VALENTINE & FROM PARIS WITH LOVE

Dibilang merayakan juga gak ... tapi kalo dibilang gak, kok ikut2an yah ... tapi pada dasarnya menurut aku, kasih sayang itu kita bisa berikan setiap hari ...

Di hari itu kita tukeran kado ... small thing but unforgettable (hopefully) ... "jangan diliat dari harganya yah" ... itu masing2 pesan kita ... Gak pake acara candle light dinner ... secara kita sama2 tukang makan ... jadi kalo kita jalan yah pasti makan ... he he he ...

Setelah tukeran kado dan makan ... kita tutup hari itu dengan nonton, acara tetap kita untuk menghabiskan waktu ber-sama2, FROM PARIS WITH LOVE, film yang kita pilih ...

Tapi sebelumnya kita sempet berselisih pendapat karena aku mau film yang lain ... tapi dia tetep pingin nonton FROM PARIS WITH LOVE ... Awalnya sih aku sempet sebel tapi belakangan udah gak, karena filmnya ternyata seru banget (menurutku loh yah) ...

Emang kamu gak pernah salah pilih film ...

A personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he is offered his first senior-level assignment, he cannot believe his good luck until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta) - a trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers he is a target of the same crime ring they are trying to bust, he realizes there is no turning back...and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive.

NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU

Udah lama aku pingin nonton film ini ... tapi baru kesampean, padahal udah ± sebulan main di blitz-blitz ...

Walopun temenku kurang suka nonton film NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU ini ... tapi dia cukup baik ... kenapa aku bilang cukup baik ... karena dia gak complaint sama sekali sampe film habis (ato males debat kali' yah??????) ... he he he ...

Film Reviews
New York, I Love You -- Film Review
By Erica Abeel, October 05, 2009 04:59 ET

Bottom Line: This collage of vignettes breathes life into New York's edgy lovers.

"New York, I Love You" continues the "Cities of Love" series that began with "Paris je t'aime," far surpassing it. Although a few of the film's 10 vignettes fail to coalesce within their allotted eight minutes, and the inevitable final twist becomes predictable, most of these linked "shorts" succeed remarkably in nailing the serendipitous flavor of love, New York-style.

At the same time, the ensemble of stories is knitted together by clever transitions or reappearing characters, forming an innovative multipaneled portrait. The art house crowd should cotton to the omnibus form and a tone ranging from street-smart to wistful.

The helmers -- an eclectic group ranging from Mira Nair to Yvan Attal to Brett Ratner -- were bound by a few rules: They had only 24 hours to shoot, a week to edit and needed to give the sense of a particular neighborhood. Perhaps these strictures have contributed to the film's breathless style, which adds to the sense of a city in overdrive.

Although the filmmakers hail from all over, the Gotham conveyed here, curiously, is predominantly young, mainly south of 14th Street, cold and rainy and populated with nervous types in leather itching to step outside for a smoke.

Two of the strongest stories come from French director Attal. As a romantic pitchman, Ethan Hawke plies with dirty talk an attractive Asian woman (Maggie Q.) on the curb outside a SoHo restaurant. But a wicked reversal suggests she might be better at his game than he is.

A second New York moment again finds a man (Chris Cooper) and a woman (Robin Wright Penn) sucking in the nicotine, but this time the woman is hitting on the man. "You know what I always like about New York?" she muses, encapsulating the film's theme. "These little moments on the sidewalk, smoking and thinking about your life. ... Sometimes you meet someone you feel like you can talk to." On their return to the restaurant, their shared secret is revealed.

In a punchy if vulgar tale by Ratner, James Caan as a pharmacist suckers a young naif into taking his disabled daughter to the prom. Things are never what they seem in these stories, including, in this case, the daughter's agenda.

Shekhar Kapur directs a haunting vignette suffused with sadness, with Julie Christie as a former diva installed in a New York hotel, where she's drawn to the lame Russian bellhop (Shia LaBeouf).

Along with the pungent sketches come a few duds: a Mira Nair-helmed encounter between Hassid Natalie Portman and a Jain diamond dealer (for this, Portman needn't have shaved her head); Orlando Bloom as a frantic musician on deadline somewhere grungy on the Upper West Side; and Andy Garcia matching wits with Hayden Christensen in a flaccid love triangle.

But any misses are redeemed by a touching and humorous final vignette by Joshua Marston, with Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman as an aged couple making their own style of love in a town that belongs to the young.

"New York" opens a romantic window into the city via a sort of filmmakers' cooperative. The vignettes are tied together into a single feature through a "recurrent character," a videographer who interacts with the other characters. And transitional elements -- choreographed by 11th director Randy Balsmeyer -- move the viewer from one world to another, uniting all these intimate stories into a single shimmering fabric.

Opens: Friday, Oct. 16 (Vivendi Entertainment)

Production: An Emmanuel Benbihy and Marina Grasic production in association with Sherezade Films, Benaroya Picture, Grosvenor Park Media, Ever So Close Visitor Pictures Plum Pictures and Grand Army Entertainment

Cast: Drea De Matteo, Bradley Cooper, Julie Christie, John Hurt, Shia LaBeouf, Carlos Acosta, Jacinda Barrett, Natalie Portman, Shu Qi, Eli Wallach, Cloris Leachman, Orlando Bloom, Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen, Ethan Hawke, Anton Yelchin, James Caan, Olivia Thirlby, Robin Wright Penn, Chris Cooper

Directors: Mira Nair, Jiang Wen, Shunji Iwai, Yvan Attal, Brett Ratner, Allen Hughes, Shekhar Kapur, Natalie Portman, Fatih Akin, Joshua Marston, Randy Balsmeyer

Screenwriters: Hu Hong, Meng Yao, Suketu Mehta, Shunji Iwai, Olivier Lecot, Yvan Attal, Jeff Nathanson, Xan Cassavetes, Anthony Minghella, Natalie Portman, Fatih Akin, Joshua Marston

Executive producers: Michael Benaroya, Glenn Stewart, Marianne Maddalena, Taylor Kephart, Claus Clausen, Pamela Hirsch, Celine Rattray

Directors of photography: Mark Lee Ping Bing, Declan Quinn, Michael McDonough, Benoit Debie, Pawel Edelman, Jean-Louis Boompoint, Mauricio Rubinstein, Andrij Parekh

Production designer: Teresa Mastropierro

Music: Jack Livesey, Peter Nashel

Costume designer: Victoria Farrell

Editor: Affonso Goncalves

Rated R, 110 minutes

EDGE OF DARKNESS

Nyaris aja aku gak bisa nonton flm ini ... habis aku sama temenku sama2 sibuk ... Alhamdulillah akhirnya bisa ...

Aku udah lama nungguin film ini main ... dan gak nyesel aku nontonnya ... filmnya bagus ... walopun Mel Gibson-nya udah mulai tua tapi mainnya tetep ok ...

On the lake outside of Northmoor International’s Nuclear Facility, three bodies float to the surface in the moonlight. Detective Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is waiting for his daughter, Emma Craven (Bojana Novakovic) at South Station train station. She arrives and Tom hugs his daughter. As Tom goes to pick up some food, Emma starts vomiting violently. Tom thinks she has food poisoning and brings her home. They idly chat and she tells Tom about her new boyfriend but doesn’t elaborate. She complains of an upset stomach, so Tom goes to get her a Ginger Ale. She starts bleeding from the nose and vomiting and asks her father to take her to the hospital. She tells him that she hasn’t told him everything about her life. As they leave the house, a masked man yells “CRAVEN” and fires two shotgun blasts into Emma’s chest. She is blasted through the door and dies in Thomas' arms. The gunmen get away in their vehicle and Thomas is left crying over Emma’s body.

Cops from the precinct arrive and try to console Tom. He doesn’t really respond well to their presence. His former partner, Whitehouse (Jay O. Sanders), offers to have him spend the night at his place, but Tom turns him down. He kicks all the cops out of his apartment and goes and wipes Emma’s blood off of his face. He looks through Emma’s cabinet and sees a handgun. Her phone goes off and Tom picks up. The caller doesn’t say anything and ends the call. He hallucinates Emma’s presence and goes to bed. He wakes up to a car backfiring and draws his gun. He goes into work, where the news is reporting that he was the intended target and that Emma was an accident. Tom goes down to the morgue to identify Emma’s body. He cuts off a lock of her hair and goes to the park. He stares at an empty bench and imagines Emma as a child reading her favorite book.

Tom pays a visit to Emma’s boyfriend by pulling up the serial number of the gun that is registered to Emma’s boyfriend. He doesn’t answer the door, so Tom jimmies it open with a pick. A fight between the two ensues with Emma’s boyfriend attempting to knife him. Tom incapacitates him and the two talk. The boyfriend tells Tom that he’s being watched by Northmoor and gives him Emma’s old stuff. He hints to Tom that the head of Northmoor, Bennett (Danny Huston), is responsible in some way.

Moore (Dennis O’Hara) calls Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), his company clean up man. Jedburgh is a fixer who helps corporations cover up messes. Moore tells Jedburgh that someone broke into the Northmoor Nuclear Facility and that three activists drowned and that Emma was killed in connection to the break in. Jedburgh asks if he will be covering up Emma’s death along with the others. Moore tells him that Tom is snooping around and that it’s up to him to make sure the dots don’t get connected.

Tom goes to Emma’s apartment. He sees that it has been subtly burglarized and her computer was taken. He goes through her belongings and finds a handheld Geiger counter, which goes off when Emma’s hair is placed next to it. Tom realizes that his daughter was dying of radiation poisoning.

Tom pays Bennett a visit in his office and asks about his daughter’s job. Bennett tells Tom that Emma was a glorified intern and was working on projects deemed “classified.” Tom asks how Emma contracted radiation poisoning. Bennett is surprised but says that there was no radiation near her job since Emma was involved in designing and planning their nuclear line. Bennett offers Tom his condolences…and then asks Tom what it feels like to watch a daughter die.

Tom calls in the break in at his daughter’s apartment and convinces the cop to report the break in as a funeral related robbery. He then goes home and starts burning Emma’s radiation contaminated clothing outside of his house in a barrel. He pulls his gun out and points it at Jedburgh, who is calmly sitting on Tom’s picnic table, watching the fire. Jedburgh comment on Tom’s burning of evidence and tells him that a few days before Emma’s death she was profiled as a terrorist. Not accused, simply profiled. Tom tells him that he knows that the target was Emma. Jedburgh asks if he plans on making any arrests. Tom tells him he doesn’t intend to bring anyone in, just kill them. He doesn’t mention the radiation marks on Emma’s hair or his suspicions about Northmoor. Jedburgh leaves his card and leaves Tom in his kitchen, wondering just who Jedburgh is working for.

Tom chases down a lead from Emma’s phone and arranges a meeting. The contact agrees to meet with him and tell him all about how she was involved with Emma and the three dead activists but that it will take her a day or two to return to Massachusetts from New Hampshire. He pays Emma’s boyfriend another visit and grills him about Emma and her involvement with the dead activists. Emma’s boyfriend tells him that she showed the activists how to break into Northmoor’s nuclear facility, but their deaths were not the result of a drowning, but exposure to lethal amounts of radiation. He details his suspicion that Bennett created the protocol to kill anyone who tries to get in or out of the facility. Tom is shocked but thanks Emma’s boyfriend.

That night, Tom waits outside of the Northmoor facility and tails Bennett as he leaves. He notices that he’s being followed by two Northmoor agents and pulls over to a rest stop. They follow him into a bathroom, but Tom sneaks out, destroys their car. Tom drives after Bennett, pulls him over and smashes Bennett’s personal driver into the dashboard. He holds Bennett at gunpoint, but he doesn’t kill him since he is unsure about whether or not Bennett is responsible. He leaves.

The next day, Tom meets with the contact, Melissa (Caterina Scorsone). Melissa tells Tom that Northmoor was doing something illegal, which Emma stumbled upon. Emma went to a lawyer and the Massachusetts State Senator. Neither helped her. Emma turned to Melissa and explained the situation so Melissa got her in contact with the activists. All of the activists except the leader died and Melissa went into hiding after the incident. Melissa tells Tom the name of the lawyer and then gives him a pair of DVDs meant for Tom from Emma. She tells Tom that Emma thought she was poisoned as she steps out of the car and is instantly hit by a car. The driver does a u-turn to try and kill Tom when he tries to help Melissa. Tom shoots at the car repeatedly until he kills the driver. He takes Melissa to the hospital. The doctors stabilize her but are forced to amputate her legs. Emma’s boyfriend is found dead in his apartment later that day.

Tom pays Jedburgh a visit and tells him about what happened. He reveals that Emma was poisoned and after a question and answer game, Tom thanks him for not killing him as well. Jedburgh waves him off and goes to a hospital. It’s clear that Jedburgh is dying of cancer, and this will be his last job.

Bennett meets with Moore to discuss the situation. Bennett tells Moore that he did have Emma poisoned in a way which left evidence. Moore is pissed and Bennett tells him that he’s good enough to clean up his own mess without relying on Moore. Bennett mentions that Tom is a problem and that he has order him to be taken care of. At Emma’s apartment, he uses the Geiger counter on Emma’s food and finds that her milk was spiked with radioactive material.

Tom finds the lawyer Emma consulted and confirms that he knows the Lawyer gave Northmoor and the Senator a heads up about Emma’s breach of contract and knowledge of the fact that she was letting activists into the nuclear facility. Tom tells the lawyer that if he doesn’t get a meeting with the Senator, he will tell the media about how his daughter was poisoned by Northmoor and that the lawyer did not inform her of the fact he works for Northmoor. He leaves the lawyer, goes to his car and checks up on the DVDs Melissa gave him. In the video, Emma tells her father that she knows she will die soon. She tells him that she lead the activists in since they were making nuclear weapons which would look like terrorist dirty bombs (implying a government conspiracy). Tom is horrified. He decides to drive around and notices a tail.

The next day, he goes to visit the Senator and is given immediate access. The Senator claims no knowledge of dealing with Emma, and then Tom shows him the photos of Emma’s corpse and the three dead activists. He tells the Senator that now is the time to pick a side or go down when the conspiracy is revealed to the public. He drives away.

That night, the tails continue follow Tom. He backs up his car into their grille and then arrests them, claiming they hit his car. He then gets them for having automatic weapons in their car. They tell them they’ll collect him in 24 hours.

Tom tells them to fuck themselves and drives them to the precinct with several other cops.

Tom goes home and begins to feel sick. He realizes that he is going to die of radiation poisoning. His former partner, Whitehouse, shows up and tries to talk to Tom, but Tom realizes why he is there. The two tails arrive and knock Tom out while Whitehouse leaves Tom ashamed. When Tom wakes up, he is in Northmoor’s nuclear facility. He breaks out, steals a car and drives home. He grabs his gun and decides to drive to Bennett’s house to end things.

Tom arrives at Bennett’s house and shoots the first of the two Tails. The second one comes down the stairs and Tom shoots him in the legs several times. Tom realizes that this is the man who shot his daughter and forces him to yell “CRAVEN” to confirm it. He then shoots the man several times in the face. Bennett shoots Tom in the chest once, but Tom tackles Bennett and pulls out the radioactive milk. He forces it down Bennett’s throat and collapses. Bennett runs to his cabinet to get pills to counteract the radioactivity but Tom drags himself over and shoots Bennett in the face saying “Deep Down, You Know You Deserve This.”

Tom is hospitalized for the gunshot wounds and radioactive poisoning. Jedburgh meets with Moore, the Senator and a political advisor. He listens to their suggestions as to how to play the Northmoor incident in a positive light. He tells them that he is done and then suggests an assassination attempt on the Senator should be the feature story, to drive Bennett’s death out of the tabloids. They are happy to go along with the story until they see Jedburgh pull out his gun. He shoots all three dead within a minute before a young police officer comes in. Jedburgh asks if the young man has a family and kids. The young man says yes and Jedburgh lowers his gun, only to be shot in the heart by the nervous cop.

As Tom lies dying in the hospital, we see a hallucination of Emma by his bedside. Across town, a young reporter opens a letter from Tom with the DVDs revealing the conspiracy with Tom’s “Good Luck” wishes. As he dies, Emma comforts him. The two then leave the hospital together and walk out into white light.