Premiere Screening of Firestorm

Hello hello~ fluff up your pillow for another movie review!

I feel blessed and thankful for getting not one, but two premiere screening tickets in a row this week; thank you Nuffnang! I got to watch The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and wrote a review about it here! Today's movie review is about Firestorm aka 风暴. Firestorm is a Cantonese movie starring Andy Lau, Lam Ka Tong and a few others that seem familiar but I don't know their names (sorry I'm quite blur when it comes to HK artists. I recognize the mainstream ones only).

Firestorm Official Poster

Taken from: http://blog.nuffnang.com.my/

Firestorm Premiere Ticket

And this time, I brought my dad as my plus one. I was worried that my dad won't watch with me because he needs to sleep early to get sufficient rest for work but he entertained me for the movie! 

This is my first premiere screening at GSC and I was pretty excited! And it was the first time the staff strictly checked our food and drinks to make sure there's no outside food. Outside food and drinks found were kept in a locker until the end of the movie. I have never seen them being so strict! Unconsciously, I slid down my chair. Perhaps guilt is consuming me cause I smuggled in food once or twice before. But that is ancient history!

Back to the movie, it is rather unfortunate because even with Andy Lau's charming performance, I rate Firestorm ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ (5/10). The movie actually had scenes that exceeded my expectations and would have bumped up my rating. But the story was so far off from reality that I found it illogical. So overall, the movie is just medicore.

One scene that deserved a 7★ stars rating is when the innocent people get killed off cruelly and with no mercy. Besides that, the effects were quite good. At the start of the movie I was thinking "oh yay! I'm gonna be in HK soon!". 20 minutes later, it became "oh dear, I'm gonna be in HK soon!". When the movie reached the climax, I was just thinking "OMG! I'M GONNA BE IN HK SOON!". Of course, thinking back, I know its just movie effects but at that point, I was convinced that Hong Kong is actually THAT scary. At least, that's what I think. Right?

I also liked the good cop bad cop scenario. It reminded me of Internal Affairs. But even that can't save the movie from the ridiculously out of reality storyline. As we all know, generally, the main character usually won't die. He will become the hero by the end of the movie. But this movie went beyond that! Lui Sir (Andy Lau) was portrayed as some sort of super cop that will not die no matter how many times he gets shot, gets blown up, or jump off a building. Lui Sir is supposed to be a normal, human cop; not some sort of super-cop from another movie!

Andy Lau in Future-X-Cops (未來警察)

Taken from: http://www.thedailyzombies.com/2010/04/x-o-manowar-movie.html

Also, no one can aim in the movie other than the bad guy. It's quite pathetic to see an elite team of cops all suffering from bad aim and die. To make things worse, the bad guy was CRAZILY OUTNUMBERED. Please la! I can shoot better than this so called super squad. This scene made the cops look so like a bunch of amateurs.

If you can overlook that, then the movie is not that bad. It was able to keep my adrenaline pumping all the time. My dad also had the same conclusion; that the movie is unrealistic. He described it as a mash up of Internal Affairs with action scenes from 2012 and Avengers.

Oh note that since it's rated 18, do expect blood and disgusting scenes. It's not excessive though. Just enough to shock me, but not terrify me and give me nightmares. Well that's all for my Firestorm movie review!

I'm gonna be in HK super super soon. And I'm not finished packing yet. Till then~

Ps: Next post coming up as usual, all the way from HK! Yay for the internet!