Review: Source Code

Source Code is an action thriller about a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.


Living the explosion over and over, Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhall) must uncover the identity of the bomber. Also, Colter uses the opportunities to make peace with his father and to find romance with a fellow passenger on the train.


The settings of the movie are mainly either at the train or the place where Colter is "captured".


Under the supervision of Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) and Dr. Rutledge (Jeffrey Wright), Colter was repeatedly forced back into the virtual simulation where he's suppose to find out what and who caused the bombing in a train within 8 minutes.

Being brought into the "past" for a few times, Colter starts to understand the scenarios and therefore, solving the mystery in each attempt. Of course, he picked on the wrong victim for the first few times.

Together with him on board the train is charming Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan) who is a traveling partner I suppose. Colter starts to fall for her and he kept insisting on saving her life from the tragedy.


Unfortunately, he was told by Colleen that it's just a simulation - they're actually all dead in reality.

Throughout the duration of investigation, he also realizes that he's already half-dead in the reality. He is able to "move around" be cause of the imagination of his sub-conscious mind. Colter was actually terribly injured while serving in the army and now he's limb-less, kept in a safe vicinity where Collen and Dr. Rutledge use his mind with the Source Code program.

Colter finally solves the missing puzzle, the next bombing was halted in reality after Colter reveals the name of the bomber. But he requests Colleen to bring him back into the simulation again, hoping to save everyone on the train and surprisingly, he continued living in a so-called parallel world where the train tragedy didn't happen.

Overall, the movie was pretty predictable. Nothing unraveling and the audience don't have to think what caused the bombing. Scenes are pretty much the same and nothing exciting except for the same bomb explosion all the time. An extra love story as well, but it didn't spice up anything.


Oh by the way, Russell Peters also appeared as one of the train passengers! See the dude in blue on the left?

Noobie Rating: 5/10 (Not a must-watch movie)

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Review: Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch is about a young girl, Baby Doll (Emily Browning) being locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive stepfather where she will undergo a lobotomy in five days time.


Faced with unimaginable odds, she goes into a fantastical world of her imagination where she and four other female inmates plot to escape the facility. The lines between reality and fantasy blur as Baby Doll and her four companions, as well as a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items they need that will allow them to break free from their captors before it's too late.


Four out of the five items are straight forward. Baby doll conspires with the 4 other female inmates to work together for their escape.


The funny thing about the movie is that whatever happens in the "dance center" is actually a fantasy world by Baby Doll. Whenever she dances to captivate their victims, which holds an item for their escape, she enters another fantasy world. A world where she battles with monsters and stuffs.


Whenever inside the 2nd fantasy world, they will cooperate and battle their way through to retrieve their wanted items. With guns and combat items, it seems pretty awkward due to its irrelevance.


After every success, she returns to the initial fantasy world and that's when she stopped dancing. Funny enough, we'll never see Baby Doll actually dancing in the movie - because whenever she starts to, we'll be brought into the 2nd fantasy.


With the help of an unknown wise man, they seek his advice and guide in order to achieve their objectives in every mission. The wise man always end his mission briefing with "And one last thing..."


The attire used during the movie was rather sexy. A lot of cleavages can be seen throughout the show, especially cleavages from Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Amber (Jamie Chung) and Blondie (Venessa Hudgens).


Emily Browning's role as Baby Doll is rather unconvincing. Her character is an insure little girl who wishes to escape from the facility. Small boobs. Can be expressionless at times.


Sweet Pea, played by Abbie Cornish, is the main booby girl. She flaunts her boobies all the time. Strong character and beautiful as well.


Jena Malone's Rocket is a sweet and cheerful girl. She trusts Baby Doll a lot in the planning of the escape but unfortunately died in the last mission, where it reflects her real life as she dies in reality as well.


Not much acting from Jamie Chung's Amber, but she's another strong (but turns out to be weak actually) character and her boobs are nice. She died in the end.

Blondie by Venessa Hudgens is just an extra character that comes into the team of 5. Not much involvement from her, except that she back-stabbed her group by revealing the plans to the owner of the "dance center". She died too.

Overall, just an average movie with lots of boobs. Ideal movie for the guys, but not ideal for the movie enthusiasts. In the end, only 1 of them managed to escape.

Noobie Rating: 4/10 (Boobs made the movie watchable, the storyline is mediocre)

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Kung Fu Panda 2 Official Poster and Teaser Trailer

In Kung Fu Panda 2, Po is now living as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow Kung Fu masters, The Furious Five - Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey.

This is the official poster of Kung Fu Panda 2.


Prepare for the year of awesomeness!

But Po's awesome new life is threatened by a formidable villain, who plans to use an unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy Kung Fu. It's up to Po and The Furious Five to face this threat and vanquish it.

This is the teaser trailer of Kung Fu Panda 2.


But can Po stop a weapon that can stop Kung Fu? He must look to his past and uncover his mysterious origins - then he will only be able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed.

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