LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!
1
Title: My mom's new boyfriend
Countries: USA and Germany
Year: 2008
Genres: Comedy, Romance and Crime
Runtime: 1 hour and 37 minutes
Language: English
Directed by: George Gallo
Written by: George Gallo
Music by: Chris Boardman
Music by: Chris Boardman
Cinematography by: Michael Negrin
Cast: Antonio Banderas (Tommy Lucero/Martinez), Meg Ryan (Marty Durand), Colin Hanks (Henry Durand), Selma Blair (Emily Lott), Eli Danker (Jean Yves Tatao), Enrico Colatoni (Enrico the chef), Marco St. John (Inspector Laborde), Trevor Morgan (Eddie), John Valdeterro (Agent Fedler), Keith David (FBI Chief Conrad), Aki Avni (Agent Randle), Terri Markel (Agent Cisneros), Mark Meade (Special Agent Wagner) and Gary Grubbs (Police Chief Malone).
2
Title: The Children of Huang Shi
Cinematography by: Xiaoding Zhao
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers (George Hogg), Radha Mitchell (Lee Pearson), Yun-Fat Chow (Chen Hangsheng/Jack), Michelle Yeoh (Mrs. Wang), Matthew Walker (Andy Fisher), Guang Li (Shi-Kai), Ping Su (Eddie Wei), Anastasia Kolpakova (Duschka), Imai Hidekai (Japanese Officer), Seiichiro Hashimoto (Urbane Japanese Officer), Youelong Fang (Rou Ding), Shimin Sun (Yu Lin), Xucheng Shi (Kao Tung), Naihan Wang (Ching), Zhi Zang (Lao Si) and Weijuan Wu (Young Mother).
Plots:
1Young federal agent Henry is assigned a new case: to follow in the footsteps of Tommy , a refined international art thief who seems to be planning a new robbery. Things get complicated when Henry discovers that Tommy is his crazy mother's new boyfriend.
2During the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, George Hogg, a young British journalist, will try with the help of an Australian nurse to save a group of orphans.
My review:
My mom's new boyfriend is the typical romantic comedy that is direct to DVD. Its plot is simple and badly written. The jokes of the film are absolutely stereotypical and obnoxious since they are quite racist, especially in the character played by Enrico Colatoni, who is an italian obssessed with Marty and the excessive mockery on the Albanians. However, the acting was not so bad as I expected to be. Antonio Banderas did the best that he could on his crummily character, Colin Hanks did a good job and Selma Blair too. I cannot say anything else about this predictable film.
Nevertheless in the film of the children of Huang Shi, I was speechless of how poignant was the tragedy of war between China and Japan. I have learned so much from the main character, George Hogg, who believed in peace at war times, though having PTSD, Hogg went on the right way and
he did not want any revenge. The tagline of the film was right: When you save some lives, you save the entire world. It is also a depressing film, but no so much as The Grey, because it has both a happy ending and a sad one at the same time. I just wanted to say that, I don't want to tell any spoiler alert.
The results, in this third round, are absolutely clear:
Movie 1 Film mark: 3,2 out of 10
Movie 2 Film mark: 7,5 out of 10
THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI IS THE WINNER OF THIS ROUND!
Cast: Antonio Banderas (Tommy Lucero/Martinez), Meg Ryan (Marty Durand), Colin Hanks (Henry Durand), Selma Blair (Emily Lott), Eli Danker (Jean Yves Tatao), Enrico Colatoni (Enrico the chef), Marco St. John (Inspector Laborde), Trevor Morgan (Eddie), John Valdeterro (Agent Fedler), Keith David (FBI Chief Conrad), Aki Avni (Agent Randle), Terri Markel (Agent Cisneros), Mark Meade (Special Agent Wagner) and Gary Grubbs (Police Chief Malone).
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2
Title: The Children of Huang Shi
Countries: China, Australia, Germany and USA
Year: 2008
Genres: Drama and War
Runtime: 2 hours and 5 minutes
Languages: English, Japanese and Mandarin
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Written by: Jane Hawksley and James MacManus
Music by: David Hirschfelder
Music by: David Hirschfelder
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers (George Hogg), Radha Mitchell (Lee Pearson), Yun-Fat Chow (Chen Hangsheng/Jack), Michelle Yeoh (Mrs. Wang), Matthew Walker (Andy Fisher), Guang Li (Shi-Kai), Ping Su (Eddie Wei), Anastasia Kolpakova (Duschka), Imai Hidekai (Japanese Officer), Seiichiro Hashimoto (Urbane Japanese Officer), Youelong Fang (Rou Ding), Shimin Sun (Yu Lin), Xucheng Shi (Kao Tung), Naihan Wang (Ching), Zhi Zang (Lao Si) and Weijuan Wu (Young Mother).
Plots:
1Young federal agent Henry is assigned a new case: to follow in the footsteps of Tommy , a refined international art thief who seems to be planning a new robbery. Things get complicated when Henry discovers that Tommy is his crazy mother's new boyfriend.
2During the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, George Hogg, a young British journalist, will try with the help of an Australian nurse to save a group of orphans.
My review:
My mom's new boyfriend is the typical romantic comedy that is direct to DVD. Its plot is simple and badly written. The jokes of the film are absolutely stereotypical and obnoxious since they are quite racist, especially in the character played by Enrico Colatoni, who is an italian obssessed with Marty and the excessive mockery on the Albanians. However, the acting was not so bad as I expected to be. Antonio Banderas did the best that he could on his crummily character, Colin Hanks did a good job and Selma Blair too. I cannot say anything else about this predictable film.
Nevertheless in the film of the children of Huang Shi, I was speechless of how poignant was the tragedy of war between China and Japan. I have learned so much from the main character, George Hogg, who believed in peace at war times, though having PTSD, Hogg went on the right way and
he did not want any revenge. The tagline of the film was right: When you save some lives, you save the entire world. It is also a depressing film, but no so much as The Grey, because it has both a happy ending and a sad one at the same time. I just wanted to say that, I don't want to tell any spoiler alert.
The results, in this third round, are absolutely clear:
Movie 1 Film mark: 3,2 out of 10
Movie 2 Film mark: 7,5 out of 10
THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI IS THE WINNER OF THIS ROUND!
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