BLADE RUNNER (1982) HARRISON FORD

Directed by: Ridley Scott

STARRING: HARRISON FORD

                      SEAN YOUNG

Blade runner directed by Ridley Scott is a science fiction action flick. It has 2019 in the backdrop of the story surrounded in LA. It starts with written narration regarding the REPLICANTS- genetically engineered robots which were very much same as humans (quite indistinguishable from humans)- the use of replicants is banned on earth but few of the replicants called NEXUS-6 created by Tyrell corp. have returned to earth. The replicants who denies the ban are haunted down to death by a special squad called Blade Runner.

Things start getting worse when this replicants attack humans and acts fugitive. Later it came to know that these replicants have a life span of 4 yours which they want to increase and for these they need to meet their creator. Harrison ford an old Blade Runner is given task to haunt them down.

Movie has a dark tone. Even the sun can not be seen completely in that time on the earth. The atmosphere is rainy most of the time. It has setup bit differently that those Star Wars movies where things looks cool and high tech, here it looks like humanity has lost the touch and darkness prevails everywhere.

This movie is worth watching because it is the pioneer movie for the all sci-fi mocies of coming age like terminator and lot more. It is a cult classic because of its different looks and narration. The movie is bit slow in the pace but that doesn’t matter. It was before the time movie, were concepts like Artificial intelligence are used. 

I recommend to watch this who likes sci-fi movies.

(HERE IS A PROMO OF THE MOVIE)

INCEPTION : REVIEW ( TWO THUMBS UP FOR NOLAN)

DIRECTED AND WRITTEN BY: Christopher Nolan

STARRING: Leonardo DeCaprio
                     Ken Watanabe
                     Marion Cotillard
                     Ellen Page
                     Joseph Gordan-Levitt
                     Tom Hardy
                     Cillian Murphy
                     Tom Berenger
                     Michael Caine

INCEPTION directed by Christopher Nolan is a movie that needs continuous attention of the viewer and not only attention it also gives a viewer challenge to catch the pace of the movie. He has delivered a product which has both attentive storyline and excellent narration with utmost cleverness. He has entertained the viewer and let the viewer web the idea of the happenings in the mind.

Dom Cobb (DeCaprio) is skilled to extract information from a person’s subconscious mind in the state of dream. He creates the imaginary world in the person’s dream with resemblance to reality so that the target caught not get to know that if he is in a dream or reality. This skill has put Cobb in great danger and made him fugitive of his country. But he gets a chance where after completing the last mission he can get back to his country with free from all the charges. But the task is not so simple and has great amount of risks and complications with it. He is accompanied by others in this act as his team members and where there is danger there must be enemies.

Initial part of the movie tries to explain how Cobb and his team do the whole extraction from mind, how the process happens. Mid of the first half to the end, more attention is given to the last task to be done. They explain what and how the dream within the dream stuff works and what may occur if things go wrong and this makes the whole thing tricky.

The imaginary world of dream is a visual treat and the way Nolan has created the world according to the different character’s thinking deserves special mention and applause.

The viewer takes time to catch up the whole stuff as the narration goes on and things gets interesting.

Storyline as said earlier-mind blowing. Characterization and narration is top notch. Performance wise DeCaprio leads the cast and all have done excellent job.

All in all a movie which can become classic. And shows that still good stories are written and executed also very well. Surely recommended but not to all the viewers.

(Bring your brain with you when you watch the movie)

RATING: 8.75 OUT OF 10.  

KNIGHT and DAY (a nightmare for Cruise and Diaz) -- REVIEW

STARRING: TOM CRUISE as Roy Miller

                     CAMERON DIAZ as June Havens

Knight and Day starts with tom cruise(an FBI agent) waiting for his flight to take-off. On the airport he meets Cameron Diaz who is on the same flight. Tom was escaping from FBI with a Battery which is kind of only one and very useful. He smartly uses Diaz’s luggage to carry that battery on the flight. Real stuff starts after the flight takes off with so much fight and bit of light comedy (which we have seen so many times in ‘spy movies’). The FBI , the Mafia are all behind him for that battery but he is the hero and he knows every thing right from the how to land a plane, to swim big rivers, to fight with enemy without getting wounded even once, he knows every thing without any gadget(except one I-phone). And at the end after so much running, chasing and fight FBI got to know that he was actually saving the Battery from Bad Guys. All well ends well.

What was director or producer thinking before making the movie? They might have thought that what ever the story could be Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz will save the movie. But sorry this time it’s not like that, movie falls flat on the storyline. There is nothing new in this and both lead actors are wasted on this storyline. Both leading actors gave their 100% but it didn’t work this time.

The movie had few stunts and few comic scenes, apart from this nothing special. The producers may recover the cost but the movie is not worth the money spent.

For me it’s strictly average.

RATING: 4.75 OUT OF 10