Most of us knows the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. He's well known for his ability solving mystery by observing small details.

The movie had an attractive trailer and I thought the movie will be great because the early reviews was too positive. So I went to watch it with high expectation. While I was watching, I realize I was wrong. There's too much talking and barely anything else to be enjoyed.

"Sherlock Holmes" was created around 1890 and this movie looks classical with modern filming technology. It can be seen from the trailer itself, I do like this kind of movies. However, "Sherlock Holmes" did not deliver to the expectation. I personally think "The Legend Of Zorro," "Shanghai Knights" and "Public Enemies" have better visuals to display previous century. "Sherlock Holmes" sets in old London and I believe they should have worked more on the visuals.

I felt sleepy and the only reason I was awake was because of the humors. There aren't many but they have it all in right places. Maybe to keep people to be awake, LOL. Watching this movie felt like reading plain novel for the sake of reading.

"Sherlock Holmes" has adventure, mystery and some action. All these different elements mixed up without balance in one detective movie and runs for two hours. I would classify this movie nothing but drama. I could not find anything to admire about this movie except for the acting and humors.

Rating: 2/10

Dr. John Watson: Get that out of my face.
Sherlock Holmes: It's not in your face, it's in my hand.
Dr. John Watson: Get what's in your hand out of my face.

"All The Right Moves" by "OneRepublic." I love the song and the video. So, I decided to post the music video, together with the song meaning and lyrics. The beautiful element of the video is the masquerade ball performance.

SONG MEANING

According to OneRepublic, they intentionally made the music video to be abstract so that the song will be open for interpretation. So, it's difficult to give an accurate interpretation by combining both the lyrics and the video. Somehow, I have an interpretation based on the lyrics.

This song can be about OneRepublic themselves, having goal in competitive industry and they feel not good enough to reach above or higher than the top musicians. Even if they become the best, someone better will appear to bring them to the lower spot. So yeah, this song is rather negative than positive, LOL. Anyway, if you love music, you will surely want to sing along with this song. :)

This song is not limited only to music industry, it can be applied to other fields especially politics. If your competitor knows the right people, then you will go down. Besides that, even if everything seems to be turning well, sooner or later your competitor or enemy will turn you back down before you reach your goal.

The second verse is self questioning. The writer ask himself, if the band is good enough to make it to the spotlight or if the band will just remain normal, like the most bands out there. As I said, this song is negative, it says hard times can be possible and success can be possible too; however, success is far from reach.

As the song reaches the end, the writer says that although they are not the best, they will remain to be unique and will not change their style in making music.

It's kind of a self deprecating anthem and it's about how we've felt as a band at certain times. When OneRepublic came out, because of the other writing and producing I'd done, and because Timbaland was associated with our first single, we got completely discarded by the critics. Even if OneRepublic made the coolest art record ever, we'd never be able to erase the memory of how we broke. This song's aimed at all the cool bands that we'll never be. - Ryan Tedder

LYRICS

All the right friends in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
They've got all the right moves in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down

Let's paint the picture of the perfect place
They've got it better then when anyone's told you
They'll be the King of Hearts and you're the Queen of Spades
Then we'll fight for you like we were your soldiers
I know we've got it good, but they've got it made
And the grass is getting greener each day
I know things are looking up, but soon they'll take us down
Before anybody's knowing our name

They've got all the right friends in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
They've got all the right moves in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
Said everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down
Said everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down

Do you think I'm special? Do you think I'm nice?
Am I bright enough to shine in your spaces?
Between the noise you hear and the sounds you like
Are we just sinking the ocean of faces?
It can't be possible, the rain can fall
Only when it's over our heads.
The sun is shining everyday, but it's far away
Over the world that's dead.

[CHORUS]

It don't matter what you see
I know I could never be
Someone that'll look like you.
It don't matter what you say
I know I could never face
Someone that could sound like you.

The poster does not look cool, neither does the trailer. I decided to watch this movie after I saw "Behind The Scenes" footages on Sony's AXN Channel. Well this movie does give everything promised on the footage. The tough training the cast (especially Rain) went through is totally worth it.

The introduction part contains too much flashbacks. It shifts frequently between Raizo's past and present time. This movie is easy to understand and the story line seems to be written in simple way. The original script was not good enough and they decided to make new draft, six weeks before the production. The total writing hours of the new script was only 53 hours. The whole movie runs for about 100 minutes with some predictable points.

This movie is extremely violent. The blood splits everywhere. The ninjas in this movie are heartless killer and they kill brutally, with or without sword. There's line "I have no heart" by Raizo, before Kiriko proves we all do have heart and his heart is looking for him. Hmm...

This movie does not have good story line and acting. However, "Ninja Assassin" deserves high rating because of the action flicks and stunts. Most probably they spent too much concern on the ninjas scenes and not the casting. Bloody battles are largely included. It's fast paced too, so I should say fast and furious, LOL. But this time, it's about ninja and their martial arts.

This movie is about revenge, most action movies these days are about the same thing. There are two sides seeking revenge. One caused by love and another caused by betrayal. Both collides and the movie has an excellent cinematography. Fast motion and slow motion are all used in right timing.

Rating: 7/10

Wherever you are, wherever you may go, you must never forget who you are and how you came to be. - Ozunu

Here's the most hyped movie of the year, with high demand on the box office. I watched it and I think it's 100 times better than any summer movies we had this year, except for "Fast & Furious." The reason I'm comparing it with other summer movies mainly because this movie was originally scheduled for the summer. However, they changed the release date because there's possibility of getting higher profits on November. Besides that, they spent more time on production which I believe was worth it. The trailer on YouTube reached 8 million views in about 6 months and has about 51,000 comments and average rating of 4.5 by 22,000 users. Once I saw the trailer, it was hard to resist the movie. =P

It's the most breathtaking catastrophe movie until now! The movie runs for 2 hours and 40 minutes. There are few lessons we can learn from this movie. It touches variety themes such as love, friendship and family. I can elaborate that part but do not want to reveal anything, hehe. It has good choice of casts and actings are quite emotional. All of them whom I have not seen on the big screen.

The visual effects are stunning and it's the most remarkable element in this movie. They look realistic, unlike in other movies where you can easily discover they are computer generated. Certain scenes are really horrific.

I like the soundtrack video, "Time For Miracles" by Adam Lambert. I'm not Adam Lambert fan but I know he's great singer. Below here, I have posted the official music video. There are extra scenes from the movie, an additional to the trailer.

Most critics and reviews compares this movie with another movie called "A Day After Tomorrow." It has the same director and involves catastrophic effects. I have not seen that movie, I do not really much like these kind of movies. However, 2012 turns to be good choice for November entertainment. =)

By the way, catastrophic means sudden violent change on the earth's surface.

Rating: 9/10

Today we are one family. - President Thomas Wilson