Since reviews are not necessarily on current movies playing in theaters, here's one from me:
The Mural (2011)

This is a Chinese movie directed by Gordan Chan (of Painted Skin) and the cast are mostly China stars. In the lead are Deng Zhao, Betty Sun and Collin Chou (Seraph of The Matrix). Eric Tsang of Hong Kong has a cameo role.

The story deals with scholar Zhu Xiaolian (Deng Zhao) and his adventures in fairy land. The way he got to the fairy land is through a mural that he found painted on a wall in a temple. Adapted from one of the tales in Liao Zhai.

First and foremost, this movies features loads of beautiful women with at least half a dozen in major supporting roles. This is what you get when the core of the story takes place in a land inhabited by fairy maidens and no men are allowed.

Secondly, if you want to enjoy this movie you would have to view it as a tale of love and forget everything else. Although it may be marketed as a fantasy action flick, this description will only lead to disappointment for those looking for great action scenes. You can find more exciting action scenes in an episode of anime series.

The movie is beautifully shot and the set pieces are great to look at. Although you could easily spot the CGI effects, the fantasy settings kinda makes it justifiable.

All in all, it's a good tale of love being told and is quite enjoyable. The only grouse I had was with the pacing of the movie.

my favourite : House of Wax !!!

2005 ones of course! haha..
i love all those bloody gory movies..
something like SAW I... VII, the hill have eyes, human centipede.. etc..
u have any others to intro? =)

Painted Skin I (2008) & II (2012)

Looks like I am a sucker for fantasy-romance tale. Here is my review on another Chinese fantasy romance tale that is also adapted from the Tales of Liao Zhai.

I will regard the 2 movies as one tale in this review but let it be known that one need not see part 1 in order to understand part 2. So on with the cast list:

Painted Skin I has Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun and Donnie Yen as the leads. It's directed by Gordon Chan.

Painted Skin II sees Zhou Xun reprising her role also playing opposite Zhao Wei and Chen Kun. Donnie Yen did not appear in this one. Directed by one called Wuershan and don't ask me who he is.

In Painted Skin I we are introduced to a fox spirit called Xiao Wei (Zhou Xun). She has cultivated enough magical energy over the centuries to appear as a beautiful and seductive damsel. Although she looks ravishing she needs to periodically devour human hearts to keep appearing young and beautiful. One day while she is out to seduce men, Xiao Wei comes across General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) who saves her from a bunch of bandits and takes her back with him to his fortress/outpost. Xiao Wei's demonic energies alerts a rookie demon hunter, Xia Bing (Betty Sun) of her presence and Xia Bing sets out to capture or eliminate her.

Intrigued by this General, Xiao Wei decides to stay and learn about this human emotion called love. She then plots her way into his heart although she knows that the general is already married to Pei Rong (Zhao Wei). Sensing a change in her husband's behavior ever since Xiao Wei's arrival, Pei Rong seeks the help of her ex-lover Pang Yong (Donnie Yen). Talk about complicating an already complicated problem. Pei Rong suspects that Xiao Wei is a demon spirit but Pang Yong initially brushes it off. Later with Xia Bing's help, Pang Yong is finally able to unmask Xiao Wei but Xiao Wei is not going to surrender without a fight.

Painted Skin I ends with Xiao Wei finally understanding what love really means but not all who loves get their happy endings.

Painted Skin II aka Painted Skin : The Resurrection picks up the tale 500 years later. We are told that due to her transgressions into the human world, Xiao Wei the fox spirit is imprisoned in a dungeon of eternal ice as punishment. A bird spirit, Qu Er (Yang Mi) however, comes across Xiao Wei's prison and inadvertently sets her free. Having being freed from her icy dungeon does not mean Xiao Wei is liberated however. She is persistently being pursued by forces unseen and unnamed that endeavors to trap her under the ice again.

Xiao Wei now plans to escape her fate by becoming human. To do so she must seek a mortal that has a strong and warm heart. The catch is that the human must be willing to give Xiao Wei her heart. She must not grab it by force.

Xiao Wei finds a suitable candidate in Princess Jing (Zhao Wei) who is on her way to the White City a border outpost. Unbeknownst to them, Princess Jing is also targeted by a the Tianlang kingdom (who practices black magic) for her strong heart. The Tianlang kingdom has offered an alliance with the king (Princess Jing's father) of the middle kingdom by way of marriage between the Tianlang's crown prince and Princess Jing.

Princess Jing, unwilling to be married off to a distant kingdom, goes AWOL to seek her one and only love Huo Xin (Chen Kun) who is the general in White City. Huo Xin is also in love with Princesss Jing but he blames himself for causing her disfigurement and believing that he is not worthy of being together with Princess Jing, exiles himself to the border outpost White City. In the same city lives a bungling demon hunter Pang Lang (Feng Shaofeng) who makes a living selling herbal medicine more than actual demon hunting. In fact Pang Lang has never even encountered a real demon before but the surname Pang seems to suggest that he is the descendant of Pang Yong and Xia Bing. Pang Lang finally gets his chance to meet demons when Xiao Wei and Qu Er comes to the city. He ends up making friends with Qu Er.

Xiao Wei takes advantage of the situation between Huo Xin and Jing to persuade Jing into giving Xiao Wei her heart willingly. Xiao Wei tricks Jing into believing that Hou Xin left Jing because of her now disfigured face. Xiao Wei offers a trade in which Jing has to offer Xiao Wei her heart for Xiao Wei's flawless looks. Jing agrees and the trade is made. Xiao Wei is now human with Jing's body while Jing gets Xiao Wei's body minus her heart.

Xiao Wei goes off for the arranged marriage while Jing (in Xiao Wei's body) remains with Huo Xin. When Xiao Wei reaches the Tianlang kingdom, she finds out too late that the marriage is a ruse and that she is now helpless as she no longer has her magical powers to help her escape. Qu Er however finds out about the swap and rushes off to tell Pang Lang who informs Hou Xin and they set off to rescue both Xiao Wei and Jing.
Both movies has great acting on the part of the leads. They also offer some slick action scenes but Painted Skin I comes out on top due to Donnie Yen's presence. The story is also pretty entertaining and is well worth a viewing but bear in mind that at the core, this is a tale about love and sacrifice in a fantasy setting. Sensual and beautiful. I'd recommend watching them.

You mean the 'Siin Lui Yau Wan' (in Cantonese) series? Starring Leslie Cheung as scholar Ning Choi San and Joey Wong as Siu Siin?

If the above is the series you are talking about then yes. I've watched all 3 in the series.

The first in the series : A Chinese Ghost Story 1 or 'Siin Lui Yau Wan' starring Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong is the best of the 3. Tells the tale of how an innocent scholar ends up in a haunted temple controlled by a thousand year old tree demon. Siu Siin is a female ghost under the tree demon's control and her job is to seduce the men keeping them in the temple until the tree demon comes and devour them. Lucky for Ning Choi San, Siu Siin takes a liking to him as he's innocent, honest and naive. The 2 them teams up with Yin Chek Ha, a taoist exorcist to defeat the tree demon.
The second in the series : A Chinese Ghost Story 2 or 'Siin Lui Yau Wan II : Yan Kan Dou' is the worst of the lot. Deals with Ning Choi San coming across a girl that is the spitting image of Siu Siin but she is apparently human and not a ghost. Can't remember much after that but Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong reprises their roles and Lee Kar Yan also stars. This one lost the clever humor of the first movie and the story not as interesting.
The third in the series : A Chinese Ghost Story 3 or 'Siin Lui Yau Wan III : Dou Dou Dou' is also quite good. This one regained the humorous moments that the first movie had. This one stars Joey Wong as Siu Cheok rather than Siu Xiin. She is another ghost under the tree demon's control. It is said that the tree demon is too strong to be vanquished forever and has regained its strength and presides once again in the old abandoned temple in the first movie after a passing of 500 years. Tony Leung Chui Wai stars as Sap Fong a novice monk that travels with his master and ends up spending a night in the haunted temple. Also stars Jacky Cheung as a taoist exorcist also called Yin Chek Ha.

Given the time, the special effects look cheesy by today's standards but they were quite good back then. The acting was top notch from both Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung as well as Wu Ma and Jacky Cheung as Yin Chek Ha. Joey Wong is more eye candy than anything but she held her own too in the acting department. I guess the role of an lonely emo ghost suited her.

Entertaining stuff that's hard to come by in today's Hong Kong fares.

After watching thousand of Space-Science Fiction,

The Latest Star-Trek really to have grade A CG Effects.
But its story plot is really childish. At a unreasonable level.
( Consider the wrath of Khan, the movie has its dark side, but the plot are really childish, too much loophole )
Should make this a comedy better. Not action movie.

All the character inside think like Cartoon. Not well-trained Military.
Children would love it much. But an adult movie fans would found it too... unacceptable.

If its a comedy, it would be better.

Eh. I thought H&G wasn't that bad. Nothing I would pay to watch but ahem, it was okay. More blood and splatter than I thought. Renner and Arteton were miscast though.

But no way this thing cost only $1 million!