Black & White

Just an all right average movie. Again, the topic is about terrorists. This time, we meet two guys who have completely different thoughts about solving the Muslim-Hindu conflicts in India.

Rating: 4/3 of 6

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Rome - Season 1

Good series. Actually, I didn’t like the first 4-5 episodes, because they went too slowly. It seemed like that Romans didn’t had much to do than be engaged in uninhibited sexual activities or war and violence! All these things in the name of politics. But after these episodes, the series picked up its speed and got better in terms of story evolvement.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Mørkets Vendekrets / Tropic of Night

Disappointing novel. The novel is a thriller based on African magic, but out of around 570 pages, the first 400 were too boring and the story evolved too slowly. After then, it picked somehow, but then it slowed down again.

Rating: 3 of 6

KanonBall / DodgeBall

Funny movie. Unfortunately, I didn’t found so much creativity in the work from the script department so it didn’t have so high rating from me. But still a good entertainer.

Rating: 4 of 6

Corporate

Interesting movie from the award-winning director, Madhur Bhandarkar, who gave us the brilliant Page 3 before this one. He has used some of the same story telling style as in Page 3, so it is a little minus seen from a creativity point of view. Later, he gave us Traffic Signal which wasn’t that good.

The story deals around the business/corporate world, where we find two rival companies, and what kind of sly methods they use to make profits. The story is actually inspired from PepsiCo and The Coca-Cola Company, where both of them are rivals in their business, and have been in the spotlight for lawsuits and use of dubious business practices.

Rating: 5 of 6

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Hum Tum

Nice and funny romantic drama movie. This was one of those movies which helped Saif Ali Khan to re-establish himself in Bollywood after several flops. Actually, his role was intended for Vivek Oberoi, but he was too busy in those days so he indirectly rejected it. Therefore, the makers had to hire Saif, which seemed out to be a good choice and where he proved himself. At the same time, Vivek worked in several movies which didn’t worked at the box-office, so he lost some of his star value.

Rating: 5 of 6

Jeanne D'Arc / The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Good movie about the legendary Jeanne of Arc who lived in France in 1400-century, and was engaged in the war between France and England. There were good acting performances by most of the actors, and especially Dustin Hoffman, who suited very well in his role. Furthermore, the story was told very well.

I’ve had this movie since 2002 or something, but forgot and thought about it during an episode of Wire in the Blood – Season 2, where it was an episode which dealt around Jeanne D’Arc. The action sequences in the movie were probably good, when it came in 1999, but not so inspiring today after watching several war movies with good action.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Aberdeen

Aberdeen is a Norwegian-Scottish movie, where the makers are mainly Norwegians with mostly Scottish actors. Therefore, I am introducing a new self-made expression for Scottish film industry, Scollywood.

The story is about a woman, Kaisa, who are experiencing success in her career in London. Suddenly, she got a call from her mother in Aberdeen to bring her alcoholic father from Oslo to Aberdeen. During her trip to Oslo and back to Aberdeen is an interesting drama which this movie is about.

The movie is directed by Hans Petter Moland, who has also given us the beautiful Norwegian movie “The Beautiful Country”.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Zinda

When this movie came some years ago, I was amazed by its story and script and the creativity behind it. In addition, it got phenomenal critics as well. Not so long afterwards, I was telling a friend about this film and the story, and he said the story reminded him of a Korean film called Oldboy (the third movie in the series of Oldboy was Lady Vengeance). When we got into further details, we found out that this one was actually a copy of Oldboy. This isn’t actually surprising, because the maker of Zinda, Sanjay Gupta, is actually known for remaking foreign movies.

The story is about a guy who suddenly is locked up for 14 years in a dark and dingy room without telling any reason for this. After 14 years, he suddenly is released and then he tries to find out why he was locked up. I think it was a very creative story, and just imagine adding this story with perfect mixture of great cinematography, visuals, background music to give you optimal thriller experience. The acting performances were also good. With this movie, John Abraham showed that he also can act, and isn’t just another model who has succeeded in Bollywood with proper acting skills.

Below, you’ll find a nice song/scene from the movie.

Rating: 5 of 6

Rocky Balboa

I have never been fan of either Rocky –and Rambo-movies and Sylvester Stallone, so therefore I wasn’t so excited for this movie. But I heard rumours that this film was good, so I gave it a chance. It turned out to be well executed, but nothing more than an average entertainer for me. The story is about Rocky who tries his hands on boxing for almost last time in an age where mostly boxers pension themselves.

Rating: 4/3 of 6