Sunday, October 28, 2007

SPEED - Remake of Cellular, attempted badly

Speed - Bollywood movie by Vickram Bhatt. Star cast include Sanjay suri, Urmila, zyed, aftab. Already the remake of hollywood movie "cellular" has come in tamil as Vegam (sucks). Now, they did it in hindi also. But why they are interested in spoiling the masterpieces.

Speed first half is somewhat acceptable, but second half is dragging. A secret agents wife is kidnapped and they demand him to kill the Prime minister. In the mean time, the kidnapped urmila, tried to call someone and ended up with zyed. How zyed tracks her and saves her and PM is the rest.

Cellular was so thrilling and the core concept was maintained through out the movie. But here, they added few toppings which is not good for the movie. Especially, the love story which is parallely happening in the movie between zyed and tanushree has killed the thrill.

Better to watch "CELLULAR", atleast in dvd than this movie. If you have no way to watch english movie, then go for the SPEED.

Friday, October 26, 2007

The Marine - Why this name?

The Marine - hollywood movie by John bonito. This movie has John Cena, Robert patrick and Kelly carlson in the lead. As the name sounds, this movie is not about marine. The first 5 minutes of the movie shows a Marine rescue operation and after that, its all something else. Then why this name - they only have to explain.

John Cena is a marine guy who is discharged from service for disobeying orders in order to save his friends life. So, he goes back to normal life. But Cena's wife is kidnapped by diamond thieves for no reason (probably for cena to rescue). So, the movie goes with cena going behind them for saving his wife.

John cena looks like well built robot. His body building is good, but no reactions in his face. The movie holds good for wrestling, especially cena fans. But expectation is not met. So, if you planned to watch this movie, go with zero expectation.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Dynamite Warrior - Diwali Greetings

Dynamite warrior - a martial arts movie from chalem wongpim. The movie has Dan chupong and Leo Putt in it. The core concept is no different from a tamil movie. A young boy watched his parents gets murdered. He is desperate to take revenge. He has seen a mark on the murderer's body, based on which he searches for that killer. The only twist is, two people having the same mark.

Its the story from 1900's. A wealthy land lord wants to sell tractors and so he pays some mercenaries to go and steal rural villagers cattle, by which they will be forced to buy tractors. And there comes our Dynamite Warrior who spoils this idea. In the process of searching the people who killed his parents, he also tries to fight against the land lord.

He uses rockets as weapon. He also rides on rockets that he powers from his fingers shooting some spark on it. Whenever he fires rockets, it reminds me more of diwali celebrations only. The stunts are not worth for a martial arts movie. The movie doesnt worth for its name.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Athidhi - Mahesh babu

Athidhi - Telugu movie by surender reddy. A heavy masala movie from mahesh babu. The audience who knows mahesh babu from movies Okadu and Pokkiri, this movie is quite different. This is a normal story outline, where there is comedy, action etc.

The story is about a orphan boy who finds shelter in Amrita's house. But by mistake, he is punished for the murder of amrita's parents. After coming out from jail, he wants to help amrita and also to find the actual murderer. There is nothing much from the story line, but the way the gangster is depicted is good. It is the thrilling part of the movie.

Mahesh babu new looks appealing well. Music is not that worth for this movie. Its a bit lengthy movie, otherwise can be watched once.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The Invasion - Do not fall asleep.

The Invasion - hollywood movie by Oliver Hirshbiegel. This is a good science thriller movie. There is lot of alien movies which is already come, but this one is quite different. Here they dont show the alien, but its the bacteria which does the horrible things and the movie based on it is well crafted.

Nicole Kidman is a psychiatrist who finds out, that a bacteria which becomes catalysed during sleep and turns the human being in to emotionless humans. They also try to infect others. In the process of trying to analyse this with her boyfriend daniel crieg, nicole gets affected by the bacteria. Now to save her son, she should not sleep until she finds a cure.

This is a nice concept and also shaped well in the movie. This movie can be watched once, not bad.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Brutal - yes it is

Brutal - hollywood movie by Ethan Wiley. Its another horror / thriller movie in the series of hostel, saw etc. But dont ever compare this movie with those masterpieces. This movie shows some brutalised murders, but doesnt initiate that "whats next" feeling while watching the movie. Sarah Thompson did her role well and also looks good.

Sarah thompson, sheriff's deputy, investigates a series of murders. Soon she finds out a serial killer is behind this. She tries lot of ways to find out the clue, but nothing extra ordinary. This is seen in lot of movies already. Finally she finds out the killer. The killer uses mathematical expression to select girls for murdering them.

Dont expect too much logic and dont compare with other horror movies. In that case, this movie can be watched once.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

The other Side - Low budget thriller

The other side - hollywood movie by Gregg Bishop. For a low budget horror / thriller category, this is a good movie.

After death, Nathan Mobley escapes from Hell to find the person who killed him. There are few others who also escaped from hell. There is another set of people who are called "Reapers" are sent to take these people back to hell.

First half of the movie goes with the action sequences between persons escaped from hell and reapers. Second half deals with the investigation of Nathan Mobley who wanted to take revenge on people who killed him and his girl friend.

There is lot of action sequences and twists in the movie to make it interesting. Movie is watchable.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Veeramum Eeramum - another gangster story

Veeramum Eeramum - tamil movie by Sanjay Ram. He has an approach of giving only action movies with some gangsters involved in it. This movie is not good as his earlier one, "Thoothukudi". This movie casts Saravanan, Deepan Chakravarthy and others.

The story is so simple, that can be easily narrated in a sentence. Its actually the fight between two family. They kill each other. One person says, violence is to maintain peace in village whereas other person says, its the revenge he takes. The movie goes with the fight between these two families. Then came the police Deepan, who wanted to put an end point for this long lasting fight. Saravanan is ready for leaving this violence where as other person is not willing to do. He is so rude, that he wanted his family to take revenge on saravanan, if he dies.

The screenplay is not so impressive. It leave us the feel of dryness. Its better to watch Thoothukudi again than this movie.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Kattrathu Tamizh (Tamizh M.A.) - Good Attempt

Kattrathu Tamizh - tamil movie by new director Ram. But the quality of the movie will make you wonder, whether this is from fresh director. Jeeva and anjali are the lead actors in the movie. Music is from Yuvan sankar raja.

The movie is about Jeeva, who is a graduate in Tamil. Even though he got good marks, he tool tamil after inspired by a tamil teacher. But he is suffered initially because of this qualification, later got a teacher job with a low salary. When he met his friend, who did engineering and is getting lakhs as salary, his thoughts becomes strange. Slowly becomes a psycho, killing the people who disturbs him. Parallely his love story is also narrated. Karuna's doesnt have much role in this movie.

The direction is excellent and this movie is a brilliant attempt. Couldnt believe this movie is from a debuntant director. Jeeva's performance is excellent. Childhood scenes should have avoided which is bit slow. This movie has got few messages too, both for the public and government. Yuvan did his job well.

A good and class movie, but not a mass entertainer. Not targetted for audience who expects movie with masala.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Aggar - so sad

Aggar - Bollywood movie directed by ananth. The movie has tusshar, udita and shreyas talpade in the lead roles. Again one more movie of type MURDER, dealing with extra-marital affair. Since, there is lot more movies of this genre in the recent past, this movie has nothing special in dealing with the same concept, except for the climax.

Udita is married to shreyas. But she is suspicious that her husband has an affair with Saadhika. Tusshar takes this as a chance and gets closer with Udita and they had an affair. But when udita comes to know that the relationship between shreyas and saadhika is only official, she tries to move away from tusshar. But now tusshar starts giving trouble to udita. And only during climax director unfolds all secrets, which turns each character in the movie exactly opposite to what they are until that time.

The movie is not so impressive except for the climax. The first half of the movie is very slow. Director should have made it much more interesting.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Next - He knows, whats going to happen.

Next - hollywood movie done by Nicolas cage. As the name suggests, cage is having the ability to see the future where he is involved in it. Its a nice thriller movie. Forget about thinking the possibility of this kind of power, then you will really enjoy the movie.

Cage is a magician who also has the ability to see in to the future which affects him. He always hides from others about his powers to avoid any complications. But a FBI agent knows about his power and wanted to use his power in tracking a terrorist bomb plot. Initially he runs away from FBI and finally joins with them in saving his girl friend and also to find the terrorist.

The direction is good and sometimes it raises a question whether the current scene is his dream of future or present. The way he finds his girlfriend in climax is awesome. A good to see film.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Johnny Gaddar

Johnny Gaddar - Hindi thriller movie by Sriram Raghavan. This movie has few good sides and one major advantage is Dharmendra. Not really needed to comment about him. Its well known. This is another thriller movie, well plotted.

There is a gang of five members, where they have an offer to make fortune in four days. Each has to invest 50 lakhs for it. One of the member has to take it to banglore. The youngest member in the gang, Neil mukesh, wanted to loot all the money. So, in the process he by accidently kills the person who is travelling money. When each one in the gang finds out the truth, he kills them. Finally, when he kills all four people and about to escape with the money, he was killed by another lady.

This movie is well crafted by sriram and the background music well suited for the movie.
People who like thrillers can watch this.