladeless lightsaber, the small handle could extend into a grappling cable or turn into a long bronze blade that would cut down any vampire in it's way. And the last point of curious interest involves KAZAF's spiffy coffin that includes a television, a computer, and stereo surround sound music speakers. Certainly an item that might upset any potential girlfriend, our prince only uses it on HELEN to demonstrate that he's in the funeral business and NOT in the undead business, which is a lie that's bound to come out sooner or later to his great dismay.





Well, I was really looking forward to this but I was slightly dissappointed. It really wasn't what I thought it was hyped up to be. So far, Hong Kong and Chinese movies are dissappointing me. Maybe I'm just picking out the duds............

I love Edison Chen (minus his scandal this year). I was really looking forward to this movie. I mean it was good but it just wasn't what I had hoped for. Hell, they even added Jackie Chan to this movie, which his bumbling parts were by far more enjoyable, didn't seem to make the movie any better.

I'm saddened. The stunts were kind of cool. The story really sucked. They needed more guts and less glory in this thing. There was just toooooo much happening on the outside of the story than on the guts of the story. There was soooo much there but they just ignored it. I really think they should have made two movies of this. One story about Reeves and one about Kazaf.

Ah well. I just tried watching the Twins Effect 2. So far, it's boring. Ugh. I might try again. Maybe I'm just comatose from the Chinese dud movies I'm seeing lately..........and I need to recuperate.

Peace, Out!

Edison Chen


Ekin Cheng

New Police Story (2004)

Starring:
Jackie Chan,
Nicholas Tse Ting-Fung,
Charlie Young Choi-Nei,
Charlene Choi Cheuk-Yin,
Daniel Wu,
Dave Wong Kit,
Andy On Chi-Kit,
Terence Yin,
Hayama Hiro,
Coco Chiang Yi,
Deep Ng Ho-Hong,
Ken Lo Wai-Kwong,
Tony Ho Wah-Chiu,
Timmy Hung Tin-Ming,
Hung Tin-Chiu,
Andrew Lin Hoi,
Carl Ng Ka-Lung,
Samuel Pang King-Chi,
Mandy Chiang Nga-Man,
Maggie Lau Si-Wai,
Asuka Higuchi,
Liu Kai-Chi,
Yu Rong-Guang,
Kenny Kwan Chi-Bun,
Steven Cheung Chi-Hung,
Wu Bai, Tats Lau Yi-Tat,
John Sham Kin-Fun,
Winnie Leung Man-Yi,
Philip Ng Won-Lung

An aging cop whose life takes a precipitous tumble. A decorated cop, Chan Kwok-Wing (Jackie Chan) meets his match in a vicious group of young thugs, who kill cops for fun and "x-treme" satisfaction. After Wing boasts that he'll snag this group of young punks in three hours, the group proceeds to dismantle his ten man squad with expert precision and more than a little stylish flair. Among the dead cops is Wing's future brother-in-law (Deep Ng), a factoid that leaves Wing crying and drinking his guts out...or perhaps the reverse. Either way, he becomes a broken guy. Enter young Frank Cheng (Nicholas Tse), an overly-sprightly young cop who makes it his personal mission to bring Wing back from the brink of self-destruction. Will he succeed?

Equal simplicity is applied to the bad guys. Made up of Daniel Wu, Terence Yin, Andy On, Hayama Go, and Coco Chiang, the gang of evildoers is given pseudo-understandable psychosis by the screenplay. This group isn't really bad; they're more like misunderstood kids who've simply taken their disaffection too far...into murder and completely over-the-top crime sprees. ~HKfilms

Ok. I'm not the biggest Jackie Chan fan. However, this movie was fun! I am a total Nicholas Tse fan so that is why I broke down to see this in the first place. I was not dissappointed!

I've read that this wasn't one of JC's best Police Story movies. I guess there are like 4 or 5 of them. Not sure about that. But.....this being the first one I've seen, I really liked it. I will admit it was a little heart wrenching in the beginning to see his comrades killed. Geez, I had to turn away because I knew it wasn't going to be good. It wasn't bloody or gory...just the thought of seeing your friends die...is sickening. So that was a little rough for me. Yeah, I'm a bleeding heart. Sue me!

The kung-fu was awesome. I have to say JC's choreography is astounding. ASTOUNDING! It's just kung-fu eye candy...I tell ya.

So if your bored and need a little excitement to pump up the blood...this was a pretty good one. Watch it!

Nicholas Tse

Ummm............*tongue is down to my toes, saliva oozing down my chin, breathe quickening, eyes bulging*........OMFG!

Just One Look (一碌蔗,Yat Luk Che-2002)

Starring:
Shawn Yue
Charlene Choi
Gillian Chung
Wong Yau-Nam
Anthony Wong

Shawn Yue stars as Fan, a Cheung Chau-born young man who spends his time selling sugar cane with his grandmother (Lee Fung) outside the local cinema. Years ago, his father (Sam Lee) reportedly shot himself in the restroom of the cinema, but Fan has suspected all along that is was local gangster Crazy (Anthony Wong) who pulled the trigger. In the ten years since, Fan has fueled his vendetta by secretly sniping Crazy with a slingshot, though he's too scared to confront him in person.

Fan's cohort in youthful mischief is buddy Fishball Ming (Wong Yau-Nam of boy band Shine). Ming leads their group of friends as they fight with local toughs and torture rats for fun. Both also take a shine to Nam (Charlene Choi, AKA: Twin #1), the daughter of a kung-fu teacher (Eric Kot). Fan and Ming join up at the school in order to get closer to Nam, whom Ming dubs "heroine". However, Fan finds himself attracted to a mysterious girl in white (Gillian Chung, AKA: Twin #2), who lives in a local convent. He resolves to write to her, but finds himself unable to find the words. Luckily, he can use the film synopses outside the cinema to compose his letters, which she receives willingly. Then...more stuff happens.

This was a slow movie at the beginning picked up and then got slow again. Another movie that I discovered that liked to revolve around older generation movies. It was sort of boring but I stuck with it. It seemed to have "something". I can't say it was the best Chinese movie I've seen only because I rarely, and I mean RARELY, watch Chinese movies. I don't know why. They usually don't interest me.

I will say that Shawn Yue was some serious man-candy. Why haven't I seen him sooner? I'll be on the hunt for more of his stuff. I was really intrigued with his style.

This movie could have been better but for some reason I think the writer lost his way. He didn't really know how to end it, I think. It just unraveled into nothing. But like I said I think the character of Fan was phenomenal and the story started out really well....but the end....fizzled.

Shawn Yue

Chinese guys aren't so bad looking after all! LOL! *faints*