Fast 5 & The Lost Bladesman

We sneaked out. :P

We caught the lost bladesman only because it was dirt cheap; I would have paid a single cent more to watch an extrapolated portion of history which wasn't even entirely factual. Guan Yunchang, or affectionately known as Guan Yu, was one of the most revered figures during the Warring Period in China. Don't ask me anything more, because my knowledge of Chinese history is... only that much. The last time we watched Donnie Yen on the silver screen in The Legend of the Fist, I didn't remember him with so much facial hair. The martial arts choreography wasn't that fantastic this time either. Would pale in comparison to all the other Donnie Yen movies I've seen so far.

Then the car aficionado in me was let loose in Fast & Furious 5.

The fact that I don't know where to start gushing from totally proves this movie's point of stealing the limelight from the other F&F movies. The cast, the cars, the ass-kicking women, the outrageous heists... I could write an entire thesis out of this franchise. This movie, which is supposed to sit right before Tokyo Drift and after F&F 4, tells the story of Dom Toretto and ex-cop Brian O'Conner fleeing to Rio De Janeiro after a heist to break Toretto out of a life sentence. They then plan out the biggest heist, their last route to freedom, by roping in their buds in the line. I'll stop here so I don't spoil too much of the movie. But I just have to go into the cars. Look out for the Koenigsegg CCX (driven by the 2 braggarts who claimed theirs as one of the four ever produced), the Dodge Charger (the police cars), the Nissan GTR (O'Connor's honeymoon car), the LFA (Han's babe magnet), the Ducati street racer bike (ridden by Gal Gadot), the movie's signature blue 1966 Ford GT40, the Porsche GT3-RS, and many many many more cars. (FYI: The GT3 was a replica by the production crew, who couldn't get Porsche to lend them one to smash.)

Tazzie in 4 days!