Kevin Lau

I know I'm not the only one who thought this movie was going to be a flop. I mean, not only is it a high-speed street racing movie, but it's also a videogame movie. Still, I gave it a shot, but mostly for the D-Box experience. Even with the earnings from winning illegal street races, Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) is still unable to keep his auto repair shop from his father open. For a chance to get $500,000, Tobey takes an offer from his street racing rival and successful car dealer Dino Brewster (Domonic Cooper) to finish building the Ford Mustang that Caroll Shelby was working on when he died. After building the car and selling it without Dino's consent, Dino challenges Tobey and Tobey's friend, Pete, to a street race for the money. Nearing the end of the race, desperate for revenge, Dino pushes Pete over a bridge and drives away, leaving Tobey to be blamed for vehicular manslaughter. Two years later, fresh out of prison, Tobey seeks out to knock Dino off his p...

"Alchemy: the science of deconstructing and reconstructing matter. However, it is not an all powerful art. For everything that is taken, something of equal value must be given. This is the law of equivalent exchange." When Edward and Alphonse Elric were young, they discovered through their father's books the science of alchemy and learned the ability to deconstruct things to an atomic level and rearranging the atoms to create something else instead. Basically, with alchemy, you can transmute (change) a plastic cup into a plastic bowl. However, there is the law of equivalent exchange. After Ed and Al's mother passed away, the brothers committed the ultimate taboo in alchemy: human transmutation. The result of trying to bring their mother back ended in failure, with Edward losing his right arm and left leg and Alphonse losing his entire body. If it weren't for Ed's alchemical ability to transmute Al's soul to a body of armor, Al would've been as...

Liam Neeson goes on a non-stop flight from London to New York. I'm pretty sure nothing bad could happen, right? Right? Bill Marks (Liam Neeson), a U.S. Air Marshal, goes on a non-stop flight from London to New York. Shortly after the plane takes off, Bill receives an anonymous text message on his secured phone requesting $150 million to be transferred to an off-shore account or else someone on the plane will die every 20 minutes. As time goes on and the threats become more intense, who can he trust to catch a terrorist who is one of them? In a basic sense, "Non-Stop" is "Source Code" meets "Devil" on an airplane. The filmmakers keep you guessing on who the killer is and the film never stops to take a breather. It is also a movie best to have only seen the trailer and experience all the twists and turns the writers left for surprise. A very gripping thriller, "Non-Stop" may not be a must-see, but it definitely keeps you at the...

I walked into this movie knowing only one thing about it: it's a movie called "3 Days to Kill". Even with expecting so little, I was still disappointed. Kevin Costner plays as a CIA agent who is diagnosed with brain cancer. As he tries to make amends with his daughter he has barely seen in the short time he has left, the government picks him up to finish the job he was unable to do at the beginning of the movie: Find the Albino, find his boss, and kill them both during the 3 days he's babysitting his teenage daughter. Sounds interesting, but the movie itself is a bit messy. The humorous parts are indeed funny, the action sequences are well thought out, but the story, pacing, and the timing of the darkness and the humor of the story were a mess, leaving you unsure whether to laugh or not. I'd be lying if I said that I'm a fan of McG's work. I didn't care for the pilot of "Supernatural", was okay with the pilot for  "Chuck",...

I'll admit it. Like practically everyone else who went to see this movie, I too had low expectations for it. The movie did let me down, though, but not the way I expected. In the near future (2028), the government has military drones all over the world, maintaining peace in all the countries in the world except the U.S.A. You see, the American government doesn't want those drones on their streets. Why? Because the robots are robots, they have no emotions or independent thoughts. If one of them shot a kid, they wouldn't feel anything different from shooting a criminal. So, the head of Omnicorp (Micheal Keaton), gives in to corporate greed to make something people can rally behind, something with character and and independent thoughts, something that has the strength of a machine and the will of a man. They're going to put a man in a machine. The movie was great from the beginning, from Samuel L. Jackson's performance as a media spokesman trying to get th...

I had recently gotten a Playstation Vita for Christmas and decided I could get the full experience if I actually bought a game. Short on cash at the time, I purchased this game from Amazon for $17. I heard it's the best Vita experience, but I guess you're reading this to see if I really think so. "Gravity Rush" is, for starters, a very unique and interesting game. The main mechanic of the game is to allow you to shift gravity however you want. For instance, if you want to make your gravity up instead of down, simply tap R which makes you float in zero gravity, aim up with the right analog stick or tilting your Vita up, press R again, and then you're falling up! You can walk on walls, ceilings, or even "fall" to your destination. You can use your gravity powers to solve puzzles and battle in combat. As for the story of "Gravity Rush", it feels more of a pilot for a TV series than rather a stand-alone game. Then again, judging by the ann...

It's here! It's finally here! The movie we've been waiting for our whole lives! But... does it live up to expectations? Eight-and-a-half years ago, Lord Business (Will Ferrel) breaks into a cave Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman) was defending, stealing the ultimate weapon that he will use to control the world. At that moment, Vitruvius states a prophecy saying that someone, an ordinary person, will stop Lord Business from completing his plans. Fast-forward to present day LEGO City, where we meet Emmet (Chris Pratt), a regular, ordinary minifigure who always follows the instruction booklets and has a job as a construction worker. He does the same routine almost everyday, being sure to never stray from the instructions. After seeing a girl breaking the rules at the construction site, he tries to follow her, but instead falling down a pit, sticking him onto an adventure unlike any other involving a league a masterbuilders, minifigures who can create just about anything using t...