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Se7en Below (2012)
Clichés at its best!
if you show this movie to a two year old, even he will describe you every scene before it appears on the screen! this is one typical Hollywood B- grade movie. Acting is bad, dialogues suck and story (you kidding me!!). I've never been a big fan of Val kilmer but when he's the senior most actor, there is no point in killing him early. If you are planning to go watch this movie in theatre, don't. if you are planning to buy the DVD, don't. If this movie is playing on TV and you get to see it for free, watch it only if you have nothing else to do. I gave it 3 , just for some typical horror scenes, nothing much to discuss about this movie.
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
a sentimental, romantic, feel-good movie
sentimental love stories always touch your heart, and in those stories if the curtains fall with a feeling of "and they lived happily ever after", its gonna be like the best love story you have ever seen, at least it will be best till it fades off from your memory.
now even though this movie is not entirely a love story, i mean we got aliens/gods/angels/accountants(i don't know what to call them)!!! and these people actually run our world and make you do things that you do (i know right). its a good concept and it is quite effective as well. but this entire new concept has been completely overpowered by the love story.
a great job by Matt Damon and an excellent job by Emily blunt. every time you feel like getting lost or getting up, they meet each other and steal your entire attention, that much effective their chemistry is in this movie. last time i gave an 8/10 for a movie for its chemistry between lead pair was shaolin soccer.
if you are taking your girl friend to a movie, this is the one. not only for couples, but for everybody, this is a feel-good type with happy-ending must-watch movie.
Jin yi wei (2010)
its like a candy for a chocolate lover.
As i said in the summary this movie is like a candy for a chocolate lover! If you are the kinda person who likes the martial art movies, if you wanna see some kungfu kicks and wanna hear swusshhhh of the swords, this is the movie for you.
Story is not that extraordinary, screenplay is good, locations are good. In the second half of the movie they added this middle-eastern styled city, it looks like a place straight from Arabian desert cartoon and Chun Wu's appearance fills the role of Aladdin lol.
Wei Zhao was good in her role but I'm not sure how much you gonna like her. She is not the Wei Zhao of shaolin soccer or red cliff, shes more of a Wei Zhao of warriors of heaven and earth. she does not know any martial arts in the movie and the love story between Donnie and Wei is not that impressive.
The box of swords used by Donnie and the all little gadgets its embedded with is quite new and very good. Kate Tsui's role was good, she had the exact amount of screen time that was needed and she did exactly what she was supposed to do. However there are quite a lot mistakes but hey come on, its a martial arts movie. The ending of the movie could have been different and better.
Final verdict: Good acting, good action scenes, okish story, nice locations and worth watching MA. Its definitely watchable movie, i got exactly what i expected to see, not a penny more not a penny less. I give it a rating of 6.
Appaloosa (2008)
not satisfied!!
"a movie with an unfinished ending is worse than a sad ending"... very good movie, very good acting, very well directed. this movie is worth watching, especially i did like the viggo's role as a deputy. he was cool-obedient-Saviour and at the end leaver. all other characters also were good and acted well. thats all i am going to say about the movie. now we have reene in there somewhere, she has done some excellent acting. she delivered what story demanded, but i think story demanded a bit too much of her, i mean what the director has shown us about ally is that she is a slut from inside, but a decent one, and she doesn't wanted to be called one. considering what director did to her and viggo at the end, he should have shown ally a little bit respectful. i mean every time shes on the picture, shes flirting with somebody or other, and virgil cant leave her. even the dialogues written for ally are so cunning. there were three other possible better endings in my opinion.... 1) ally dies, somehow! and both virgil n viggo leave the town or stay in town! 2) she realises her mistakes, and shows some signs of reformation. 3) director does not show her that bitchy and virgil n ally live together happily ever after. with or without viggo!
some of the above mentioned endings are happy, some are sad. but these are definitely better than the present unfinished ending. i would have rated it 8-9, but the climax made me rate it 5.
Australia (2008)
good but long
First of all, i would like to say one thing.... is Nicole Kidman getting sexier by her age or is it just me who is attracted to women of certain age!?! I mean i did watched her in her other movies but she never looked so good, sexier and full of performance. Anyways, it is a good movie but as far as i am concerned its a bit too long, there are some unnecessary scenes which could have been edited or may be the story could have been edited. Because this movie delivers what the story wants, and this is a kinda movie where its not the movie but its the story which decides the nature of the movie. the concept of the story is nothing new, but its shot in a different place with a different idea. same old "before world war theme" and "blacks vs whites" kinda situation. but what is new in this story is, its not about race or freedom all the time. there are lot of elements that join the story, business competitiveness, egoistic love-story and of course world war i.e, Japan air bombing the country. certain scenes needed a second thought though. for example when sarah's husband dies, she gets into business the very next day and her emotions are like nothing has happened, i mean.....that women just lost her husband! come on!!! that particular part could have been a little bit better. climax is good, it is what it should have been. but there are certain situations in the middle which could have been done better. i never say anything about director in my reviews, because i think director is just a script reader when there are professional actors involved in the movie. i guess you understand what i mean here... well i give a 6.5/10 for this movie, outta which at least 4 goes to Nicole kidman.
Hisss (2010)
definitely not
At first let me confirm one thing that every movie in bollywood directed by an outside (hollywood) director can't be Slumdog Millionaire, saying this i didn't had any expectations before i watched this movie but the idea was a bit fantasizing. I mean a snake taking human form and producing some kinda "mani" (precious stone) which will make you immortal has been a very old storyline for lot of bollywood movies, from Jitendra to Sridevi. I don't even know how to describe this movie, only good thing i see about the movie is Mallika's nudity, I'm sure they might have used a body double, but still it was good. The rest you can count as bad or may be worst, poor special effects, bad locations, seems like a B-grade movie, and acting tops all these. I mean you cant really expect Oscar winning performance by mallika, but still. If you are bored at home and like to laugh watching low budget failed films with friends, this is your movie, rest i suggest stay away from it.
Swades: We, the People (2004)
simply excellent
I can't believe that i watched this movie 4 times in theatre, lol. This is a kind of movie where i found everything was perfect. Good story, very thought provoking and very realistic. Its about Mohan Bhargav (SRK) who works for NASA, and comes to India for a reason and realises how this country is effected by certain socio-political elements. what he does to correct them is the main story line. It was really interesting to see the director showing some scenes of Mohan as a NASA employee and all the GPM thing was quite a bit research. I mean from a bollywood movie this is more than expected.
First of all credit should go to the director Ashutosh.G, when i saw his first movie Lagaan i thought he was a little lucky in making such a good movie and moreover he had a cricket match in the movie. But after watching Swades i now realise what kind of movie director he is, absolutely brilliant.
SRK on the other hand... i would say 'the best' performance from him so far. Even though I am a great fan of SRK I never thought he could act so well. As Neha Dhupia once quoted "only two things sell in India, SRK and Sex". This movie will explain the first part of the quote.
One more thing great about this movie is the background music. World knew about A.R.Rehman after he got an Oscar, but we in India know him since his Roja (first Rehman movie as music director) days. He is truly nothing less than a legend. The background music when chiku (character in movie) shows the house of kaveri amma to Mohan, something like 'aayooooo reeeee.....' gave me goose bumps.
And the last but not least Gayatri joshi as Gita did quite a good job as well, i know she is not that famous of an actor as she is in modelling, considering the fact that this is her first movie she did well. Hope to see more of her in future.
From me 9.5/10 for this movie. Some might say that this movie is a bit too long, but for such a great story line and such and excellent acting i think you won't realise the length of the movie.