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Agent MI-6 Ray Coval (Clive Owen) falls in love with Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) in a barbeque party in account to the celebration of American independent day in Dubai. He just realized that Claire is an agent of CIA after knowing that she absconds with the documents and willingly slept with him even just a night. Years later, those two spies get another meeting when Ray is completing his duties given by an enormous company, Equikrom, while Claire works for the Equikrom’s competitor, Burket & Randle, which will be ready for releasing the new product keenly wanted by Equikrom. As the boss of Ray, Richard Garsik asks him to find out its formula. Both companies compete seizing the ownership of the new product.

Just the same as I LOVE TROUBLE, Ray and Claire performs their own style of quarreling. Indeed, Julia Roberts, who played more less the same character last 15 years, is still able performing this character well. After having a long time absence, Roberts plays a role as a smart, sexy, and cunning character. In the age of 41, she’s still comfortably acting and the camera is still friendly with her. Unlike Owen who performs his arrogant character wonderfully and cannot be refused by women, Roberts here conducts her role freely.

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Wayne Kramer seems want to acquire success as Paul Haggis got through Haggis’ Oscar Champion movie, Crash. By the various characters from story and conflict, Crash won that fabulous event in 2005 after beating Brokerback Mountain. It makes Kramer want to doo so, even he stated that this movie is remade from the same titled short movie made in 1995. This story which tells about immigrants in U.S has a correlation with Kramer who is an immigrant from South Africa. Yet, just only the judges want to consider it.

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Kreuk stars as Chun Li who experienced a traumatic tragedy dealing with her father when she was young. her father who is an international asian businessman believed killed in his own house by a murder named M. Bison (Mc Donough). the young Li becomes a concert pianist in Hong Kong. after the death of her mother, this young lady knows that her mother was killed indeed. then Chun Li’s father is kidnapped and locked up by Bison in a hi-tech prison. he is forced to do everything what Bison asks to do. if he disobeys this rule, his only daughter will be killed. knowing that fact, Chun Li decides to go to Bangkok looking for her father whle taking revenge.

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It tells about a smart computer analyst named Max who just got a hi-tech phone-set from an anonymous. He conducts some given commands from a mysterious short message. Later on, he gets various kinds of enjoyment and luck and also has a promenade to Praha celebrating his victories in casino gamble. This invites curiosity from the security (Burns) and a FBI agent (Rhames) who reports that criminal to the chairperson of NSA (Sheen). Being recognized then, that government computer named “Echelon” operates itself for a purpose.

As the plot and agenda are hidden inside the story, the major character must have adventure around the world. Not few shooting and running actions occur in that ala Jason Bourne trip. It comes to its climax when Max destroys that super computer with his game of logic. Movie director, Greg Marcks, and the two script writers have done much and maximally presenting it faster that their viewers’ thought. This is aimed to gain its viewers’ feeling of involvement and that they are unaware of the missing plot and each character’s inconsistency.

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A wise strong of little Miss Sunshine probably still remains in your mind. Telling as to a family who trapped in a problem of each when having a long journey by VW Conbi, this movie shows that a simple plot can be performed well if the acting of each character is good enough. It is what occurred in Sunshine Cleaning, a sad comedy that shows a reality in which life is a fact that must be faced however difficult it is. Having low budget, good players/actors and actress, and being an opening act in Sundance Film Festival last year, sunshine cleaning became one of the best indie movie this year.

Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) is a beautiful sexy ex-cheerleader captain at her school. Yet, now she is a single mother who has to bring up her 7-year-old kid, Oscar (Jason Spevack), as a maid. Her sister, Norah (Emily Blunt), has almost the same destiny. She still lives with her father and works part-time from one place to another. In the desperation in sending Oscar to a highly costs civil school, Rose agrees with her wifed-ex-boyfriend but often dates until now, Mac (Steven Zahn), to be a crime scene and other easer. No doubt, Rose also asks her sister to do that dirty and disgusting job.

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This film, taken from Roberto Saviano’s book, is a popular film in Italy and was the winner of Grand Prix in Cannes. The setting is set bleakly and impressively in dirty background to emphasize its gangster theme. The plot itself is set as no any police can be responsible to the transparent crimes being occurred in the story. In harmony with the crimes, the society in the story seems to support the gangster actions. This is not aimed to gain connection inviting characters empathy.

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The film entitled Assassination of a High School President tends to be a dark comedy film directed by Brett Simon, a popular film director who was famous as a video clip and advertisement director and a lecturer of Berkeley University. The characters role-played in this film are the young actor of Rocket Science, Reece Thompson, the beautiful of The O.C, Mischa Barton, Michael Rapaport, till the superstar Bruce Willis who performed as a minor character.
Bobby Funke (Thompson), a student and a journalist in his college in New Jersey, is invited to investigate the case of the lost of SATs examination folder. Bob prefers write about the class chairperson to do the investigation unless his beautiful senior, Francesca Facchini (Barton), asked him. In short, Bobby investigates Paul Moore Patrick James Taylor), a basketball star and a council president. His investigation results the jacking-up of his popularity and is praised by the whole students, headmaster, Kirkpatrick (Willis), and Moore’s girlfriend, Francesca. It’s not only about Moore’s cunning, but also there’s a conspiracy involving council committee and its relation with the drugs commerce at the college. read more »