I’ve had the privilege to watch two movies in the past week. It’s rare enough that I get to go to the cinema twice in a week but you know what’s even more rare? Having both movies be totally awesome. If you haven’t had a chance to watch them yet I highly recommend it.
1) Kingsman
I watched this at the Nuffnang Premier Screening and I was totally blown away. I mean I really didn’t know what to expect. Okay the trailer told me it’s sort of a spy or James Bond type of movie but what transpired was far more than that.
The movie had some of the most awesome action scenes ever. When I say awesome I mean the complete opposite of the crappy action scenes in Taken 3 where all you have car chase scenes that cut angles back and forth so much it makes you dizzy. One of the biggest fight scenes you’ll see in the movie has the audience follow the hero from a 3rd person point of view through a fight scene that feels like it lasts 3 full minutes and it was all done in one take. ONE TAKE.
In fact I was so impressed with the way the action scenes were filmed I googled the Director’s name (Matthew Vaughn) and have made a list to watch the rest of his movies (X-Men First Class, Layer Cake, Kick-Ass).
Samuel L Jackson was totally awesome in this movie too. I found his character hilarious.
2) The Imitation Game
I just watched this last night with Shorty. It’s the true story of a code breaker named Alan Turing who broke the Enigma Code in World War 2 and made the single biggest contribution to the Allied’s victory against Germany.
The term “True Story” here can be used rather loosely though. I went back to read up on the accuracy of the film compared to the actual historical events and lets just say that a lot of the dramatised parts were made up or never happened. Even the portrayal of Alan Turing himself wasn’t accurate.
In any case it was a movie I really enjoyed partly because I’m a modern history junkie. Equally enjoyable was reading up on the history of those events right after the movie.
So if you wanna catch a movie this week, these are two awesome movies worth watching.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space