Vicky ♥ Iron Man 2 ● Movie Review

Marvel Movie - Iron Man 2 Movie Review

The American Super hero film directed by
Jon Favreau






Iron man 1 and 2 originally come from the Comics version




Characters of Iron Man 2 :



Tony Stark (Real Name : Robert John Downey)
Who is 5 years younger than my mother.
By the way, his upcoming movie is "Due date"



Then followed by the bad guy :




Ivan Vanko (Real name : Mickey Rourke)
Who is 8 years older than my mother.
Believe not? He was a professional boxer in the early year 1990, the year I was born to this this world. And won 2009 Golden Globe award and a BAFTA award, he really can box O.O


Tony Stark's Personal Assistant :

Pepper Potts ( Real Name : Gwyneth Paltrow)
38 years old American actress, she looks like 20+, how she handle her look so well O.O



Tony Stark's Best Friend Forever :



Lt. Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Real Name : Don Cheadle)
As Iron Man's future armor-clad hero War Machine, rawr~
His upcoming film "Transformer 3" !! XD


Next will be Stark's new assistant :



Sexy and stunning Girl, her name is Natalie Rushman (Real name : Scarlett Johansson)
An American Singer and Actress





Next will be the another bad guy :


Justin Hammer (Real name : Sam Rockwell) He rocks well :)




The Nick FURY!


Real name : Samuel L. Jackson, he is one of my favourite actor XD
By the way, he really looks like the Ultimate Nick Fury O.O
Round Baldness, Choco black, everything almost the same!
Put the eye patch on, 100% likeness!



The director of Iron Man 2 himself got the act too!



The Middle one, he acts as the Happy Hogan.
Happy Hogan was a boxer who loses in fights, he was hired by Stark because he saved Stark's life in the Tales of Suspense, then mutated into a freak giant, then brought by Stark into his own lab. Then something happened, Hogan carried Pepper Potts away.. bla bla aka very long story and end up here as Stark's body guard :D

The above are the main characters.




Now is the small Characters like...
Tony's father!

Howard Stark (Founder of Stark Industries)


Garry Shandling as Senator Stern, guess what? He's a comedian actor before :D
Especially in the stand up performance "The Tonight show with Johnny Carson"
I prefer his older look, more man, haha!
He wants Tony to give out the Iron Man's Armour to the Government, bad :(


I know no one care about this but..
Someone please take concern on Stark's Computer (JARVIS) T.T
It can talk.


This guy named Paul Bettany, Jarvis's voice over.




Movie Review:

Comparing to Iron man in Part 1, Iron Man in Part 2
is not quite as surprising and fun as it was, but still it delivers great humor and action. But still I prefer the first Iron Man :/



For Iron Man Part 2 movie, this time the bad guy will be Ivan Vanko was ordered by his father who is going to die, revenge on the Iron Man! So he gets the blue prints from his father and started to build his own Arc reactor.





6 months later...





The U.S. Government lead by Senator Stern, is upset with Tony because of him having a private citizen loaded with weaponry intervening overseas on behalf of the country, they want the Iron Man technology turned over to the military. And of course, Tony Stark refuses.



This puts Tony on the opposite side of the equation with his best friend forever James Rhodes who believes that sharing the technology with the military would lower the risks of having to depend on just one man.


Rhodes at the conference room



Another wealthy bad guy, Stark Industries' rival, Justin Hammer who is the weapons manufacturer, and who is trying and failing at making weaponized armoured suits, is jealous of Tony's Iron Man Technology and also Tony himself.



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But even worse thing happens when Stark is slowly dying from the poison of palladium that powers the miniature arc reactor in his chest, raising the toxic level in his blood. He tried everything but nothing could help.


He then appoints his former personal assistant aka Pepper Potts as the
CEO of the Stark Industries.





And hires one called Natalie Rushman to replace Pepper Potts' previous position.



She's a spy from S.H.I.E.L.D.






A scene caught my attention when Tony race Formula 1 car at the Monaco Racing place, Ivan Vanko attacks Tony!



Only then Tony discovered that Ivan is the son of the physicist Anton Vanko who had wanted his son to take revenge on the Stark family. Ivan caught to the jail, but sooner, he breaks out of the jail with the help of Justin Hammer who wants to take every possible chance to seek revenge on Tony. To put Ivan back to Fashioning line of "Hammer Battle Suits" and upstage Tony at his own Expo. Ivan convert these battle suits into "DRONES" by replacing the helmet with drone heads.


Ok, this is the soft toy version lol... That human toy in the middle is the bad guy Hammer!



Justin Hammer on the act.

Then Tony thought that he's gonna die apart from the toxic in his blood, so he take his birthday as the "LAST BIRTHDAY". He wears his Iron Man Mark IV armor as he gets drunk, putting the people who attend his party and himself in danger. So Tony's best friend forever, "Rhodey" Rhodes, got no choice but to wear the Mark II armor and stops him.


Mark II armor is a shiny grey armour that hurts my eye everytime when I look at it.

Ouch.

Which then he confiscated the armour to the military.

Then Nick Fury takes the act, he reveals Tony about his father being the founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D. and gives Tony his father's old artifacts, thus finishing his father's last step on Arc technology process.



And of course, Tony discovered the message that his father tried to deliver to him on the old film his father made for him when Tony was still a kid, he disguised diagram for the atomic structure of a new element.



So so, with the help of his computer the JARVIS, Tony build the particle accelerator and comes out with the newly synthesised element, triangle in shape, before is circle right? :D It successfully cures Tony's chest poisoning too!

Arc Reactor chest piece Upgraded! yay.






Upgraded to this :


See the chest piece on him? :)

Now he is ready to get back to ACTION! Go go Mark VI armor!

At the Stark Expo, Hammer unveils his proudly made military drones, Rhodey Rhodes is there too wearing the Mark II armor (heavily weaponized)


But Ivan takes all the control on the Expo Drones, including Rhodey's Armour.

Weaponized Mark || Armour

He's like playing Gundam game, controlling the Drones hunting down Tony. Meanwhile, the Happy Hogan and Natasha are rushing to Hammer's place to stop Ivan. There's some laugh point on this, Happy Hogan is trying so hard to beat up one enemy, yet Natasha defeats all of the rest of them like in one go. LOL! XD





Wada!!

The next exciting scene comes to the Japanese Garden, where sakura keeps on falling with light wind blows over the air and the flow of river is rather cool and calm :) Where Tony and his best friend forever Rhodey meet each other.



All of the sudden here comes the controlled enemies, the Drones. Then the Ivan in a powerful suit of Armour arrives, shortly but intensively, the two defeat Ivan yay.
The bad guy is dead.

But the battle between the Iron Man and Whiplash is like a blink of eye, don't blink your eye cause you might just miss it out XD




Overall: Iron Man 2 is not as good as its predecessor, but it is still worth watching ;)
Rating:/ 10 Popcorns


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Vicky ♥ Kaiji The Ultimate Gambler Movie ● Ultimate Survivor Kaiji ● Review



Kaiji Movie is a Japanese movie, Brunei The Mall Cineplex seldom show japanese movie. So kinda attract Vicky's attention. Directed by Toya Sato.



Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji -
Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji
Manga comes first then the Anime then the Movie...






Characters of the Kaiji Movie:




The main character of Kaiji Movie is
Tatsuya Fujiwara.
He got one cute smile ever! Because of his teeth :D
He also starring the Death Note 1 & 2 in 2006 as
Light Yagami
which was quite famous after then.






Next will be
Ken'ichi Matsuyama


To the surprise, he is also one of the main character in Death Note movies :D


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Both the characters are from Death Note







They are one good partner



Kaiji, a 26 years old job-hopping bum who finds himself riddled in debt after a shadowy loan company, Rinko Endo the only woman character
as debt collector in the movie...


Yeap, she's almost 40...


Anyway, she informs him that he is responsible for a loan taken by his friend, who has gone missing and whom he casually co-signed as a loan guarantor for! Gosh, what a good friend Kaiji has there :/



The company gives Kaiji the only solution, that is to take a short journey on the "Espoir", a ship where other debtors (all male no female :X) like himself gamble to pay off their debt, meanwhile try to strike it rich. Rules of the gambling games seem simple at first, the Janken (剪刀石头布) rule of playing the card.




But there is so much more than meets the eye...

Kaiji almost got the chance to the winning door, because of his companion who'd forgotten about the last card left on his pocket, Kaiji shows his man of the hood without any further hesitation! Together they both go to the underground to work as hard labour for the Teiai loan company. The place is like hell, they receive little pay and that they spend it on beer and
yakitori, which means, the blood and sweat they dripped for the whole month gone to nothing at last.

A few scenes captured when they work on the underground,
it's very suffering ya know? T.T


The obvious mark on kaiji's shoulder is something about the sign or symbol as a labour of the loan company. Well, things are not that simple, before they chop the sign, something is being injected into the arm, that is the heart beat sensor thingy where the bad guy of the Kaiji movie can see through his modern watch.

Later show you all his bad face.



This scene is captured when they are being told that they have to pay for their medical with their own salary too! The company really so harsh! >:( So sad.


Well, there is one and only way to get out of this hell place. That is to challenge the bloody
BRAVE! MEN! ROAD!

That's the most exciting part of the whole movie for me, something like fear factor O.O
Ok I can't get any scenes from the website T.T All I can do is explain haha...


First thing you have to know is




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Imagine 2 tall skyscrapers AT NIGHT TIME, in between these 2 buldings,
put a narrow beam, very narrow I said,
that it's not enough for you to put 2 feet together,
instead, you have to ... like this :

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Overall is something like this :


Ok, maybe the route is not that narrow lol.


Luckily I'm not Acrophobia, Altophobia, Hypsiphobia and Hyposophobia
In other word, afraid of height.


So there are around 10 + brave men to challenge this Brave Men Road. Just by writing won't fully describe out the level of tension in this scene. You have to watch them yourself!
It’s truly amazing, terrifying and screamy.
I am completely drawn into the brave men’s decision-making process like, to cross or not to cross. If you choose not to cross, you will go back to the hell place. At last all of them follow as Kaiji says yes. I realised that the people works on the underground likes to follow people's decision one,
like 1 go, 3 follow, then 5, then 10 then all of them =.=


Anime version of Kaiji crossing the beam.


You are too focus on the movie that you will be deciding

"If it is me, I definitely will cross over"

"Gosh, if I cross over surely my pants will get wet! Luckily it's raining, phew"

Imagine yourself in the movie is the most exciting part.


Ok, some additional to the imagination,
Kaiji is crossing over the beam with electric connected by the both sides of the beam,
so you can't squat down and hold it, if not, you will be bengkang-ed and fell off to the ground like how watermelon cracks.
More additional thingy! Windy and stormy and rainy accompanying Kaiji and the rest when crossing over the beam. How is that fun?!

I can't imagine more T.T

After all the
"
Ahhhh!!! He's falling down, Ahh!! another one! Fast move one move on!"




Here comes the Bad guy of the Kaiji Movie,
Tokyo Sonata (Real name: Teruyuki Kagawa)



On the last part of the movie, he plays the E-card game with Kaiji.

Ok, suppose the Kaiji can win his freedom but his companion (who died when crossing the brave men road) asks a favour from him that he can take the 10 million to his daughter who is living in the life of her father's debt.
BUT!
The bad guy said after deducting all the debts plus the freaking scary interest rate (which they count on every minute), Kaiji only left 400,000 + which is not enough at all. So the old man with white beard aka the boss of the Teiai company (the old man on the poster, above kaiji's head), offer him a chance, that is playing E-card with Tokyo Sonata aka the bad guy.


If Kaiji wins, he will take away 200 million Japanese Dollar

and

If he loses, he will go back again with to the underground and work for
another 130 years, obviously.... ----> till D.e.a.t.h..

The game is easily explained and understood.

There got 3 types of card altogether.
1 emperor, 1 slave, 8 citizens

You can choose either Emperor Deck or Slave Deck.


Emperor Deck:
Emperor beats any 4 citizens.
Any 4 Citizens beats a Slave.
Slave beats Emperor.
Odds: 4:1



Slave Deck:
Slave beats Emperor.
Citizens makes draws with any Citizens.
Emperor beats any Citizens.
Odds: 1:4


Surprisingly, Kaiji choose the harsh one, the slave deck.


In between, the process is really brain-storming, and oh ya, that is when Tokyo Sonata the bad guy uses his very modern watch to detect Kaiji's heart beat which is useful for him, hmm, how to explain ler? Some kind of Psychological theory.




Something look like this watch,
the most look-alike watch in the web so far I can search.




But with Kaiji's ultimate power of gambling, he beats the bad guy's brain :)
Just by hitting the mirror. And mess up the bad guy's heart beat sensor.


Sorry but another anime version of Kaiji after he hits the mirror ^^"



Oh I found one!

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Yay.


He looks crazy but like what Alice in the Wonderland said so :
"All brilliant people are crazy" HAHA!

The biggest moral for Kaiji in this time incident is
He learns of how to live a better life.


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So that is why Brunei The Mall Cineplex release the Kaiji Movie :)

By the way...








A companion of a warm drink and a popcorn
will make your movie taste better!

Vicky says de XD






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