Reviews

Really well made feel good movie. Great acting and music. Deserves to be at least in the 7's in term of rating.

I accidentally stumbled across this movie when I was channel surfing and I am glad I did that. Luckily the start cast caught my eye and I was able to catch the movie from the beginning. What a powerful movie. I consider a movie powerful when you don't stop thinking about the movie for a long time after you have seen the movie and it moves you in a certain way.

This movie made me think about the ruthlessness of the corporate world where anything goes as long as you achieve. Though this movie concentrates on selling real estate, I hope some one makes a movie how only 'connections' not the real talent can advance you in the corporate world. It also proves how you should be conscience free and should forget about your family if you want to really grow. Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris , Alec Baldwin all give a very powerful performance as conscience free salesmen and motivators. Alec Baldwin provides a very powerful performance of a ruthless motivator. On one hand whether you feel sorry for the plight of these salesmen. I almost yelled "common man quit the f***ing job" to Ed Harris during Alec Baldwin's motivating speech. Sorry for the profanity but you automatically get into that kind of language as you watch this movie. This is another example how powerful this movie is. On the other hand you feel angry the way they cheat common men of their hard earned money.

I completely agree with other members comment that this should be in one of the top 200 films. This film reminds me of 12 Angry me which was another master piece solely dependent upon powerful acting, script and dialog delivery. Jonathan Pryce has turned in a very subtle but excellent performance as a hapless common man who fall prey to these aggressive sellers.

Overall a very great movie that you should not miss.

After seeing this movie after all those rave reviews, just one thing struck me, "Some body has to shout the king is naked". And I dont understand why this movie is in top 250 and has got rave reviews.

The movie is gripping no doubt and has a lot of unexpected turns which I totally agree (like pulp fiction), but there is nothing more to it. Naomi Watts has a great body which she shows off in her skirt and there is a very hot rehearsal scene which she performs with a old man (Blame it on Rio!!) and there are a couple of great lesbo scenes and thats it.

Looks like nobody could understand the movie, but if you question they say dont use logic and this movie appears directly to emotions!!. Looks like an amateur shot a home video and linked all up without any logic. But all this movie is just unexpected turns,beautiful women and some hot scenes I will give a 5 for that!!!

Well I am really out of words to explain about this wonderful intelligent comedy. Though both "pinkies" look old in this movie, the intellegent comedy behind this movie is excellent. It is definitely a must watch who wants a natural well scripted comedy. Makes me wonder why people spend billions of dollar to make crap and how people were able to make such good movies with so less money and such an excellent script.

When I took the DVD of this film along with a couple of other movies from library, I postponed seeing this one after reading about the movie in the back cover of DVD. It had been mentioned that all but 3 minutes of the movie has been shot in a room. The movie was black and white and there was no female cast!!. Finally when I found some time when there was no other thing to do, I watched this movie, my god I was hooked. This movie is a great lesson to new directors and screen play writers as to how a great movie can be made without all the gorgeous locations, millions of dolllars, graphic special effects etc. Infact once the cast get into the jury room there is not even a back ground score. All natural sound recorded at the set. As some body else had mentioned Lee J cobb steals most of the scenes, but Henry Fonda's performance is great as a soft sell/submissive player. He carefully releases one card after other from his hand at precise moments.

For example he does not tell any one he has a switch blade knife untill others really push him and challenge him about the rarity of the knife. That is a genius.

Infact I watched the movie two times back to back and I could not help but marvel where all this talent nowadays. I was tempted to watch it third successive time but did not do it because it was late.

A must watch. Don't miss it

I took the Sting DVD from the local library. What first attracted me to the DVD was the fact that it has won 7 Oscar awards. The movie is worth every minute of it and is a thorough entertainer. The first turn comes within 10 minutes of the movie where the run man finds out he has been conned by Robert Redford. The twists are all through the movie untill the unexpected climax. The screen play is very tight and all characters have played their part very well. THe way Paul Newman cons Robert shaw in the poker and the way everytime he calls him with a wrong name is worth watching and is very hilarious.

The movie has a very intellegent plot. The only hole I saw in the movie was if the assasin "Salino" knows who Hooker was (Robert Redford) how he is able to con her boss Lonnegan (Robert shaw) as Kelly. I doubt whether I missed something.

This movie sets a great precedent to movies like Oceans Eleven and is a must watch to everyone who likes this type of movies

I recently saw `Forrest Gump' and was amazed. I could not understand, whether it is a family drama or a philosophical movie. As I felt that the movie is much more than a family drama, I am not discussing the story of the movie here.

I am trying to analyze the movie from a philosophical/ psychological angle. Is there a message the movie is trying to convey? Does this movie laugh at people who are supposedly very intelligent, rich but never satisfied or happy? Does intelligence above a certain level really makes people feel unhappy about every thing? Is Emotional Quotient (EQ) more important than Intelligent Quotient (IQ)?

Every body knows that focus in so important for success. Yet we are so distracted in life that we are unable to concentrate all our energy in a single thing. Forrest Gump does this so effortlessly. When he runs he runs , when he plays ping pong (Table tennis) he does just that. Is it because of his below average IQ? Or is it because of the very high level of mental maturity he has achieved?

The way Forrest handles all his successes is unbelievable. We see people who become head strong for such trivial things, and Forrest wins again and again without even bothering about the level of success he has achieved. There is a particular scene in which Forrest says to his bench mate in the bust stop ` I went to Washington again, met the president again' the statement sounds so naturally innocent. The actor and the director deserve a special congratulation in this particular scene for making it sound so natural and do not look like a egoistic boast.

The director also captures the way Forrest handles defeat. Forrest never gives up being a Shrimp boat captain and he is never bogged down by a failure. This finally makes him a millionaire.

It is quoted in Bhagavad-Gita that `Treating pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat alike, engage yourself in your duty'. The statement though it may look so simple is extremely difficult to implement in real life. Now researchers have found that Emotional Quotient (EQ) is more important than IQ. Forrest scores so high in EQ, that his IQ becomes irrelevant for all his successes. I really don't know whether the director conveyed this message intentionally.

This movie also has some incredible acting, where you do not realize that Tom Hanks has really acted. I guess he has become Forrest Gump himself. The scene where he shows some sort of emotional outburst is when he discovers about his child. I am sure even a robot will be moved by the scene where he asks his girl friend whether the child is dump or intelligent and asks her permission to talk to his child. He does not ask permission in words, but his facial expression speaks thousand words. Every body else in the film has done excellent support acting.

A brilliant movie and a must see.

A great movie with a series of murders, a subtle sense of humor and some great acting. It of course lacks great locations, any great cinematography or anything. But is is made up by a tight screen play and good acting. No wonder this came as a TV series because when you watch the movie you get a feeling of watching a TV serial.

But I would recommend it for any intelligent viewer who likes intelligent movies

The movie is about stealing a very valuable process which can fetch millions of dollars (how much is also mysterious as the director cleverly hides the value). The story starts slowly but take tremendous twists and turns as it moves on. The movie is intelligently directed and the punch line trust no one is well kept on. You will really enjoy the movie when you see more than once. The downside of the movie though is the expressionless face of the hero. Even we the viewers show better expressions with each twists and turns the hero just holds his head for everything. But a must see for a mystery lover

One of the movies where the star cast have lived the roles not just performed , well supported by Editing, Cinematography and background score . A must see. KamalHasan has given really a masterly performance for which he got the national award rightly.