IRON MAN 2 - Review

STARRING:  ROBERT DOWNEY Jr. 

                      GWYNETH PALTROW

                      DON CHEADLE
                     MICKEY ROURKE

                     SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Here comes IRON MAN again, the franchise moves ahead with its usual way with lots of heroic stuff from Iron Man.

After so much heroic stuff in Middle East Tony Stark reveals that he is THE IRON MAN. On the other hand government believes that, the suit it self is a weapon and should be hand over to defense department, but Stark denies.

On the other way an OLD ENEMY all the way from Russia (as genius as Stark) decides to take revenge and makes same model of reactor as Stark did with iron man. He brutally hits Stark with his new reactor. On the other hand business rival of stark ‘Hammer’ takes help of this Russian Man to built better model of Iron Man suit to defeat Stark. But things go wrong and lots of stuff moves along way in the movie which creates LITTLE bit confusion for viewers. But at the end things gets settle down. 

This time the story moves any way without any clear description of characters. Like how Samuel Jackson comes in to picture suddenly? Stark was this time like a man who is going to die and before he die he wants to do so much. Even though these whole stuff, things ware manageable at the end and movie is enjoyable. But the first part was better than this, that’s for sure.

Performances: R.D.Jr was good not the best. Mickey was best as Bad Guy. Apart from these two, others played their part reasonably.

Action sequences at the end were superb. (action sequences saved movie this time)

If Marvel is hoping come up with 3^rd part of this franchise they have to think about strong story line.

Don’t go with to much expectation, you will enjoy it.

I would say ,it is good for weekend.

RATING: 6 OUT 10 (MOSTLY FOR ACTION SEQUENCES)

BADMASH COMPANY – review

To achieve something all you need is a big idea, and here parmeet shethi has got it…

Directed by: Parmeet Shethi

Starring: Shahid Kapoor , Anushka Sharma , Chang , Vir Das and Pavan Malhotra.

Finally after IPL here is the movie with great value of entertainment. Directed By actor turned director Parmmet Shethi who has written the movie also.

The movie evolves around 4 friends who wants make quick money. The time frame of the movie is set in pre-liberalization to post-liberalization (90’s). These four friends has big dreams like every youngster and to achieve those dreams they went for business of their own on slightly different way, Like taking the benefit of loopholes in the system and use of extraordinary mind. DOING ALL THE WRONG THINGS…..RIGHT WAY.

The things gets clicked and their dreams getting bigger. Which on some point of time puts them in to trouble but again the ideas from mind saves them.

The story is heart of the movie which never gets tired or getting slow but keeps on beating. Strong story line with good performances makes things perfect. THE BEST THING OF STORY IS THE WHOLE CONNING STUFF LOOKS BELIEVABLE AND DIGESTABLE. Background score is also good. First time director Permeet Shethi has done wonderful job.

After KAMINEY you will again see fire in the eyes and performance of Shahid Kapoor. Anushka is good with her feminine charm. Chang and Vir are also even partners of this Company.

Those who are fan of OCEAN’S TRIOLOGY will not get disappointed after watching this.( I M ALSO ONE OF THE FAN OF OCEAN’S TRIO)

Worth a viewer’s money…

RATING : 7 OUT OF 10

Once (2007)

what a movie! a very subtle tale showing two main protagonists dealing with their failed love lives as well as trying to make a mark in the world of music. how they start developing feelings for each other but somehow control themselves and go back to their respective partners.

male protagonist is surely gifted in the field of music as you can see him pull off a great performance. the female lead is very good in her character too. the film nicely captures how these two people meet, find common passion for music, get close, record a demo disc to get a record deal & how they part to be with their past partners.

music of course is very good as the male lead performs various tracks on screen. due credit to the director also for extracting great performances and never letting the movie lose its pace or quality.

this film gave me a very nice and satisfying feeling thus being very smooth on your mind and senses.

The Hurt Locker (2009)

well, this movie is definitely worth a watch. based on iraq war, it nicely captures the situations and circumstances a bomb tech deals with. the protagonist (fearless and maverick) displays his affection to his job and how it is the only thing that he loves. he somewhat gets addicted to his job finding adrenaline rush in deadly encounters. some may feel the movie deals with one concept only showing various bomb diffusing situations but the manner in which they are shot is really appreciable. everything seems very authentic and true. the director also provides variety covering situations such as sniper combat, suicide bombers, car bombs & detonators.

apart from very few screen shots where the soldiers deal with their emotional problems, the movie is very rational mostly concentrating on war missions. for me, watching this flick was a nice experience.

PRINCE…. IT’S ‘NO’ SHOW TIME ... REVIEW.

DIRECTED BY : KOOKIE GULATI

When I heard that tips has put Rs.40cr. movie on the shoulders of VIVEK OBEROI , I thought this time vivek would bring something meaningful and good enough. But…aah he did it again; he has proved that HE IS 'NOT' MADE TO DO ‘HEROIC’ STUFF.

Movie is about a super cool thief PRINCE. He does some unbelievable robberies around the world but one day when he wakes up he found that his whole memory has been ERASED. Even if it was not enough he comes in to contact of 3 different girls who calls her selves ‘maya’ his girlfriend. As his memory has been erased he doesn’t know which one is real ‘maya’.

As the movie goes ahead he finds that the coin which he robbed was containing a chip which can erase or change a person’s memory and the chip was used on him by his boss to erase memory. At the end he gets his memory back and villain got killed by him.

Movie is heavily dependent on visual effects and action and that even sometimes looks illogical and indigestible. Apart from this 2 songs are there which on some extent entertains but nothing else.

Performance? Vivek as I said should have left his attitude and over-acting to justify his character…but he didn’t. Three female were simply ok.

There is no reason to watch this. And if you want to see just bring medicine for headache with you.

I hope producers will think before investing in such projects.

RATING: 3.5 OUT OF 10.

        

THE BOAT THAT ROCKED- rock-n-rollll

(Released in 2009)

This movie is set in Britain during 60's about a pirate radio station broadcasting from offshore.

This pirate station called 'Radio Rock' began broadcasting pop and Rock-n-roll music twenty-four hours a day from a boat anchored off the coast of England. The station is hosted by a band of DJs, it soon gains an audience of millions. on the other hand it invites anger of the UK government . so in process A minister tries few tactics to shut down this radio station but doesn't succeed that much.

The movie also involves little tracks of different DJs and how they entertain people. The movie has got some really great music on air time, excellent performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman,Rhys Ifans,Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh.

A movie with lots of rock-N-roll and pop music of 60's and good story to tell. it entertains thoroughly.

Ratings : 6.5 out of 10

CLASH OF THE TITANS- REVIEW

Starring: Sam Worthington as PERSEUS
Liam Neeson as ZEUS
Ralph Fiennes as HADES
Danny Huston as POSEIDON

From the title the movie it sounds quite heavy but movie doesn’t reach to all the expectations like its title suggests.

Movie is set around Greece city called Agros where humans are about to go on battle against THE GOD (ZEUS-king of gods). Humans started believing that the gods are doing injustice to them and for that they started to go against them. on the other hand brother of Zeus , Hades-the god of dark underworld convinces his brother Zeus to go for a vengeance against humanity by destroying the Agros city.

Meanwhile PERSEUS the son of Zeus, and raised by a fisher-man loses his family because of attack by Hades. So he decides to take revenge against Hades. He joins the soldiers of Agros and starts his journey to find the way to defeat Hades and his dangerous creatures. during this journey he fights against so many beasts and creatures from underworld. And at the end saves humanity and Zeus from Hades.

The movie has splendid visuals. The creatures they created were quite interesting. If they could have given more screen time to last creature it would have been a good fight sequence like they show with Scorpios. Apart from this movie goes really flat. Movie has some good fight sequences. Movie falls because it does not have that feeling like 300 or the pirates or Gladiator had.

But its one time watch and those who love stunning effects would like it.

RATING: 5.5 out of 10