Mysterious Island
Synopsis:
The movie started with a young mother and her son escaping from some invisible evil force that has attacked them from . The mother is thrown out from the building and killed while the son managed to hid in a small hole inside the jungle. However, it shows that the evil force manage to found him. Then, the movie forward to the present day where a group of people - 4 men and 4 women traveling to an island on a sailboat together with a crew of cameraman and TV presenter to take part in a survival game with the winning pair get US$1 million. Each were given a map with the target location to seek while surviving days in the jungle-island. When traveling near to the target island, their sailboat is knocked-down by an invisible evil force and the group of people is stranded at the island with only 1 pair, Shen Yilin (Mini Yang) & Peng Fei (Jordan Chan) manage to hold-on to the map. However, the rest of the groups tries to steal the map away to win the competition and leave the island but along the way, they were attacked by wild boars and bees. This leave some of the group members separated from each other but somehow manage to find their way to an old house with each of the group members name dangle together with individual urn. The message stated that if the urn is broken, then the name of the person from the urn will surely be killed. At first, all dismiss this as a joke but when Peng Fei was attacked by a mysterious force and thrown from the hill, all became suspicious of each other & also a leper ghost. One by one, the group members started to disappear and got killed until remaining Shen Yilin. She found the hole in the jungle with the skeletons of a nun and another person. Could it be the boy who disappear or a ghost searching for vengeance?
Review:
Lets move straight to the point. The only reason why people flock to the theaters or even buy the movie is because of its star actor, Jordan Chan and this is consider as China's first supernatural movie or some sort. But beyond the star actor who does a horrible job of actin, the movie looks of cheap budget, horrible supernatural effect, loud and nonsense soundtrack and all actors are horrible in their acting. Lets dissect each category because i sure love to complain on horrible movies that is not up to par for screening. Firstly, HK star Jordan Chan who is famed for acting alongside Ekin Cheng in Young & Dangerous series, seems like only interested in milking money from China movie production. In this movie, he doesn't put in much effort in the acting and furthermore acting goofy and jokingly that it almost seems like i'm watching some sitcom comedy movie or something. Next is the cheap budget looks in the entire movie. The cinematography is so cheap that it looks like the movie has been shot a decade earlier. I do understand that if the budget is an issue, the director should at least get a decent camera and shot beautiful scenery to plug other loopholes like storyline or acting. Next, horrible supernatural effect. In today's world of film making, effect of white smoke and the camera moving in and out to reflect that there is some supernatural is so child's play and cheap. It ruins the whole movie with such sequences and even spoil further with its loud soundtrack. I notice that mainland films tends to shock people with its high pitch sound effect. It doesn't matter if the scene involve scary scene or not, they just turn up the volume every now and then to shock viewers. Instead of being shocked, i had to run the extra mile to turn down the volume and the up the volume when there is dialog again. Now, lets come to their acting in this movie. The acting for all the actors including Jordan Chan is so bad that you tend to just switch off the movie after 10 minutes in. The mainland actresses in this movie seems to take off their shirt every now and then to show their curvature features in bikini. Perhaps the director of the movie felt that its more sell-able with hot girls in bikinis but it doesn't. Also, i still do not understand the logic of a Japanese participant in the group who do not speak chinese is able to understand and reply in Japanese while the other participans are able to understand and speak to him in chinese?? Perhaps if you found out the logic behind it, you can tell me.
Verdict:
I give this a 1 star out of 5. Overall movie is poorly done and shouldn't be done without proper storyline & acting. 
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