Charlie's Angels - 霹靂嬌娃

Charlie's Angels (霹靂嬌娃) is an 2019 film. The movie stars Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska. The supporting cast include Elizabeth Banks, Djimon Hounsou, Chris Pang, and Jonathan Tucker. Cameo appearances from Hailee Steinfeld, Lili Reinhart, Aly Raisman, Chloe Kim, Ronda Rousey, Danica Patrick, Laverne Cox, Michael Strahan, and Jaclyn Smith. This movie combines the television and previous films into a combined universe for the first time. A sequel would be difficult given that it bombed at the box office.



Kristen Stewart plays Sabina Wilson who is trying to get information from Jonny Smith, played by Chris Pang. Jane Kano, played by Ella Balinska, burst in as the information is obtained and they get away. Months later, Elena Houghlin played by Naomi Scott is a scientist that develops a energy conservation device called Calisto. However, the safetly of the device is in question and she tries to get that information out, eventually getting connected with the Angels. Let the fun begin with her employers want kill her. Recruited for an Angel spot, can these three angels save the day and stop Calisto from getting to the public?



This was a pretty entertaining film. I thought the main plot point of Calisto was a good one. A wanna be whistle blower that becomes an Angel. And the expansion of the universe gives it legs. I would even Sony going with a television series instead of a movie franchise. In essence, go back to its roots. But Sony doesn't have a Disney+ type platform to do this.

Kristen Stewart was the star of the movie. Her turn as Sabina was pretty awesome. Stewart is so far from her Eclipse days that I could see her in her element. I'd watch a Stewart film in a Bond type setting any day after this film.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 - 暮光之城:破曉2

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (暮光之城:破曉2) is an 2012 film. The movie stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The supporting cast include too many to name. The movie is the conclusion to the current film series, The Twilight Saga. This film is the fifth and final film in the series.

Bella is now a vampire! Bella starts to learn her new powers and Renesmee continues to grow each day. As a Dhampir, Renesmee has the best of both sides. Jacob imprints on her and his pack are now bound to stay away and not attack. When Irina sees Renesmee, she thinks its an immortal child and informs the Volturi. The Volturi sees this as a chance to gain new players and to exert their powers. The rest of the film is the Cullen family seeking witnesses and the Volturi gathering up strength. They climax on the battlefield to decide the fate of vampire kind.

Very sad that another good series ends. In this case, the Twilight saga. Although there will be haters of this tween and teen genre take on vampires and werewolves, it was well made and pretty fun to watch. This fifth film really needed the other 4 films. Because you wouldn't understand the back story as they spend almost no time on it. I had to look up some things while I was watching to catch up.

In all, this five film series was a good watch. Don't hate it on reputation, hate it if you thought the films sucked. I for one didn't think they sucked and I do believe it adds to the endless vampire mythos out there.

Snow White And The Huntsman - 公主與狩獵者

Snow White And The Huntsman (公主與狩獵者) is an 2012 film. The movie stars Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, and Chris Hemsworth. The movie is based on the German fairy tale "Snow White" compiled by the Brothers Grimm. Not the Disney cartoon version that I am more accustomed to seeing these days.

In a far away land of kingdoms, there is an honorable King with a a queen and princess. When the queen dies, he marries another. But this person is indeed a sorceress and kills the king on their wedding night. Taking power, those that would resist make a run for it, but the princess is left for dead. But she does not perish. The princess, Snow White is captured and locked away. When the Sorceress Queen finds out that she needs Snow Whites heart to gain immortality, the story gets interesting. Snow White escapes to a nearby magic forest and finds her way her father's loyal servants. Together they plot to retake the Kingdom.

The movie was visually very stunning. The world created seemed out of the old middle age days. Castles, Kings, royalty. The story was pretty interesting too. It wasn't plagued by dwarfs and singing birds. A major relief for me. Alas, the movie was entertaining and let me think to a far away land that has no asians. A place I prolly won't ever visit.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - 暮光之城:破曉Ⅰ

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (暮光之城:破曉Ⅰ) is an 2011 film. The movie stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The rest of the cast is too numerous to name, but I do want to note Anna Kendrick and Justin Chon making cameo appearances during the wedding scenes. This is the fourth installment in the current Twilight film series. If you haven't been living in a cave, you might have heard of this book/film series.

The movie starts off with the wedding between Bella and Edward. Jacob makes an appearance during the wedding before his typical anger tantrum requires him to jet. Edward takes Bella to a remote island in Brazil for their honeymoon. On their first night there, they consumate their marriage, but Edward damages the room like a rock star. From that point on, Edward refuses intimacy with Bella for fear of killing her. Bella however pushes the envelop without success. However, 14 days into the honeymoon, Bella becomes pregnant. Which is an mystery to the rest of the clan and they bring Bella back to the safety of the gloomy skies of Seattle again. Jacob finds out about this and finds Bella. The wolf brood find out and make it a mission to destroy the child. After a extended stand-off between the Cullens and the wolves, the baby is born and gets an imprint from Jacob. At the end of the movie, Bella is turned into an vampire. The easter egg at the end of the movie is of the Volturi being informed of an addition to the Cullen Clan.

As for a fourth in the installment, this was the least entertaining. As much as I like Bella and Edward, the wedding and honeymoon were really boring. I presume they wanted to develop their "love" relationship more onscreen. The flashback to a certain period in Edward's life away from Carlisle was a highlight that I hope they dive deeper into. The wolves being unreasonable seemed forced and I didn't really believe any harm was going to happen. Since I didn't read the books, I rely solely on the movie to develop the story for me. But since I like the mytos of this film series, I enjoyed it nonetheless. However, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that hasn't seen the previous 3 film installments.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - 暮光之城:蝕

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (暮光之城:蝕) is a 2010 film. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. There is a large supporting cast. The main change of cast was Bryce Dallas Howard taking over as Victoria. The movie is based on Stephenie Meyer's vampire novel of the same name.

Now that Edward wants to be around Bella, they are set to protect her from Victoria. Victoria starts to build a small army of newborn vampires to take out the Cullen's so Bella can be exposed. But before they figure this out, Bella's quest to become a vampire is explored more. The Volturi are explored a little more.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon - 暮光之城2:新月

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (暮光之城2:新月) is a 2009 film. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. This is the sequel to the 2008 film, Twilight. This movie is based on the second book of Stephenie Meyer's 2006 vampire novel of the same name.

James is now dead and his girl Victoria is out to get Bella. The Cullen's leave the area in order for Bella to have a normal life. But that proves impossible as the two are separated and miserable. During this time, Bella goes into a major depressional funk. Jacob starts to spend more time with Bella as a result. But just as things seemed to be going somewhere, Jacob exits Bella life. Bella tries to make sense of it all. Jacob's exit is a result of his ability to turn into a werewolf to protect his tribe. But Laurent and Victoria have not given up on taking out Bella. To the rescue.

This movie was a little bit of a let down from the first movie. You just had to create a love triangle. And Bella's decision to be emo and want to be a vampire move the story along. However, the reasons for not turning are compiling but don't seem to persuade the audience that its a bad thing. In the end, the whole Volturi episode turned out to be the best. I'd like to see a movie on just the Volturi. Give it to us!

Twilight - 暮光之城:無懼的愛

Twilight (暮光之城:無懼的愛) is a 2008 film. The movie stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. The movie is based on Stephenie Meyer's vampire novel of the same name.

Kristen Stewart plays Isabella "Bella" Swan. Bella relocates to Forks, Washington where her father lives. Bella's mom recently remarried and they thought it best for Bella to finish out high school with her father Charlie. Bella runs into Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson. Instantly, the two are in "love". As Bella tries to get closer to Edward, he tries to stay away. Eventually, when Bella is in danger, Edward is there to protect her. Eventually, Edward lets her into his life. The life of a vampire. In a baseball match, 3 vampires come by and find out the Bella is a human and that the Cullen clan wanted to protect her. In sport, the tracker of the group, James wants to kill her. Edward and clan do their all to protect her. When they get to Phoenix, Edward saves the day and kills James.

The movie was pretty straight forward. Guy and girl fall in love with each other. Bad people come. Protect weak girl. Nice formula and it worked for me. I am a sucker for vampire movies. I loved Buffy in the 1990s. And the Blade trinity movie series is one of my favorites.