Sunday, 31 December 2006

Lucky # Slevin

Cool movie loaded with action, suspence and drama. Josh Hartnet has slowly improved his image in this movie and Sin City, after the great disaster in Pearl Harbour for some years ago. Bruce Willis is playing a role which fits him well, and is reminding of the role from Last Man Standing.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Saturday, 30 December 2006

Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna

Lots of people didn't like Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (KANK). Many didn't liked the topic of the movie, and where expecting a traditional Johar/Chopra romantic movie avec Shah Rukh Khan. For those people, KANK was a great disappointment. The movie is about loose marriage relationships and unfaithfulness. This is actually what is happening in today’s world, and you cannot deny it by closing your eyes or ears. So what if a movie deals with this topic with top stars from Bollywood..?

The maker has tried to justify the topic by setting the storyline in US, and probably indirectly arguing that this is more relevant for foreigner desis. Fair enough. But still, I liked the different topic, the production which off course included Johar/Chopra formulas and performances of the actors.

Rating: 5 of 6

Deja Vu

Déjà Vu is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer who has produced lots of action blockbusters (Pirates of the Caribbean, National Treasure, Bad Boys 1+2, The Rock +++), and is directed by Tony Scot (Spy Game and Man on Fire). Based on this I had lots of expectations to Déjà Vu, which further increased when a friend recommended it strongly. And you know what; the movie is according to the expectations! It had cool story line, cool cinematography and editing. The first 30 minutes of movie can be expressed as slow, but as the speed picks afterwards, the first 30 minutes had some things, which you have forgotten which actually are nice details. The end was somehow cliché based, but still it was really good entertainment.

Rating: 5 of 6

Thursday, 28 December 2006

Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan

Borat is an ironic comedy about people from Kazakhstan or other earlier Soviet countries. It was surprising funny, and included both simple and vulgar humour.

For those of you who have watched the movie, I will recommend to visit the website of the movie, and look at the layout of the page.
http://www.borat.tv/

Rating: 5 of 6

Wednesday, 27 December 2006

Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda is an interesting and thoughtful movie about the civil war in Rwanda in 1994. The story is about when the super powers in the West, like US, UK, Germany, France ++, closed their eyes in front of cruel actions in the civil war.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Monday, 25 December 2006

Being Cyrus

Saif Ali Khan simply rocks in this movie. He has proven his acting skills in Salaam Namaste and especially Omkara, and continues in this movie.

The movie is about Cyrus, played by Saif Ali Khan, who moves into the life of Sethna family. From there begins a psychological journey where we get known to Sethna family and Cyrus, and people are not obviously what seem to be in their first impression.

Rating: 5 of 6

The Unsaid

I actually rented this movie in the summer of 2002, but I was so tired that I slept during the first 10 minutes of the movie, so I had to hand it back without watching it. Later I found a good deal of the DVD for almost two years ago and bought it. But I did not have motivation to watch it before now.

The movie is a thriller about a psychologist father who looses his son who committed suicide. So the father takes the blame for it, and now he founds a boy who maybe has similar mental problems…

I liked the movie, and it is made by techniques which were popular in the end of 90’s/beginning of 2000’.

Rating: 4/5 of 6

Sunday, 24 December 2006

Crash

Crash is about racism in today's US. The country is known for being a melt dig with people from lots of different countries, but still there exist racism in the form of day to day activities, i.e. at job, at supermarket, at café etc. The film tells how common people deals with it, and how the affected react to this.

I expected that this film would be similar to Traffic, despite the fact these have different topics. However, the movie was good, but too slow sometimes.

Rating: 4/5 of 6.

Saturday, 23 December 2006

Lage Raho Munna Bhai

After waiting for so long time after the release of this movie, I finally watched it. Lage Raho Munnabhai uses fresh comedy, which also was used in Munna Bhai MBBS. The characters are the same, and the movie has the same charm as the previous one. Two thumbs up!

Rating: 5/6 of 6

Pusher

Good movie! Actually it is among first Danish action movies, which sat the standard for the wave of Danish action movies later.
Rating: 5 of 6