The Kingdom 2007

I went to watch this movie with a very prejudiced mindset, but I was proven somewhat wrong. IMDB comments were very harsh in criticizing the movie as being 'pro moron' which i found amusing to the extreme. Curiosity and nothing to do on a friday evening prompted me to go watch and i wasnt disappointed.

The movie is not a real potrayal or doesnt even try to be a 'honest look' or anything of that sort. It is an action movie with a controversial plot that has been treated a little better than most action movies. If you watch it as such, then the movie is a pleasant surprise. Foxx is not as good as he could have been and now i know why Jennifer garner is considered a good action 'heroine'. The Arabs are potrayed as human beings and not exactly fanatics. The religious aspect touched upon but not rubbed in your face. I accept the movie is a little skewed in favor of the americans but what else could you expect from an american action movie. Frankly speaking it is handled as sensitively as you can expect from an american action script.

About a 100 american civilians and assorted Arab policemen are killed in a oil company residential compound by a terrorist bomb. The FBI is not allowed to investigate but Jamie Foxx and a team of four (including a supporting wisecracking character) somehow manage to convince the powers that be and reach there. The investigation is hampered in the usual ways but they get around it and lots of explosions and stuff (top of the mill stuff) follow and all the americans survive. The moral of the story.......we will kill them all.

go watch it for further clarifications,



7/10

Welcome 2007

I walked out of the movie before the interval. dont heed the welcome please.

2/10

live free or die hard 2007

If you have seen the previous die hard movies then its the same thing a lot bigger. more explosions, more hard macho talk and plus cos its 2007 there is some computer hacking thingys thrown in. If you havent seen The Die Hard row of movies then you are not a fan of blowing things up and men scratching, punching, biting, shooting and doing other violent things to each other. So desist.

6/10 for keeping up the same shit for so long.

Hairspray 2007

Its a very cute movie. A musical about integration in 1960's america and accepting differences. The main heroine is a short, fat but cute tracy who loves dancing and the corny collins show. Its a dance show sponsored by a hairspray company. Then the usual bitchy counterparts and songs and dances and all...and ofcourse John Travolta in a dress to spoil it all. I hated him, the girl playing Tracy was great and so were the other characters including Michelle Pfiefer,Christopher Walken and Amanda Bynes,but Travolta was an uncomfortable misfit. Queen Latifah does what she does best but could have been a little better (the smiles didnt actually reach her eyes.) The songs are nice although some are a bit too long and the dances (very very) energetic. helped me spend a very very boring afternoon in office.

8/10

The Simpsons (2007)

Well Im a die hard fan, but for the past few seasons wasnt exactly happy with the way the series was. A little repititive, a little trying too hard and over all a little too dumb. The series has dumbed down considerably (maybe just like the country its "made" in - apparently its just the writers and producers who are real americans, the rest of it is done in south east asian countries which i think goes totally against what the show stands for, or maybe its supposed to be ironic) Anyways back to the film- its lackluster performance all through, the usual one liners are missing, bart wants to have a dad like Flanders!!! yes i know i will never forgive him for that! Lisa is more pathetic than usual and Maggie can be glimpsed only in a few scenes. The usual characters that we love have been sidelined for Homer. I like Homer, but it was his interaction with the rest of Springfield that made it worth watching. The rest of Springfield just like in the movie- is nowhere and amounts to nothing. The story revolves around Homer who f@#ks up everything like usual and Springfield suffers. This time it is to be vaporised. So to escape he moves to Alaska. Then he comes back to save the day blah blah blah. and top it all the ending - believe it or not Homer and Marge ride off into the sunset swapping saliva with Maggie in their lap..blech!! I wanted the Simpsons i got something that Meg Ryan and some Amul Baby would star in. 3/10

No Reservations - 2007

God! What a slow movie! I fast forwarded a few scenes and still it seemed so long. Catherine Zeta Jones as a cook is totally unbelievable - as in all through the movie i just thought of her as a glamorous woman pretending to be a cook. Which is of course what she is, and hence defeats the purpose of the word "acting" . The story was good, apparently copied from the german movie "bella martha" but the situations potrayed so wooden and unbelievable that after a time you just dont care. Watch it if you are a die hard fan of Catherine and dont want to miss any of her movies. Abigail Breslin is there in the movie too and is as cute as ever!! The rest of the cast- forget it

3/10

OM SHANTI OM - 2007

After the hype surrounding the movie, its pregnant director, its superstar hero and the "girlfriend of every cricketer who is single" heroine, I thought the movie would be horrible. I was wrong. Shahrukh delivers as always except for the dard e disco song. Why on hell do men in their middle ages decide to become 18 all over again. I do not, I repeat, I do not want to see a forty year old mans artificially enhanced body in various stages of undress anointed with oil and other assorted liquids dancing with girls a quarter his age dressed in itsy bitsy nothings. Even a decent porn star wont agree to appear as an oily fireman in a psychedelic nightmare fire set. Farah khan, madam please never mix oil and fire especially not on a forty year old body. Although on second thoughts he was a caricature of a superstar bollywood hero and would be expected to do such songs, so maybe that is what the director wanted to show. Who knows and who cares.

Other than that the film was proper timepass. loads of insider jokes and funny moments. Whatever said and done, though it may never win any awards or get mentioned as a creative piece of film, it entertains. Reincarnation inspired by Karz and every hero and heroine in town appearing in a song except for Amir "snooty" khan and some other not so famous ones is more than enough to draw crowds. By the way Deepika is stunning, even though i have said a few uncharitable words about her previously (in the previous paragraph to be exact) I loved her. She was gorgeous as a seventies heroine and even more gorgeous as a modern wannabe heroine.

As for the non story, poor junior artiste dies trying to save famous heroine killed by villainous producer, is reincarnated as a superstar and wants to take revenge using, surprise surprise, a similar looking girl. PS: The dead non reincarnated true love appears in the end as a ghost. comedy , drama, emotion, action, romance! By the way there are two OM's and one Shanti hehehehe.

kya istory bhai!! 8/10