The film’s lead character is a proverbial village idiot. Prateik Babbar plays Pinto. There is a visceral quality to his screen presence. You can sense it right away. It may not be enough to support an entire movie. But it’s endearing.
It's inventive, warm-hearted and refreshingly entertaining. A throwback to those edge-of-the-seat sci-fi adventures which Steven Spielberg specialised in during the late 1970s and early '80s, Super 8 turns out to be quite a surprise packet.
Rashid Irani writes.
The swashbuckling duels and air combats, though well-staged, lack the verve to set it apart from countless other action films.
Rashid Irani writes.
Aiming to emulate the success of his debut feature, Zombieland (2009), director Ruben Fleischer turns to another densely populated genre: action-comedy. The outcome, however, is sorely disappointing. A laborious affair drained of what little potential it might have had, the film isn't exciting or amusing.
Many stories by iconclastic science fiction writer Philip K Dick have been successfully adapted to film. His novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became Ridley Scott's classic 1982 sci-fi noir movie Blade Runner.
The film, a romantic comedy as you can tell, surveys the rich, urban, over-dressed Indian young, where clothes are sponsored by designers Ritu Kumar and Manav Gangwani, and BMW is the sedan of choice. Read on.
This movie’s directly lifted from Michael Dowse’s It’s All Gone Pete Tong (2004). The filmmakers acknowledge the source in the closing credits, which I guess, just about makes it okay.
The two jaded, ageing heroes are interested in the same unusually busty girl (Kangana Ranaut, in various states of undress). This heroine, you suppose, could be okay with simultaneously marrying both.
Mayank Shekhar writes.
Of the trio that ruled Hindi cinema in the 1950s, Raj Kapoor is long gone, Dilip Kumar has been ailing for a while, Dev is still a competing star, director, writer, and if need be, the audience for his films. Dev's genius may defy description.
Mayank Shekhar writes.
Another movie version of a novel. This time it's British author Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopic novel Never Let Me Go brought to screen life by Mark Romanek.
You could see this film following the return of seriously mind-numbing violence at the theatres. But that’ll only be partly accurate.Action mainly for action’s sake had never really left the building. It’s been the staple for Bollywood.
It's the page-turner script that steals the show. It's packed with enough turns, intrigues and twists to hold your attention, keep you guessing. All of it bound by some sort of logic still.
Mayank Shekhar writes.
He remains a one-film wonder. Ever since his powerful 1991 debut, Boys N the Hood, the career of director John Singleton has steadily declined, reaching its nadir with this atrocious action thriller.
The makers have roped in actor Rob Lowe who plays a sports coach and Candian stand-up star Russel Peters who does the same old, jaded gags that he’s doling out, I hear, for 22 years now! Between the two of them, the producers could have run out of money to spare. The movie’s execution remains slightly amateurish, fairly tacky, mostly "NRI movie" type.
Eight years ago, Rowan Atkinson portrayed the bumbling titular character in a hugely popular spy spoof. In this ragged sequel, the viewer is once again subjected to the antics of the pratfall-prone British comedian.