Cast: Johnny Depp, Billy Crudup, Christian Bale
Director: Michael Mann
Seduction by machine gun would be the movie's other name. Shot in high-definition digital by a filmmaker who’s helping change the way movies look.
Johnny Depp is brilliant, Christian Bale is wasted, Billy Crudup is terrific in the film.
The story centers on two dramatic antagonists, low-voltage Dillinger(Johnny Depp) the Indiana farm boy and Melvin Purvis (a remote Christian Bale), the F.B.I. agent who doggedly, if often ineptly, led the hunt for America’s most wanted. Johnny Depp is shown as the robin-hood style bank robber. Billy Crudup stars as the young J Edgar Hoover, then the head of the fledgling FBI and Christian Bale plays the agent in charge of bringing Dillinger to justice. This cat and mouse also has a love angle to it between Dillinger and Billie, the beautiful girl played by Marion Cottilard. I must admit, the romance shown between the two f 'em constitute the finest scenes in the film.
Johnny Depp plays Dillinger with a charm and Mann doesn't miss 'em. A striking short scene of a wounded escapee being dragged alongside the speeding car while Dillinger and another man struggle to pull him up. In the most startling shot, Mr. Mann places the camera right next to the fallen man, pointing it up at Dillinger’s dark, ominous figure as he almost blots out that blue sky. Dillinger holds on until the man’s grip wilts, the dead body slipping away in one direction as the car races off in the other. Laying the blame elsewhere, he next tosses another man out of the moving car.
The relationship between Dillinger and a hatcheck girl named Billie Frechette eats up considerable time. Mr. Depp looks good as Dillinger — few contemporary actors can play such a character as persuasively — but the performance sneaks up on you, inching into your system scene by scene. The same holds true of "Public Enemies", which looks and plays like no other American gangster film I can think of. At the end, Dillinger grins wryly at a black-and-white picture with Clark Gable as the kind of gangster who could only have been invented by the movies, a gangster who is as false as the bullets that finally stopped Dillinger were real.
What I dint like in d movie is this .. Johnny Depp manages to escape a flurry of bullets, and plays cat and mouse with the feds by hiding in plain sight.
C'mon man, these kinda crap is shown in Bollywood.
Remark: Public enemies is not-so-great film. It's an enjoyable blow-'em-up film for action fans. Watch it only if you are a Johnny Depp fan.
Monday, August 17, 2009
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
movie review - The Hangover.
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham
Direction: Todd Phillips
Oh, American men have sworn to heaven that they will never grow-up so that films about 'em being so stupid will continue to release on Friday's thereby entertaining the not-so-stupid one's.
Hangover is funny. Thanks to the principal actors Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms & Zach Galifianakis.
Mr. Helms plays a dentist, Stu, only because making him an accountant would deprive the film of a choice tooth-extraction gag. Zach Galifianakis steals the film as the groom's not-quite-there bearded brother-in-law-to-be, Alan. Bradley Cooper plays Phil, a married school teacher. Justin Bartha plays Doug, who is soon-to-be-married.
For the bachelor's party the four friends decide to go to the sin city, Vegas. After a wicked night Phil, Stu and Alan wake up to find in their luxury suite with a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet and a chicken scratching around the detritus. Stu has a missing incisor, Phil has a hospital bracelet around his wrist, and Doug is nowhere to be found. And the worst part is that none of the three remember shit about the previous night. The movie is told in reverse, with our three leads retracing the events of the previous night through whatever clues they can find. Heather Graham appears
as the stripper who Stu discovers he married the previous night. Mike Tyson shows up to sing along with a Phil Collins song. Mr. Galifianakis gets knocked out by the famous Mike-Tyson-punch. There's a funny scene in the movie when the trio ask for their Mercedes in which they came to Vegas but instead the valet brings to them a police car which they had apparently stolen the previous night.
The verbal jokes I will leave for you to discover and repeat with your friends.
The movie is true to it's title. Hangover is funny because it is sharply written. Although it is a just about a bachelor party gone wrong, it is very well done. Apart from the on-screen nudity consisting of male buttocks and a woman’s breast in the mouth of a nursing infant the movie is as safe as milk.
The film is fit enough to watch with your buddies.
Direction: Todd Phillips
Oh, American men have sworn to heaven that they will never grow-up so that films about 'em being so stupid will continue to release on Friday's thereby entertaining the not-so-stupid one's.
Hangover is funny. Thanks to the principal actors Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms & Zach Galifianakis.
Mr. Helms plays a dentist, Stu, only because making him an accountant would deprive the film of a choice tooth-extraction gag. Zach Galifianakis steals the film as the groom's not-quite-there bearded brother-in-law-to-be, Alan. Bradley Cooper plays Phil, a married school teacher. Justin Bartha plays Doug, who is soon-to-be-married.
For the bachelor's party the four friends decide to go to the sin city, Vegas. After a wicked night Phil, Stu and Alan wake up to find in their luxury suite with a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet and a chicken scratching around the detritus. Stu has a missing incisor, Phil has a hospital bracelet around his wrist, and Doug is nowhere to be found. And the worst part is that none of the three remember shit about the previous night. The movie is told in reverse, with our three leads retracing the events of the previous night through whatever clues they can find. Heather Graham appears
as the stripper who Stu discovers he married the previous night. Mike Tyson shows up to sing along with a Phil Collins song. Mr. Galifianakis gets knocked out by the famous Mike-Tyson-punch. There's a funny scene in the movie when the trio ask for their Mercedes in which they came to Vegas but instead the valet brings to them a police car which they had apparently stolen the previous night.
The verbal jokes I will leave for you to discover and repeat with your friends.
The movie is true to it's title. Hangover is funny because it is sharply written. Although it is a just about a bachelor party gone wrong, it is very well done. Apart from the on-screen nudity consisting of male buttocks and a woman’s breast in the mouth of a nursing infant the movie is as safe as milk.
The film is fit enough to watch with your buddies.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
movie review : The Stoneman Murders.
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Arbaaz Khan , Vikram Ghokle. Rukhsar,
Director: Manish Gupta
The Stoneman was a name given by the popular English language print media of Kolkatta to an alleged serial killer who menaced the streets of that city in 1989.
The Stoneman was credited with thirteen murders over six months (the first in June 1989), but it was never established whether the crimes were the handiwork of one person or a group of individuals. The Calcutta police also failed to resolve whether any of the crimes was committed as a copycat murder. To date, no one has been sentenced for these crimes, making this one of the greatest unsolved mysteries plaguing modern metropolitan Indian police forces.
Yeah, the film is made about it. The film is entirely shot on the streets of Mumbai instead of on the location.
As shown in the film the Stoneman has already claimed his fifth victim.The Mumbai Police force does not consider this case to be important. However, there is one person in, sub-inspector Sanjay Shelar (Kay Kay Menon), suspended, who takes it on himself to find this killer. AIG Satam (VikramGokhale), who supports Sanjay, provides him with a opportunity of making it back to the team if he nails this criminal and with it provides him secret aid as well, for tracking down the serial killer. However, in the roadblock to Sanjay in his redemption attempt is Inspector Kedar Phadke (Arbaaz Khan), the officer
who is officially in-charge of the case. As obvious, their ways clash.
There are a handful of good scenes in the movie lyk those nail-biting scenes involving Kay Kay's pursuit of the shrouded killer and that of the killer moving in the dark alleys. I heard d crowds whistle (hey, hey, i hadn't been to a cheap screen. All i can say is the multiplex had lowered their rates that day) when Rukhsar says the *cough cough* Hindi word for a prostitute.
What takes the film to a higher level is the performance of Kay Kay Menon. He is a master in doing intense roles and yet again he delivers the goods. He carries the entire film on his shoulders. Arbaaz Khan does his bit too but Vikram Ghokle is wasted. Rukhsar is strictly okay. Man, next tym, get her voice dubbed. Virendra Saxena leaves a mark in a small cameo.
However, some portions f the movie, i felt was unessential, lyk the backless profile shot of Kay kay's wife (Rukhsar, who always plays his wife on-screen.. remember Sarkar?) and a dance-bar item number. And also there are loopholes lyk the films not-so-convincing ending and pointless portions.
The thing which earns the movie brownie points is its smart storytelling. It doesn't prematurely kill the thrill. The Stoneman Murders is an original piece of work and one of the finest thrillers made in Bollywood in recent times. Suspense film lovers should not give it a miss at any cost.
Manish, however, says that his story for the movie is 40% fact and 60% fiction. I'd rather say, it's a fictitious tale based on the real life footpath stoning incidents.
With a running tym f 100minutes, watchin Stoneman Murders is not a waste of tym.
Director: Manish Gupta
The Stoneman was a name given by the popular English language print media of Kolkatta to an alleged serial killer who menaced the streets of that city in 1989.
The Stoneman was credited with thirteen murders over six months (the first in June 1989), but it was never established whether the crimes were the handiwork of one person or a group of individuals. The Calcutta police also failed to resolve whether any of the crimes was committed as a copycat murder. To date, no one has been sentenced for these crimes, making this one of the greatest unsolved mysteries plaguing modern metropolitan Indian police forces.
Yeah, the film is made about it. The film is entirely shot on the streets of Mumbai instead of on the location.
As shown in the film the Stoneman has already claimed his fifth victim.The Mumbai Police force does not consider this case to be important. However, there is one person in, sub-inspector Sanjay Shelar (Kay Kay Menon), suspended, who takes it on himself to find this killer. AIG Satam (VikramGokhale), who supports Sanjay, provides him with a opportunity of making it back to the team if he nails this criminal and with it provides him secret aid as well, for tracking down the serial killer. However, in the roadblock to Sanjay in his redemption attempt is Inspector Kedar Phadke (Arbaaz Khan), the officer
who is officially in-charge of the case. As obvious, their ways clash.
There are a handful of good scenes in the movie lyk those nail-biting scenes involving Kay Kay's pursuit of the shrouded killer and that of the killer moving in the dark alleys. I heard d crowds whistle (hey, hey, i hadn't been to a cheap screen. All i can say is the multiplex had lowered their rates that day) when Rukhsar says the *cough cough* Hindi word for a prostitute.
What takes the film to a higher level is the performance of Kay Kay Menon. He is a master in doing intense roles and yet again he delivers the goods. He carries the entire film on his shoulders. Arbaaz Khan does his bit too but Vikram Ghokle is wasted. Rukhsar is strictly okay. Man, next tym, get her voice dubbed. Virendra Saxena leaves a mark in a small cameo.
However, some portions f the movie, i felt was unessential, lyk the backless profile shot of Kay kay's wife (Rukhsar, who always plays his wife on-screen.. remember Sarkar?) and a dance-bar item number. And also there are loopholes lyk the films not-so-convincing ending and pointless portions.
The thing which earns the movie brownie points is its smart storytelling. It doesn't prematurely kill the thrill. The Stoneman Murders is an original piece of work and one of the finest thrillers made in Bollywood in recent times. Suspense film lovers should not give it a miss at any cost.
Manish, however, says that his story for the movie is 40% fact and 60% fiction. I'd rather say, it's a fictitious tale based on the real life footpath stoning incidents.
With a running tym f 100minutes, watchin Stoneman Murders is not a waste of tym.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
movie review : Videsh -heaven on earth.
Cast: Preity Zinta, Vansh Bharadwaj
Director: Deepa Mehta
I like Preity Zinta. Period. I like her so much that Im almost in love with her. But, Im tellin you, folks, this is review ain't a biased one. Man, Preity Zinta was awesome in the movie is kinda like the only thingy y'al wonder once the movie is over.
Pz plays Chand, a young Punjabi girl who's parents have fixed her marriage with Rocky, played by Vansh Bhardwaj, who's family resides in Toronto. So, for her marriage Chand travels to Toronto from India and lives in a small house containing her husband's entire family which includes,a grandfather, a mom, an aunt, brother's, brother's wives & their children. There she is tormented my her mother in-law & is ignored by her husband who talks more with his hands than his mouth whenever she stands up against his ill-treating mother. After several such incidents she even tries to poison Rocky gathering courage as advised by a black-American-woman cum door-mat working with her. (Well this tells us somethin bout American women too; they won't take shit lyin flat on their back, something which i always felt Indian women should also practice)
Rocky's mother like any any age-old-mother shown in Indian cinema thinks that the 'bahu' will take his 'beta' away from her. There's a wonderful scene where when Rocky & Chand live in a hotel room for a night for you-know-wot, and the mother shows up in the pretext of missing her son too much & sees to it that they don't come close that night.
Sounds like any other bollywood film, ryt? Yeah, it is, xcept for the Zinta babe's performance who portrays the sorrow's and feelings of Chand brilliantly thru' her eyes only. Vansh brings intensity to Rocky's character and his mother played by Balinder Johal, too, does a fantastic job as a insecure mother. But boy, Videsh is driven by Pz who delivers her career-defining role as she brings so much depth to the character of Chand.
The movie's quite realistic for most of it's part until Mehta decides to use the unrealistic element like a cobra showing up in the backyard which forms a part of Chand's imagination and takes the human form of her loving-husband Rocky. It looks a bit too much as it gets repetitive.
It's here where, Videsh looks cold.
The movie is ultimately the story of a woman's struggle for her identity and self-confidence in the face of domestic violence.
Videsh is slow yet alarming. I'd say it's worth a watch for Pz's honest performance. Go ahead, folks.
Director: Deepa Mehta
I like Preity Zinta. Period. I like her so much that Im almost in love with her. But, Im tellin you, folks, this is review ain't a biased one. Man, Preity Zinta was awesome in the movie is kinda like the only thingy y'al wonder once the movie is over.
Pz plays Chand, a young Punjabi girl who's parents have fixed her marriage with Rocky, played by Vansh Bhardwaj, who's family resides in Toronto. So, for her marriage Chand travels to Toronto from India and lives in a small house containing her husband's entire family which includes,a grandfather, a mom, an aunt, brother's, brother's wives & their children. There she is tormented my her mother in-law & is ignored by her husband who talks more with his hands than his mouth whenever she stands up against his ill-treating mother. After several such incidents she even tries to poison Rocky gathering courage as advised by a black-American-woman cum door-mat working with her. (Well this tells us somethin bout American women too; they won't take shit lyin flat on their back, something which i always felt Indian women should also practice)
Rocky's mother like any any age-old-mother shown in Indian cinema thinks that the 'bahu' will take his 'beta' away from her. There's a wonderful scene where when Rocky & Chand live in a hotel room for a night for you-know-wot, and the mother shows up in the pretext of missing her son too much & sees to it that they don't come close that night.
Sounds like any other bollywood film, ryt? Yeah, it is, xcept for the Zinta babe's performance who portrays the sorrow's and feelings of Chand brilliantly thru' her eyes only. Vansh brings intensity to Rocky's character and his mother played by Balinder Johal, too, does a fantastic job as a insecure mother. But boy, Videsh is driven by Pz who delivers her career-defining role as she brings so much depth to the character of Chand.
The movie's quite realistic for most of it's part until Mehta decides to use the unrealistic element like a cobra showing up in the backyard which forms a part of Chand's imagination and takes the human form of her loving-husband Rocky. It looks a bit too much as it gets repetitive.
It's here where, Videsh looks cold.
The movie is ultimately the story of a woman's struggle for her identity and self-confidence in the face of domestic violence.
Videsh is slow yet alarming. I'd say it's worth a watch for Pz's honest performance. Go ahead, folks.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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