[Movie Review] Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

by Daniel Chiam 

Fans DEMAND for Retribution! ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 2/10

I made a quick recap of the previous 4 installment of Resident Evil if you never watched any/some of it, or just to refresh your memory of what happened before Resident Evil: Retribution. 

This is by far the most disappointing, uncreative, uninteresting and unimaginative Resident Evil EVER! The story line and plot is crap. Script was just horrible and even the humor felt like it was force to be insert into the script. The fight scenes was uncreative, lazy and uninteresting at all!

It's a zombies actions movie for goodness sake. How can you messed up the zombies and made them look so uninteresting and so not scary at all! There was just too many flaws, too many loop holes and worse, NOTHING IS MAKING SENSE AT ALL in the movie!

I am truly disappointed with Paul Anderson the director. I went and watch with the lowest expectation ever and hopefully something simple could really impress me, but I ended up with further disappointment. Other than the hot girls, there's really nothing good I can say about the movie at all. 

Overall, the 5th installment was finished just for the sake of "lets get it done with so we can all called it a day and head to the bar for some beers. It's on me!". SO EFFORTLESS! If possible, I really hope they could give RE a much more worthy ending in the 6th installment. PLEASE!

Thanks to Sony Pictures Malaysia and Nuffnang for the invitation.

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Quick Recap of The Previous 4 Resident Evil Series Before 'Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)'

by Daniel Chiam 

Let's do a quick recap of the previous 4 installment of the Resident Evil series to get a better pictures before we get to Resident Evil: Retribution. Lets go!

Resident Evil (2002) ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6/10
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. 

Alice is working with Umbrella Corporation, the organization that secretly created the T-Virus (a genetically constructed mutating virus) for the purpose of biological weapon. Alice was trying to expose the conspiracy but ended up trying to contain the outbreak of the T-Virus at a secret underground facility called The Hive with a band of Umbrella Corporation commandos. The virus infected all the people who work in the facility and turned them into a flesh eating undead. Later they found out the T-Virus has an anti-virus to reverse the mutation in early stage. Alice managed to escape from The Hive to the surface. She was captured and knocked unconscious afterwards. When Alice woke up, the virus  already spread to the surface of Raccoon City after Umbrella reopened The Hive.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ 4/10
Directed by Alexander Witt.

Alice was being experimented by the Umbrella. She now posses superhuman strength, speed and agility. The character Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera was introduced. Alice's mission along with other survivors is to evacuate from Raccoon City before a nuclear missile completely destroyed the city. In order to do that, they need to help save a little girl named Angela whose father is the scientist that created the T-Virus to get the location of the helicopter. At the end, Nemesis appeared and fought with Alice. Alice and few of the survivors managed to escape with the helicopter, but it was caught in the blast wave and crashes. Umbrella employees found Alice's body, badly burned. Three weeks later, Alice awakens in a water tank. Appeared to be experimented by Umbrella scientist Dr. Isaacs. She attacks him, and fights her way out of the facility. Finally, Alice was taken away by Carlos who disguise as Umbrella employee. Alice was let escaped on purpose and then Program Alice was activated.

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 5/10
Directed by Russell Mulcahy.

Umbrella is cloning Alice to produce a cure for the T-Virus but was failed many time. The T-Virus was unable to be quarantine back in Raccoon City and is now spread to all around the world. After 5 years, the rest of the world eventually turned into deserted wastelands. Alice was separated from her previous group and is now travelling alone, she encountered Claire Redfield's convoy who was in trouble of being attacked by infected crows. Alice uses her psionic powers to defeat the crows. Alice shared with Claire that there is a 'safe zone' in Alaska which is free from infection and became the new direction for the convoy. They were ambush and attacked by the Umbrella and zombies at Las Vegas. Alice was almost being shut down remotely by the Umbrella but failed. They tracked down the Umbrella secret location and went there to get the helicopter to get to Alaska. Alice decided to deal with the Umbrella instead and letting Claire and the remaining survivors to take off with the helicopter. Alice fought with Dr. Isaacs who has mutated into a powerful Tyrant, and she was saved by her own clone at the end. Alice send out a warning declaring that she is coming for the new Umbrella chairman, Albert Wesker in Japan. 

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ 4/10
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.

The film start with Alice clones attempt to kill Wesker at his base in Tokyo. Wesker escapes and destroys all of the clones with the base. The real Alice boarded his aircraft beforehand and Wesker uses a serum to remove all of Alice's powers before the aircraft crash. Alice travels to Alaska to find the survivors from previous film and only found Claire who suffers from amnesia. Both travel to LA and found a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by zombies. Alice found out that Arcadia (or the safe haven in Alaska) is actually a tanker ship and is close to the LA's shore. Majini zombies was being introduced, a zombie that can dug tunnel and also Axeman, a huge zombie that carrying an axe. Zombies managed to break into the prison and Alice along with everyone escaped using the sewers to reach Arcadia. Claire suddenly regains her memory, and reveals Arcadia was an Umbrella trap to gather survivors to be used as test subjects. Wesker appeared and was infected by the T-Virus. Alice is able to defeat both Bennett and Wesker with help from K-Mart. Alice resolves to turn Arcadia into a real safe haven and broadcasts a new message for any other survivors. The final scene, Alice see an approaching Umbrella assault helicopter squadron.

I've managed to do a marathon in a day for all the 4 movies, and I find that aside from the zombies and the actions, Resident Evil's plot and story line is a little bit too straight forward and uninteresting at all (aside from the first one which I still think is the best one among all so far).

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Superstars of Magic 2 by Resorts World Genting

by Daniel Chiam 

Ever since the press conference for Superstars of Magic 2, the anticipation to watch the live show was very much skyrocketed and finally we were able to catch the show last Friday and it was hilarious, astonishing, mesmerizing, and above all magical.You just have to see it to believe it!

The funny guy, Chipper.

Chipper Lowell from USA is the official emcee of the show and he was absolutely, totally and extremely funny! It was more to comedy than magic for him, and it keeps the crowd from laughing and laughing and laugh even more. He is really entertaining!

Charlie Frye & Co kicks off with a variety act of juggling, magic to comedy. It was entertaining but not so much magic going on there. My anticipation is still a full on magic act!

Awesomely impressive!

Nestor Hato the card manipulation champion from France. He made the desire to learn card tricks burn like never before. His act was so cool, with all the cards flying around, disappear and reappearing. The crowd was totally mesmerize by his performance. At the end, keep your eyes on his hair! Omigosh how did he even do that?!

Christian Lindermann is the Europe's best pickpocket artist and not only that, he is also oh-so-funny guy too. "I LIKE", haha. Keep your eyes on his hands and see how sneaky and clever it is for him to "steal" from a member of the audience.

Don't ever try this at home!

Dean Gunnarson is the world's greatest escape artist from Canada and watching him doing his death defying act is really heart pounding and nerve wrecking at the same time. It was extremely impressive to wonder how in the world he managed to escape from such near death experience!

The only Asian performers in the show; JC Sum and 'Magic Babe' Ning. Now this two, is really O.M.G! Their performance really gives hope that tho magic can be decoded but it is still extremely mind boggling to see it done live. 'Magic Babe' Ning was lock in a chest and all the while we can see her hands, then suddenly she pop out of no where in the crowd. I was like WTFish! When... How... she does it?! Brilliant!

Mysterious balls keeps coming and going.

Shooting endless cards like nobody's business!

The two young magician; SOS & Tigran Junior, was pretty impressive too. Simple magic tricks by the 12 year old and yet it was still entertaining. The older brother was performing similar cards manipulation as Hato, tho similar but it was very entertaining in so many different ways.

Talking about burning desire, this guy was literally on fire!

The final act was by SOS & Victoria Petrosyan, and you literally could no take your eyes off the gorgeous Victoria. She keeps changing into a different mesmerizing outfits in seconds! I believe all the ladies would love to know how it works as it could come in handy just in case someone is wearing the same outfit as yours for an occasion.

The Superstars of Magic 2 will be happening till 9th of September 2012. So WAIT NO MORE and get your tickets now before the coolest magic show in town disappear and don't know when to return yet!

Show starts at 9PM in Geting International Showroom. Ticket range from RM60 to RM250 for adult and RM30 to RM100 for children. Seriously, this is that one show you don't want to miss out!

All photos are courtesy of Resorts World Genting.

For more info visits:

Superstars of Magic Malaysia Facebook Page

Resorts World Genting website

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Bubbles & Bites @ Highlands Hotel

by Daniel Chiam

All photos are by Jessying.com

Introducing the new place for you to chill, hangout and enjoy your luxury time at Genting Highland; the purplish, stylish, oh-so-modern, young at age and most importantly young at heart - Bubbles & Bites!

Photo by Resort World Genting

It has a special lounge area on the second floor where you can chill and chat with your friends and at the same time it gives you that VIP feeling when hanging out up there with your friends. I really recommend you to give it a try at least once for the feeling :D

Other than the stylish concept, I personally think the selling point of the restaurant is the beverages like sparkling wines, wines, champagne, beers from all around the world, alcoholic soda and ciders for your choice to pick. You can find some of the available drinks being display near the counter and you are please to take it as you like for your taste bud.

The food I tried was moderate in taste, but just in case you are looking for something to bites on the occasion, then you could probably try their pizzas, pastas and also the peri-peri chicken wings to feed the many :D

Pasta: Carbonara & Cheese (left). Al Dente Spaghetti 

It was indeed a very cool place to chill with your buddies, just look at the picture below!

Like a G6 yo!

Bubbles & Bites operations hours: 11am - 12 am (Mon - Thurs) and 11am - 2am (Fri - Sun)

Thank you www.jessying.com for all the photos!

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Taken Again by Maggie Grace

by Daniel Chiam

It got me all excited when I saw the trailer of Taken 2, because the first movie was oh-so-awesome! Liam Neeson really kicks some serious butt in the movie and if you have yet to watch it, PLEASE DO WATCH IT NOW!

The movie will be released in the early October and I seriously can't wait to catch it in the cinema. The hot blondie from Lost, Maggie Grace reprises her role as the daughter of Neeson in the movie, and judging from the trailer, she has more actions going on in Taken 2 if compared to the previous one. Hopefully it will be much more interesting than her role in the movie Lockout.

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