Review: The Social Network

It’s more than just The Facebook movie – so much more!

Finally this Thursday The Social Network opens across Hong Kong – and whether you love or hate Facebook this is going to be one of the must-see movies of the year. Since this is a techie site we’re going to approach this review from that angle as most of the mainstream reviews have already given it 5 out of 5 stars.

But even though we lean towards being impressed with the way David Fincher shows people typing and looking at computer screens, its still a great movie that everyone should go see.

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Win Tickets to Russell Crowe’s ‘The Next Three Days’

Watch the Gladiator try to break his wife out of jail in 3 days.

We’ve got 10 pairs of tickets to all you action fans who love throwing telephones at people with the new action-thriller The Next Three Days!

Russell ‘Gladiator Robin Hood’ Crowe is back! And this time it looks like he has to break his wife out of jail with the help of Liam Neeson. Tell us which is your favorite Russell Crowe movie of all time and why and we’ll pick 10 lucky winners to join us on the afternoon of Saturday, November 20th at the MCL Kornhill to see if he can really save his wife in 3 days.

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Review: Due Date

Tony Stark trades in his armor for a crazy bearded guy.

Due Date is more Old School than The Hangover and that’s a good thing. While director Todd Phillips made a great mainstream comedy film with The Hangover, Old School takes the most ridiculous premise and makes it work – to us that is a hard working comedy. And 4 guys in Vegas is easy compared to what Phillips tries in Due Date.

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Bruce Willis Sees ‘Red’ in Hong Kong

It’s like The Expendables, but with good actors!

They’ve made all of Alan Moore’s comics into movies, now its Warren Ellis’ turn.

Bruce Willis’ new movie Red is not about the Hong Kong bar/restaurant chain – but rather based on the comic book series by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner from back in 2003.

The original comic book is only 3-issues long and is basically an action-packed story about an ex-CIA operative that comes back to get revenge – sounds like a plot for a Stallone movie.

And speaking of, it actually sounds like another version of The Expendables – but instead of 50-something action heroes, we get 60-year old real actors as retired assassins. Sounds good right? What sounds even better is that we have a handful of free tickets for the premiere for you!

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Review: Tron Night in Hong Kong

We saw a quarter of the movie and lived to tell the tale.

Last Friday, around the world, Disney showed off 23 minutes of their upcoming film Tron Legacy to the media and a select group of Neonpunch.com readers to see this preview at Tron Night.

You know what happens when something is hyped for more than a year? It usually sucks when you finally see it because there is no way that the final product can meet your expectations. Tron is an almost 30 year old film that many remember and love, it’s had an amazing marketing campaign that we have been covering for over a year here on Neonpunch.com. So does it hold up?

No.

It’s even better!

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