Rush Hour 2 (2001)

This movie is a sequel of 1998 Rush hour film with Jacky Chan and Chris Tucker.

LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tuicker) is on vacation to Hongkong to visit his friend Hong Kong Police Force Chief Inspector Lee (Jacky Chan). James Carter's mind was mainly to have a good time. however, the bombed explodes in the American Embassy and inspector Less was assigned to it.

They return to Los Angeles to solve the case because they suspected Ricky Tan (John Lone) his late police officer father's former partner.

Will they resolve the case? This movie was really great. I love Jacky Chan's movies because he handled it carefully with humor.

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Rush Hour (1998)

Rush Hour is a comedy action film with directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jacky Chan and Chris Tucker.
Detective Inspector Lee (Jacky Chan) of the Hongkong Police leads a raid in the docks hoping to catch the famous crime Lord Juntao. But he only finds Juntao's right hand man Sang (Ken Leung) and he recovers various of Chinese Cultural Treasures being stolen by Juntao to represent as a farewell victory to his departing superiors; Chinese consul Han (Tzi Ma) and British commanderThomas Griffin (Tom Wilkinson).

On the first day of class of Han's daughter Soo-yung is kidnapped by Sang. Chinese Consul han ask Lee to help him rescuing his only daughter. However, LAPD Detective James Carter, is an arrogant, overconfident and clumsy police officer has also been assigned to take the case. But he were told to keep Lee away from the investigation or else he will have a 2-months suspension without pay due to his clumsiness.
He then met Lee at Los Angeles International Airport to fetch Lee. At first, they had a terrible misunderstandings with Lee but later on he forget what his boss said, instead they agreed to solve the case together.

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Nim's Island (2008)

This is a story directed by Jennifer Flackett with the main casts Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerald Butler.

Nim(Abigail Breslin), is an 11 year old girl, who lives in an Island in South Pacific with her father (Geral Butler) and her mother is a deceased which her father had told her that her mom was being swallowed by a Blue whale.


Nim receives and email from Alexandra Rover or Alex Rover, the auther of the book Alex Rover Adventure and asks about his field of knowledge. Alex Rover is somewhat adventurous but in reality she is definitely the opposite.

Nim's father is a marine biologist and is gone for 2 days to find protozoa Nim (a new species of Plankton). He wants to take her along but Nim convinces him to stay because she has to oversee Chicca's eggs (Turtle). They communicated via sattelite phone. However, Jack encounters large waves in the ocean that caused his boat ruin. Galileo, the Pelican, friend of Nim help her father and brings back the things that he needs to fix.

They are exchanging thoughts Alex Rover have told that Nim is alone on that island and that her father did not return home as the time expected. She travelled to rescue Nim.

But at last, Nim's father return home and falls in love with Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster). This is really a great adventure movie.



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Ghost Town (2008)

Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), is a dentist seeing ghosts after he was diagnosed and died for 7 minutes in the hospital. Dr. Pincus has been chased with the ghosts in the town and asked help from him. The recently deceased businessman Frank(Greg Kinnear) agrees Dr. P to prevent his widow, Gwen (Tea Leoni) from marrying this lawyer Richard (Billy Campbell). But it turned out that Dr. P falls in love with Gwen.

And so as the other ghosts, he help them with their unfinished business left before they died.



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Lakeview Terrace (2008)

A newly-wed couple who just moved their home to California into their dream home Chris and Lisa (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) whom their next-door neighbor, Abel (Samuel Jackson) a single father, LAPD officer that has this feeling of disapproving their interracial relationship. They receive threats and they began worrying after their safety in LakeView Terrace community.

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Deception (2008)

This is another story I've watched that title itself describes how the main character Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) handle himself when Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman) betrayed him or lied at him.

Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant who also audits in the bank. While he is overstaying in their boardroom late at night, he was being interrupted with Wyatt Bose who offers him marijuana and the latter befriended him. On his way home in the subway, he encounters a blond woman (Michelle Williams) but never had the chance to talk to her.

Jonathan Mcquarry is being invited many times with Wyatt Bose including to play tennis and enjoys at night in the bar with him. One day, he accidentally switched their cellphone but unfortunately he was told by Bose that he will have a business trip in London.

One night, a woman called him "Are you Free Tonight" then he said yes. They agreed to meet in a certain place without knowing each other and they proceed directly to the hotel room and had sex.

The other night another woman called him asking the same question and they agree to meet. Wyatt Bose called him to encouraged meeting with different women in the list that is stored in his phone.

One day, he was shocked to see that a woman he met in the subway station. But still he didn't know the real name of that blond woman because one of the rule is "No Name" to mention.
While they were together, The blond woman disappeared quickly and had blood in his room and behind his back, he was being punch with a strong man and then he drowned.

Wyatt Bose contacted him and told him everything that happened. He commanded Jonathan to steal millions of money from the bank he will be audited. He didn't refuse Bose' command and afraid that he will lost his one true love.

Will Jonathan succeed to steal money from the bank? What will happen if he does? Now, its your turn to watch it.

Love in the Times of Cholera (2007)

Florentino Ariza falls in love with Fermina Daza and so as Fermina is also in love with Florentino. Florentino, a telegraph boy who always sends her love notes that eventually lead her of saying yes of marrying him. However, when her father discovers her love affair with Florentino, her father refuse to accept Florentino and thus sending his daughter to a distant relative.

After many years, she came back and agrees to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino, her father's choice. But Florentino never stops loving her. Florentino never got married but only he had affairs of different women.
After more than 50 years of waiting, Fermina's husband died because he falls down from a ladder. Florentino take the chance to seeing her and expressing and keeping his love for more than 50 years. Their romance starts when the cholera epidemic spread throughout their place.

This movie explains that Love will never die nor fade even if you are too old.