Review: SOURCE CODE (2011). . . .Decoded

Directed By: Duncan Jones

Starring: Jack Gyllenhaal , Vera Farminga , Michelle Monaghan

Source Code is Sci-fi action thriller. Capt. Stevens (Jack) is isolated inside a chamber of a program called Source Code which allows him to take someone’s body in to his life’s last 8 minutes. Capt. Stevens was sent on a mission to find the bomb and bomber which exploded a train headed towards Chicago for that he has been transmitted to someone’s body for eight minutes before the explosion happened. It was suspected that the bomber who has exploded the train has planned another blast by nuclear bomb which can destroy the whole Chicago city. So he has to find the bomber and help the program authority to stop next explosion.

What I really like is of course concept of the movie but the climax; it was quick but superb like if you don’t pay attention, you may totally miss what it wanted to convey. Overall a good sci-fi movie for sci-fi fans (which resembles little bit with Minority Report-that is what I think). It would have been great if the story would have elaborated little bit more but no complain from my side.

Jack Gyllenhaal and Vera Farmingo were superb and so was Michelle Monaghan. Its worth a viewers money.

RATING: 7 OUT OF 10

REVIEW: DUM MAARO DUM

Directed By: Rohan Sippy

Goa, as we hear the word, Sun-Sand and Sea with tempted beauty comes in to mind but there is one more thing behind, which is more darker reality of this heaven on earth, Drugs and Mafia running it all over. The movie moves around all these and at the end showcases how it is spread and hard to stop.

Abhishek Bachchan(ACP Kamath) is sent on task to clean-up goa from Drugs. He chooses his own way to do this. Prateik a young kid who wants to fly New York for studies has no money but got easily got trapped by local drug dealer to carry drug fro him for money he offered fro his study. Rana is a musician who lost his love to the drug mafia and when he saw Prateik movie fro same wants to stop and save him. Aditya Pancholi is a local business man and man behind all these drug mafia. Govind Namdev a police man in Kamath’s team for this drug mission. These guys moves story quite well.

Rohan Sippy has made movie quite stylish and tried hard to engage viewer for whole run and he succeeds in this. His execution is very good except a few thing which he needed to workout before but that doesn’t matter here as overall things move smoothly. Music is also good. Dialogues were good specially those of Abhishek.

Talking about performance two performances standout one from Abhishek Bachchan (when ever he plays cop its superb) he plays ACP Kamath with full conviction, job well done after last few bizarre and one from Govind Namdev as Rane. Rana and Prateik were good for their characters but nothing special. Sadly, Bipasha had nothing much to do but she was also ok. Aditya Pancholi made his mark and do satisfy with his performance.

Overall a good movie and worth watching (especially some scenes of police interrogation of abhichek were brilliant).

RATING: 7 OUT OF 10.

INSOMNIA (2002) Directed By: Christopher Nolan

Directed By: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Insomnia is a Thriller starring two superb actors AL PACINO and ROBIN WILLIAMS in lead and also stars Hillary Swank. 

Movie starts with two LAPD detectives are sent to Nightmute, Alaska to assist local police in a murder case of 17 year old girl. At the same time in LA an investigation is about to put Dormar(Al Pacino) under scanner for placing false evidence in a case and his partner is offered by Internal Affairs to give testimony. Now when they were investigating the NIghtmute case Dormer comes up to trap the murderer(Robin Williams) and partially gets succeeds but due to fog and improper light he accidentally shoots his partner instead of the criminal. Here starts the real game of mind for Dormer as he hides the truth of how his partner died and tries to refocus to case but to his surprise the murderer of girl knows the truth and he tries to disturb Dormer’s mind and makes him feel guilty and which turned him to the position where he is unable to sleep and becomes insomniac. Now both plays mind games with each other up to climax.

Nolan got his command on the story which we see throughout the movie and he has got his own style of narration which we saw his later movies up to last INCEPTION. As usual Al Pacino is superb. Williams had different character than we see him usually and he played it excellently. Hillary swank was also good in her supportive role. I recommend to watch this for its narration.   

REVIEW: Zodiac (2007) starring: Robert Downey Jr. & jack Gyllenhaal

Based on true events, this is the story of a serial killer who calls himself zodiac. After committing the crimes, he sends letters to press informing them about the killings and throwing in some puzzles to solve. The events take place in late sixties and seventies.

Here enter our main protagonists, a cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal), a crime scribe (Robert Downey Jr) & a Fed (Mark Ruffalo) who try to get this serial killer. The movie revolves around various situations that the killer throws open and how no one is really able to gauge the complete picture.

Performance wise, all the actors have been optimum. The obsession of Jake Gyllenhaal to catch this killer, the humorous as well as adamant attitude of Robert Downey Jr. and the detective skills of Mark Ruffalo entertain you.

Directorial skills of David Fincher can also be seen as in his earlier thrillers such as Fight Club, Seven, Panic Room, etc. The dark feel of the movie scare you but i guess this is what David Fincher does best.

The murder case is still open in United States with no conclusion even after 5 decades. Thus, the movie tries to show the complications and limitations of people and it does succeed in that. A nicely made movie providing valued entertainment.

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.  

FIGHT CLUB (1999) (BRAD PITT & EDWARD NORTON)

(IT WOULD BE DEPEND ON TEST OF YOURS FOR MOVIE VIEWING. AND THIS MOVIE IF OF MY TASTE...)

DIRECTED BY:  David Fincher

HERE THE LEAD ACTOR (NORTON) IS SUFFERING FROM INSOMNIA AND DISCONTENTED WITH HIS JOB. ONE DAY DURING HIS BUSINESS VISIT HE MEETS A STRANGE GUY (BRAD PITT) WHO GIVES HIM HIS VISITING CARD. WHEN NORTON REACHES HOME HE FINDS HIS HOUSE HAS JUST BLOWN IN TO FIRE. HE CALLS TYLER (BRAD PITT) FOR HELP.

DURING THEIR MEET THEY CAME TO AN IDEA OF CREATING A 'FIGHT CLUB' WHERE SELECTED PEOPLE COME AND FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER WITHOUT ANY REASON. BUT THERE WERE RULES TO FOLLOW.

SOON THEY BECOME MORE POPULAR THAT SO MANY FIGHT CLUBS WERE FORMED ALL OVER COUNTRY. MEANWHILE THEIR ACTIVITIES GOT VERY VIOLENT. TYLER HAD DIFFERENT PLANS WHERE AS NORTON WAS STILL DISASSOCIATED WITH ALL ACTIVITIES. WHEN HE TRIES TO FIND OUT IN DETAIL ABOUT ALL ACTIVITIES HE FINDS TYLER MAKING A PLAN TO BLOW SOME GOVT. BUILDINGS. BUT IT WAS TO LATE HE CANT STOP TYLER BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY STRANGE FACT THAT IS PROVOKING NORTON...AND the rest a viewer need to find out on their own. that is the beauty of this movie.

MOVIE is narrated differently. It needs deep passions. NORTON AND BRAD PITT were superb.
story is not as simple as it is seen.

GET THE MOVIE FROM NEAREST STORE OR LIBRARY AND WATCH IT.

FULL MARKS FOR THIS CULT CLASSIC.100%