El Paso and Abilene, Texas have fallen victim to twin nuclear attacks on July 4, 2005—a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions which has sent America into World War III. The PATRIOT Act has extended authority to a new agency known as US-IDent, which keeps constant tabs on citizens—even to the extent of censoring the Internet and using fingerprints in order to access computers and bank accounts. In order to be able to respond to a newfound fuel shortage in the wake of global warfare, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy which is propelled by ocean currents, called "Fluid Karma". Unbeknownst to anyone but its inventor Baron von Westphalen (Wallace Shawn) and his closest associates, the generators alter the currents and cause the Earth to slow its rotation, and the transmission of the energy to portable receivers (via quantum entanglement) is ripping holes in the fabric of space and time.
In Los Angeles, a city on the brink of chaos overshadowed by the growth of the underground neo-Marxist movement, the film follows the criss-crossed destinies of Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), an action film actor stricken with amnesia; Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), ex-porn star in the midst of creating a reality TV show; and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner (both played by Seann William Scott), whose destinies—on one evening—become intertwined with that of all mankind. The twins are announced to be the same person by the engineers of Treer. Boxer becomes the most wanted man in the world with political ties. The future seems to be put in his hands.
The film is set in Dengfeng, Henan, during the warlord era of early Republican China. The warlord Hou Jie defeats a rival named Huo Long and seizes control of Dengfeng. Huo flees to Shaolin Temple to hide but Hou appears and shoots him. Hou ridicules the Shaolin monks before leaving.
Feeling disadvantageous with his sworn brother, Song Hu, Hou sets a trap for Song in a restaurant, under the guise of agreeing to his daughter's engagement to Song's son. Meanwhile, Hou's deputy, Cao Man, feeling that he was being used by Hou and that he deserves better, decides to betray Hou. Cao sends assassins to murder Hou and his family. Hou manages to fatally wound Song with his handgun, but Song still saves Hou to allow him to escape from the assassin's ambush before succumbing to his injuries. Hou manages to escape together with his daughter, but his daughter was severely injured when a carriage knocked her down while she is fleeing, and worsen when they fall off a cliff. Hou's wife is rescued by some passing-by Shaolin monks, who were stealing rice from the military granary to help the refugees living near the temple. In desperation, Hou brings his daughter to Shaolin, begging the monks to save her life, but it is too late and she dies of her injuries. Hou's wife blames him for the death of their daughter and leaves him. Hou attacks the monks in anger but is quickly subdued.
Hou becomes disillusioned and wanders near Shaolin, until he meets the cook monk Wudao, who provides him with food and shelter. Hou feels guilty for his past misdeeds and decides to become a monk and atone for his sins. During his stay in Shaolin, Hou gradually understands Shaolin's principles through study and practising martial arts, mends his ways and finds peace and enlightenment from his heart. One day, Hou overhears that Cao Man, who has taken control over his army, is oppressing the people by forcing them to unearth Chinese relics. Cao sells the relics to foreigners in exchange for advanced weaponry, after which he will have the labourers massacred to silence them. Hou shows up to save some labourers and exposes himself in the process.
When Cao hears that Hou is still alive, he leads his soldiers to the Shaolin temple to capture Hou. Hou volunteers to distract Cao while the monks secretly break into Cao's house to save the imprisoned labourers. The plan succeeds but Hou's senior, Jingneng, is brutally killed by Cao while buying time for his juniors to escape. Upon returning to the Shaolin temple, the monks decide that they need to evacuate the temple to avoid further trouble. Wudao leads the refugees away while Hou and the other monks remain behind to defend the temple. By then, Cao arrives with his troops and orders an attack on Shaolin. At the same time, the foreigners feel that they have been cheated and they bombard Shaolin with artillery, resulting in heavy casualties for both the Shaolin monks and Cao's forces. Hou defeats Cao in a fight and eventually sacrifices himself to save Cao from being crushed by a falling beam (returning the karma of Song's sacrifice to save Hou during Song's assassination) and falls into the Buddha statue's palm and dies peacefully, leaving Cao feeling guilty. On the other hand, the surviving monks succeed in overcoming the enemy and stopping the bombardment. Meanwhile, the retreating refugees turn back and start crying when they see the Shaolin Temple in ruins. Wudao tells them that the Shaolin spirit will continue to live in them even though the temple has been destroyed.
Afterwards, the scene cuts to an earlier period before the monks evacuate with the refugees, with Hou meeting with his wife in the temple for the last time. Hou passes the urn containing his daughter's cremated ashes to his wife, and she forgives Hou for his past, and accepts the fact that she can no longer be with him. Hou admits that Cao's present evil doings stems from his own past misdeeds, thus he is responsible in guiding Cao back to the correct path. The scene ends with the monks practicing martial arts under snowfall, hinting that the monks and refugees settled down once again.
A reclusive film star hiding out from the world in a Holland Park mansion hires a London criminal recently released from prison to be her bodyguard and handyman but ends up falling for him.
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity. Upon their arrival they find a foreboding house with a mind of its own, and as darkness falls, the house begins to kill the crew one by one. With time running out, will they be able to outwit this terror and make it out alive?
Lisa Jorgenson (Reese Witherspoon) is a softball player, popular with teammates but over 30 and, to her dismay, left off the Team USA roster.
Unsure what to do next, Lisa has begun dating a handsome, hard-partying pitcher for the Washington Nationals baseball team, Matty Reynolds (Owen Wilson), and also receives an intriguing phone call from a young executive, George Madison (Paul Rudd), who was advised by a girlfriend of Lisa's to give her a call.
George calls out of politeness because he wants to explain that his relationship with another woman has just become more serious. But life takes an abrupt turn for the worse for George when he finds himself the target of a criminal investigaton for corporate malfeasance at a company run by Charles Madison, his father.
Although his pregnant assistant Annie is sympathetic because George can do no wrong in her eyes, George is dismissed from his job and all contact with colleagues other than his father is cut off. Still reeling from this blow, George goes to his girlfriend for sympathy and is stunned when she immediately breaks up with him.
Lisa isn't quite sure what to make of Matty, who has a penthouse in the same Washington, D.C., upscale building where George's dad lives. Matty means well, makes millions of dollars and is fun to be with, so she moves in with him, but Matty is also immature, uninterested in Lisa's own feelings and continues to have casual affairs with other women.
On a whim, George calls again to invite Lisa to dinner and she accepts. It turns out to be a disaster, George so overwhelmed with his troubles that Lisa asks they just eat their food in silence. They part ways not expecting to see one another again.
George doubts things could get worse, but they do. He is indicted and could face jail. Annie is so loyal that she tries to give him inside information in advance, but he urges her not to lose her own job, particularly since her boyfriend can't find one and with a baby on the way.
Matty tries to do better in Lisa's eyes, promising to consider seeing fewer women on the side. He inadvertently offends her, so Lisa moves out and spends a pleasant, tipsy evening at George's modest new apartment.
George's father drops one last bombshell on his son. It was he who committed the illegal act for which George is being charged. Due to a previous conviction, Charles would need to serve a sentence of "25 years to dead," whereas George would only do three years, tops.
On the night Annie's baby is born and her boyfriend proposes, Lisa begins to reconsider her previous reluctance to a future of marriage and kids. George is clearly smitten with her, but Matty pleads for another chance and she accepts.
George makes a proposition to his dad. He will take one more shot at persuading Lisa to be with him. If she will, Charles must go to jail. If she won't, George will take the rap for his dad.
At a birthday party the baseball player throws for her, George makes his pitch. It's up to her now. George goes outside to give her time to think it over, Charles looking on from above. Lisa comes outside and its clear that she has chosen him.
Following the dismal reception of his latest play, Little Mary, Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her four young sons in Kensington Gardens, and a strong friendship develops between them. He proves to be a great playmate and surrogate father figure for the boys, and their imaginative antics give him ideas which he incorporates into a play about boys who do not want to grow up, especially one named after troubled young Peter Llewelyn Davies. His wife Mary, who eventually divorces him, and Sylvia's mother Emma du Maurier, object to the amount of time Barrie spends with the Llewelyn Davies family. Emma also seeks to control her daughter and grandsons, especially as Sylvia becomes increasingly weak from an unidentified illness.
ProducerCharles Frohman skeptically agrees to mount Peter Pan despite his belief it holds no appeal for upper-class theatergoers. Barrie peppers the opening night audience with children from a nearby orphanage, and the adults present react to their infectious delight with an appreciation of their own. The play proves to be a huge success.
Because Sylvia is too ill to attend the production, Barrie arranges to have an abridged production of it performed in her home. She dies shortly afterward, and Barrie finds that her will is to have him and her mother to look after the boys; an arrangement agreeable to both.
On assignment in Thailand, French television journalist Marie Lelay (Cécile de France) is shopping for souvenirs for her lover's children. She finds a stand where a mother and her daughter work; they sell gifts to Marie for a dollar. Her lover Didier (Thierry Neuvic) looks over the balcony and witnesses the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami coming into shore. It hits as Marie watches from a distance. She grabs hold of the girl and runs away from the shore but is quickly swallowed by the wave. Pulled lifeless from the water, she is resuscitated by rescuers but is left for dead. She gasps back to life after having a near-death experience in which she sees a vision of human figures inhabiting a realm of light, among them the silhouettes of the mother and daughter holding hands. Marie and Didier are soon reunited as the disaster subsides and they return to Paris. Marie's experience, however, interferes with her work performance to the point that Didier (who is also her producer) sends her on a leave of absence to write the book they've discussed, which would add to her prestige.
The story then turns to San Francisco where former professional psychic George Lonegan (Matt Damon) is persuaded against his wishes to perform a reading for Christos (Richard Kind), a wealthy client of his brother Billy (Jay Mohr). A genuine medium with a gift for communicating with the dead, George abandoned his old career because he was unable to deal with the emotional impact of the reunions and the often disturbingly intimate family secrets revealed. While doing the reading, George hears the word June and asks if a date in June means anything to him. Christos at first denies that it means anything, but privately reveals to Billy that June was the name of his late wife's nurse, whom he was in love with for ten years.
From there, 12-year-old London twins Marcus and Jason (Frankie and George McLaren) try desperately to prevent their alcoholic, heroin-addicted mother, Jackie (Lyndsey Marshal), from losing them to social services. After evading the authorities yet again, the boys' mother sends Jason to the chemist (pharmacist) to pick up her detox prescription. On the way home, Jason is attacked by street thugs, and while trying to escape, he is hit by a van and killed. No longer able to protect his mother, and barely able to cope with life without the brother he idolizes, Marcus is sent to a foster home.
Now writing a book and with more time to contemplate her near-death experience, Marie travels to Switzerland to meet a renowned specialist in the field. As the director of a hospice who has seen her share of dying patients, the doctor describes herself as a former skeptic who was convinced by the evidence that the afterlife exists and that people like Marie have had a genuine view of it. She persuades Marie to write a book on her experience in the hope that the scientific community will ultimately accept the reality of life beyond death.
Desperate for one last reunion with his twin brother, Marcus steals money from his foster parents (Niamh Cusack and George Costigan) and goes around London seeking someone to help him contact Jason. He encounters only frauds and pretenders. While he is trying to board the underground at Charing Cross, Jason's cap, which has become a talisman for Marcus, blows off his head. Delayed by trying to find the cap, he misses his train and sees it explode in the tunnel during the 2005 London Bombings. [The exterior scenes, although labelled "Charing Cross Station", are in fact filmed at Liverpool Street station. Ironically, there was in reality no bomb at Charing Cross, but there was one on the line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate.]
George enrolls in a cooking class taught by one of San Francisco's leading chefs. Its students are paired-up, resulting in George being partnered with a young woman named Melanie (Bryce Dallas Howard). The two soon hit it off and after attending their second class decide to put their new culinary skills to use by preparing an Italian dinner at George's place. All goes well until they hear an ill-timed phone message from his brother, which inclines George to reveal his past as a psychic to Melanie. Curious, she presses George to do a reading for her. George explains his reluctance, but acquiesces. They contact the spirit of Melanie's father, who ends the session by asking her forgiveness for what he did to her as a child. Melanie flees George's home in tears, and she doesn't return to the cooking class.
Having been in talks with a publisher before her trip to Thailand about a biography of François Mitterrand, Marie now stuns them with her new manuscript entitled "Hereafter: A Conspiracy of Silence". The publisher (Jean-Yves Berteloot) rejects the manuscript but soon steers her toward other publishers who might be interested, the most promising of them in London.
Marie learns from Didier that he does not intend on having her back at the job he urged her to take leave of, because her public interest in the hereafter damages her reputation as a serious journalist, and that he is having an affair with the woman who replaced her on the TV news program.
George is laid off from his factory job, and is persuaded by Billy to revive his psychic practice. Still heartbroken over the fiasco with Melanie, he changes his mind and impulsively leaves San Francisco to make a new start elsewhere. He travels to London and listens every night to audiobook readings by Derek Jacobi of Charles Dickens' works. As a Dickens' devotee, he also visits the Dickens Museum and attends a live reading of Dickens at the London Book Fair. There, one of the presenters is Marie, reading her now published book, Hereafter. While handing a signed copy of her book to George, their hands touch and George has a psychic flash of Marie's tsunami drowning.
Marcus and his foster parents are also at the London Book Fair. Asking leave of them, Marcus spots George, someone he has read about and seen online. Marcus attempts to speak with the medium, who brushes him off and returns to his hotel. Marcus follows him, standing outside the hotel until nightfall. Eventually George asks him in and agrees to do his reading.
Through George, Jason tells Marcus that he is happy in the afterlife. He instructs Marcus to stop wearing his cap and says it was he who knocked it off his head at the train station. It was used, he says, to keep Marcus from the doomed train but now he must stand on his own. Jason tells him not to fear this "because we are one". As Marcus leaves George, he says he is sorry about "the French woman" as he could tell that "you like her." The last time we see Marcus, he is visiting his mother in a rehab center. She is visibly better and he is not wearing Jason's cap.
Marcus lets George know where Marie is staying. George leaves an anonymous note for Marie, saying he believes her book to be true. She decides to join the anonymous fan for lunch and discovers George. While she is looking for him, George sees a vision of them kissing at the same meeting. Their shared glimpses of the hereafter having made them appreciate this life all the more, George and Marie walk away hand-in-hand as the movie ends.
Synopsis:In the 3D action-comedy The Green Hornet, Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is the son of LA's most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene - until his father (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father's more industrious and inventive employees, Kato (Jay Chou), they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. To get close to the criminals, they come up with the perfect cover: they'll pose as criminals themselves. Protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets. Using all his ingenuity and skill, Kato builds the ultimate in advanced retro weaponry, Black Beauty, an indestructible car equal parts firepower and horsepower. Rolling in a mobile fortress on wheels and striking the bad guys with Kato's clever gadgets, The Green Hornet and Kato quickly start making a name for themselves, and with the help of Britt's new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they begin hunting down the man who controls LA's gritty underworld: Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). But Chudnofsky has plans of his own: to swat down The Green Hornet once and for all. -- (C) Son
citer ni pasal seorang pahlawan pedang yang telah berjaya menjadi pahlawan terhandal tp tidak menamatkan riwayat musuhnye yg terakhir kerana musuh itu hanya seorg bayi perempuan.. keputusan diambil untuk membesarkan anak itu telah membawanya jauh dari tempatnya.. dan dalam masa yg sama dia telah menjadi buruan kepada orang-orangnya sendiri...
Jalana citer biasa jer.. tapi fighting scene mcm best gak la.. walaupun biasa jer.. x byk skill kuar pun.. hehehe.. tp still layan la citer ni...
Synopsis:The world's greatest swordsman abandons his warrior clan to start a new life in the American Badlands in THE WARRIOR'S WAY, a visually dazzling modern martial arts adventure with stunningly choreographed fight sequences and gravity-defying stunts. In an original, gorgeously realized journey into a mythical past, writer and director Sngmoo Lee seamlessly marries the cinematic traditions of East and West. Korean superstar Jang Dong Gun, Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston and Academy Award-winner Geoffrey Rush star in this epic story of revenge and redemption.
Lionsgate have just premiered a new poster for the upcoming thriller The Next Three Days starring Elizabeth Banks, Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson.
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.
Russell Croweand Elizabeth Banks will be seen playing the couple, while Liam Neeson takes the role of the ex-con. Olivia Wilde, Jonathan Tucker and RZA also land roles in this crime thriller, which will also be filled with romantic sequences.
With Vampire Warriors, there is little doubt remaining that writer-director-real estate developer Dennis S.Y. Law is now the Ed Wood of modern Hong Kong cinema. As the sole leader (Law finances, writes, produces and directs) of his films, Law has few to blame but himself when it comes to the dismal quality of his creations.
Vampire Warriors, Law's latest filmmaking stab, is his attempt at creating a Twilight-type franchise that is marketable in both Hong Kong and foreign film markets. And it does have plenty for your typical western-based genre fanboy: there are vampires that know kung fu, vampires dressed in tight leather clothing and even an implied lesbian romance.
However, what those fanboys probably didn't ask for is Law's shoddy filmmaking, only matched in ineptitude by his incredibly thin script. Vampire Warriors follows the uneasy friendship between vampire hunter Ar (Jiang Lu-Xia) and a family of “vegetarian” vampires, including Max (Chrissie Chau) and her womanizing father Lung (Chin Siu-Ho).
Ar spends her days walking around hunting down bad vampires, while Max and her good vampire friends hang around town aimlessly, complaining about how bored they are. That all changes with the arrival of Mung (Yuen Wah), a vampire who kills other vampires to make himself more powerful. When Ar realizes that Mung's dragging her sister (Law regular Pinky Cheung) with him, she joins forces with the vegetarian vampires to fight their common enemy.
The plot may appear coherent, but it actually doesn't even begin until halfway into the film. Before that point, Law pads his script with the boring life of vegetarian vampires, vampire hunters eating Chinese vegetarian food, and Chrissie Chau sucking on a stuffed toy rabbit. Unlike other “bad” directors of Hong Kong cinema, Law probably takes his filmmaking seriously (he took up filmmaking as a hobby), but that doesn't excuse the fact that his crew didn't even bother to disguise their lead actress sucking the nonexistent blood of a toy rabbit.
While the action by Nicky Li Chung-Chi involves a lot of wirework that can be considered impressive for a production of this size, it feels like Li’s effort is wasted by Law's leadership. Even the film’s second-tier cast seems underused because of Law's incompetence. Jiang Lu-Xia is far too capable of a martial artist to only get work from Law, and Chin Siu-Ho has a B-movie charm that he doesn’t get to show enough of in films. However, Chrissie Chau's latest attempt at acting has been so overshadowed by her much-touted and media-publicized upside-down hanging scene that nothing she does seems here seems all that worth caring about.
As I wrote in my review of Womb Ghosts, watching a Dennis S.Y. Law film is only worthwhile to satisfy one’s curiosity about how bad Law can possibly get as a filmmaker. Very few directors can remain as consistently bad as Law after eight feature films, and that's what makes watching his films potentially amusing theatrical experiences.
I would argue that Vampire Warriors still has certain value because it's so fascinating to be able to watch such an atrocious excuse for commercial filmmaking outside of film school, let alone in your local multiplex. However, that value depends on many conditions, like whether you have a group of friends who are tolerant enough to sit through a Dennis S.Y. Law film with you. If you do have such friends, treasure them for the rest your life.
Ironically, Law's core message for the film is that one must find a purpose in life, or risk living without a purpose like his vampires. I think Mr. Law can rest assured that many people will get his message after watching his film and do something valuable with their lives. Whatever that valuable thing is, it'll likely be more worthwhile than sitting through Vampire Warriors again. (Kevin Ma, 2010)
Khurafat mengisahkan perjanjian terlarang dan salah satu bentuk penyelewengan dalam aqidah Islam diantara manusia dan syaitan, sesuatu yang amat ditegah dalam agama suci kita. Tetapi, manusia tanpa mengira akibat membelakangkan Allah, disokong dengan nafsu dendam serakah akhirnya hanyut dengan bisikan syaitan.
Kisah bermula dengan Johan, seorang pemuda yang bekerja sebagai Pembantu Hospital. Sudah berkahwin dan mempunyai seorang isteri bernama Aishah. Pasangan ini diawal perkahwinan hidup aman dan bahagia namun tanpa disangka trauma melanda dipertangahan jalan. Mereka sering diganggu oleh lembaga aneh. Bermacam-macam usaha telah dilakukan namun gangguan itu tetap berterusan. Ini amat menakutkan mereka lebih-lebih lagi Johan. Kehadiran seorang perempuan tua misteri ditambah dengan munculnya bekas teman wanita Johan bernama Anna yang bersikap pelik dan menakutkan menambahkan lagi episod trauma pasangan ini.
Anna sentiasa menganggu Johan walaupun ketika Johan bersama Aishah. Ini menyebabkan Johan bertambah runsing. Tidak lama selepas itu Anna ditemui mati bunuh diri. Kematian Anna adalah kemuncaknya perkara-perkara aneh yang berlaku dalam hidup Johan. Bayangan Anna mula menganggu Johan mahupun Aishah. Hidup Johan semakin tertekan. Setelah diasak pelbagai kejadian aneh akhirnya barulah terungkap segala misteri. Johan akhirnya akur dengan kesilapan silamnya… perbuatan Khurafat yang diamalkan kini menuntut haknya dan Johan terpaksa membayarnya dengan harga yang amat tinggi.[2]
Sam, gadis cantik sedang menjaga supermarket 24 jam. Matanya menangkap ada penjahat berusaha untuk mengutil. Ternyata ia mengancam agar semua uang di kasir diserahkan kepadanya atau ia akan meledakkan bom yang menempal di dirinya. Panik, penjaga toko langsung menyerahkan uangnya. Namun begitu si Penjahat bergerak keluar, Sam langsung berlari mengejarnya. Di saat yang bersamaan, Sugeng, seorang polisi culun, melihat si Penjahat ngebut dengan motornya. Panik, Sugeng berusaha mengejar penjahat namun penjahat berhasil melarikan diri. Sugeng terluka, akhirnya.
Di perguruan, Sugeng ternyata sudah membuat perjanjian dengan para guru Sam. Ia akan membantu mempromosikan perguruan, termasuk dengan memasukkan para master untuk tampil di TV. Sam harus mengajar Sugeng supaya jago bela diri. Latihan demi latihan dijalani Sugeng. Para master memaksa Sam untuk melatih Sugeng lebih intensif, demi nama baik perguruan.
Di saat yang bersamaan, suksesnya perguruan silat Sam membuat berang perguruan lain yang lebih canggih dan mahal. Ketua perguruan saingan, KI WEDAN ingin mencari siapa Sugeng yang katanya sangat jagoan. Ia mengirim anak-anak buahnya yang jago untuk menangkap Sugeng. Namun dibantu Sam, Sugeng berhasil selamat. Tidak bisa lain, Ki Wedan memutuskan untuk turun tangan sendiri. Ia ingin sekali menantang Sugeng duel. Ia menculik Sam dan berhasil mengalahkan semua master. Ki Wedan membawa Sam ke atas Monas dan menunggu Sugeng di sana. Sekarang bisakah Sugeng menyelamatkan Sam. Apakah pada akhirnya, ia betul-betul bisa mengeluarkan tenaga dalamnya seperti yang diajarkan Sam selama ini?
The film is a dark comedy based upon the infamous Burke and Hare murders (also known as the West Port Murders) that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1820s.
Dr. Leo Quintum and his P.R.O.J.E.C.T. Team are exploring the Sun when they are sabotaged by a booby-trapped, genetically enhanced Lex Luthor clone. Superman saves the day, but it turns out that his body has been overdosed with solar radiation that not only gives him new powers but now is slowly killing him. Luthor, having orchestrated the death of Superman while under the employment of General Sam Lane, is arrested thanks to Clark Kent's article and sentenced to death.
Deciding to keep his impending death a secret from the public, Superman reveals his secret identity to Lois Lane because he wants to spend his remaining time with her. Though Lois was unable to accept it after years of him keeping the truth of his identity as Clark Kent from her, Superman takes her to the Fortress of Solitude. During this visit, Superman's secretive behavior and indirect exposure to alien chemicals heightens Lois' paranoia to the point of attacking Superman with a kryptonite laser. However, seeing the radiation has now made him immune to green kryptonite, Superman is able to calm her down and reveals that his secret was that he has been preparing her birthday present: superpowers for 24 hours.
Now as a Superwoman, she and Superman stop an attack by Krull in Metropolis just as Samson and Atlas arrive. Flirting with Lois, and showing a newspaper that reads "Superman Dead, by Clark Kent", Samson is revealed to be the one who stole jewels from an Ultra-Sphinx that he gave to Lois. Answering the Ultra-Sphinx's unanswerable question to save Lois, Superman then defeats Atlas and Samson in a double arm-wrestling match before spending the rest of the day with Lois as her powers fade. Later, Kent meets Luthor for an exclusive interview at Stryker's Island. However, Superman's energy causes the Parasite to free himself and causes havoc in the prison. Clark stops him while not revealing his secret identity, with Luthor disclosing his respect for Clark as both a journalist and a regular person. He then reveals a tunnel from his cell for Clark to escape with the help of Nasthalthia, his delinquent niece. Though Clark asked, Luthor states that he has no desire to escape as long as Superman dies before he does.
Two months later, after taking the city of Kandor to a new planet to thrive, Superman finds Metropolis has been repaired with Kryptonian architecture, and Earth has been protected by Bar-El and Lilo, Krypton's first astronauts, survivors, and Superman's relatives. But, to his dismay, the two have less altruistic goals and intend to turn Earth into a new Krypton. However, Bar-El and Lilo begin showing signs of illness: the two had passed through the remnants of Krypton and thus were saturated with kryptonite. To save them, Superman places the two within the Phantom Zone at their request until a cure can be found.
After settling his affairs in order, Superman proceeds to finish his last will and testament. By then, having reprogrammed one of Superman's robots to get the formula he used to give Lois super powers, Luthor succeeds in making a super serum for himself and tricks the executioners in having him drink it. Escaping, he meets up with Nasthalthia below one of his lairs to continue his plans. Superman finishes off his final entry in the Fortress of Solitude when he learns of Luthor's secret ally: Solaris, the tyrant star computer, which betrayed Luthor by tampering with Earth's sun and turned it blue. With his robots, Superman engages Solaris in space. All seems lost until Superman's pet Sun-Eater sacrifices itself to weaken the tyrant star which allows Superman to destroy Solaris. Clark returns to the Daily Planet, very ill, to submit his article until he falls dead. As the staff tries to save him, the super-powered Luthor arrives and attempts to kill Lois when Clark comes to and fights off Luthor with a gravity gun. Though the gun is destroyed and he is powerless against Luthor, Superman actually intended the weapon to warp time for Luthor so that his powers burn out early. As his powers fade, Luthor briefly sees the world as Superman sees it, and weeps as he gains a small measure of understanding of the universe and everyone in it before realizing his spare serum was taken by Superman who destroyed it.
With Superman's body starting to turn into pure energy, he and Lois embrace one final time and he proclaims his love for her once and for all. He takes off, flying into the Sun as his solar-radio consciousness begins to overtake his body as he enters the Sun and thus saves the day for the last time. One year later, a memorial service is held for Superman. Only Lois does not attend, believing Superman is not dead and will return someday. Quintum visits Luthor in his death row cell. Now enlightened from his ordeal and accepting his impending death, Luthor presents Quintum with the only thing that could redeem him for his actions over the years, a formula to recreate Superman's genetic structure through a healthy human embryo. Inside the Sun, Superman, now a solar being, is activating and making machinery within.
