V/H/S - Found Footage that is anything but scary

Review:
I notice that there are a lot of buzz in the past few months in the internet on how scary this movie is and that it is one of the scariest found footage in recent times. This movie is an anthology whereby few short movies by different directors are combined into a single movie. There are a total of 6 short movies - Tape 56, Amateur Night, Second Honeymoon, Tuesday the 17th, The Sick Thing that Happen to Emily when she was Younger, 10/31/98. Tape 56 serves as the spinal & connectivity to the other movies and let me review all the movies. The 1st - Tape 56 has quite good setting and story but the camera panning is crazy - much like Cloverfield. Prepare your barf bag especially the beginning of movie as it was shaking like nobody business. The story involve 4 men who does nothing but vandalize properties and molestation, and their new activity is breaking into a house to steal a V/H/S tape required by a client who pay big amount of $$$ for it. While there, they discover a dead guy slouch on a sofa in front of a TV. So, each of the guys play the tapes that is inside the recorder and hence, beginning of the 1st movie - Amateur Night and ends with 10/31/98. During the course, strange things starts happening and one by one, the men disappeared and lastly we had a zombie. For me, this was a short movie and when the suspense crept in, it hastily ended.
To me, Amateur Night is the sub-movie in this movie. It has enough gore, enough sex and enough suspense. It is nicely build from start to the end. The camera movement was good and stable, enough to make you feel that you are inside this movie. It is a story of 3 guys partying and bringing home 2 girls for fun. However, it turns out that one of the girl isn't really human at all and all 3 suffer deathly consequences.
After the good Amateur Night, i was in for a continuous good movie to come along but the subsequent movie - Second Honeymoon was bad. There wasn't any element of suspense, scary nor anything. In fact the dialogue was pretty lame and bad. For most of the movie, you will see 1 couple going on a 2nd honeymoon where they talk & climbing some rocks, and sleep. During sleeping, some stalker came in and steal something and just when you thought there is going to be some scary stuff - there wasn't any. Luckily it ended pretty fast with a stabbing. Dreaded and dragging movie. Tuesday the 17th looks great for a setting for slasher movie but it ended pretty dull with 4 friends going off the grid to a place where some previous murder takes place. The killer return to haunts them. Boring stuff. Could it get any worse ??? In fact yes. We were then presented with The Sick Thing that Happen to Emily when she was Younger. This one really kills the whole movie. It was great seeing some Skype-type camera much like Paranormal Activity 4. However, there are no explanation on why some sinister people wanted to harvest something from Emily. The question was left hanging and we the viewers get confuse. Luckily the final movie, 10/31/98 ended quite nicely there with again 4 guys intended to go on a Halloween party but stumble upon a ritual and some paranormal event. As much as i would like to support how good this V/H/S movie is, it just isn't good enough. It was clearly a disappointment after the viewing of this movie. Not enough scare element nor fear instill upon us, viewers and that is what i paid for.
Verdict: 
I give this a 2 out of 5

Skyfall (007) - All the Hype, Destined to Fall

Review:
There were great heap of praises before the movie was releases: I read about tons of reviews on how this latest James Bond movie is the greatest movie in the James Bond franchise, the action scenes are the best there is for an action movie flick and etc. After reading it and also reviewing the trailer, i was all pump up to watch this movie. The trailer shows pretty much about what this latest flick is about - an evil mastermind has personal vendetta against M (Judi Dench) and stated blowing up James Bond's headquarter, MI6 as well as revealing the names of MI6 agents across the world. We are also shown how James Bond (Daniel Craig) has lost his mojo (after a failed mission) and started to pick himself up by going after this evil mastermind, who is reveal as Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), an ex-MI6 agent. It sounded and looks interesting and the trailer does show a good storyline, great action and a great baddie plus a pretty good reviews from all over the news. So, there i was .... sitting in the theater anticipating what would be the best James Bond i have ever seen. After nearly 2 hours, i couldn't wait to just bolted out from the cinema. Why? The storyline was just so-so, an ex-agent going rogue and taking down his organization. The movie doesn't really have much side story apart from this main agenda. Then, it started to drag and drag and drag. After an hour mark, i started to have a backache. I though that i would be save from the action scenes but how i was so disappointed. The whole action is about 20~30% of the movie and it wasn't that good at all. These action scenes are just your normal Hollywood flick and its kinda boring. I think "Salt" action scenes are much more better and breathtaking. The editing are horrendous as it cut one scenes to another without the continuation and to me, that is really bad. For example, Bond was shot and fell into a deep ravine. Then, another scene shows him having a nice fun time with a girl. I mean, WTF? At least tell us how Bond was rescued and etc. It was never shown. Fortunately, the whole movie was saved by Javier Bardem's Silva. His first encountered with Bond is is the most memorable scene where both Silva and Bond traded sarcastic jabs with each other. But unfortunately he isn't the most bad baddies there is. In fact, i don't really felt that he is evil and the impact wasn't really there on why MI6 is so threaten by him. Such is the case for the whole movie. It is a forgettable movie after you have come out from the exit door. I personally felt that Casino Royale was Craig's best James Bond movie hands down.

Verdict:

I give this a poor 2 star out of 5.