Johnny Lau

Johnny Lau

Favorite films

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • The Dark Knight
  • Cabaret
  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Ne Zha 2

    ★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    Two halves of the film where the story was intriguing where I was fool in believing that this was a real bloke. Still didn't take me from the immersion which it had, but using architectural concepts such as brutalism and showing the artist need for perfection. The moustache twirling villain vibe which I got from Guy Pearce's character was "intellectually stimulating". Liked the descent of Laslo, where he shows his mental state cracking where he tries to achieve perfection while…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    When watching it, I was already captivated by the concept of human expendability and how Mickey is treated as a nobody, except from Nasha where she sees Mickey as a human- not a number. The film tries to explore the corporation in how people are expendable and how people have a cult like following towards Kenneth.

    Liked the dark humour and how through a clerical error of seemingly reported dead results in near war. Robert Parkinson's Mickey's show a dichotomy of meekness and aggression (17 and 18). His American accent- can't unhear the relatively dimwitted tone which he portrays.

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  • Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness

    ★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.