Kites

Boring movie with Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori (Mexican actress and model) as the lead pair. The movie tells a love story, which has been told several times earlier. This time, the execution is somehow different; the movie is made in US and is also meant towards Western public by making two version of movie, one for the Indian and desi market, and the second for the Western market. The execution is professionally done, but as many similar love stories, the story has lots of clichés and holes. Therefore, it had nothing particularly to offer. 

Rating: 3 of 6

Chase

This is a B- or C-grade movie, which means that not many people watch such movies. After working at a movie shop several years, I am used to watch this kind of crap as well. So after a break for over a year without watching such crap, it’s good to watch it again to understand how well average movies actually are.

This movie had a horrible beginning, and I was convinced that this was a perfect candidate for rating 1. However, the movie got better and better, so I give it rating 3.

The story deals around a guy who is chased by police. Why? Watch it! The makers have used several techniques to make it cool, but the treatment always reminds you that this movie is a B –or C grade.

Rating: 3 of 6

Sex and the city – Sex og singelliv

Brain dead entertainment. 40 years old women who behave like chicks, so this concept is definitely not meant for me. However, the execution of the movie in terms of production values was good, so this improves the rating. Without this, the movie has been disastrous boring.

Rating: 3/4 of 6

Tropa De Elite

Relatively all right Brasilian action movie. I actually had higher expectations for this one..

Rating: 3/4

Mammoth / Mammut

All right drama, made by Lukas Moodysson who has also made Lilya 4-Ever and Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love). I found this movie somehow depressing, and there aren’t every day you are ready to watch such kind of movies. Or probably I don’t like such movies anymore..?

Rating: 3 of 6

Revolutionary Road

A little bit boring drama. The movie has actually received good reviews, but for me the story was irrelevant which is about a relationship which is on its way to be broken.

Rating: 3 of 6

Rottenetter

Time pass Norwegian movie about an up-and-coming finance/stock broker. The movie tries to describe the finance business set in Stavanger and probably inspired by the movie Wall Street. Unfortunately, the script is too weak, and it focuses too much on the drama element (as many other Norwegian movies) which creates boredom.

Rating: 3 of 6

Gautam Malkani: Londonstaner / Londonstani

This is the debut book written by Gautam Malkani, who is journalist for the news paper The Financial Times. The novel deals around the Indian / Pakistani (also known as desi) circles in London, and particularly Hounslow. There are a great many descriptions and thoughts of the characters, but the story doesn’t evolve that fast. In addition, the language in the novel is mixture of English and Punjabi, which wonder me how non-Punjabi-speaking people can understand all of what is written there. I think this can be irritating.

The novel stake out some good points and let us question ourselves about the way we behave and think. In addition, also some interesting philosophies about desi social behavior and compared to economics theories.

The book is divided into 3 parts, and the last part is most interesting. The ending provides an interesting twist, but it wasn’t that interesting either that the novel is worth to be read all over again.

Rating: 3 of 6

24 – Redemption

This is a TV movie based on the popular TV series 24. It tells the story between season 6 and season 7, where the main character Jack Bauer is in Africa and the American authorities are looking for him. The movie isn’t that well executed which makes it uninspiring. Compared to the seasons which tend to have high tempo, this movie takes time to build up which was unexpected and created some boredom.

The DVD included a sneak preview of season 7, and this season seems promising.

Rating: 3 of 6

Resident Evil: Extinction

This is simply a milk cow project from the makers of the movie franchise. The story evolves a little bit compared to previous movies, but the overall concept is to kill most died humans as possible, which the DVD cover tells too. The cool concept of the first movie where lasers cut humans into pieces is again repeated, which indicates lack of creativity in this movie.

Anyhow, the movie has some thrilling moments in the beginning.

Rating: 3 of 6

Chance Pe Dance

All right musical movie about a guy who struggles to get launched in a Bollywood movie. Actually, the trailers were funnier than the movie itself. The movie is loosely based on Shahid Kapoor’s experiences when he tried to enter Bollywood. The movie is made by Ken Ghosh, who has made better movies earlier (Ishq Vishk and Fida).

Rating: 4/3 of 6

Hellboy

All right ant time pass movie action drama based on a comic series. I bought it several years ago, and didn’t have myself motivated to see it until now.

Rating: 4/3 of 6

Paa

Relatively uninspiring movie which is based on a genetic condition known as Progeria and is particularly about a father-son relationship. It’s about a 12 year old boy with Progeria, who is mentally normal but looks like 5 times older. And he is expected to live till he is 13 or 14 year old because of his illness. The boy is portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan, and his father is Abhishek Bachchan.

The movie has gained lots of success, both commercially and by critiques. For me, the movie is pretty much uninspiring with some humour and good climax.

Rating: 3 of 6

Robert Wilson: De skjulte morderne / The Hidden Assassins

All right novel. Robert Wilson has written several interesting novels, but I’m disappointed with this one. Again, the story deals around terrorism and Muslims are off course involved in some kind. Do authors lack creativity that most off them have to write at least one such novel?

In addition, the first 250 pages are too boring with almost no story evolvement. I think that I rather will like to give chance other authors. Probably enough of this author for some years now.

Rating: 4/3 of 6

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Mordet på Jesse James av den feige Robert Ford

Boring Western drama movie, based on a novel with same name. The movie is well made and has good cinematography. But the story in itself is very uninspiring.

Rating: 3/2 of 6

Tum Mile

Tum Mile is the latest movie from Vishesh Films, which has given several successful movies with Emran Hashmi. They are also known for good music of their movies. But this time, neither was the movie that inspiring, and neither the music. This movie is also marketed as India’s first catastrophe movie, but the low budget movie couldn’t offer exciting dramatic sequences either. Just a time pass movie, which can easily be replaced by another movies.

Rating: 3 of 6

London Dreams

All right musical drama. It has couple of nice songs, but otherwise the music is uninspiring. The movie isn’t that inspiring either. The final song in the ending was nice executed.

The director, Vipul Shah, has made several blockbusters which I liked, i.e. Waqt: The Race Against Time and Namastey London, and this is the only movie which I didn’t like as much as the mentioned.

Rating: 3 of 6

Ac!d Factory

Boring thriller. The story is actually all right, but due to the loose script, the movie will give a boring experience. The movie starts with that a group of people wake up and experience that have a kind of amnesia in an acid factory. The rest is about to find out whom they are, and why they are there. The climax is just average executed.

Rating: 2/3 of 6

Burn After Reading

Coen brothers have given several good movies, but this time I didn’t like it that much. It is supposed to be dark comedy, but it wasn’t that funny either. Some moments were funny, but otherwise, it was a boring experience.

Rating: 3/2 of 6

Blue

A movie which desperately tries to be cool, but doesn’t achieve a position at all. The whole experience is just irritating tragic. The script is loose, and story isn’t engaging at all. It all seems like inspired by the American movie “Into the blue”, where the story dealt around finding some treasures in the ocean.

The movie is meant to be the most Bollywood expensive till date. I would in the same breath also regard this one as the largest waste of money till date.

Rating: 2/3 of 6