Daybreakers

kapanlagi.com, Di tahun 2019, bumi dilanda wabah ganas yang dalam waktu singkat menulari manusia dan mengubahnya menjadi makhluk peminum darah yang dikenal dengan nama vampire. Dalam waktu singkat hampir seluruh manusia telah berubah menjadi vampire dan ini menimbulkan masalah baru. Siapa yang akan mereka mangsa jika manusia habis?

Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) seorang ilmuwan yang telah menjadi vampire mau tak mau harus berusaha keras untuk mencari cara untuk mengatasi makin langkanya manusia yang menjadi sumber kehidupan mereka. Kalau manusia musnah maka mau tak mau kaum vampire akan kehilangan sumber makanan dan akan punah juga.
Para vampire ini telah membuat sebuah sistem untuk memanfaatkan darah manusia sampai tetes terakhir tanpa harus membuangnya dengan sia-sia namun tetap saja itu tak cukup karena suatu saat darah yang ada di dalam tubuh manusia ini akan habis. Kini para vampire ini dihadapkan satu dilema: mencari pengganti makanan atau berusaha menyelamatkan manusia dari kepunahan, sesuatu yang sebenarnya mereka awali sendiri.

Wabah vampire memang sedang melanda dunia. Suksesnya UNDERWORLD yang diikuti dengan munculnya TWILIGHT membuat legenda lama yang sudah ada sejak ribuan tahun yang lalu ini jadi mewabah. Masing-masing sutradara pun berusaha menawarkan penafsiran mereka terhadap makhluk abadi yang hidup dari darah manusia ini termasuk DAYBREAKERS ini. Kalau harus membandingkan DAYBREAKERS ini dengan dua film bergenre vampire tersebut di atas, barangkali yang satu ini lebih condong ke arah UNDERWORLD.
Kalau UNDERWORLD mencoba menggali perseteruan antara kaum vampire dan werewolf yang sudah berusia ribuan tahun dalam konteks modern, DAYBREAKERS ini justru memilih berandai-andai. Bagaimana seandainya seluruh dunia ini dilanda virus yang mengubah manusia menjadi vampire dan manusia malah jadi kaum minoritas? Apa yang terjadi dengan teknologi apabila vampire yang berkuasa di muka bumi?

Hasil imajinasi dua sutradara bersaudara, Michael Spierig dan Peter Spierig inilah yang menjadi dasar dari DAYBREAKERS ini. Namun tentu saja kita tidak hanya diajak berandai-andai. Ada metafora di sana. Kalau mau sedikit jeli, sebenarnya kita bisa berkaca pada film ini dan melihat problema yang kita hadapi saat ini dalam film ini. Teknologi sekarang pun sedang berusaha mencari pengganti minyak bumi yang makin habis, sama seperti para vampire yang berusaha mencari pengganti darah manusia.
Terlepas dari pesan moral yang berusaha disampaikan ini, DAYBREAKERS tetaplah sebuah tontonan yang menarik. Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, dan Claudia Karvan bermain meyakinkan sebagai karakter yang mereka bawakan sementara alur cerita pun cukup enak untuk diikuti. Jangan berharap menonton film sekualitas Oscar karena film ini adalah film yang dibuat untuk menghibur.(kpl/roc)

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Solomon Kane

Oleh: Fatchur Rochim

kapanlagi.com, Solomon Kane (James Purefoy) mungkin tak pernah mengira kalau ia akan sering berurusan dengan makhluk-makhluk gaib dari dimensi lain. Tapi ketika panggilan itu datang, Solomon tak punya pilihan selain mengabdikan dirinya untuk memburu dan memusnahkan makhluk-makhluk jahat ini walaupun itu artinya ia harus berkeliling dunia dalam misi sucinya ini.

Solomon awalnya adalah serdadu Ratu Elizabeth I yang ditugaskan di Afrika. Sebagai seorang serdadu bayaran pekerjaan Solomon memang tak jauh dari urusan mencabut nyawa. Itu semua ia lakukan tanpa ada penyesalan sampai suatu saat ia bertemu makhluk gaib bernama The Reaper (Ian Whyte). Pertemuan ini mengubah hidup Solomon dan ia memutuskan untuk kembali ke Inggris.

Solomon lantas mengabdikan hidupnya untuk Tuhan dan berharap mendapat pengampunan atas dosa-dosa yang telah ia lakukan selama menjadi serdadu bayaran. Sayang, takdir Solomon sepertinya bukan di sana. Tak lama berselang Solomon kembali tergoda untuk mengangkat pedang. Kali ini bukan untuk membunuh sesama manusia tapi untuk memburu makhluk-makhluk jahat dari dimensi lain.

Film laga bertema supranatural seperti ini biasanya diasosiasikan dengan film-film kelas dua yang artinya tak memerlukan penggarapan terlalu rumit. Yang diperlukan hanyalah CGI yang meyakinkan dan selebihnya hanyalah cerita sederhana untuk merangkai beberapa adegan dramatis yang memang sudah direncanakan dari awal. Tak bisa disalahkan karena memang kebanyakan film seperti ini memang punya titik lemah di bagian itu.

Tapi sepertinya kita harus membuat pengecualian untuk film berjudul SOLOMON KANE ini. Ada beberapa poin yang membuat film ini jadi berbeda. Misalnya saja sang sutradara yang mampu mengarahkan para aktornya untuk mencapai hasil yang maksimal. James Purefoy mungkin memang nama baru tapi kemampuan aktingnya tidak bisa dipandang sebelah mata. Karakter Solomon Kane yang melewati masa transisi dari seorang pria jahat menjadi seorang pahlawan pun bisa diterjemahkan dengan baik oleh James Purefoy.

Dari sisi visual, SOLOMON KANE memang tak bisa dibilang yang terbaik karena ini sepertinya menyangkut soal dana yang dikucurkan untuk membiayai produksi film ini. Terlepas dari dana yang tak terlalu besar, SOLOMON KANE ini masih termasuk memadai. Alur kisah memang masih tetap sederhana seperti pada kebanyakan film sejenis tapi kalau mau jujur, film seperti ini memang tak memerlukan naskah yang rumit.(kpl/roc)


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The last air bender

Air. Bumi. Api. Udara. Di masa lalu, ada damai antara empat negara di dunia. Avatar - Master dari semua empat elemen - terus perdamaian antara Suku-suku Air, Kerajaan Bumi, Negara Api, dan Pengembara Udara. Hanya Avatar memiliki kemampuan untuk Bend (manipulate) semua empat elemen, tapi suatu hari, ia menghilang. Kemudian menyerang Negara Api, memaksa perang di tiga negara lainnya untuk seratus tahun. Sekarang, demi kebaikan dunia, terserah Aang 12 tahun (Nuh Ringer), Avatar baru, dan yang terakhir kaum Pengembara Udara (Airbenders), untuk kembali kedamaian dan keseimbangan dengan menempatkan mengakhiri perang dan menguasai keempat elemen. Aang harus menerima nasibnya dengan menghentikan perang Negara Api dan mengalahkan Tuhan neraka untuk selamanya.

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Moviesqy: Clash of the Titans

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Director: Louis Leterrier
Cast:
Sam Worthington as Perseus
Liam Neeson as Zeus
Ralph Fiennes as Hades
Jason Flemyng as Calibos / Acrisius
Gemma Arterton as Io
Alexa Davalos as Andromeda
Tine Stapelfeldt as Danae
Mads Mikkelsen as Draco
Luke Evans as Apollo
Izabella Miko as Athena
Liam Cunningham as Solon
Hans Matheson as Ixas
Ashraf Barhom as Ozal
Mouloud Achour as Kucuk
Ian Whyte as Sheikh Sulieman

"The Clash of the Titans" diatur di kota Yunani Argos di mana perang adalah untuk meledak antara manusia dan para dewa. Perseus (Sam Worthington) dibesarkan sebagai seorang nelayan, tapi sebenarnya adalah seperdua-dewa. Perseus adalah putra Zeus (Liam Neeson) yang akan mengambil dewa setelah kematian keluarganya. saudara Zeus 'Hades (Ralph Fiennes) adalah orang yang membunuh keluarganya, dan Perseus ingin membunuhnya. Namun, takdir Perseus untuk menyelamatkan kota Argos dari marah kejam nya Hades dan rakasa Kraken. Dengan ada ruginya, Perseus memimpin sekelompok prajurit pada quest untuk mengalahkan Kraken. Dalam melakukan ini, Perseus akan mencegah Hades dari menggulingkan Zeus dan pada gilirannya menghancurkan umat manusia.


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Twilight

 

"What if I'm not the hero, what if I'm the bad guy?"

 

Nice quote! What can I say about the movie? Novelnya sendiri sudah terbukti laris abis, apalagi remaja jaman sekarang lebih memikirkan romantisme antara setan dan manusia, omong kosong yang diperjuangkan mati-matian atas nama cinta.

 

Seperti film remaja lainnya, film ini lebih menggambarkan Ms. and Mr. perfect yang seakan menjadi pasangan paling serasi di dunia. Bertemu dengan diawali oleh berbagai macam konflik diantara mereka, bersatu untuk kemudian menghadapi cobaan terberat cinta mereka, untuk kemudian bahagia forever ever after? Wah basi banget plot cerita seperti itu. Terlalu biasa, datar dan cenderung tidak berkembang.

 

Menonton Twilight sama sekali gak perlu mikir karena dari awal sampai akhir jalan cerita mengalir begitu saja, monoton, cenderung mengulur-ulur waktu tanpa ada gejolak yang berarti sedikit pun.

 

Hampir semua konsep tentang vampir diubah disini, yah . . . Kecuali bagian kalau mereka sanggup menebar pesona dan fakta kalau namanya vampir pasti menghisap darah.

 

Tapi bagian vampir yang takut kena matahari karena akan terbakar, malah jadi berbalik aneh. Vampirnya malah jadi kinclong kalo kena matahari? Please deh apa gak ada ide yang lebih baik dari itu?

 

Lucunya, nonton Twilight seperti liat felm silat dari China jaman dulu, jagoannya berdua loncat-loncatan di pohon gak keruan. Payah. Mending nonton Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon kalo gitu mah, lebih seru.

 

Berantemnya juga culun abies. Bener-bener gak seru gak bikin tegang. Nonton smackdown masih mending. Masa film Hollywood yang laen berantemnya dah canggih abiez, ini cuman gebuk-gebukan gitu, malah gak ada gebuk-gebukannya lagi. Dan tiba-tiba saja Jagoannya menang. Duh!

 

Pengennya sih menonjolkan kelebihan si vampir, tapi caranya kuno dan sudah gak keren. Jaman gini bikin film begitu doang mah gak ada bagusnya. Basi.

 

Hanya bermodalkan bukunya yang laris, terus aktor dan aktris nya yang barbie, filmnya langsung terkenal dan laris manis. Padahal kalau kita liat gak ada satupun yang spesial kecuali aktor dan aktrisnya yang barbie itu.

 

Tapi tetep aja ABG atau mantan ABG yang perempuan pas nonton gak bisa diem kegatelan liat si vampir. NORAK.

 

Twilight? Bah! Menyesal nonton!

 

 

Resident Evil: Degeneration

The "Umbrella Incident" that took place in Raccoon City ended with a missile attack ordered by the government intended to wipe out the deadly zombie virus. Following this catastrophe, the Umbrella Corporation's stock plummeted. This serious blow to the business giant resulted in its complete dissolution.

7 years later, at an airport somewhere in the United States, on an ordinary autumn afternoon, the T-virus is released by bioterrorists. Now, in an airport beginning to fill with the undead, the horrific disaster is about to repeat itself. Claire Redfield, now a member of an NGO supporting victims of bioterrorism and medical disasters, happens to be in the airport while Leon S. Kennedy comes to the site on a mission to take care of the incident.

Avatar

Batman - The Dark Night

"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now...and so we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not a hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector...a dark knight."

quallesqy : The true fear is not facing an ugly monster, but facing a terribly smart evil guy called Joker.

Bruce Wayne/Batman (Christian Bale) continues to eliminate crime in Gotham City with the help of Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). The Dark Knight wants to finally get rid of organized crime for good and be free of their corruption. Batman soon finds that a new psychopathic mastermind known as the Joker (Heath Ledger) has taken over organized crime. After the fall of Carmine Falcone, the remaining crime bosses try to pick up the pieces. However, the Joker is killing them off one by one. The Joker's plan is to terrify the citizens and throw the city into chaos, and then kill Batman. Batman takes the fight with the Joker personal, which makes him confront his own beliefs. The Joker is the most dangerous criminal that Batman has encountered, and he will need all his strength and vigilance to defeat him.

Hancock

There are Heroes . . .

There are Superheroes . . .

And there are  . . . HANCOCK.

John Hancock (Will Smith) is an unhappy and reluctant superhero who is living in his own world. For some unknown reason, Hancock is depressed and has started drinking very heavily. He has saved many lives in Los Angles over the years, but in doing so, he has no regards for damaging buildings, trains, roads, cars, or anything that gets in his way to get the job done. The last time he captured several criminals, it cost the city $9 million to fix the damages. The public has had enough of Hancock, and they want him to stop or go to another city. Then one day, Hancock saves the life of Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) from being run over by a train. Ray is a Public Relations executive who now can go home to his wife and child, because Hancock was there. Ray owes Hancock his life, and he makes it his mission to change his superhero's image and have the public cheering him. Ray's wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), believes Hancock can not be fixed, and she doesn't want Ray to be hurt.

Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda Trailer

quallesqy : Must See!

 

 

Kung Fu Panda is the story of Po, (voice Jack Black), a sweet, but clumsy Panda who has dreams of fighting with the legendary Furious Five and protecting the city against all threats. The only problem is that Po has no real life experience of kung fu, and his real job is serving noodles at his dad's noodles shop. News of selecting the Dragon Warrior is sent out from the Jade Temple, and the whole city along with Po, go to the celebration. The competition is between the Furious Five: Tigress (voice Angelina Jolie), Viper (voice Lucy Liu), Crane (voice David Cross), Monkey (voice Jackie Chan), and Mantis (voice Seth Rogen). Po accidentally enters the contest and is named the Dragon Warrior. Master Shifu (voice Dustin Hoffman) must find a way to train Po and make him a Kung Fu Master, especially, after they learn that the snow leopard, Tai Lung (voice Ian McShane), is headed their way. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)

 

Forbidden Kingdom

Personal Comment:
Nih film membosankan, hampir gak ada hal yang baru, bahkan jurus-jurus silatnya juga agak basi. Jalan cerita klasik dan juga ending yang ampun deh flat abis. Raja musuh masa bisa kalah gitu doang. Alasan gw nonton cuman pengen liat gimana kalo Jet Li ketemu Jacky Chan, gak taunya gak begitu oke. Lebih baik nonton film mereka sendiri-sendiri, karakteristik masing-masing orangnya lebih kelihatan.

Entah kenapa, setelah semua artis China ke Hollywood, kualitas cerita film mereka jadi menurun drastis, sebut saja Chow Yun Fat dengan the Replacement Killernya, atau Jet Li dengan The One, dan sekarang Forbidden Kingdom menambah daftar hitam film2 Hollywood tidak berkualitas lainnya.

Director: Rob Minkoff
Writer (WGA): John Fusco (written by)
Release Date: 18 April 2008 (Indonesia)

In Forbidden Kingdom, American teenager Jason (Michael Angarano), who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kungfu classics, finds an antique Chinese staff in a pawn shop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King (Jet Li). With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself transported back to ancient China.

There, he meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan (Jackie Chan); an enigmatic and skillful Silent Monk (Jet Li); and a vengeance-bent kungfu beauty, Golden Sparrow (Crystal Liu Yi Fei), who lead him on his quest to return the staff to its rightful owner, the Monkey King - imprisoned in stone by the evil Jade Warlord (Collin Chou) for five hundred years. Along the way, while attempting to outmaneuver scores of Jade Warriors, Cult Killers and the deadly White Hair Demoness, Ni Chang (Li Bing Bing), Jason learns about honor, loyalty and friendship, and the true meaning of kungfu, and thus frees himself.

Alvin and The Chipmunks

Director: Tim Hill
Writers (WGA): Jon Vitti and Will McRobb
Release Date: 14 December 2007 (USA)
Tagline: Here comes trouble.

Golde Compass

Director: Chris Weitz
Writers (WGA): Chris Weitz (screenplay), Philip Pullman (novel)
Release Date: 7 December 2007 (USA) more view trailer
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Thriller
Synopsis:
Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) is an orphan living at Jordan College in the Oxford of an alternate universe. In Lyra's world every person is accompanied by a daemon, a physical representation of their soul in animal form. Because Lyra is still young, her daemon, Pantalaimon (voice: Freddie Highmore), can change his shape to appear as any animal he chooses. Adults' daemons settle in to one shape and don't change.

Lyra overhears an interview between the master of Jordan College (Jack Shepherd) and Fra Pavel (Simon McBurney), a representative of the powerful and sinister religious body called the Magisterium. They're discussing an expedition to the far north planned by Lyra's uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig); he wants to study a mysterious substance called Dust that seems to enter Lyra's world from parallel universes. Fra Pavel pressures the master to withhold his support for Lord Asriel's expedition. The master refuses, so Fra Pavel poisons a decanter of wine that's been prepared for Lord Asriel. Lyra emerges from her hiding place to stop Lord Asriel from drinking the poisoned wine, but Lord Asriel sends her back to eavesdrop on the meeting that's about to begin. The master and fellows of Jordan College convene to hear about Lord Asriel's proposed expedition and research on Dust, which they agree to fund.

Even before we meet Lyra, boys and girls have been disappearing, snatched off the streets. The children call the kidnappers Gobblers. Lyra and her friend Roger (Ben Walker) promise one another that if either is caught, the other will come to the rescue. That night, while Lyra is at dinner being introduced to Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman), Roger and another friend, Billy Costa (Charlie Rowe), are taken by the Gobblers.

Lyra is taken with her new acquaintance and agrees eagerly when Mrs. Coulter, who is also planning a trip to the far north, proposes that Lyra come along as her assistant. The morning of Lyra's departure, the master gives her a strange golden instrument called an alethiometer. He tells her that it is capable of telling the truth, but he can't tell her much about how it works. He admonishes her to keep the alethiometer to herself.

After some time in Mrs. Coulter's company, Lyra learns that Mrs. Coulter is deeply involved with an arm of the Magisterium called the General Oblation Board (the Gobblers!); that the General Oblation Board is using children to investigate something called intercision; and that Billy Costa and Roger have been taken. Immediately after discovering this, Lyra catches Mrs. Coulter's golden monkey daemon trying to steal the alethiometer. Pan grabs it back and they flee. They're pursued and caught by Gobblers, then rescued by fierce but friendly Gyptians, who have been watching over Lyra at Lord Asriel's request. One of Lyra's rescuers is Ma Costa (Clare Higgins), Billy's mother.

Lyra travels with the Gyptians and becomes acquainted with John Faa (Jim Carter), lord of the Gyptians, and his advisor Farder Coram (Tom Courtenay). She learns how to ask the alethiometer questions and how to interpret its responses. She also meets Serafina Pekkala (Eva Green), queen of the witches, who tells Lyra that she is the subject of a prophecy concerning the fate of the world; that the missing children are being held at Bolvangar in Norroway; and that Lyra will find help in Trollesund, a town on the coast. Meanwhile, Mrs. Coulter has dispatched a pair of mechanical spy flies to locate Lyra. When the spy flies find the Gyptian ship, Farder Coram captures one and seals it up in a tin, explaining that its sting contains a sleeping potion. The other escapes, though it's not clear that it does Mrs. Coulter any good.

When they arrive in Trollesund, Lyra meets the Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby (Sam Elliot), who offers to help her -- but first he wants to get a friend out of a jam. The friend is Iorek Byrnison (voice: Ian McKellen), one of the great Panserbjørne -- armored ice bears -- of Svalbard. Iorek, exiled from his home after losing a fight, is a virtual prisoner in Trollesund; the townspeople got him drunk and stole his armor, which he cherishes the way humans cherish their daemons. Now, alcoholic and despairing, he works as a mechanic and metalsmith in exchange for whiskey. Consulting the alethiometer, Lyra learns that Iorek Byrnison was heir to the throne of Svalbard until he was betrayed and defeated by Ragnar (voice: Habib Nasib Nader), the current king. She also learns where the armor is hidden and tells Iorek, who promises in return to help her find the missing children. Lee Scoresby and the Gyptians dissuade the soldiers who try to stop the re-armored bear, and Lyra and her allies march into the interior toward Bolvangar.

When they camp for the night, Lyra puzzles over something the alethiometer is telling her and seeks out Iorek Byrnison. She asks him to take her to a valley nearby, where she finds Billy Costa, feeble and miserable because he's been separated from his daemon. This, Lyra realizes, is what intercision means; it's a fate so horrible she and Pan can hardly bear to think about it.

Iorek Byrnison and Lyra take Billy back to the Gyptians' camp, which is immediately set upon by the ferocious Samoyed people who live in that area. They capture Lyra and carry her to Svalbard as an offering to the armored bears. Recalling that Mrs. Coulter told her King Ragnar longs to have a daemon of his own, Lyra asks Pan to hide and introduces herself to Ragnar as Iorek Byrnison's daemon. As she hoped, Ragnar becomes furiously jealous. Lyra tells him that if he can defeat Iorek in single combat, she will become Ragnar's daemon. Ragnar agrees to fight Iorek Byrnison, and Iorek gallops up on cue, intending to rescue Lyra. When Lyra explains what she's arranged, apologetic and frightened because after running all that way Iorek seems in no shape to fight, Iorek surprises her with his enthusiasm. He wants nothing more from life than a chance to fight Ragnar, and dubs her Lyra Silvertongue for her skillful manipulation of the bear king.

Iorek fights Ragnar and kills him by feigning an injury, then hitting him so hard that his jaw comes off. This victory wins back Iorek Byrnison's rightful place as king of the ice bears, but he leaves his kingdom to complete his obligation to Lyra. He takes her most of the way to the experimental station at Bolvangar where the children are being held, but has to leave her and go for help when the bridge over a crevasse breaks, leaving Iorek on the wrong side.

Inside the experimental station, Lyra asks Roger to get the others ready to escape. He shows her to a room where she can be alone with the alethiometer, but she has to hide under the table almost immediately because the experimental station staff and Mrs. Coulter come in to confer about their work. After Mrs. Coulter leaves, Lyra's foot slips, giving her away. She's captured by the staff and she and Pan are put into the intercision device, the machine used to separate children from their daemons. The separation is almost complete when Mrs. Coulter, looking terrified, runs in and stops the procedure.

Lyra and Pan wake up with their bond intact, and a distraught Mrs. Coulter assures Lyra that she's safe and she'll never be hurt. Lyra, shrinking from Mrs. Coulter, asks why they're separating children from their daemons. Mrs. Coulter explains that Dust (which she seems to equate with original sin) came into the world long ago when people first disobeyed the Authority (God). While children are immune from Dust, it contaminates adults through their daemons. The goal of the intercision research is to prevent people from ever being affected by Dust. (This explanation is a slightly more palatable version of the one given in an earlier scene, in which high officials of the Magisterium, disturbed about Jordan College's rebellious support of Lord Asriel, look forward to a future when intercision will mold a population that never questions the Magisterium's authority.) Mrs. Coulter says that intercision doesn't hurt -- "it's just a little cut."

If intercision is such a good thing, Lyra counters, why did Mrs. Coulter stop the lab staff from doing it to Lyra? Mrs. Coulter admits that the procedure isn't perfect yet. When she mentions taking Lyra home, Lyra says venomously that her home is Jordan College. Mrs. Coulter reveals that she is Lyra's mother -- a relationship Lyra rejects -- and that Lord Asriel is her father. Lyra pretends to cooperate when Mrs. Coulter asks for the alethiometer, but gives her instead the tin holding the spy fly. The fly's sting knocks out Mrs Coulter and her daemon. Lyra escapes and leads the children out into the snow, pausing only to sabotage the intercision device, which explodes in a very satisfactory manner.

Outside the experimental station the children confront the guards, who attack them. Iorek Byrnison intervenes, but is nearly overcome before the arrival, at dramatic intervals, of Lee Scoresby, the witches led by Serafina Pekkala, and the Gyptians. There's a ferocious melee; whenever someone is killed, their daemon disintegrates in a swirl of Dust. Lyra's friends win the battle.

Lyra sets off with Iorek Byrnison and Lee Scoresby to find Lord Asriel, who has been captured by the Samoyed people. Roger insists on coming along. Meanwhile Mrs. Coulter, having learned that Lord Asriel has bribed his captors and set up a laboratory to continue his research on Dust, sets off to stop him. In the final scene, Lyra and Roger curl up with Iorek Byrnison in the back of Mr. Scoresby's flying machine, heading north.