Transformers: Age of Extinction

Di film-film sebelumnya, Pemerintah Amerika Serikat selalu berupaya berkoalisi dengan Autobots, bangsa robot yang bisa berubah bentuk menjadi mobil. Ya autobot ini membantu manusia untuk melawan dari serangakan Deceptions seperti yang digambarkan dalam film Transformer (1984) hingga Transformer : Dark of The Moon (2011).

Walaupun Amerika Serikat sudah mendapat keamanan tambahan dari pasukan Autobots, rupaya pihak pemerintah menanggap bahwa robot yang mempunyai kekuatan super itu sangat membahayakan manusia. Oleh karena itu, Amerika Serikat membentuk robot yang lebih canggih dan mampu dibawah kendali manusia.

Dalam misi menghancurkan Autobots di bumi, Badan Intelijen Amerika Serikat yaitu CIA berusaha melacak keberadaan dari pimpinan Autobot yaitu Optimus Prime. Saat berburu mencari Optimus Prime sang pemimpin Autobots, Rumah Cade Yeager (Mark Whlberg) – teknisi miskin yang dicurigai menyembunyikan optimus- ternyata di kepung oleh CIA. Rumah Cade yang ia tinggali bersama anak semata wayangnya Tessa Yeager (Nicola Peltz) hancur lebur.

Karena pemerintah tidak merasa mampu untuk menangkap Optimus Prime, mereka kemudian mengerahkan robot-robot buatan seperti Galvatron yang rupanya diciptakan dari puing-puing Megatron, musuh besar optimus prime yang sebelumnya sudah dikalahkan. Optimus yang merasa terancam akhirnya memerintahkan kawan-kawannya untuk bangkit melawan, karena selama ini kawan-kawannya hanya tiarap tanpa berusaha merlawan. Untuk membantu Autobots, Optimus membangkitkan Dinobots –robot berbentuk dinosaurus- yang membantu autobots menyerang balik.

Melihat hal itu, Galvatron –robot buatan manusia- ternyata berusaha menyebarkan watak jahatnya yang berasal dari gen Megatron untuk membantu menyerang Autobots. Cukup menyentuhnya, Galvatron pun langsung mendapatkan teman demi tujuannya untuk menghancurkan Autobots.

Seperti itulah sekelumit kisah yang dapat disaksikan oleh penonton ketika menyaksikan Film Transformers : Age of ExtinctionTransformer. Seperti film-film yang sebelumnya dibuat, Michael Bay sang Sutradara tetap menyuguhkan berbagai kekhasan film Transformers seperti misil-misil berdesing memburu sasaran, rumah dan mobil yang hancur diledakkan serta jerit manusia yang ketakutan menyatu dalam suara ledakan dan benturan.

Selain itu sentuhan Spielberg juga terasa dalam film ini. Ada kegaduhan dahsyat dan seakan nyata. Terlebih jika film ini ditonton di layar IMAX 3D. Kamera stereo 4K menghasilkan gambar sesuai dengan kapasitas mata manusia. Dengan begitu, penonton seolah masuk dalam kedahsyatan tersebut.

Untuk menarik hati para warga Tiongkok, Michael Bay mengusung perang antar-robot itu hingga ke Beijing. Di perkotaan yang padat manusia itu baik itu di apartemen yang kumuh hingga gedung-gedung pencakar langit yang seakan menjadi ring tinju bagi puluhan robot. Manusia-manusia yang terlibat didalamnya bagikan semut-semut yang tak berdaya karena hanya bisa menjerit dan berlari di kaki-kaki robot itu.

Selain itu Bay juga mengajak bintang film Tiongkok Li Bingbing yang berperan sebagai Su Yueming -kepala program pembuatan robot-. Dan uniknya, adanya kemunculan dari mantan personel Super Junior Han Geng meski hanya ber-cameo selama beberapa detik.

Selain bertabur wajah-wajah baru di Transformer 4, Bay juga memunculkan robot-robot baru di filmnya. Seperti seperti Autobot Hound, Autobot Drift, dan Crosshairs di pihak Autobots. Optimus Prime pun berlaga dengan tampilan baru. Adapun di pihak Galvatron muncul Decepticon Stinge. Dan ada juga robot unik yaitu Lockdown, robot penjelajah alam semesta yang bersedia bekerja hanya dengan imbalan tertentu.

Selain itu, perang antar Autobots dan Galvatron pun menjadi semakin meriah dengan kemunculan Dinobots. Robot berbentuk dinosaurus pendukung Autobots, seperti seperti Dinobot Slash, Dinobot Slug, Scorn, dan Strafe, di bawah komando Grimlock (Tyrannosaurus rex).

Apapun filmnya, selalu ada pesan kemanusiaan yang ingin disampaikan pada penikmatnya. Nah dalam Transformer 4 ini, Bay menyisipkan sebuah pesan ketika Optimus Prime berhadapan dengan musuh besarnya, Galvatron, "Kamu tidak punya jiwa." Galvatron menjawab, "Karena aku tidak punya rasa takut...."

Optimus adalah robot berjiwa, yang tidak ingin diperbudak manusia, dan tak ingin memperbudak manusia. Di film memang seolah-olah hanya autobots saja yang mempunyai hati nurani seperti manusia, tapi justru manusia sendiri yang tidak punya hati. Semoga manusia jenis itu tidak ada di kehidupan nyata manusia.

Transformers: Age of Extinction
Sutradara: Michael Bay
Produser: Steven Spielbergu
Skenario: Ehren Krugeru Durasi: 165 menitu Pemeran: Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Li Bingbing, Jack Reynor, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammeru
Produksi: Paramount Pictures, 2014.

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Red Dawn

 

Red Tails - Theatrical Trailer 2 & New Movie Poster

George Lucas returns next year with a war theme movie. The year was 1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program.

Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country and the fate of the free world.

Genres Action/Adventure and War, release Date January 20th, 2012 (wide), distributed by 20th Century Fox Distribution.

Cast and Credits, starring Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Terrence Howard, Brandon T. Jackson and Ne-Yo. Directed by Anthony Hemingway, produced by George Lucas, Charles Floyd Johnson and Rick McCallum. Check out the second official theatrical trailer.

George Lucas' 'Red Tails' - Official Trailer

The year is 1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options -- including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program.

Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage.
Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country -- and the fate of the free world.

Produced by George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Charles Floyd Johnson, directed by Anthony Hemingway. This Action / Adventure and War film will be released on January 20th, 2012 (wide).

Starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, and Tristan Wilds.

The Warrior and the Wolf

The upcoming period epic “The Warrior and the Wolf” directed by veteran Chinese Zhuangzhuang Tian what we can tell from its trailer is about some Chinese soldier types wandering into the desert and getting their fill of some supernatural happenings. This movie also stars sexy Maggie Q, she shows up to seduce the hero and have passionate sex by a campfire. In the trailer we show wolves show up in packs. This movie is due out in Asia late October 2009.

While the whole story was set in the Era of the Warring States, before the unification of China, those were time where thousands of soldiers are dispatched to fight the enemy and conquer nomadic tribes. Sent to isolated regions at the edges of the known world, the soldiers encounter many difficulties, and the vicious challenge of survival often carries out the most horrible human natures. Except that valiant Lu Chenkang (play by Joe Odagiri) belongs to a different type. This man is brave, loyal and extremely skilled in the art of war. On the other hand, he is kind-hearted and reluctant to assassinate. Although he has a pet wolf cub, he maintains his own animal instincts at bay.

At the time his commander and friend, General Zhang Anliang (Tou Chung-hua), is badly injured just before the early winter, Lu let himself to command of the troops. Forced to locate shelter in the village of the strange Harran tribe, he realizes a beautiful young woman (Maggie Q) hiding in his shelter. A widow shunned into loneliness, she has a fierce personality and fights Lu in every way she can before surrendering to his passionate embrace, having fallen for him against her better judgment. She appears to have the weird capability to take his mind to a place where memories run over with dreams and legends and that was a place where humans were once wolves.

Here is the trailer of this war movie

Inglourious Basterds Poster

Inglourious Basterds (named Inglourious Bastards in some UK advertising, or simply 'Inglourious' for censorship reasons) is an upcoming spaghetti western-style war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is scheduled for release on August 21, 2009 in North America by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures.

Inglourious Basterds is set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution.

Known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own.

Tarantino has repeatedly stressed that despite its being a war film, the movie will be his "spaghetti western but with World War II iconography". In addition to spaghetti westerns, the film also pays homage to the World War II "macaroni combat" sub-genre (itself heavily influenced by spaghetti-westerns), as well as French New Wave cinema.

Inglourious Basterds was accepted into the main selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in competition for the prestigious Palme d'Or and had its world premiere there in May. It was the only U.S. film to win an award at Cannes that year, earning a Best Actor award for Christoph Waltz.

Action/Adventure, Adaptation, Drama and War
R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Mike Myers, Michael Fassbenderr, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl, Til Schweiger, Melanie Laurent, B.J. Novak and Samm Levine
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Adaptation, Politics/Religion and War
Running Time: 2 hrs. 32 min.
Release Date: August 21st, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality.
Distributors: The Weinstein Company

Trailer:

Red Cliff 2 (2009)

It's been a six month wait for the second and final half to John Woo's magnum opus Red Cliff, and for those familiar with the classic but have not watched the first installment, the director doesn't waste time in bringing you up to speed with an excellent summary, so much so that the transitional technique used was carried over to the main movie proper.

And for those who complained about the pigeon soaring over the sky overseeing a football game at the Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) camp, there're perfect explanations for those too.

The story of RED CLIFF takes place in 208 AD in China during the Han Dynasty. Despite the presence of an emperor, Han Xiandi, China was then divided into many warring states.

Genre: War/Action/Drama
Director: John Woo
Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Hu Jun, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Zhang Fengyi, Lin Chiling, Shidou Nakamura
RunTime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Opening Day: 9 January 2009

Trailer

Valkyrie (2008, 2009)

In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.

A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler's own emergency plan - known as Operation Valkyrie - these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside.

With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself.

Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice Van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann,
Eddie Izzard and Terence Stamp
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Biopic and War
Running Time: 2 hrs.
Release Date: December 25th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and brief strong language.
Distributors: MGM Distribution Company
Production Co.: Bad Hat Harry Productions, Achte Babelsberg Film GmbH
Studios: United Artists Films
U.S. Box Office: $60,743,291
Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany, North Africa
Produced in: United States

Trailer



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Australia (2008)

In Australia, on the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited.

Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.

Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres: Romance and War
Release Date: November 26th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution
Production Co.: Bazmark Films
Studios: 20th Century Fox
Filming Locations: Australia

Trailer as seen on YouTube

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Four soldiers from the army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema.

Also Known As:
Miracle at Saint Anna
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres: Drama, Adaptation and War
Release Date: September 26th, 2008 (wide)
Distributors: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Production Co.: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Studios: Touchstone Pictures
Filming Locations: Tuscany, Italy
Produced in: Italy
Source : Yahoo! Movies

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Director : Terry George

Writer : Keir Pearson/Terry George

Release Date : 04 February 2005

Genre : Drama/History/Thriller/War

Cast : Don Cheadle, Sofie Okonedo, Nick Nolte

My Review:

Ini salah satu film favorite gw.

Mengambil setting di kota Kigali pada tahun 1994, dengan latar belakang sejarah gerakan genocide di Rwanda.

Tokoh utama Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) adalah seorang Manager Hotel yang cukup terkemuka di Kigali. Seorang yang bijak dan memiliki kepedulian yang tinggi dengan lingkungannya. Paul memiliki karir dan kehidupan yang baik. Memiliki Istri dan 2 orang anak yang sangat dicintainya..

Rwanda sendiri ketika itu terbagi atas 2 suku/ras yang ditentukan secara sewenang2 oleh pemerintahan sebelumnya, yaitu Hutu dan Tutsi. Di masa lalu Hutu telah menjadi kaum kelas dua dan hampir semua posisi dan jabatan penting di pemerintahan diserahkan ke kaum Tutsi.

Konflik mulai terjadi ketika kaum mayoritas Hutu dengan penuh kebencian melakukan gerakan pembasmian (genocide) terhadap kaum Tutsi. Kebrutalan kaum Hutu ini akan membawa kita ke suasana horror, sekaligus menyedihkan. Terutama perasaan kita juga ikut terbawa membayangkan apa yang kita saksikan adalah sejarah yang benar2 terjadi.

Ribuan kaum Hutu terbunuh dan mayat yang bergelimpangan disana sini menciptakan suasan menyeramkan.

Paul sendiri adalah keturunan Hutu yang tidak setuju dengan tindakan genocide ini. Dia pun terlibat dalam usaha menyelamatkan sebanyak mungkin kaum Tutsi yang dia kenal, termasuk istri dan anak2 tercintanya. Keberanian dan ketulusan Paul semakin teruji ketika ratusan kaum Tutsi yang melarikan diri ke Hotel yang dia kelola sebagai tempat persembunyian mengingat hotel ini juga digunakan sebagai basis militer PBB.

Selanjutnya Paul harus terlibat berbagai macam konflik untuk membela dan menyelamatkan para pelarian Tutsi dari usaha pembunuhan Hutu dan juga dari kelaparan karena stok makanan dalam hotel yang terbatas sementara di luar hotel selalu siaga pagar betis kaum Hutu lengkap dengan berbagai sejata tajam dan siap untuk menyerang siapa saja yang keluar hotel.

Nonton film ini akan melahirkan kengerian dan kesedihan bercampuk aduk serta kegeraman luar biasa. Geram menyaksikan kebrutalan sekelompok manusia yang dengan sadis menyiksa dan membunuh saudara2 mereka, geram menyaksikan kekecewaan2 tokoh Paul ketika menyadari siapa ternyata teman yang bisa dia percaya atau tidak dan kegeraman selanjutnya adalah ketika dunia seperti menutup mata akan penderitaan kaum Tutsi Rwanda ini.

Ketegangan semakin memuncak ketika Militer PBB yang berbasis di Hotel Rwanda serta para turis asing yang selama ini menjadi tameng keselamatan para pelarian kaum Tutsi justru di jemput oleh Pasukan PBB dan meninggalkan para Tutsi ini dalam keadaan tak berdaya sementara ribuan kaum Hutu yang beringas bak singa kelaparan siap menyerbu begitu militer dan para turis asing meninggalkan hotel….

Review by David Thomas (Filmcritic.com)

In 1994 an attempted genocide in Rwanda left over 1 million dead. The response of the international community was tepid, at best. The response of one hotel manager, however, was heroic. Hotel Rwanda tells his story with some insight, but perhaps too much restraint.

As the film begins, two tribes are at war. A Hutu majority faces a Tutsi insurgence. A disembodied voice on the radio fans the flames of hate, instigating Hutu violence against anyone even suspected of being Tutsi. None of this seems to affect Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), a hotelier at the posh Hotel Mille Collines, which caters to European tourists and the local military elite. He keeps politics at arms’ length, using his charm and skill with negotiation to please his clients and superiors. Whatever pull he has is kept in reserve for when he might need it for his own family in the future. This is especially important since, while he is Hutu, his wife Tatiana (an impeccable Sophie Okonedo) is Tutsi.

All of that changes once a coup replaces the moderate president with a Tutsi-hating junta leading an increasingly uncontrollable militia bent on genocide. Paul must hide his Tutsi relatives and friends in his hotel while the UN stands guard outside. As the situation worsens, his negotiating prowess must serve over 800 refugees, all of whom are only a favor or payoff away from execution.

Don Cheadle is outstanding as Paul, at first depicting his quiet ease as a businessman, then his desperation as everything he takes for granted begins to crumble. The moment comes when Paul realizes who his real friends aren’t, and Cheadle’s performance resonates the horror of what Paul has become and how completely he’s been deceived. This, in turn, makes Paul’s conviction all the more believable when he chooses to use his skills, at great risk to himself and others, to save as many Rwandans as possible.

Also serving well in a small but memorable role is Joaquin Phoenix, as a photographer who captures footage of the atrocities while recognizing the ultimate futility of their broadcast. “If people see this they’ll say ‘Oh, my God. That’s horrible,’” he explains to Paul, “Then they go on eating their dinners.” Nick Nolte makes a nice turn as a compassionate, but ultimately impotent UN peacekeeper. He points out just how little Paul and his people mean to the rest of the world. “You’re not even a nigger,” he tells him, “You’re an African.”

One of the things the film does very effectively is in pointing out the disconnect between the horrors taking place in Africa and the response of the world community. Paul tells his refugee residents that they must “shame” the world into taking action. Rwanda seems to be nothing more than an investment or a tourist destination to the powers that be. This is captured perfectly when, as the European guests of the hotel are evacuated and the Rwandans are left behind, a man on the exiting bus snaps a photo.

What the film doesn’t do quite as effectively is capture the visceral horror of the event. It’s very difficult to do a PG-13 film about genocide. To some extent, director Terry George pulls it off. The psychological strain is evident in Cheadle’s performance and in the fear evoked in his guests by each new threat. But this is one of those rare cases where it seems the presentation isn’t violent enough. It feels like the blow has been softened, and this is one punch that should not be pulled. In effect, the audience feels like they’re being given the tourist version of the massacre instead of the real thing. Adding to this watered-down effect is the dialogue, which occasionally lapses into movie-of-the-week caliber. The story here is stronger than the actual screenplay, which is too bad, since this is a tale that deserves to be told with as much impact as possible.





Review Summary from The New York Times)
Stephen Holden

This wrenching political thriller, based on fact, performs the valuable service of lending a human face to an upheaval so savage it seemed beyond the realm of imagination when news of it filtered into the West.

The movie certainly isn't the first screen depiction of a nation consumed in ethnic strife. But its vision of the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis by the ruling Hutu tribe in Rwanda during a hundred-day bloodbath in 1994, offers a devastating picture of media-driven mass murder left unchecked. The story is based on the real-life experiences of Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), the soft-spoken Hutu manager of the Hotel Des Mille Collines, in Kigali, who with his Tutsi wife, Tatiana (Sophie Okonedo), and children, narrowly escapes death several times.

Mr. Rusesabagina was directly responsible for saving the lives of more than 1,200 Tutsis and Hutu moderates by sheltering them in the hotel and bribing the Hutu military to spare them. The movie, which is squeamish about showing the full extent of savagery, hammers every button on the emotional console.