The bishop and the captain of the royal army of France plot against the crown and dismiss the Musketeers as part of their plan to taking the crown. Three loyal musketeers who won’t be dismissed so easily would be joined by a to be musketeer in an effort to save the crown. The character of Athos, Aramis, Porthos and D'Artagnan are played by great casts and everybody did their roles to entertain. The movie is a treat to watch.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108333/
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The three musketeers is the movie based on the famous book by its name. The script however is new and not that interesting. The movie that came out in the 1993 is far better than this movie. The usage of a flying ship or the 3D technology has not proved to help the script. The script is rather normal and accordingly is the whole work. For anybody who has seen the old three musketeers would definitely agree that this movie was not a Musketeer movie rather a fantasy movie with some action packed into it.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1509767/
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The film starts with showing how a train goes unmanned and at full throttle on a track it should not be going on. The movie goes on to show how a rookie conductor and a veteran driver on an engine try to stop the unmanned train. The driver’s role being played by Denzel Washington is apt as always. The expressions he gives on his last call to his daughters and the ones he gives when he sees that he can’t stop the train after going half way on the unmanned train are simply splendid. The movies tempo is the one thing that made me watch the movie for more than 8 times as of now. Wait for the surprise element at the climax.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477080/
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A beautiful family that doesn’t remain a family anymore after the wife is being accused of murdering her boss. The wife is taken to the county jail and is sentenced for life. The story is about a desperate husband (who is a teacher) lets go of his identity to get what he loves back. The sequence of planning by the husband to save her wife before she gets transferred to another jail is shown in a very impressive manner by both the technicians as well as Russell. The movie has a brilliant story line and a well executed story. Watch out for a scene where the car spins out of control that is taken in a very impressive manner.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1458175/
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This movie is about a family living in a posh house being robbed and how the family reacts to the robbery. As anyone’s guess might be Cage and Kidman are the two main cast of the movie. They are a rich couple living in the house mentioned above. They have their personal differences which they didn’t know how to go about and suddenly to add pressure the robbery happens. What happens to the family is the million dollar question. Cage as usual has given his best as is Kidman but I am not sure why I thought this but I thought this kind of a script is too low for big stars like Kidman and Cage. The movie is watchable and doesn’t miss a beat.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674784/
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This movie is mind blowing if you understand what you are watching. Based on the true life story of a person who had to play the double of Saddam Hussein’s son (Uday). The story starts by showing how Uday selects a person to be his double/decoy and how he makes him become one. This person (Latif) who loses his identity due to Uday’s action always wants to get out at least by way of death. Uday wants him so much that he makes him stay by threatening Latif with his families safety. Is Uday able to escape or not is the question. Scenes to lookout for is the scene where Saddam comes to visit his son (Uday) who had taken too much drugs and is under medication. Simple story line, lovely act by Dominic Cooper.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270262/
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A film which is a must see. Many may consider too slow or full of dialogues but the movie has more to it than that meets the eye (when looked on a cover). The movie shows how a duke who can’t complete a sentence without stuttering delivers one of the most significant speeches in the history of England. The story line is very basic but the way the director has gone around building the story and visualizing it makes anyone to enjoy this movie. One exceptional scene to lookout for would be the scene where the Duke is advised on why his speeches are important by his Father. Brilliant flow and grace in the act of both Collin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
The nation awaits to hear him speak… Will He???
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504320/
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In a distant future where human beings have been re-engineered to age only up to the age of 25 and then have just an year more to survive everything is paid with time. One has to sacrifice his time on earth to avail benefits like food, clothing or anything that you may buy with money. The story shows how Will a boy who is on the edge of his end gets into a situation where in by some good luck gets a century extended. The question here is whether the years given to him as a gift was really a gift or a curse. The movie is pictured in a very nice manner and the point of the movie being made very clear. A different approach to the storyline which is well thought of. Good script and good execution of the same makes it watch worthy.
When life is paid out a minute at a time, live forever or die trying…
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/
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never back down a good storyline which reminds us that some fights are meant to b fought and only if u fight them could u see to the future. they explained it with violence but it applies to all matters we face in life. truly wonderfully done. The mothers character is done by the artist
Baana Kaathadi is a film which shows the craze on kites that kids in Tamil Nadu especially in Chennai have for kites. It actually shows how the kids don't even care about their own lives while chasing for a kite that is unclaimed. The movies starts with showing one such run. The hero who chases the kite without bothering about public falls over the heroine and accidentally takes her pen drive consisting of her college project. The heroine tries to find this guy and get the pen drive back. In due course the heroine and hero fall in love but gets separated due to some reason. The heroine then understands that the fault was not that of the hero's and woos him for the rest of the movie. In the mean time hero witnesses a crime while it is in progress and the guys who did the crime are ready to kill him. What happens towards the last whether the hero is killed by the gangsters or does he accept the heroines love or does he not accept her is the question that the climax answers. Good script and screenplay. Slow but steady on its pace.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1507255/
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Shooter is brilliant story about a sniper who is asked by US officials from the agency and bureau to help them in solving a threat that they had received regarding the assassination of the President. The sniper considered to be the best among the living goes around and figures out where the shot may be taken from. The day of the assassination comes and the sniper finds out that he was in the middle of a political plot where in the people whom he helped are trying to kill the President and frame him. He escapes and as in all movies goes after the guys who screwed him up. The plot is very good the speed of the movie very stable and the rhythm not dropping at all. Good work on covering the angles chosen by a sniper. Great movie to watch.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/
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The Hessen Affair is a story that happens in the 1940's. Visualized beautifully the movie goes on to show a new military official from the US joining in at Berlin. The time when the US had captured Berlin. As all conquerors once they had Germany the US militants start sketching out various parts of the castle and the city looking for valuables. This new officer with a little help from one his subordinates find the Crown Jewels. The Official decides to sell the crown jewel in New York and keep the fortune with his crew (who know about these jewels). The story goes on to show how the Crown Jewels are smuggled into New York and how they loose the jewels and at the end do they make a fortune out of it on not. A rather interesting but slow story to watch. As said earlier visualizing old Berlin is really something they had worked around.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1153106/
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Godspeed is a very complex movie to understand. Its a movie about a preacher who preaches ideas and seems to have the gift of healing others. It starts with one of his sessions at the church addressing some people. All the preacher does is help people understand their worries and face them. This is not really healing but a means to healing (the person releived of his stress automatically can concentrate and put in more energy into healing himself). The story then moves on to show the preachers family being killed and the preacher goes into exile to mourn for his family. One day he finds himself in the company of a girl who says that someone in her family needs help. She forces him to go with her to her place and there it all starts. The girl's brother is a person who tries to create a new world which depends on the principle "an eye for an eye". The clash between this guy, the preacher and the emotional tension that the girl undergoes is what the movie is all about. Visuals are real good and the locations very carefully chosen. A movie you can watch if you are looking for a complex subject and if you dont have anyone else at home. There is this one scene in the middle of the movie which requires Parental Guidance. Otherwise all is well.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242539/
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Fantastic Mr. Fox is a story about a fox has his own way with things and gets away. The star cast the fox in this story is very smart and wants his life to be fantastic as himself. The story starts with he and his gal going on and stealing and getting caught in the act. But whence he hears about the baby on its way from his gal he promises her that he will not take such risks anymore. After all was well and life was going redundant Mr.Fox felt his life to be very low in quality. Hence he goes on to buy a better house for his family to live in. Near this house are three dangerous farmers each of who grows a different thing that Mr. Fox likes. Mr. Fox getting all is old memories goes on to steal from each farmer a day. During his third but last theft the farmers track him down to his home. They try to catch the fox. The story goes on to say whether the Fox and his family and friends survive the Farmers. A simple and straight forward script. Good animation and better message in the story make you to pass time easily.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/
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Karate Kid is a movie starring Jaden Smith (Will Smith’s kiddo) and Jackie Chan. The story of a small boy who has to move to China due to his mother’s employment issue. The boy finds it hard to adjust to the new environment. In China he tries to hook up with a little gal where in he gets into trouble with the local boys. The story continues to show how Jackie helps this boy to stand up to the bullies he met while trying to hook up with that gal. Life in China shown beautifully. Especially the festival and the culture. The script is just the normal. To see Jaden do all that Kung Fu is astonishing and the moves are mind blowing. By the way one thing I didn’t understand till the end and till now is that why this movie was named Karate Kid when actually the movie was all about teaching Kung Fu. A good movie in case you need to pass time.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155076/
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A Brilliant story line starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx both people of the law who face the worst of each other. The story starts with showing a happy family of Gerard with daughter and wife. The next moment both wife and child are killed and Gerard is left to mourn for them. Gerard’s attorney Jamie Foxx who plays a budding DA thrives to keep his execution rate high and moves some cards in the wrong manner which Gerard the frustrated man here doesn’t like. Gerard decides to take justice into is own hands and how he does it and with whose help he does it is really astonishing. The script is fast and the speed never slows. The dialogues in the movie are very apt and when ever somebody in the movie makes a point the same is crystal clear. Brilliant combination between Gerard and Jamie. Great storyline and apt visuals makes the movie a treat to watch. A treat with a very strong message I should say.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/
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The story is about skilled people of four types for benders (people who can bend the four elements – earth, fire, water and air). Each of the bender tribes live in harmony in four different parts of the world when the fire benders decide to show their supremacy by conquering and ruling over the other tribes. When the start their conquest they seem to have conquered a whole lot of the world and stil progressing. When all hope is lost there comes one boy who is set to change the state of affairs. The boy comes from a long line of Air Benders and the last of his kind. the air Benders are considered to be the ones with supreme power as they are considered to master all four elements and become the avatar. But the boy only knows how to bend Air in the beginning then they move on to the Water kingdoms to learn the art of bending Water. The movie goes on to tell whether or not the boy could stop the fire kingdom. The movie being 3D could have been more vivid. The expectations were to much as it was a film from Night Shyamalan. He had always cornered the visuals but may be because this was his first shot at 3D that he couldn’t score the same. A great hats-off to Dev Patel who plays Prince Zuko (an angry prince who wants to capture the air bender in order to get back his honor in his fathers kingdom). His exceptional acting has provided a great deal to this movie. The main character being a boy is apt. Overall the picture has a good flow but dont expect too much of anything cos the film is a film nothing more to say about it.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/
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Madharasapattinam a great movie by Vijay. Just like the tag line says it is truly a journey from Chennai to Madharasapattinam. I had a good opportunity of watching this film in 70mm and man I should say that I was happy to have watched it that way. The actual story starts in Madharasapattinam during the pre-independence period. The time when the British were almost ready to quit India. A lovely love story place in the era between Arya (playing Parithi, a dhobi) and Amy (who plays Amy, the Governor's daughter). The story line, very simple they meet, they fall in love and they do all sorts of things as in any Tamil movie to keep their love alive. The exceptional beauty and extraordinary feel comes from the sets. The visuals are mind blowing and to see the old Madharasapattinam the same place we live in some 5 decades back was really a treat. The places drawn just like from an old album was sheer brilliance. CG and camera giving the most support that is required for a film such as this. Music throughout the film is a very big added advantage. Amy should be credited for her exceptional lip movements while her dialogues are in Tamil. Even in the songs Lip movements sync a lot better than our Indian Kollywood actresses. The whole team has done a spectacular job in bringing this alive. They did also do mistakes like whatever they copied from non Tamil movies were very obvious and we did notice it at first. Also a chase sequence placed in this film was too long which gets us go tired at some point. Other than these a wonderful movie, wonderful script and wonderful execution from the cast an crew.
Note: Special request to all who will watch this movie hereafter. Please watch this in theatres. Don’t miss out the visuals by watching it in the small screen.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1365030/
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Taking Chance a beautiful story told in a very impressive manner. The story line is very simple and straight to the point. It is about an officer who offers to escort the remains of his deceased fellow man to his relatives. I should say but the fact that all comes in to create a sense of awareness that a soldier dead or alive is treated with honor and patronage where ever he goes. The movie shows the escort being treated with all dignity and it also goes on to show how his fellow man who is now deceased and is carried around in a coffin is also given greater respect by people from all over. The officer after reaching his destination and amidst the family and friends of the deceased discovers something that he had been searching for all his life. Kevin Bacon has shown exceptional acting skills and should really be credited for the same. Every time he gets near the coffin his reactions and the way he moves are very much telling us exactly how and what was really going on in his head. The director should also be credited for bringing such a nice artifact to us. Nothing big been worked on the visuals nor the sounds. For people who love fast movies this is not really for you. The movie stands for human as well as marine values.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019454/
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Prince of Persia a movie with lots of sights and sounds. The story starts with an urchin from the streets is adopted by the king as brother to two princes. The brothers grow up as family in unity and differences. The story goes on that the brothers go for war against a sacred city under the influence of their uncle. The brothers turn out to be successful in the war and Dastan the urchin prince stands to be the cause of the victory. The urchin price is given a big banquet in honor of what he had done. In that banquet the urchin looses his king and is made to be enemy of the state. From there the prince taking along with him the princess who is the guardian of an ancient secret she beholds. Time passes by and Dastan finds out the secret that the princess had been keeping from him and from there enrolls a series of events that turns back the sands of time. A truly adventurous movie to watch. Great visuals and camera effects. CG has done its part and a true pleasure to watch. The prince Dastan moves just like the one in the game, sliding through slopes, running across walls and using every bit of the place. Truly a worthwhile mythical movie.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473075/
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