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Movie locations: Rotterdam – Chase sequence in Who Am I?

Koopgoot rotterdam who am i

After watching Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu some months ago, which was partly shot in Dutch towns Schiedam and Delft I got the idea to visit various movie location to see what they look like now. The logical choice, being from Rotterdam, is to start there and particularly with Jackie Chan’s movie Who am I? A while ago I interviewd Saskia Kagchèl, Rotterdam’s filmcommisioner van Rotterdam. When I visited a presentation she gave she said that it was this movie which put Rotterdam on the map as a location to shoot movies. Ever since the movie a lot of TV shows, commercials and movies are filmed here each year, but it was Who Am I? who did the kickoff. Because this uses so many locations in Rotterdamse, it would be too much to show them all in one article, so I’ve decided to split it up. First up is the chase in Who Am I?, which strangely enough makes Rotterdam a part of South Africa, but in which cars magically seem to teleport between various locations. I guess that’s what they mean with movie magic. Continue reading →

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Chinese Zodiac (2012)

Review Chinese Zodiac

Jackie Chan has been making movies since 1962. As he is almost 60 now you could think he might take things a bit slower. The opposite is true however if you look at what he has done for this movie. He is the writer, director, lead actor, producer, executive producer, cinematographer, art director, unit production manager, catering coordinator, stunt coordinator, gaffer, composer, theme tune vocalist, props and stuntman. That earned him a Guinness World Record for most credits in one Movie, which previously was held by Robert Rodriguez. With so many credits there is a risk that Chan has spread himself too thin. Continue reading →

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The Karate Kid (2010)

Before giving my opinion on this movie I have to admit that I hardly remember anything about the 1984 original. I watched the original trailer on Youtube and still a lot of scenes were not familiar. So it’s been a while since I saw that version. As this new movie is targeted towards kids there will probably not be a lot of them who have seen the original. So I will not make comparisons. The new Karate Kid is a remake that takes the idea of the original and gives it its own twist.
Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) has to move to China as his mother landed a new job there. He did not practise his Chinese as much as he should, so when arriving it means it’s harder to understand what’s going on around him. It’s all very strange to him. Continue reading →