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Fursat (2023)
Stop it Ishan, You can't act.
When a film is being promoted with the biggest selling point being shot on iPhone, one actually lowers their expectations. But this was even worst than expected, Apple could've saved the money spent on making this film to make ads.
They hired Vishal Bharadwaj, this guy had made really good movies but now he seems like a shadow of his former self. Lead actor is the generic Ishan Khattar, who seems to be Bollywood's favorite whenever they want to make a movie on low budget.
In this movie Ishan has grown a beard to look mature but his acting is still amature. He is trying really hard to act but is looking cringe.
Ishan you are not a good actor, stop using your brother and father's influence to get roles, it is not working. And you lack the natural innocent charm of your brother that helped him mask his acting capabilities during his initial years.
Lead actress was just average. Rest of the characters were forgetful.
Story doesn't exist. As the main focus is on showing the video capabilities of iPhone.
Most of the budget is spent on shooting elaborate sequences.
Pathaan (2023)
Collection of potholes with a film hiding somewhere in between.
My first biggest mistake was attending First Day First Show of this movie. I thought I would enjoy the movie instead I was stuck with rabid SRK fan-clubs who were more interested in seeing their star on screen than watching the movie. I had so much difficulty understanding the dialogues and could not even hear the song as most of the audience were busy cheering, hooting and dancing.
So kindly bare with my frustration.
The movie has minimal plot at best. Country faces a danger only one man can save us. This story has been repeated countless number of times. Even the Tiger films had this story line.
So the story begins when the Indian Government revokes Article 370,from Jammu and Kashmir. A Pakistani general, contracts Jim, who leads "Outfit X", a private terrorist group.
Pathaan and his team are sent to Dubai to stop Outfit X's plans of attacking the President at a scientific conference, but realize that their plan actually kidnapping two scientists. Jim attacks the scientists's convoy in the middle of Dubai with a rocket launcher in his hand walking freely. No security has been placed by Dubai Government to ensure the safety of VIP people. Dubai Police is a mere spectator. RAW's chief sitting in India is somehow watching everything live and commanding Dubai Police. Jim and kidnaps scientists, Pathaan chases them but Jim manages to topple his car. With Pathaan trapped in his toppled car, But instead of shooting him there point blank, walks away and shoots at fuel leaking from his car, on boards a helicopter. Pathaan off-course manages to escape in just the right time.
Pathaan now chases him in his own helicopter throughout Dubai. With Dubai police and security forces still not concerned about the big incident that has occurred. He than uses a grappling gun hook to tie Jim's helicopter with his helicopter. Now they fly on a low altitude throughout the city with no Pole, wires, trees or anything getting in the way. They start fighting on a large carrier truck. The fight goes on, the truck driver never bothers to stop his truck to check why two men are fighting on his truck and why two helicopters are following him on such a low altitude. Jim now with his bare hands drags both helicopters and anchors them on the truck. And points at the approaching tunnel. He warns that scientist will lose his life if helicopters crash into the tunnel. Pathaan than asks his team to unhook Jim's helicopter and he goes away. While Pathaan could catch Jim after his car crashed but here he didn't.
Jim is revealed to be an Ex Top Raw agent who was captured along with his pregnant wife by terrorists. But the Terrorists ended up killing his pregnant wife because Indian Government refused to negotiate with them. This scene too was illogical no country abandons its citizens. Also the terrorists instead of killing Jim and keeping his wife as a slave, ended up killing his wife and leaving him.
In present day Pathaan learns about a codeword "Raktbeej" on dark net, So any terrorist organization planning something first posts about the codewords and discusses about it on dark net? Dark net was built for security and anonymity. Bollywood just heard about the latest buzzword and uses it to the way they like it.
An ISI agent Rubina transferred them money through her account. He follows her to Spain. But gets captured by Jim and his men. Jim offers him to join his team. He asks his men to kill him. As soon as he leaves Rubina turns on those men, and saves Pathaan. Rubina than informs Pathaan about Raktbeej being located in Russia.
Pathaan being a top Raw agent knows our relations with Pakistan and ISI. But trusts her completey. He never even plans a Plan B, in case she turns on him. Even Raw is easily convinced into allowing their agent to work with ISI agent, and the numerous cases of ISI honey-trapping Indian VIPs and insiders is easily ignored.
They go to Russia and plan to steal Raktbeej from World's most secure locker. The locker has to be opened with a lock and a key, they could have called with two keys but let's just follow the plot. Both are located on the opposite side of each other with locker building in their center.
The key and the lock are also secured inside a mini safe that requires fingerprints of two individuals. One is a middle aged man and the other one is an middle aged lady. So Rubina targets the middle aged man first. She goes into a bar where he is drinking, looks at him and they start talking and flirting. She casually puts the palm of his hand on her thigh and leaves. The poor guy didn't even move his hand while touching her tigh which would have ruined the fingerprints they needed. And he never even got suspicious about a completely stranger from another country flirted with him, made his hand touch her tigh and left. This guy didn't even have security who might have found her suspicious.
Pathaan next targets the lady. He first mixes sleeping pills in ber food. Than he casually climbs on the window of her high rise apartment and takes her fingerprints. Even the lady who has the responsibility of securing the world's most secure locker has no security. Anyone can mix temper with her food. And their are no security outside her house or even the CCTV cameras.
Next day they plan to steal the lock and key with the fingerprints. Rubina dresses up like that middle aged lady and looks nothing like her goes to her office steals the key and someone looks at her and identifies immediately that she is not that lady. She kicks him unconscious and flies away in a parachute. What was the point of that ridiculous make-up again?
Pathaan goes to the office of the guy, he than uses a prostitute whom he paid 20000 "Boobles" instead of Rubles to distract the poor guy and escapes in his parachute.
They than leave for locker in seperate planes hanging on a fake rope in the air. Which are being piloted by drunk, singers who are part time pilots. The rope that for caught on the planes in the mid air never gets untangled. Upon reaching the locker, Rubina's rope malfunctions so she has to cut her rope. But as she is about to cut her rope, her pilot offcourse has to drink some booze and he accidently shakes the plane which causes her to drop her knife. Pathaan than asks his pilot to take him near her. He cuts his rope and lands in her. And proceeds to cut her rope to land on the building. Maybe Pathaan practised about this mission on "Cut the Rope" game. Also two unauthorised planes were flying in the middle of Moscow and no one bothered. Just like Dubai.
Next we see the tilted camera trick to show both of them walking on a high rise buildings which looks completely fake. Lightening looks completely unrealistic and their hair fall straight down instead of falling on the front of their faces.
They than open the safe, Pathaan jumps into the safe like an excited baby, takes the Raktbeej. He starts climbing up, and hands over the Raktbeej to Rubina. But behold the twist, Rubina burns his rope and traps him into the locker and leaves. Anyone with a functional brain could've guessed this twist from the moment she was revealed as an ISI agent. Turns out she was working for Jim, and it was Jim's plan to use Pathaan for stealing the Raktbeej. Considering how stupid the people responsible for locker's security. I don't know why he needed Pathaan, he could've done it himself easily. What did Pathaan bring into the table.
Pathaan is than captured, The prisoners try to kill him. Tiger Salman. He gives him coffee and painkillers while fighting goons. Than a bomb explodes, train's whole coach gets destroyed but both of them remain unscathed. Two men attack them with Rail guns but they use dead humans as shield. The high velocity projectiles of rail guns can penetrate armours but can penetrate human body. All the scenes looked completely fake, you could clearly see everything was greenscreen. Both actors were on a high speed train, yet their faces and hair didn't face any winds.
A three year jump and they see Rubina again. Pathaan captures her. She tells him, that she didn't know what Raktbeej was and it is a smallpox virus modified by the Indian scientist captured earlier. The virus was more deadly and existing vaccines won't work. Again he trusts her. Without even thinking about wheather she is lying again or not.
Pathaan this time attacks Jim's facility and recovers one Raktbeej ball. Before this we get a flying sequence and a chase sequences and where they ride bikes on thin ice that looks like a 2 years old kid designed it on PS 2. They even take a few jumps on the ice and nothing happens.
Back at home scientists open that orb for making vaccines and find nothing but water. Jim comes on video call and says orbs had acidic gas if they want proof that look at their safety clothes they are getting holes.
After the acid, Raktbeej will released into the air. All scientists and Nandini get sick so they lock their lab. Now instead of taking samplea to make vaccine they decide to destroy everything with RDX.
Jim now in Afghanistan loads Raktbeej into a missile. Pathaan enters his place. Upon seening him, Jim starts countdown to his missile which like in old movies is a ridiculous 2+ minutes.
Jim and Pathaan than fly in a jetpack without any eye protection. Pathaan's team meanwhile easily disarms his missiles. They than learn that Raktbeej was not in the missile instead it is in the ducts of an airplane that is about to land in Delhi.
Our Raw chief after killing his source of new virus with RDX, now orders to shoot down a plane full of passengers. No consulting with PM or other ministers. Not even considers quarantining them. Jim than like old villains tells Pathaan that he can stop the virus by snatching the remote from Jim and pressing this button. He could have told them their was no option to save them, or could have destroyed the remote but no he gave away every bit of his plan. Pathaan than snatches the remote and saves our country.
Army of the Dead (2021)
Why do most Horror survival movies especially ones with Zombie have an annoying Kid.
From the start, when Scott insisted that they take help of his daughter I knew they would screw it up. And her first scene where she forces herself into the team was the confirmation that she will screw things up, killing most of them but will herself survive.
Why is that Geeta so important that in order to save them you end up killing so many people.
I don't know what was Zack Snyer up to while making this movie, I never really liked his work, but he redeemed himself with JL Snyder Cut. But seems like he is back to his pre JL self.
Also how was Vanderohe able to survive a nuclear bomb. Even if the safe saved him from the impact, the radiation should have killed him. And why was no one at the borders to ensure nothing has accidentally survived the blast.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Justice League we wanted and Justice League we deserved.
I was disappointed with Snyder's previous projects in DC like Man of Steel, Batman V Superman and was actually looking forward to what Joss Whedon would bring to DC after his stint at amazing Marvel's Avengers film. But even Joss disappointed me with his version of JL. Thank you DC fandom for this Snyder Cut Justice League campaign. I can't believe a movie that was so pathetic when released turned out to be the best DC film ever, yes this is better than Dark Knight and Wonder Woman. Yes this is the Justice League we wanted. Now I hope we can persuade WB into restoring the Snyderverse. We need to see the Darkseid taking of Justice League.
Chhapaak (2020)
Too bland and Dull
This movie proves that not all real life stories can be made into a good film. Bollywood right now is going through a very tough phase, audience have become less interested in their old school masala action movies and melodramatic romance movies. So they are trying different genres in order to entice audience into coming to cinemas. One genre that provided some success is Biography based movies. But this genre too has peaked. This movie is another attempt at Biography genre, based on the life events of Laxmi Aggarwal a real life acid attack victim. The premise and message were good. Meghna Gulzar fresh from success of Raazi as Director and Deepika at her career's peak as lead. But the finished product is nothing but a typical cliche Bollywood film. In order for commercial reasons they have modified the basic plot to fit their narrative. The prominent role of lawyer who helped Laxmi through her struggle, her role has been removed. It is all about Deepika, they have even modfied her facial makeup too quickly so audience can see the Star Deepika and not a victim. Meghna in my opinion has botched her job as Director which shows she is not really good at handling these subjects. Her only good movie was Talwar, Raazi although a commercial success was a very average movie. Deepika is just good at playing urban girl and Royal characters when a strong lead is there to hide her limitations. Her ability to lead a film solely is severely limited and it exposes her flaws as a very average actress.
Now how can we review this film without mentioning the JNU Stunt by the PR of this film to gain cheap publicity. After their Trailer came out without creating any hype that makers were hoping for and their promotions failing as well. They went on a route that in their mind would have surely generated most buzz around the film. Deepika one random night showed up at JNU protest and decided to support one side. And the negative buzz which was created immediately was whay makers were thinking to capitalize on. Like they say any type of publicity is good, but this was not the case as anyone who was remotely interested in this film was suddenly forced to support which side of politics they stand on. A film about acid attack victim suddenly became a movie about the Lead actress. A certain section came in the support of the film, the section which likes to give character certificates and labels to people who disagree with them. So anyone who didn't watch the film were suddenly branded supporters of Acid attackers, rabid right wingers, anti students and what not. A certain side of political party's became involved they started distributing free tickets of the movie among their cadre.
Silently another movie which released alongside Chhapaak gained momentum because of this negative propaganda. Tanhaji which remained out of this controversy, and was arguably the better film out of two emerged as winner.
Skulls and Roses (2019)
What a grand misstep by Amazon Prime Video India
Amazon Prime video in India was doing pretty good. Their originals like Breathe, Inside Edge, Mirzapur, Chacha Vidhayak hain Hamare, Pushpavalli, Shaitaan Haveli etc... were really good. Some were average like Four More Shots, Vella Raja, Laakhon mein Ek, Made in Heaven, Love Me Hate Me etc...
But this time they really took a bad misstep with Skulls and Roses. Raghu and Rajiv after Roadies are still in their Roadies personna. They have combined the worst of Splitsvilla and worst of Roadies to create this horrendous series. All contestents are models and small time actors who are handpicked by Raghu-Rajiv. They act like innocent contestants who are genuinely surprised and angry at a particular situation. But their limited acting ability gives it away. The show is fully scripted where most raunchy tasks of Splitsvilla are combined with third rate stunts of Roadies and outcome here is already fixed.
I don't know what content executives at Amazon were thinking while finalizing this show. Overall very disappointed.
Sacred Games (2018)
If first season was Gangs of Wasseypur, second season is Bombay Velvet.
First season was great and hyped me up for second season. Oh and what an utter disappointment it turned out to be.
Although second season began on a high node with Pankaj Tripathi's Baba and Gaitonde's history. But quickly they took an absurd turn with utterly no logic. A Hindu Baba in Kenya wants to bring Satyug. Than he is shown to be the mastermind behind USA school shootings, numerous Terrorist attacks and he even funds Pakistan's Terrorist Shahid Khan to attack India. Out of nowhere this Baba developed a Kaalgranth which has a blueprint for Nuclear Bomb. Indian police and intelligence are shown as clueless people who can't even detect nuclear activity in Mumbai. The bomb is operated using a tablet with Android lockscreen like patterns. And the patterns in book doesn't have a grid while the tablet does have a grid but still will manage to save Mumbai in next season. The writer Varun Grover who was accused in #MeToo movement and co-director Anurag Kashyap who is regularly trolled for his illogical arguments have tried their best to appease certain section of society. They have even incorporated an outof context mob lynching scene which has no connection with the story at all, just to prove their point and appeasement.
Gullak (2019)
TVF has done it again, Brilliant series.
TVF is on a roll, after critically acclaimed Kota Factory they have come up with another series that is brilliant. Gullak is such a simple story about everyday life of a middle class family. Their fights, struggles, love etc... These characters are so real, you might even relate with them. Every episode is a "kissa" like the series told in the beginning not a "kahani". There is not Sacred Games or Mirzapur, but a peek into everyday life of a family with a humorous touch. I will really recommend everyone to watch this series.
Errementari (2017)
Really enjoyed it. Dark fantasy not a horror mind you.
This movie came in my Netflix recommendations, the plot of a blacksmith vs devil sounded really odd. But I decided to give it a go, I was exciting a horror movie where some devil is killing people and a blacksmith stops him. But it was a dark fantasy based on an old tale. About a Blacksmith who makes a pact with devil, and captures him to avoid trading his soul. All in all, I enjoyed it a lot.
Leila (2019)
Deepa Mehta at her career worst.
Netflix makes really great original shows internationally. They have been mediocre at Best in India. Except for Sacred Games all other shows have been below average. Leila is no different, they have collaborated with an art film director to make a dystopian web series. Concept wise it sounded interesting, but the execution was a mess. Deepa Mehta fails miserably as Director and Writer. The casting is a mess as well, Huma with her limited acting skills was lacking emotions to portray the lead character, Siddharth was completely lost. Deepa wanted to create an Indian version of Handmaid's Tale, in doing so she made a poor man's version. Even the VFX looked so cheap, whereas Netflix is known for using great VFX. Aryavart is portrayed as might and powerful and yet they use cheap Omni cars for kidnapping. This will go down as Deepa Mehta's Humshakals. This could have been a great parody of Handmaid's Tale. So I would suggest, better watch the Original which is miles better than this.
Kalank (2019)
Boring film by one and only Karan Johar
So the torchbearer of Nepotism is back. This time with a boring and pretentious movie. Starring mostly starkids. We have overacting gareebo ka Govinda Varun Dhawan son of David Dhawan, most pretentious actress in Bollywood Alia Bhatt daughter of Khujli master Mahesh Bhatt. Overacting ki dukan Sonakshi Sinha, daughter of Shatrughn Sinha. Just decent Aditya Roy Kapoor brother of Siddharth Roy Kapoor. And we also have way past hua prime Sanjay Dutt son of Sunil Dutt. And amid all the Nepotism we have Madhuri Dixit. The story also has no real sense of what is happening. Most of the film is filled with visuals and characters in good looking costumes. Which is the only place where filmmakers have decided to spend most of their budgets. A total avoid of a film.
Kedarnath (2018)
Typical Bollywood movie which makes no sense.
A natural calamity happened in India. So Bollywood decided to cash on that subject. They could have made a decent if not great disaster movie. But instead Bollywood being typical Bollywood forcefully inserted a inter faith love story. So girl falls for a poor guy from different religion. Her parents disagree, they try to marry her off to a guy from their own religion. Girl tries to commit suicide and prays for disaster to happen. Somehow God listens to her prayers. And decides to kill thousands of people, destroy the whole place. Boy somehow rescues the girl and her evil father as well. In the end, he earns the respect of her father and gets killed after he sends a stranger to a rescue helicopter instead of boarding it himself. Great logic by Abhishek Kapoor and his team.
Creed II (2018)
Can we switch to Drago from Creed in the next movie.
Rocky films are based on simple formula. Underdog protagonist, his struggle, he prepares for a fight and the big fight. Here the main guy we are supposed to be rooting for is an emotionless guy who underestimates everyone. He even ignores Rocky's advice. On the other hand we have Viktor, a brute of a man who is son of Ivan Drago. He wants to earn respect for his father and follows his every advice. They face each other. We see how Viktor trains hard and struggles to make living after his father lost to Rocky. On the other hand Creed does a few simple training routines and shoots for interviews. Creed even pushed the old man Ivan on a slight verbal teasing. During the fight Drago walks over Creed, manages to break his ribs, Creed barely manages to save his title because of a disqualification. Next Rocky comes in, rematch moves to Russia. Rocky trains him in a rural facility. And our man Creed manages to beat Viktor witha broken freakin' Rib.
And if you think this came as predictable, wait until you see the filler scenes where characters are busy talking about everything. Training and actual fights have been sidelined. While in Rocky 4 I was rooting for Rocky and Apollo. Here I was rooting for Viktor Drago. Both Dragos came off as sympathetic underdogs. And Rocky series is all about underdog story. Here Creed has failed miserably. I would be happy to see a Drago spinoff, since this Creed is not going anywhere.
Captain Marvel (2019)
First bad film from Disney Marvel. As bad as the Fantastic Four Reboot.
I have been a Marvel film fan since their early days. I've enjoyed most of the films. Even the early movies like Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Punisher and Daredevil films. Disney and Marvel have done a tremendous job of creating a cinematic universe out of Marvel universe. They've truely made Superhero films mainstream. But Captain Marvel is a big misfire from the dependable combo. Captain Marvel is not really a great comic book character to begin with. She is a stale and boring in comics. Now Disney have decided to cast Brie Larson as Captain Marvel. Brie is a decent actress, but this role required an exceptional talent to improve the stake character from comics. Imagine a lead like Robert Downey Jr, how he improved the character of Tony Stark from comics. Brie on the other hand has played that she bland character in comics. Also Captain Marvel is so over powered that Marvel now has a Superman problem. Thanos doesn't look like a threat anymore, Captain Marvel alone can easily fight and defeat him. The story in this movie has been a mess. On the top of that they revealed the reason behind Fury wearing eye patch. And they completely ruined it as well. It could have remained an unsolved mistery but they ruined it with a joke.
As a result I want to conclude that this movie is as bad and boring as Fantastic Four Reboot. All Marvel fans like me are gonna watch it irrespective of that. But my bigger worry is that Avengers Endgame might get spoiled now that Captain Marvel will join or I should say lead the Avengers. The danger that Thanos posted felt real because we had heroes like Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Panther, Spider Man, Loki, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Ant Man etc... These guys had weaknesses and they were no match for Thanos. Captain Marvel is super powerful, she has no weakness. She will save Tony, destroy Thanos, and somehow manage to restore everyone. While sidelining the original cast members.
Kundali Bhagya (2017)
This is the headache I have to bear everyday.
My wife is a big fan of this show. As a result I get forced to watch this serial. I don't know what's there to like in this. There are bunch of guys and girls and a villain. Villain keeps planning and plotting. The the lead guys somehow foils his plans. He always manages to escape without getting caught. This is like Road Runner show dumbed down. I hope it goes off air.
A Quiet Place (2018)
Nothing but over-hyped film that takes itself too seriously.
This was nothing like the critics were saying. The basic plot is that only few humans are left after an alien force invasion. These creatures just spot you by sound.
Now here comes the plot holes.
If they can't hear you near waterfall or places near constant loud noise. Why not set up a base near waterfall. Or just play loud noises around your house.
Next, what do you do when an aliens who hunt by sound are looking for you. You get pregnant, because a contently crying baby is much more important and yes it also makes the situation more dramatic.
So how do you live in a house where making sound means certain death. You hang toys in rooms, oh and don't forget to hang frames on walls, so you can make sure you have given those creatures enough chances of returning again and again.
So they figured that these creatures are blind, why not lure them to traps. Produce a loud sound near a pool filled with acid. Surprisingly nobody bothered to tackle these creatures by exploiting this ability.
Vella Raja (2018)
Had the potential to be good but still didn't live up to the mark
This series started with a bang. But that was the only high point of the series. After that series went downhill. Too many characters were introduced with different plotlines. By the time it reached the end, most of the characters except the lead antagonist we're not developed enough. Some of the point where never explained. Like who was the Hitman and what was he doing. The mysterious baba also remained mystery. Cliffhanger ending didn't do any favors either.
Coco (2017)
Pixar is back with a bang
This has to one of the best Pixar movies ever. Lately Pixar didn't have the best releases with an almost forgotten The Good Dinosaur ,lazy sequals of Cars which no one wanted. And a total abomination called Inside Out. Coco has everything you expect from a Pixar film, great animation, excellent story full of emotions that will make you cry and smile. Great voice acting and a good soundtrack. And yes it manages to put a smile on your face as you the theater.
Rampage (2018)
Ton of fun, exactly what was expected from it.
The movie was great. Comedy, action everything was spot on. Yeah this is not a pretentious Oscar winning like Moonlight. Yeah everything didn't make any sense. But it was ton of fun. Some people nowadays can't enjoy fun mindless movies. And the ending I have to say was perfect.
Ghoul (2018)
Boring Political Propaganda
After decent start in India with Love Per Square Feet, List Stories, followed by brilliant Sacred Games. Netflix India have gone way too low with Ghoul. It was advertised as a Horror but once you start watching this dumpster fire equivalent of a series. You will realize that it is a political Propaganda against India, Government of India, Hindus as well. The film portrays India as a dictatorship like most Arab Countries. All Hindus are portrayed as bad and evil. One particular female who is a negative character is named "Laxmi" after the Indian Goddess of wealth and prosperity. All good guys are Muslims, be it the father of the lead character, the lead herself, the innocent tea vendor etc... There is not one scene where the makers have not tried to defame Hindus as evil, un trustworthy and plain stupid. Thanks to the makers association with Anurag Kashyap who openly is known to hate current regime and is known for Hinduphobic comments on his social media. The horror in this horror series takes a back seat. The plot twist can be clearly guessed from the first interaction of villian and our lead. Special effects are poor and dark environment is used to hide it but still shows as a low budget B-Flick made by Asylum.
Extinction (2018)
Pathetic film where you start rooting for Invaders
I was pretty excited to see this film after watching the trailer. But all the excitement turned sour after watching this pathetic excuse of a film.
Before writing any further, I want to clarify that I love Sci Fi films and thrillers. I am not a critic type fan who watches art movies, I love popcorn flicks.
So this film started on the familiar note, aliens are coming. A guy gets those visions, but no one believes him. Alien invasion happens, they start wiping everything. Now our main characters needs to survive. The main characters here are lacking any chemistry between them. And those awfully annoying kids always get into trouble. They won't run, or keep quiet. They will get into danger and start crying. They actually never stopped crying. Then we got to a brilliant twist in the middle of a film. The twist although really interesting and unique, is also the biggest downfall. Suddenly we get to know these these main characters are nothing but robots. The Invaders are humans who want their planet back. It is revealed that robots were good, but humans despised them. They wanted to turn these robots off, so robots rebelled and humans fled to Mars. Suddenly you start rooting for the Invaders over these robots. Also those annoying kids start to feel more annoying.
This movie could have been executed much differently, which would have made it better. Also the budget for this film was pretty small. All the CGI looked fake. Most of the city destruction feels like a canvas painting. And the last train scene looked fake.
Mickey Virus (2013)
One of the better thrillers from Bollywood
I am a huge fan of thriller movies but I was always disappointed by the lack of quality thrillers from Bollywood. Most of the Bollywood films are Rom-coms & over the top action. This movies comes as a surprise, as one of the first cyberpunk thriller movie from Bollywood. The premise is decent, but don't expect to see real world hacking, just a few random terminal sessions and swoosh banking sites hacked, computers cracked etc.. This movie is shot in Delhi & the local slangs are spot on. Manish Paul is surprisingly good in his first venture, he carries role surprisingly well. Director has done a decent job too. Overall a Good film.
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Do you have any idea what you really are making? Twilight Romance or Action, adventure film
Saw an early preview. After watching this I think even 3rd one was way better then this. Actually is a Twilight like romance film about Peter Parker. Spider-Man is just there for a little time to attract more viewers. I went for a action adventure film instead I got a love story. Previously I thought Ghost Rider 2 was worst film this year now its Amazing Lame Spider Man. This really happens when you hire a director whose only film is a low budget Romance film. This movie just made me sick, how can you even fool audience by giving a Romance film packaged as an action film. Whatever 3D was used was decent but, climax with Lizard was not anything special. CGI looks very fake and cheesy. The effects in this film are only comparable to first Spider-Man, second and third was way beyond this league. I don't know who was the master mind to green light this script. Because this will not attract the core Spidey fans, but if the studio wanted to attract the Twilight audience they might be successful. To conclude I hope this is the end of Spider-Man and its rights go back to Marvel and Disney so we can see Real Spider Man in near future.
Puss in Boots (2011)
Watch it!!, If you Dare
The ever cool legendary Puss in Boots is back with its own movie. The movie has a great storyline which follows Puss in Boots origins before he met Shrek, how he got his name and his attire Boots, hat and sword. Then Puss in Boots team up with Kitty Softpaws and Humpty Dumpty in a quest for magic beans. The voicing is great Antonio Banderas with is Spanish accent is as always great as lead voice of Puss in Boots, Salma Hayek as Kitty Softpaws and Zach Galifianakis as Humpty Dumpty were also great. The storyline is awesome with lot of emotion, comedy gags, Puss in Boots's one liners, character development and lots of twists and turns. Animation is ever awesome bringing characters to life. To sum it up I enjoyed it more then recent Shrek 3 and 4. Its in the same league as Shrek 2 which in my opinion was best of franchise. Do watch it for a roller coaster ride. You won't be disappointed.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Excellent, Mindless action movie
I saw this movie in 3D despite negative comments by critics. I watched it because I really like last two movies of the franchise. And let me tell you that I didn't made a mistake. It was the most incredible movie I have seen so far. Its a brilliant treat for the eyes to see the mind blowing special effects, 3D is the icing on the cake. But bear in mind just keep your logical, critic mind at home. The plot is really thin and acting is average but this is not a Citizen Kane. The action is like never seen before. Also I am a big fan of Megan Fox therefore I was disappointed because of her absence. Also Rosie's acting is really robotic. But she fulfills her purpose in the movie for providing the much required eye-candy. On the whole if you are really a fan of action and special effects I bet you won't be disappointed.