REVIEW: HARRY POTTER and THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – Part 1

Directed by: David Yates

STARRING: Daniel Radcliffe
                     Rupert Grint
                     Emma Watson

Last week the much awaited 1st part of the 7th book in Harry Potter series released claiming ‘the beginning of the END’. It certainly has got matured, not only the lead cast has grown up from 12year old kids to youngsters but the whole franchise in all senses.

Movie starts with tense build around Harry, his friends and the order of phoenix. As Dumbledore told harry to kill Voldemot, he has to find 7 Horcruxes and destroy them; out of which harry destroyed 2. So the order of phoenix takes responsibility to safely move harry to Weasley’s home. During the fight with death eaters Mad-eye and harry’ owl gets killed.

After this Harry, Ron and Hermione starts searching for remaining Horcruxes which leads them to one of the Horcrux which was in the possession of Umbridge and then they successfully gets that from her but could not destroy it as the only way to destroy it was by the sword of Gryffindor which was missing. Harry and Ron find the sword and destroy that Horcrux. On their way they gets to know about the Deathly Hallows ( an Elder wand, a resurrecting stone and an invinsible cloak). Together all these makes some one master of the death. On the other hand Voldemot is gets to know that Dumbledore is the master of that Elder wand and is with him in his tomb. So Voldemot gets that wand from Dumbledore’s tomb and the first part ends here.

During the whole quest you find a lot of ups and downs happening in the movie. Bonding of Harry, Ron and Hermoine gets disturbed at one point of time, death of Harry’s owl and other friends and so much. Movie creates base line for the Finale with ease and we will see the final outcome in later part.

Visuals were spectacular and the whole setup is getting darker. Story moves with ease and been told effectively specially the tale of deathly hallows which told in animated form.

On the whole good performances and worth watch. (And if have not watched earlier movies of the series please watch those first before watching this one other wise you will not get the idea of happenings.)

RATINGS: 7 OUT OF 10

REVIEW: THE SOCIAL NETWORK 2010 (all u want to know about the‘FACEBOOK’)

DIRECTED BY: DAVID FINCHER

STARRING: Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg (founder of FACEBOOK)

The Social Network is Directed by David Fincher who has made some of the very well known and successful movies in past (like the curious case of Benjamin button, the zodiac and my favorite Fight Club). It’s about social networking website FACEBOOK and its founder mark Zuckerberg .A high voltage drama consisting great narration and performances from young cast.

Story starts with Mark creating a website called FACEMASH in one night about attractiveness of female students of Harvard after breaking up with his girlfriend. He was given six month’s academic probation for violation of rules and bringing down Harvard’s network. This attracts the eyes of winklevoss brothers and narendra and offers him to work with him on the website harwardconnect. But mark had some other plans in his mind so he works on another website with his friend Eduardo called thefacebook exclusively for harward students and soon site gains popularity among the students. When Winkelvoss brothers and narendra learns about this, they thinks that he stole their idea and wanted to sue him.

Meanwhile Sean Parker (founder of ‘Napster’) comes to know about this website and in a meeting with mark and Eduardo he tells how to move forward with their website and gets in to the team of facebook when mark bring company to Palo Alto as suggested by parker. From here game of money and betrayal gets deeper which creates so many problems for them.

The beauty of the movie is the way it’s been narrated, the whole story is told in between discussions of the 2 law suits faced by Mark, one from his friend Eduardo and another from Winklevoss brothers and narendra. David Fincher did great job and made it superbly entertaining from start to the end. Jesse Eisenberg played Mark Zuckerberg’s character with utmost sincerity.

All in all full of entertainment and superb drama. Watch it for sure.

RATING: 7.5 FROM 10.   

REVIEW: ACTION REPLAYY 2010

Starring: AKSHAY KUMAR, AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN,

    ADITYA ROY KAPOOR

This week’s release ACTION REPLAYY directed by Vipul Shah was promoted as fun film in retro style and director got succeeded in looks of the movie. Ass it was Akshay Kumar movie I went with ‘least’ amount of expectation and even though it was diwali releasse I didn’t expected any fire-crackers from it and I was right.

Movie is story of a boy(Aditya Roy Kapoor ) and his parents(akshay & aishwarya). Boy is terrified by his parent’s marriage life and wants to change their past so he goes to 70’s era with a time machine made by his girlfriend’s grandfather. Here starts retro style drama of converting looser akshay in to smart one and converting tomboy aishwarya in to sweet & lovable girl. So many hurdles the boy and these two face but at the end everything turns positive and boy comes back in the present time where things are changed due to his efforts in past. A happy ending.

First thing first movie is made for mindless entertainment and nothing else, don’t expect any intelligence from it. It is little bit stretched so one can find it boring in some places. No great performance but aditya roy kapoor made a mark with his performance. Aishwarya looks beautiful on screen. Akshay is better than BLUE and CC2C. Two songs were good ‘zor ka zatka’ and ‘bekhabar’.

If you don’t have any option left for time pass then one can choose to watch this one. Overall an average movie.

RATING: 5.5 OUT OF 10.

(Review) WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS -2010

DIRECTED BY: OLIVER STONE

STARRING: MICHAEL DOUGLAS, SHIA LaBeouf

Wall Street-money never sleeps is a sequel to 1987 movie Wall Street directed by Oliver Stone. It brings back the famous character of Gordon Gekko(Michael Douglas) back on the screen where he comes out of jail after 8 years. Gekko’s daughter lives with his boyfriend Jacob (Shia LaBeouf) who is working for Keller Zabel-an investment bank.

It’s the story of an old Dog (Mr.Gekko) who wants to be back on the street but there is no direct way for him to enter and fortunately his daughter’s boyfriend (Jacob) comes to him as he needed to find who destroyed Keller Zabel and in return he promises Gekko that he will reunite him with his daughter, but Mr.gekko has some other plans. He had $100million in his daughter’s name in Switzerland’s bank which he gets by stealing from his daughter’s bank a/c and starts a financial company in London. Jacob feels betrayed and approaches Gekko but nothing turns positive for him. Jacob writes full story of how Churchill Schwartz destroyed Keller Zebel and at the end everything turns positive ,gekko returns to his daughter and asks for apology and Jacob also gets reunited will her.

This movie frankly has nothing special. A sequel which came after 22 years has nothing to offer-a total disappointment. Seems like Oliver Stone wanted to cash out the brand name of original movie but he failed. Story has more of family drama than hard core Wall Street drama which we experienced in original one. Nothing great about direction of oliver ,just average. Mr.Gekko (Douglas) didn’t shine like the original one which won him Oscar for that role. Shia was also average. All in all an average movie, instead I would like to recommend watching the 1987 wall street but not this.

RATING: 5 OUT OF 10