Henrik Langeland: Francis Meyers lidenskap

Dette er den nyeste romanen til Henrik Langeland, som fikk sitt gjennombrudd med romanen Wonderboy. Wonderboy var en fantastisk bok, hvor historien tok for seg seg norsk næringsliv. I ” Francis Meyers lidenskap” har han gått løs på akademika og litteraturverden, og resultatet er litt skuffende i forhold til Wonderboy.

Forfatteren skriver godt, og det er flere morsomheter som gjør romanen spennende. Blant det som trekker ned er lengden på boka. Boken er på ca 550 sider, og dette er unødvendig mye. Romanen kunne med enkelthet vært kortere. I tillegg oppbyggingen av spenningen i historien. Som kjent, så er spenningen varierende i en roman, hvor den opplever sine høyder, og likevel er det ofte en spenningsfyllt avslutning. I denne romanen er også spenningsmomentet varierende, men avslutning var ikke så spennende som man hadde forventet.

Alt i alt, en brukbar spennende bok.

Terningkast: 4/5

Contract

Yet another underworld action thriller by the master of such movies; Ram Gopal Varma. This time, the movie is treated like a B-grade movie, and reminds of Satya (1998) which turned out to be an unpredictable huge success. Contract has all right script and story, but after watching numerous movies with the same subject, it has to be really outstanding in order to leave a rememberable experience.

Rating: 4/3 of 6

Ugly aur Pagli

Funny romantic movie from the producers of Pyaar Ke Side/Effects.

Rating: 4 of 6

Next

All right time pass science fiction action thriller. Actually, a number of the scenes weren’t good enough executed digitally, and you could clearly see that they were added by use of CGI.

Rating: 4 of 6

The Wire – Season 1

It’s an interesting series about the drugs business in Baltimore, where the police has an investigation to catch the criminals. In this series, you’ll see the police’s point of view, and what actually is going on in terms of internal politics, corruption and other non-effective activities. At the same time you’ll also see the internal gang wars between the criminals. This kind of showing of both perspectives works well, and you’ll see that you don’t always have clearly good –and bad guys.

Rating: 5 of 6

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Boring romantic comedy about a pair and the girl has super natural power. I am actually fed up of many of these superhero kinds of movies these days, but unfortunately I still gave this one a chance. After watching it for around 40 minutes, the time was up to throw more time on this boring movie.

Rating: 2 of 6

Don

Now, I’ve watched this movie for around 7th or 8th time, and therefore I would like to use this opportunity to upgrade the rating from last time a commented it. The movie is simply brilliant executed, and particularly the climax. In addition, the background picture of the climax is amazing. And Boman Irani is simply rocking in his role!

Rating: 6 of 6

Kismat Konnection

A not so extra ordinary romantic movie, with almost a typical filmy romantic story.

Rating: 4 of 6

Mission Istaanbul

An action movie, which has some well-executed sequences, but the script disappoints and have several clichés. The story deals around a TV channel which has a name similar to Al-Jazeera, and uses multiple pictures of some characters which are too similar to Osama Bin Laden. Doesn’t it seem like a propaganda movie?

Some of action scenes are copied from The Matrix, and some of the scenes have used awful CGI effects. The movie is a time passing entertainment, but based on this kind of movies, some times you urge to scream; Bollywood stinks. But when we take into consideration the numerous great movies, you’ll hesitate saying so.

Rating: 4 of 6

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The Dark Knight

Superb and great action movie! The character of the Joker is played damn good by Heath Ledger. Hats off for the guy.

A lot of super hero movies tend to be predictable, but I can assure you that with this movie, you will not experience that. The movie takes unpredictable turns, both in terms of the story and character evolvement. By this, you will experience more of characters than only good action. The concept of exploring the characters works very good, and gives the movie a new dimension which results in a dazzling movie watching experience.

The background music is also superb, just like many other things in the movie.

Rating: 6 of 6