Paranoid

The Android watched his first movie in 2008 and it was excellent.

Along with Shan, Julian and Lin Yee, The Android headed down to Lido for a midnight screening of Eastern Promises, directed by the acclaimed David Cronenberg. This new thriller reunites the director with his leading man from A History of Violence, Viggo Mortensen.

Once again, Mortensen proves himself a brilliant actor playing the ruthless Russian thug, Nikolai Luzhin. This movie deserves a watch for its intriguing plot and characters, if not for its graphical violence. The Android shall give away nothing more.

Awesome stuff.

In her own words, Tasha likes to watch ching chong epic movies, so The Android was dragged along to the latest one that was projecting on local screens.

After the show, The Android developed more cause for paranoia. Friendship was depicted in the film as something intense and wonderful… yet extremely brittle. Wealth, women and absolute power eventually corrupts and annihilates even the strongest of relationships. In the end, you will never know when your back will be stabbed.

Despair and paranoia aside, this movie has some fantastically gory battles! And speaking of battles, the woman who likes ching chong epic movies chose to leave for the bathroom during the most ching chong epic battle scene.

The Android had a ball of a time watching this movie with Shan and Ah Ly. Half the time, we were cracking up.

We cracked up at Ian McKellen, who provided his voice for a polar bear who drinks like an Ah Neh. We cracked up at Daniel Craig – everytime he comes on, we couldn’t help but to cue the James Bond theme in our heads. And of course, we cracked up at Nicole Kidman. Look out for her classic Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker dialogue with newcomer Dakota Blue Richards… absolutely priceless.

Once again, the pages of a book gets slashed, altered and reproduced for the silver screen. This time round it was fun, but felt like it was in a mad rush to meet its 140-minute reel time.