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A Death in the Gunj (2016)
Painfully slow turner from a sensational actress
Was this a show Turner it was this a slow Turner... It was just so slow. The only character that stands out for crying out loud was the one who was crying in the entire movie, Dear Shuttu. Die already. You were a pain and sensitive cry baby who couldn't get over issues. Even after you had a chance to hook up with the only decent looking girl around. What a Shame.
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Then there were 3
Ah well, I have been a fan of the PA series (although, the 2nd movie was a dud!) and this can confidently say that this one will go on to be on the positive side of this series.
The buildup is well thought through and does create huge interest in the story-line. The home-made video style movie does it best for me and those small nuggets of scary moments are really well done. Of course, those of you watching this on a laptop/ desktop/ small TV will miss out on the fun because one thing i have realized with horror movies - effects are most of it (sound n large image/video) being them.
One of the best scenes in the movie is the one where the dad is chasing noises and then he gets it right in his face. Boom! There are others as well but then.. the end of the movie gets a little too predictable and to make it worse it even pans out the way you think it will.
For me the first part was the one n only version which really make up a lot of suspense and thrill. Now, it seems they just want to drag it on..
Burning Bright (2010)
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
Well, you know.. every movie you watch goes through 3 cycles, Could it have been better? Would it have made any difference to the audience? Should they try again, what to do?
This movie had a good core plot, a girl n her autistic bro are trapped in a house with a deadly tiger. How does she escape? How does she save her bro who doesn't even like being touched? and importantly, Does the tiger get some?
To be frank, the director didn't do justice to the plot or the cast. Briana did her part but at times, it was too much for her to carry the movie on her own. The kid was a little too stuck with the eye-glare- touch-me-not part. He could've been used in a much more interesting manner. He did come up close n personal with the Tiger twice but then it didn't make the mark it could have. Finally, the Tiger, the dude, the villain, just didn't get any face-time with the camera. He was shot from too far off. I don't even remember his face properly. He was a hungry one, he had to look more furious that what he did.
And then there were some stupid mistakes, like all Horror/Thriller movies do. Eg. Animals can smell you even if u hide under the bed or behind a wall. If you are shooting at them and they want to EAT you they won't leisurely walk towards you but rather pounce.
Regardless, this could've been a much better movie. Go watch it, if you get it for free and you don't have a better one to watch.
The New Daughter (2009)
Stupidity & Sloppiness at its best
Before I go ranting about the movie, I want you to PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE not watch this. Even If you were dying and you had nothing better to do, just lay down and sing to yourself, but don't watch this movie.
Now that I feeling a little better, I think I can begin reviewing the crap (movie). It starts of well but you can always notice the over- acting dosages being coerced by the actors. The little boy never smiles - he is the sad figure all along; the father - is frankly dumb; the teacher - desperate feature (here take my home number, do you want me to stay) and finally the protagonist - the teenage girl - I've one word for you - RUN. You are not meant to be acting, sure you look pretty, but that's that. When people ask you to do horror movies, say no. You have such bad eyebrows that I got scared when I saw your face up-close. Acting is a BUZZ-word; you don't fall in and around it anywhere.
Movie starts with divorced dad with a son n daughter moving to a new house and then the daughter goes nuts. Keeps digging the mound for no good reason, turns nasty, shows deadpan eyes, emotionless feature. Son is mostly scared, mostly plays the matured role which is not expected. Mom never visits because she has a new boyfriend and Dad is confused about trying to ask kid's teacher out. However the teacher is self motivating and desperate.
Need I say more?
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Great Cast, Initial story and then it goes... boom
Had it not been for the two good lead actors the movie would have been a complete waste of time, for now it was half the waste of time.
It starts with building tension when a guy's family is attacked - ransacked - murdered. He goes the normal way to fight it out but in the court of law it's not what you know but what you can prove has the might. So, he waits and disappears for 10 years and then he comes back smarter, stronger and prepared. He goes on a rampage by starting to kill everyone associated with the wrong judgment of the case. Sounds thrilling? Eh?
What killed the movie for me were the number of LOOPHOLES that even I could find out while watching it casually. To name a few - 1. No scar on his body 2. How exactly does Clyde get out of the solitary - no background - guys visit Prison Break. 3. No storyline - He is there to Kill and he Kills 4. No outside accomplice?
I thought this type of story is told in Bollywood movies only... guess what.. I got it wrong. Watch it for the main lead actors and some action - otherwise wait till they show it on HBO/ Star Movies.
Seven Pounds (2008)
Two long hours of self-redemption or pity?
It took me first 40 minutes to understand what was going on - the plot, I mean; the next 40 minutes to correct myself when i thought i had really understood the movie and wanted to watch the end because it was getting too exciting, but the last 40 were spent trying to cope with the feeling of pressing the "forward" button on my remote.
All in all, it is a very strong performance by Will, he has done a tremendous job by playing the protagonist, he looses his family and happens to kill Seven other people in a car crash owing to his negligence of working while driving. Rightly so he is unhappy and wants to make the world a better place for some seven people who he thinks are worthy enough. How does he find these seven people? He audits them by impersonating an IRS (Internal Revenue Services) agent.
Amazingly, people do doubt him being a IRS guy but none really bothers to do a check upon him. He helps most of them out either by giving them money, home, bone-marrow or other body organs. So, I assume none is really bothered till the help is coming for free (health related in America, quite understandable). :-)
Will lands up falling in love with one of the Seven and find himself in doubt that whether he should go ahead as planned or just live with her happily ever after. His mind does play a lot of games but these games a little to long to bear in the movie. I mean common I am talking about 2 hours!!! Anyway, in the end, the movie has a punch to it and then we have Will; just that had it been a little crisp it would have been much better off.
Eden Lake (2008)
Dramatic Thrilling experience of a Tragedy
Being a true lover of Horror/ Drama/ Thriller movies, I thoroughly enjoyed this flick. It has got it all the twists and the turns, the suspense and the drama, hope and despair, love and betrayal.
A couple willing to take sometime of from their busy schedules in life on a Friday evening decide to go and camp next to a lake. The land next to the lake is supposedly under construction, with minimal human involvement. Then there is a bunch of rowdy teenagers, who are having fun at others cost. The couple picks up a small agitation with the teenagers and then all in fun tragedy strikes... Right there, this is the time when you are about to move to get something to eat... to stop and wait to see what happens next.. Trust me, you will stick to the couch as the story unfolds...
Marvelous acting and storyline! Cheers!
The Graduate (1967)
They promised the Moon and delivered... An Empty Sky
Point taken, you are young and you are restless, and you get spoiled. You don't know what to do and you seem to be having a very good time. Yes, Mr. Ben, you are doing too good. First half of the movie and you are falling in love with it. I mean who wouldn't, we get to see almost ourselves in the mirror, just out of the college and now planning to go to graduate school.. but not so sure about doing it. Okay... no big deal..
You fall in a trap and you don't know a way out until u find out the daughter was hotter as compared to mom. But for Gods sake will anyone explain the director that none can buy it for a fact that a girl and a boy on one single date will fall for each other, when on the first the guy takes the girl to a Titty Show! Wow! what Love!
Anyway, not taking away anything from the actors, truly inspirational acting performance, hats off to them and to the director as well. But Mr/Ms story writer please try and make us understand what sense does it make in the end? I for myself, could make out anything...
Do watch it, though, for its one of the top rated movies, but wrongly so, i believe.
Haunted Forest (2007)
Horrorible Movie
God! I am a big time fan of Horror movies, i get the thrill and excitement when i watch them. But, let me assure you this movie comes with no such package. It bores you to death.
Based on some thought process, which is crazy to say the least, this movie revolves around a ghostly forest which has seen sufferings of a girl some 200 years ago. Who suddenly decides "Its my time, folks"! and she kills...
An American, an Englishman, and a stoner head into the forest in search of a hidden burial ground (just wait for the punch line). Sean, the American, has his grandfather's leather-bound journal, which details the horrific reign of Satinka, a malicious tree ghost with sharpened twigs for fingers who haunts the forest. Using the journal and the final photographs of a vanished tourist, the trio are intent on locating Satinka's haunted tree and the sacred burial ground that lies beneath. A couple of female botany students wander into the plot, apparently to keep things interesting.
It turns out Satinka was an American Indian who was killed by some crazy white boys intent on driving out all the Injuns. She exacts her revenge by stabbing victims with wood slivers, thus marking them, and then sucking them into the ground. Despite Satinka's Native American heritage, she looks and moves like pretty much every Asian ghost you've seen in J-horror movies (and their American remakes) since The Eye, black hair hanging in her face, dark eyes, crawling in stutters and jerks across the forest floor, with the sound of snapped twigs accompanying her arrival.
Please avoid watching it and wasting time.