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The Man With the Golden Gun

Though Roger Moore made a somewhat respectable appearance, I'm still not convinced he's even half as good as Connery. Why?? The Man With The Golden Gun, that's why. Plot: The movie opens as Francisco Scaramanga, a professional assassin who charges a million dollars a kill, and his love slave, Andrea Anders, are relaxing on the beach of Scaramanga’s private island. Nick Nack, Scaramanga’s butler and assignment manager, meets with Rodney, an assassin who he hired to try and kill Scaramanga. Scaramanga and Nick Nack have agreed that Nick Nack will take control of Scaramanga’s island and all of his assets in the event of Scaramanga’s death. One of Nick Nack’s duties is to find assassins from around the world to try and kill Scaramanga in his island training room, which converts to a kind of funhouse, complete with mirror mazes and trick staircases. Unarmed, Scaramanga arrives in the training room and he and Rodney stalk each other. Scaramanga eventually gets to his Golden Gun, a gun made of 23 carat gold that can be disassembled into a fountain pen, cigarette lighter, and cigarette case. The Golden Gun can only carry a single round in the chamber, but Scaramanga is extremely skilled and enjoys the challenge of killing his targets with only one shot. Once he has the Golden Gun, he shoots Rodney in the head, killing him. We first meet Bond in M’soffice. M asks Bond what he knows about Scaramanga. Bond gives an extensive background on Scaramanga, chronicling his birth into a circus family, his work with the KGB, and his subsequent move to become the world’s leading independent assassin. Scaramanga’s identity or whereabouts are unknown, primarily because all of his contracts are negotiated through Nick Nack. Bond also reveals that Scaramanga has a superfluous third nipple. M tells Bond that he received a golden bullet with the number ‘007’ engraved in it. M is concerned that while Bond working on his current assignment, facilitating the defect of a scientist working for the Chinese on an alternative form of solar energy, Scaramanga will assassinate him, hence compromising the mission. M orders Bond to go on leave. Bond decides to try and find Scaramanga first, so that Bond has the advantage. Bond talks to Moneypenny and finds out that Scaramanga had killed another Double-O agent, Bill Fairbanks in 1969 at a cabaret in Beirut. Bond decides to begin his search for Scaramanga there. Bond heads to the cabaret and finds the dancer with whom Fairbanks was last seen. After talking with her, Bond finds out that she wears the bullet that killed Fairbanks as a lucky charm made into belly button ring. As Bond is kissing her stomach, the bouncers from the cabaret enter the dancer’s dressing room and Bond accidentally swallows the luck charm. After returning to MI6 and getting the bullet out of his stomach, Q figures out who made the bullet, Lazar, a Portuguese munitioner living in Macau. Bond heads to Macau and convinces Lazar to let him accompany him when he delivers the bullets. Lazar goes to a local casino and deposits the bullets into one of the money collection baskets. Anders picks up the bullets and Bond follows her. They board a hydrofoil and head to Hong Kong but Bond loses her at the port. Bond meets up with Mary Goodnight, an assistant from MI6. They figure out that Anders is staying in the Peninsula Hotel. Bond enters Anders’ room and convinces her to tell him that Scaramnaga will be at the Bottom’s Up Club that night. Bond goes the club, and as he’s waiting outside, Scaramanga assassinates someone else, namely Gibson, the solar energy expert who wanted to defect from Bond’s postponed assignment. Bond is suspected of the murder and is taken into custody by Lieutenant Hip, who was escorting Gibson. As Hip is transporting Bond on a police boat, Bond escapes onto a partially sunken ship in the middle of Hong Kong harbor, which turns out to be MI6s secret base. It turns out that Hip was tasked with taking over Bond's previous assignment, and was meeting with Gibson to help facilitate his defection. According to Hip, when Gibson was in the club, he had in his possession the Solex Agitator, a device integral to the new solar technology. However, when Hip checked Gibson after Gibson was killed, the agitator was gone. Bond and Hip figure out that Scaramanga was hired by Hai Fat, a Chinese billionaire based out of Bangkok, Thailand. Bond surmises that because of Scaramanga’s history, Hai Fat never met Scaramanga, so Bond plans to impersonate Scaramnaga by having Q create a superfluous third nipple and meet with Hai Fat. Bond goes to Hai Fat’s compound and is invited to come back later for dinner. It turns out that Scaramanga was already at Hai Fat’s compound and alerted him to Bond’s impersonation. Bond arrives at Hai Fat’s compund later that evening and is attacked by two Sumo wrestlers and knocked unconscious by Nick Nack. Bond awakens at Hai Fat’s martial arts training school and is forced to fight his best students. As Bond is escaping, Hip arrives with his nieces who are trained in martial arts, and they defeat Hai Fat’s students. In the excitement, Hip accidentally leaves Bond behind, but Bond escapes on one of the school’s boats. Back at Hai Fat’s compound, Scaramanga kills Hai Fat and takes control of his assets, including the Solex Agitator, which he was hired by Hai Fat to steal from Gibson. Bond meets Goodnight for dinner and finds out that Hai Fat has disappeared. Bond returns to his room to find Goodnight waiting for him. As Bond and Goodnight go to bed together, Anders walks in. Bond tells Goodnight to hide in the closet. Anders tells Bond that she’s scared of Scaramanga and that she wants Bond to kill him. Bond agrees, if she’ll bring him the agitator. Two hours later, she leaves and bond gets Goodnight out of the closet. The following day, Bond arrives at a kickboxing areana and meets Anders. He’s supposed to pick up the agitator. By the time he arrives, Anders has been killed. Bond searches her purse for the agitator but it’s not there. While he’s searching, Scaramanga sits down beside Bond and introduces himself. As bond and Scaramanga are talking, Bond glances down to see the agitator on the floor. He orders some peanuts from Hip, disguised as a peanut vendor, takes the nuts and slips the agitator to Hip. Hip gives the agitator to Goodnight and returns to help Bond. As Goodnight is calling the police, she sees Nick Nack leave the arena and follows him. As Goodnight is trying to plant a tracking bug on Nick Nack’s car, Scaramanga arrives and pushes her into the trunk. Bond calls Goodnight and she tells him that she’s locked in Scaramanga’s trunk. Bond steals anAMC Hornet and, with J.W. Pepper along for the ride, pursues Scaramanga. Scaramanga pulls into a garage and converts his car into the Flying Matador by attaching wings and an jet engine onto the car. As Bond arrives, Scaramanga escapes in the Matador. Bond returns to the MI6 base in Hong Kong harbor and informs M of the status of Goodnight, Scaramanga, and the agitator. They trace the homing device to an island off the coast of China. Bond departs for the island. Scaramanga gladly welcomes him and tells Bond of his admiration for him. Scaramanga has taken advantage of Hai Fat’s assets to make his island completely energy self-sufficient. Scaramanga’s plan is to sell this technology to the highest bidder. He’s also managed to develop a way to use the energy collected via the Solex Agitator to power a giant laser. He plans to sell this technology as well. Scaramanga tells Bond that he wants to have a duel, pitting his Golden Gun against Bond’s PPK. As they pace off for the duel, Bond turns at twenty paces to find the Scaramanga has disappeared. Bond searches the island looking for Scaramanga. Nick Nack leads Bond to Scaramanga’s training room. Bond impersonates a statue of himself in the training room and kills Scaramanga. Goodnight knocks her guard into one of the liquid helium vats that facilitates the conversion of the collected solar energy into electricity. Because the vats must remain at a constant temperature, they begin to become unstable and cause a reaction that will quickly destroy the island. Bond and Goodnight find the agitator and escape the island on Scaramanga’s yacht, just before the island explodes. As Bond and Goodnight are sailing away, Nick Nack emerges from his hiding place aboard the yacht and begins to throw champagne bottles at Bond. Bond traps Nick Nack in a suitcase, and then ties him to the mast, saving the world, and yes, getting the girl. Comments: Scaramenga is ridiculous, as he acts like a little boy of 10. Mary Goodnight, (Ekland) is an idiot and I wonder How bond can tolerate that... And I hate the presence of Clifton James as J. W. Pepper. Rating: 2/5 (40%). Conclusion: Worst Bond film, hands down. Thanks to: James Bond Wiki.

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Bedtime Stories

Three words: funny, yet touching. It just has this amazin' feature i can relate 2 and till 2day i love. Watchin's it just makes me wanna cry my heart out at the Beauty and Wonder of it's GREATNESS. Nothing could be better. You see, from my point, i had stricter standards, but with Adam sandler, he saddled this movie through so well, it became more that just A movie. it became The movie to beat. Till today, no film has matched up [yet]. Plot: Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel leader who is promised as a child by his father Marty (Jonathan Pryce) to be the manager of the family hotel, but later it is bought by chain Nottingham Hotels. 25 years later, the new manager Mr. Nottingham (Richard Griffiths) plans to build a new hotel and appoints another man, the snotty Kendall (Guy Pearce) to become the manager, because he is dating his daughter. Skeeter's sister (Courteney Cox) asks him to watch her kids, because the school at which she is the principal is being closed and she is looking for a job in Arizona. The first night, Skeeter tells a bedtime story taking place in medieval times, with some additions from her kids. It comes true. Mr. Nottingham gives Skeeter a shot at the manager position when he says his new hotel theme was taken by Hard Rock Hotel and on his way home it rains gumballs, all from the story. The next night, at the hotel, he tells another story set in the Old West, and when he waits for it to come true, a man (Rob Schneider) steals his wallet. He saves Mr. Nottingham's daughter, Violet (Teresa Palmer), from the paparazzi and gets kicked by a dwarf (Mikey Post). The night after that, out on a campfire, he tells them about a Greek stunt man, and he ends up falling for his sister's friend and fellow colleague Jill (Keri Russell). The last night, he tells them about a space fight, and unfortunately makes the discovery, after he wins the gig of manager, that the closing school is where the new Nottingham Hotel will be. After being fired, which turned out to be the connection with the ending of the space story, he gets the hotel moved to Santa Monica, and then with Jill is able to end the demolition, saving the school and his nephew and niece and in turn gets his wallet and money back. Sometime later, he marries Jill and founds a hotel named after his late father. Kendall, for trying to destroy the School with Skeeter's nephew and niece isn't fired, instead he and his scheming partner Aspen (Lucy Lawless) are demoted to members of the hotel wait staff. Violet marries Skeeter's best friend Mickey (Russell Brand) giving him control of the Nottingham Empire, becoming the 9th richest man alive, in the meantime newlywed Skeeter and Jill have a baby. Comments: Like i said, if one can find the kid in him, he will surely love this film till its very end. So for such as good movie, how can you decline? Rating: 4.5/5 Conclusion: Go ahead. Acknowledgment: Wikipedia Thnks

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You Only Live Twice

Here's the deal: Sean Connery is great, the girls are HOT, Tiger Tanaka is WAY COOL and blofeld is Way EVIL. MUAHAHAHAHA. Plot: An American spacecraft is hijacked from orbit by a carnivorous space craft; a similar fate befalls a Soviet spacecraft later on. With each country thinking that the other is the cause of their loss, the world is thrown to the brink of World War III. The United Kingdom's government, however, believes the spacecraft landed in the Sea of Japan. The British government suspects Japanese involvement. The pre-title sequence depicted James Bond faking his murder in Hong Kong, allowing Bond more freedom to operate. He is sent to Japan to investigate the British suspicion, in conjunction with the Japanese secret service leader "Tiger" Tanaka. At a Tokyo sumo wrestling match Bond contacts Tanaka's assistant Aki, who takes him to meet with the local MI6 operative, Dikko Henderson. Henderson claims to have critical evidence for the rogue craft originating in Japan, but is murdered before he can reveal it. Bond kills the assailant and steals his identity. He is brought to their headquarters, which turns out to be Osato Chemicals. Once there, Bond breaks into an office safe of the Japanese corporate head, Mr. Osato, and steals some documents after triggering the alarm. As Bond flees, Aki picks him up in her car. However, Bond becomes suspicious when she won't answer his questions and flees to a secluded area. When Bond chases her, he falls through a trapdoor and slides into Tanaka's office. After identifying each other, they examine Bond's documents. The main item of interest is a tourist photograph of a cargo ship called the Ning-Po and a microdot on it containing a message that operatives "liquidated" the tourist who took the photo as a security measure. Interested in what was worth killing for in that photo, Bond investigates the company's dock facilities and discovers that the ship was delivering liquid oxygen, an oxidizer for rocket fuel; the document used the term LOX, which Bond states is an American name for smoked salmon, providing a convenient cover. Together, Bond and Tanaka learn that the true mastermind behind this is Osato's client Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his organization SPECTRE. Preparing to investigate the island in the photo, Bond trains with Tanaka and his elite ninja force. Tanaka suggests that the best disguise for Bond is as a Japanese fisherman. Bond receives training in Japanese culture and stages marriage to Tanaka's student, Kissy Suzuki. After the spies learn from surveillance photos that the Ning-Po unloaded its cargo overnight at the island, Bond investigates the area in the air with Little Nellie, a heavily armed autogyro. While in mid-flight and having no luck finding the SPECTRE base, Bond is suddenly attacked by four mysterious armed helicopters, but he fights them off. While the helicopters obviously had to have been from SPECTRE and thus the base is in that general area, Bond and Tanaka still don't know the exact location. o make matters worse, they learn that the United States has moved up their next space mission, which means it will likely be hijacked by SPECTRE and a world war will likely be triggered before they can stop the plot. However, they gain a major clue when Kissy mentions that a local woman had just mysteriously died after rowing her boat into a cave in the area where the aerial battle took place. Bond and Kissy set out on a reconnaissance mission into that cave and discover that SPECTRE has a secret rocket base hidden in a hollow volcano. Bond slips in through the crater door, while Kissy returns to alert Tanaka. Bond locates and frees the captured Soviet and American astronauts. With their help, he steals a spacesuit in attempt to infiltrate the SPECTRE craft (code named "Bird One"). Before he can enter the craft however, he mis-handles the air conditioning unit of his suit, and is caught. Kissy has her own difficulties when she is sighted and attacked by SPECTRE guards in a helicopter, but she uses her considerable experience as a pearl diver to hide underwater long enough to trick her pursuers into thinking that she drowned. Bond is taken to Blofeld for interrogation, while Bird One is launched with the backup astronaut aboard. Soon after, Kissy lead's Tanaka's troops to the crater entrance, but are detected and attacked by the crater's sentry guns. Meanwhile, the Bird One closes in on the American space capsule and US forces prepare to launch a nuclear attack on the USSR. In response, Bond asks for a cigarette, which conceals a small rocket. Killing the guard by the crater hatch controls, Bond manages to open the door allowing Tanaka's troops to storm the base. They soon overpower the henchman and the control room is evacuated. Bond notices the movement and advances to the control room, where there is a destruct switch for the spacecraft. After fighting Blofeld's bodyguard, Hans, Bond manages to get the destruct key from him and detonates Bird One, seconds before it reaches the American craft. The US stands down after learning that their spacecraft is safe. Blofeld escapes along a secret passage. His last act before leaving is to activate the base's self-destruct system. Bond, Kissy, Tanaka, and the surviving ninjas swim out. Safe from the now erupting volcano, the survivors board air-dropped lifeboats. WOOOOOOO. Comments: Only one thing I LOVE IT. This the original Blofeld, the EVIL guy we have been looking for in all of the series. So congrats. Rating: 4/5 Conclusion: RED HOT MAN....... Acknowledgments: Wikipedia....

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The Spy Who Loved Me

Ok: This was my prob: Roger Moore is a comedian, not fit to be a James Bond actor. But thanks to Live and Let Die(1973) and and this film, my opinion of him has somewhat changed for the better. Plot: Ballistic missile submarines from the Royal Navy and the Soviet fleet are stolen in an attempt to launch their nuclear weapons at targets around the globe. Elsewhere in Austria, Bond escapes an ambush by Soviet agents, killing one of them in a downhill ski chase that concludes when he skis off a cliff and falls only to open a Union Flag parachute. On returning, Bond learns that someone is trying to sell the plans of a highly advanced submarine tracking system to the highest bidder. He travels to Egypt, where he is assisted by a sheik who was a fellow student at Cambridge. The following day, he attempts to contact the prospective seller near the pyramids and first encounters Major Anya Amasova of the Soviet Army (codename "Triple X"), who becomes a rival in his search for the plans. Together, they travel across Egypt tracking the microfilm plans to Luxor, and facing encounters with a 7 foot plus tall steel-toothed henchman Jaws along the way, and down the Nile River. Ultimately, they partner due to a truce supported by their respective superiors at Abu Simbel and identify the person behind all the thefts as Karl Stromberg, a shipping tycoon. Bond and Amasova travel to Stromberg's base in Sardinia. In a train on their way, Bond saves Amasova as she is attacked by Stromberg's henchman, Jaws — finally, their rivalry changes into affection. Posing as a marine biologist and his wife, they visit Stromberg's base and discover that he has a mysterious new supertanker, the Liparus. After they leave the base, Jaws and other armed men, including a helicopter pilot named Naomi, chase them, but all attempts fail due to Bond's driving skills and the fact that his car – a Lotus Esprit from Q Branch – can convert into a submarine. Jaws retreats once again while Naomi and her other allies are killed. Some time later, Amasova learns Bond had killed her lover in Austria. She says that she will complete the mission with him, but kill him when it ends. Assisted by an American submarine, Bond and Amasova examine Stromberg's Atlantis base and confirm that he is operating the tracking system. The submarine in which they then attempt to pursue the Liparus is captured by the supertanker. Stromberg begins to set his plan in motion; the launching of nuclear missiles from the previously captured submarines to destroy Moscow and New York City. This would trigger a global nuclear war, which Stromberg would outlive in his underwater hideout Atlantis, and subsequently a new civilisation would be established. Accordingly, he sets off to Atlantis, taking Amasova with him. Bond stealthily opens Stromberg's weapon store-room and in no time, a huge battle ensues aboard the Liparus between its crew and the captured British, Russian, and American naval crews. With the help of the American submarine captain Bond is able to reprogramme the British and Soviet submarines to launch their missiles on each other, saving Moscow and New York. The captured Naval personnel defeats Stromberg's crew and then sinks the Liparus. Bond insists on a final confrontation with Stromberg and the rescue of Amasova before the navy has to follow its orders and destroy Atlantis. Bond prevents himself from falling into a shark's tank inside Atlantis and finally confronts Stromberg in a dining room. He shoots Stromberg from beneath the table, but soon encounters Jaws, symbolic of the earlier Bond films when there was a penultimate scene where one of the villian's underlings would attack Bond after the villian's death, symbolic of the neverending struggle. After a tough fight, Bond lifts Jaws using an electromagnet (which attracts Jaws' metal teeth), dropping him into a tank with a shark inside. Bond fighting Jaws inside Atlantis. Bond then reunites with Amasova and they step into an escape pod as Atlantis is sunk. Meanwhile, Jaws swims away from the sinking Atlantis as a dead shark floats in the water, showing Jaws has killed the shark and would serve a new villian and return to fight Bond. While the escape pod is floating, Amasova reminds Bond that she has vowed to kill him and picks up Bond's gun. But instead of shooting him, she fires at and opens a champagne bottle that he is holding. She admits having forgiven him and then, the two make love passionately. They are unknowingly picked up by the Royal Navy and their escape pod is opened in front of everyone, much to the consternation of their superiors, M and General Gogol. Comments: Ok, Jaws was good, but Karl Stromberg wasn't convincing as a baddie. That's All. Rating: 3.5/5(70%) Conclusion: Thank God for this... Acknowledgment: Wikipedia

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Ip Man

Ip Man is the name. bringing justice is the game. This is the best summary. Plot: In the 1930s, Foshan thrives as the hub of Chinese martial arts, with various sects actively recruiting disciples and competing against each other to prove their strengths. Well known throughout Foshan for his martial arts skills is Ip Man, who is an expert in Wing Chun. While Ip Man is an accomplished martial artist, he is unassuming and keeps a low profile. At the same time he doesn't run any martial arts school, nor accept students. He only stays at home, quietly sparring with his compatriots in friendly competitions, swapping pointers with each other. One day, Ip Man (Donnie Yen) is challenged by Master Liao (Chen Zhi Hui) in a closed match that ends with Master Liao losing. The brother of teahouse owner, Sha Da Yuan (Wong You-Nam), who witnessed the entire fight while retrieving his kite from a tree, tells everyone about Master Liao's loss. Seeing it as a public humiliation, Master Liao gets into a dispute with Sha at the teahouse, forcing the local officer Inspector Li Zhao to intervene. Li scolds them for starting a commotion and mocks them by stating that in the new era, duels are meant to be fought with guns not fists. Ip Man proves him wrong by forcing the cylinder of his gun out with a single finger, calming things down. The next day, a martial artist from out of town named Jin Shan Zhao (Fan Siu-Wong) starts going around challenging various martial arts schools in Foshan and beating them all in the process. The teahouse owner Zealot Lin (Xing Yu) who is also a martial arts practitioner, informs Ip Man of the situation. However, Ip Man isn't able to help due to his wife, Wing Cheng's (Lynn Hung), disapproval and dislike of her husband fighting. Jin eventually makes his way to Ip Man's residence and arrogantly challenges Ip Man. Ip Man dispenses Jin with ease, causing Jin to leave in shame. From this incident, the people of Foshan's respect and admiration for Ip Man increases. Following the Japanese invasion in 1937, everyone's life is adversely affected. Ip Man's property is confiscated and his family is forced to live in a decrepit house. Being one with strong pride, Ip Man refuses charity from his wealthy friend Zhou Qing Quan (Simon Yam), owner of a cotton mill, opting instead to work as a coolie at a coal mine to sustain his family, which turns out to be the workplace for several former martial arts practitioners and masters. At the mine, he reunites with Lin, who tells him that his brother Sha Da Yuan is missing. Later, General Miura (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi), arrives with his troops. As a fanatical practitioner in martial arts himself, he sets up an arena for the Chinese martial artists to fight against Japanese karate practitioners, offering rice as a reward. Sato (Shibuya Tenma), another high-ranking Japanese officer, together with Li Zhao who is now an interpreter for the Japanese, goes around recruiting people to fight in the arena. Eagerly taking up the challenge, Lin makes use of the opportunity to demean the Japanese. This time at the arena however, Miura himself decides to fight, facing three men at once including Lin. The two other men declared defeat, but Lin continues fighting and is brutally beaten to death. The following day, Ip Man notices Lin's absence, and decides to fight in the arena to find out what happened. He witnesses the death of former Master Liao who is shot by Sato for taking the rice (which he won earlier) after losing to three Japanese fighters. After being questioned angrily by Ip Man, Li finally admits that Lin was killed in the arena. Enraged, Ip Man demands to be faced by 10 fighters, which he dispatches swiftly, much to the interest of General Miura who told Ip Man to come back another day and fight again. Later it is revealed that Jin Shan Zhao is now leader of a gang of highway robbers, with Sha having joined their ranks. They hijacked a truck from the cotton mill and bully Zhou Qing Quan into giving them money. Since the cotton mill has not sold any of its goods yet, Jin gives Zhou more time to gain funds. Zhou's son quickly calls for Ip Man, and asks him to teach the workers Wing Chun to protect themselves, which Ip Man agrees to do. After some time, General Miura starts getting impatient when he notices that Ip Man has not returned to the arena. He then calls for a search for Ip Man and Li is forced to lead Sato and some soldiers to Ip Man's home. Ip Man takes the entire squad down after Sato attempts to harass Wing Chen. Li then helps relocate Ip Man's family to his own house to hide. Jin Shan Zhao's gang return to the cotton mill, and thanks to Ip Man's teachings, the workers are able to defend themselves from Jin's men. Ip Man arrives in time to assist them, and later single handedly defeats Jin, Sha and the rest of the gang. Before Sha could flee, Ip Man stops him and tells him that his brother Lin, is dead. He also gives him Lin's metal box, which Ip Man found in the coal mine. Sha opens the box, and discovers that it contains his old kite, causing him to break into tears. The Japanese soldiers continue searching for Ip Man and raids the cotton mill. Ip Man appears and turns himself in to protect the workers, while telling Zhou to take his family out of Foshan. General Miura tells Ip Man that his life will be spared if he teaches martial arts to the Japanese Army. Ip Man refuses and instead, challenges Miura to a duel which the general gladly accepts. Before the match, Sato, who was more worried about preserving Japanese superiority and dignity, threatens Ip Man that he will be shot if he wins the duel. Meanwhile, Zhou Qing Quan takes Ip Man's family out of Foshan, but Wing Cheng cries in despair. She pleads with Zhou to take her back to see Ip Man, for she fears that this might be Ip Man's last match. Zhou eventually relents and brings Ip Man's family back to Foshan to witness the duel. After an intense fight, Ip Man wins the match, with General Miura severely beaten up. The crowd starts cheering and this prompts Sato to shoot Ip Man, hitting him on the shoulder. The crowd is provoked and they break past the Japanese guards to come to the wounded Ip Man's aid. Sato is killed when Li wrestles Sato over the gun. By the end of the film, it is revealed that after the incident, Ip Man and his family managed to escape and flee to Hong Kong. There, Ip Man sets up a martial arts school that teaches the art of Wing Chun. Comments: Ip Man has proven worthy of the possibility of a future Oscar, as it is touching comical and cool. Sometimes it encourages me to learn Gong fu. well, Ip Man is the man no matter how many men he's taking on. Rating: 4/5(80%) Conclusion: Ip Man Rules. 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Mamma Mia!

What I loved most: songs

What I really hated: Only the songs? Where is the rest????????????????????????????

Urm, Why???? Why???? Mamma Mia wasn't supposed to turn out like this??? What happened to the interesting twisted i expected??? What on Earth is this NONSENSE????? What 'possible father' story is this. I really don't get it...... Story: On the fictional island of Kalokairi, 20-year-old bride-to-be Sophie Sheridan (Amanda Seyfried) nervously posts three wedding invitations ("I Have a Dream") to three different men. In response, from across the globe, they set off on their respective journeys. Sophie's bridesmaids and best friends Ali and Lisa (Ashley Lilley and Rachel McDowall) arrive and she shares with them a secret. Sophie has found her mother's diary and learned she has three possible dads: New York-based Irish architect Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan), Swedish adventurer and writer Bill Andersson (Stellan Skarsgård), and British banker Harry Bright (Colin Firth). She sent their invites without telling her mother, believing that after she spends time with them, she will at last know who her real father is ("Honey, Honey"). Villa Donna owner Donna Sheridan (Meryl Streep) is ecstatic to reunite with old friends and former Donna and The Dynamos bandmates, wisecracking author Rosie (Julie Walters) and wealthy multiple divorcee Tanya (Christine Baranski), and reveals her mystification at her daughter's desire to get married. At the Villa, Sophie introduces Tanya and Rosie to true love Sky (Dominic Cooper), and tells them about their idea of designing a website to attract tourists to the island. Donna explains her precarious finances ("Money, Money, Money"). The three men arrive, and Sophie smuggles them to their quarters and explains that she, not her mother, sent the invitations. She begs the men to hide so Donna will have a surprise at the wedding: seeing the old friends of whom she "so often" favorably speaks. They overhear Donna working (humming "Fernando" to herself) in the storeroom below and the men swear to Sophie they will not reveal her secret. However, Donna spies them and is dumbfounded to find herself face to face with the three former lovers she could never forget ("Mamma Mia"), and is adamant that they cannot stay. She confides in Tanya and Rosie ("Chiquitita") a secret she has kept from everyone — she is uncertain which of the three men is actually Sophie's father. Tanya and Rosie rally her spirits by getting Donna to join in with the female staff and islanders accompanying a musical number ("Dancing Queen"). Sophie finds the men aboard Bill's yacht, and they sail around the island of Skopelos ("Our Last Summer") and tell her stories of Donna as a carefree girl. Upon their return, Sophie musters up the courage to speak with Sky about her ploy, but loses her nerve. Sky and Sophie sing passionately to each other ("Lay All Your Love on Me"), but are interrupted by the bachelor party that has descended upon Sky to kidnap him for his last night of freedom. At Sophie's bachelorette party, Donna, Tanya, and Rosie perform in a surprise one-night-only event as Donna and The Dynamos ("Super Trouper"). Sophie is delighted to see her mother rock out, but becomes nervous when the festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Sam, Bill and Harry. She decides to get each of her three prospective dads alone to talk. While her girlfriends dance with the men ("Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"), Sophie achieves her aim, finally learning from Bill that the old woman who gave Donna the money to invest in her Villa was his Great Aunt Sofia. Sophie guesses she must be her namesake and that Bill must be her father. She asks him to give her away and to keep their secret from Donna until the wedding. Over the moon, Sophie returns to the party. But her happiness is short-lived as Sam and Harry each tell her they must be her dad and will give her away ("Voulez-Vous"). A shocked Sophie can't tell them the truth and, overwhelmed by the consequences of her action, faints on the dance floor. In the morning, Rosie and Tanya reassure a frantic Donna they will take care of the men. Donna confronts Sophie in the courtyard, mistakenly believing Sophie wants the wedding stopped. Sophie angrily says that all she wants is to avoid her mother's mistakes and storms off. An upset Donna is accosted by Sam, full of fatherly concern at Sophie getting married so young. Donna dresses him down, and both realize they still have feelings for each other ("SOS"). Meanwhile, on Bill's boat, Bill and Harry are about to confide in each other, but are interrupted by Rosie. Similarly, down on the beach, Tanya and young Pepper (Philip Michael) continue their flirtations from the previous night ("Does Your Mother Know"). With her plans falling apart and wedding in jeopardy, Sophie knows it is time to come clean to Sky and ask for his help. He reacts angrily to his fiancée's deception and Sophie must turn to her mother for support. As Donna helps her daughter dress for their wedding, the rift is quickly healed and Donna reminisces about Sophie's childhood and how quickly she's grown ("Slipping Through My Fingers"). Then and there, Sophie decides the only parent she's ever known is the only one who should give her away. As the staff and bridesmaids accompany Donna and Sophie to the chapel, Sam intercepts Donna and begs her to talk. She reveals the deep pain she felt over losing him ("The Winner Takes It All"). After the ceremony begins ("Knowing Me, Knowing You" during the wedding march), Donna confesses to Sophie that her father is present but he could be any of the three candidates, whom Sophie now admits to having invited. The three men concur that they would be quite happy to be one-third of a father for such a girl as Sophie. She then tells Sky that they should postpone their wedding and travel the world, as they have always wanted. It appears that preparations have been in vain until Sam steps in and proposes to Donna. She accepts ("I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do") and the couple go through an impromptu ceremony. At the wedding reception, Sam sings to Donna ("When All Is Said and Done"), which prompts Rosie to make a play for Bill ("Take a Chance on Me"). All the couples present proclaim their love and, magically, water from Aphrodite's fountain of love bursts through the crack in the courtyard at Villa Donna ("Mamma Mia" reprise). The story concludes as Sophie and Sky bid farewell to Skopelos island and sail away to a new life together ("I Have a Dream" reprise). During the principal credits, Donna, Tanya, and Rosie reprise "Dancing Queen", followed by "Waterloo" with the rest of the cast. Finally, Amanda Seyfried sings "Thank You for the Music" over the end credits. Comments: Bad Bad Bad, that's all aside from the songs everything is CRAP Rathing: 2/5 (40%) Acknowledgments: Wikipedia. Thank YOU.

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