Also known as Scared. Think of this movie as a Thai version of Friday the 13th, and then you’re there. Almost.

You got some teenagers going on a school bus trip, end up in the woods, and then this “mysterious killer” starts executing one after another in different gory, beautiful ways. There’s not really much else to it, except a (really lame) plot twist in the end.

One thing that bothers me is that all the teenagers are just a bunch of pussies! There they are, like, a shitload of healthy teens and they let themselves be killed by this fucktard. Why don’t they just beat the hell out of him? I was annoyed by this and I couldn’t let it go through the whole movie. I’ll bet you will be annoyed too by their inabilities to act.

Wankers.

So did I enjoy it? No. It wasn’t good. It wasn’t even good if you take it for what it is (a b-class splashy gore movie). Further more, the thai language is not one of my favourites (although the country itself is a place I like). Quite annoying accent, but better than portugese which was my second option.

Don’t spend any dollars on this one. It is barely worth it even for all the gore or some of the good-looking bitches they managed to include.

Also known as Rogue Assassin. Jet Li. Jason Statham. Two kickass motherfuckers in the same movie. What can go wrong?

Everything.

First off, let me just say that I love Statham and Li. Not ’cause they’re good actors (they’re not). But because they’re so god damn brutal they just need to stare at a bad guy to open a can of whuppass on that sorry bastard.

Anyways. Let me get to the bad parts, and explain what’s so terribly wrong with this movie. First of all, the story has so many twists and turns that even the director himself must’ve been confused. It doesn’t hold. I like twists and turns. I don’t like twists and turns and twists and turns and twists and turns and twists and turns and… yeah, you get the picture. I got lost, god damn it!

It could be because it is the japanese mafia waging war against the cartels. I.e. asian dudes fighting asian dudes. And they all look almost the same! I’m sorry but they do! It’s hard to know which side who got their asses kicked during fighting scenes.

Some lame explanation of the story, stolen from IMDB as usual:

After his partner Tom Wynne and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue, FBI agent Jack Crawford becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang of the Triad’s and Yakuza boss Shiro. When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.

I really love that part in the end: “… the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed”. Oooooh, so exciting! Why do people keep writing this kind of bullshit? Awww crap, I’m regretting right now I copy-pasted that shit onto my blog. I feel dirty.

Well, back to the movie.

Mad.

You get a lot of pretty awesome fighting/shooting/fencing scenes, some okay car chases, a couple of really nice chicks and of course a cold-faced Jet Li and a smartmouthed Jaston Statham. And a whole lot of other shitty actors who can act for shit (haha)!

My suggestion is that you see this movie when you’re having a hangover. It will be less painful. The hangover, that is. Can’t say it is neither one of the better movies with Statham nor Li.

The Fountainhead (swedish: “Urkällan”) is a novel by Ayn Rand which everybody should read. Story (stolen from wikipedia since I’m too lazy to write my own synopsis):

The Fountainhead’s protagonist, Howard Roark, is an idealistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision. The book follows his battle to practice modern architecture, which he believes to be superior, despite an establishment centered on tradition-worship. How others in the novel relate to Roark demonstrates Rand’s various archetypes of human character, all of which are variants between Roark, the author’s ideal man of independent-mindedness and integrity, and what she described as the “second-handers.” The complex relationships between Roark and the various kinds of individuals who assist or hinder his progress, or both, allows the novel to be at once a romantic drama and a philosophical work.

There you go. The title of the book refers to the fact that “a man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.” Which I totally agree on. Ayn Rand gets a bit complicated from time to time in the book, taking note of suffering of characters which I can’t really understand. Maybe I am too stupid to see the reason behind it. Nah, that can’t be it. I’m too clever for my own good!

Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s philosophy, is woven into the text through its main characters. Objectivism explained: “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

So you left-wing bastards out there who think that self-sacrifice and subordination of the individual under the society is the best way to go should grab a copy of this book and then reconsider your statements. For real.

By the way, I know this book made it to a movie too. I will see if I can get hold of it.

Next book I’m reading right now is Atlas Shrugged by the same author. I think that book was considered her magnus opus.

Ayn Rand. Read or die, bitches!