New movies
released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Monster Hunt
Monster
Hunt is a 2015 Chinese-Hong Kong 3D fantasy adventure film directed by Raman
Hui and starring Bai Baihe and Jing Boran.
The
main theme in Monster Hunt, according to Hui is acceptance (similar to the
Shrek series which Hui was involved in). The message in the film is to
understand and accept differences, to see the world through others' perspective
and to foster more understanding between people and groups.
The
movie is about a cute baby monster Wuba who is the child of a human man and a
monster queen, threatened by both monster-hating humans and monsters attempting
to captue the new-born in an ancient world based on medieval China. When a
monster queen gives birth to a cute prince, the child faces an immediate threat
from other fantastic creatures and the humans who hunt them.
In
a mythic kingdom, mortals and monsters who once fought each other now stay put
in their separate domains. Their uneasy truce is disrupted when a coup in the
monster land forces its pregnant queen to go on the run with her two loyal but
inept retainers, Zhugao and his rotund wife, Fat Ying. Foreseeing that
pandemonium will spill over to the humans’ realm, monster-hunt bureau chief Ge
(Wallace Chung) puts up a handsome bounty for the unborn heir.
Evading
the pursuit of a ferocious rebel general (a cuddly variation of a T-rex) and
long-out-of-work monster hunters, Zhugao and Fat Ying take refuge in Yongning
Village, disguising themselves as humans (played by Eric Tsang and Sandra Ng,
respectively). Unexpectedly, the famished Monster Queen develops a craving for
village sentinel Tianyin (Jing Boran), even though he looks nothing like a
gastronomic delight. Although his dotty grandma (Elaine Jin) keeps reminding
him he’s descended from an illustrious line of monster hunters, Tianyin is a
dork whose only ambition is to cook and sew, and he proves utterly defenseless.
To
the monsters’ chagrin, snack time is interrupted by Xiaolan (Bai Baihe), a
low-ranking monster hunter who’s after the bounty, but she is in turn trounced
by veteran Luo Gang (Jiang Wu, brother of helmer-actor Jiang Wen). In the
ensuing chase, Tianyin becomes an accidental carrier of the monster fetus, his
“pregnancy” giving rise to off-the-wall gender-bending gags. The yarn picks up
with the “virgin birth” of the monster prince, whose baby-babble spurs his
surrogate dad to name him “Wuba.” Resembling a squishy radish crossed with a
cuttlefish, Wuba will charm any tot infatuated with bouncy rubber balls, while
a certain oral trick of his may even tickle adults.
Alas,
money-grubbing Xiaolan is impervious to Wuba’s charms and sells him to a
pawn-shop owner (Tang Wei, making almost no impression), who instantly turns
him in at a five-star eatery called Heaven Restaurant. In a kitchen scene
sizzling with Rabelaisian revelry, monsters dexterously dodge a siege of woks,
steamers and sashimi knives; Yao Chen, playing a master chef, comedienne and
“Weibo queen,” demonstrates the sophistication and barbarity of Chinese cuisine
with a balletic act as high-spirited as it is spine-chilling. The climactic
banquet builds to a cracking showdown that not only unleashes the protags’
inner reserves, but offers the comforting notion that neither monsters nor
humans are as fiendish as they seem to be. The ending sprinkles in plenty of
hints for a sequel — highly foreseeable, given the pic’s phenomenal success.
Point Break
Point
Break is a 2015 3D action thriller film directed by Ericson Core and written by
Kurt Wimmer. An American-Chinese co-production, the film is a remake of the
1991 film of the same name, which starred Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves. The
film stars Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, and Ray Winstone.
Extreme
poly-athlete Johnny Utah and his friend Jeff attempts a stunt traversing a
steep ridge peak line, ending it by leaping onto a lone stone column. Jeff over
speeds his bike and falls. Seven years later Utah is a FBI Agent candidate. He
attends a briefing about a skyscraper heist where the criminals parachute down
their escape. Another heist happens where the criminals unload Dollar bills
mid-air over Mexico then simply disappear. Utahs research concludes that they
were done by the same men, who at the same time attempt to complete the Ozaki
8; a teaching of doing eight extreme ordeals to honor the forces of nature.
They already cleared three, and Utah predicts theyll attempt the fourth on a
rare sea wave phenomenon in France. After presenting his analysis, Utah gets
sent undercover to France under a field agent Pappas. They reach the place and
Utah gets help from others to surf the tall tube wave.
But
as he goes in theres already another surfer in the wave, leaving Utah with
unstable wave. Utah gets sucked into the wave and faints but the other surfer
bails and rescues Utah. He wakes aboard a yacht with the other surfer Bodhi and
his team Roach, Chowder, and Grommet. They leave him to enjoy the party and he
gets acquainted with a girl Samsara. The next day Utah finds the men in an
abandoned Paris train station after he overhears them about the location. Bodhi
gives him an initiation fight and soon hes in the circle. They travel to the
Alps for the next ordeal, wingsuit flying through the cliffs. The four succeed
in their attempt then have some time together with Samsara. The next day they
climb the snow peaks for the sixth ordeal, snowboarding through steep wall of
snow. They reach their spot but Utah decides to extend his line so the others
follow him. But Chowder slips and falls to his death. Utah gets depressed about
it. After a party Samsara explains about her and Bodhi.
Next
they travel to a gold mine where Bodhi detonates some explosives Grommet and
Roach planted. After blowing his cover, Utah chases Bodhi, managing to trip his
bike. But Bodhi escapes as Utah cant stand up after the crash. The FBI freezes
Bodhis sponsors assets so Bodhi plans to rob a nearby Italian bank on a
mountain top. Utah and the police intercept the group, resulting in a crossfire
that kills Roach. As the group flees, Utah chases and shoots one of them but it
turns out to be Samsara. Utah finds the next ordeal location, solo rock
climbing with no safety besides a waterfall. he finds Bodhi and Grommet and
chases them on the climb, but Grommet cramps and falters, falling to his death.
Utah catches up to Bodhi but he leaps down the waterfall, completing the last
ordeal. But Bodhi has to redo the fourth ordeal as he bailed out on the wave.
17 months later Utah finds him in the Pacific facing another giant wave. But
ultimately Utah lets Bodhi go and attempt it. The wave engulfs Bodhi and Utah
comes back home.
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