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Defendor (2009)
is it a comedy, is it a tragedy... no, it is Defendor!
Defendor 2009
This is like a super hero movie which an Iranian film maker would have made
realistic, undramatic and hence not very entertaining
it's not for the kids like super hero movies usually are
there is a hooker
there is consumption narcotics
sex
violence
and a very simple minded but stupidly brave and naive superhero
Woody Harrelson as the super hero is as usual awesome
he's the slow man who holds traffic signs during day but becomes a super hero with a costume at night
he uses marbles and other assortment of things as weapons and isn't scared of bullets as he feels they will just bounce off him
he's out to find and eliminate Captain Industry, a fictional villain from the comics he used to read as a kid but who he believes is real and the cause of his mother's death. He is told that the local drug lord is Captain Industry and so he sets out single handedly to battle the drug cartel
in the process he gets beaten up many times but doesn't give up
soon he starts to have a following amongst the common people as a real super hero might have
My problem with this film is its changing genres
at moments it seems funny
but then it becomes action
then sad
then funny again and so on and so forth
in the end Woody Harrelson doesn't really achieve much as a super hero, getting bashed up often
and what I don't understand is when the bad guys know who he is and where he stays why don't they just kill him? Doesn't make sense to me as the corrupt cop knows about him
Anyway that aside, it's still a slow movie which can't make up its mind what it is
a comedy, an action or a spoof
in the end it just remains nothing
just emotional movie about a dumb super hero
Moon (2009)
this moon has got all the stars
Now this a real gem of a small movie
it's atmospheric
claustrophobic
haunting and spellbinding
I came across this by accident and I'm glad I did
if one is expecting Star Wars or Aliens kind of action/horror then this is not the movie for them
but if one is willing to be lead slowly down a twisted and bewildering plot than one will find this truly enjoyable remarkable and memorable experience
And besides that the acting is superb
Sam Rockwell holds the film on his shoulders and he is incomparable
in fact all the Sam Rockwell's are excellent and as the plot unravels one is truly taken by surprise as things are most unexpected
The concept is unique – Sam Bell is an astronaut and the sole employee working on Moon for Lunar Industries. His shift is for three years and he is readying to go back to earth to his wife. But the last few days are getting too tough on him as he starts to hallucinate
his only interaction here in the past three years is with Gerty his computer-cum- assistant. But even Gerty is unable to tell him what is happening to him
and things go haywire when he has an accident on the surface of the moon and later wakes up back in the space station in suspicious circumstances
looking for answers about himself he finds the vehicle in which he had the accident earlier and is stunned to find a body there
And thus begins a series of discoveries that makes Sam suspect everything – the company, his job, his wife, himself, his reality and his sanity
his only objective henceforth is to return to earth in any way he can
This is truly an awesome and unforgettable movie
not many movies like this out there
with no villains, no mutants, no zombies, no aliens, no animals
no big budget special effects
just one man and his battle with his realization
it truly is an experience like no other
not to be missed.
Pandorum (2009)
a bit complicated for a mindless slasher horror film
A very strange and complicated slasher-horror-zombie film set in the confines of a space ship. It sets its own rules of space travel which take some time to understand. Basically there is this space ship with pods with living humans in them who are asleep for 100s of years (the earth has 'ended' and they are the only ones alive, we are told like Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy which is far superior sci if creation)
The space ship is traveling from earth to some far off planet and humans work in shifts
not the regular 8 hours shift like you and me but shifts lasting days/months
while one shift sleeps in its pods the other shift works and vice versa
the film begins when two men wake up and open their pods to find they have no memory of who they are or what they are supposed to do (Plot angle rented from Unknown?)
Slowly they start remembering and realize the ship is doomed unless they switch on the reactor or some such machine
so one man sits on the controls guiding the other through the labyrinth of dark tunnels and ducts
the man in the tunnels reaches a place where he finds creatures who eat humans for snacks and humans who eat insects for snacks! (in this food chains the creatures are on top) all of them live in the dark recesses of the ship
These creatures snarl and chase the man in the tunnels
while the man at the controls of the ship starts to have an 'encounter' with another man who seems to be crazy, he's suffering from Pandorum
which they tell us is space sickness that makes men hallucinate and go mad turning him into a mass murder and finally making him a flesh eating mutant
many twists and turns later the film ends (one of these twist is generously borrowed from Fight Club and Secret Window)
leaving one confused and least caring about what happens to anyone at all
there were many times I wanted the mutants to eat the humans and get the gory torture over with
once more like 'Creep' the mutants here are super strong and super fast and super ugly and super hungry
leaving me just super unconcerned about it all
Creep (2004)
more gory than creepy
creep (2004) A woman misses the last train in London subway and is locked in the station
still wondering what to do she sees a train pull up
she gets in and it stops midway in a tunnel
an acquaintance of hers is also in the train and tries to rape her but just before he can do major harm he's pulled away by something unseen in the dark
and now the creature that has saved the above woman starts to stalk her trying to cut her into little pieces and eat her up I guess
While the concept is interesting the film's script itself is repetitive
the girl keeps on meeting new guys in the isolated underground all of whom start getting bumped off a bit later
she remains alive as the film has to run for at least 90 minutes
And it always happens that the girl getting the creature down and out has just to kill it and the film will be over
but she leaves the creature alive and it comes back to chase her again
it happens THREE times! Girl hits bad creature
bad creature down, almost dead
girl doesn't finish the job and kill it
girl runs
bad creature gets up angrier than ever
repeat and rehash above sequence
so not a very interesting film
specially when you give the creature super human strength
and the girl a super low IQ.
The Bounty Hunter (2010)
like eating 2 minutes noodles... nothing extraordinary but not too bad either
The bounty hunter 2010
A chick flick with nothing unique or special
one has seen such films countless times before and will continue to see them in future
the only thing I can say in its praise is that it's better than the story less chick flicks bollywood seems to be churning out nowadays
Gerard Butler is an ex cop bounty hunter whose ex wife is a hot shot reporter who is suspicious about an open and shut case
she starts to investigate a lead and hence doesn't turn up in court for her parking tickets' hearing
the court is sick of waiting for Ms. Jennifer and puts out a warrant for her arrest
a bounty hunter is employed to get her and he happens to be Mr. Butler
he arrests her without delay but now starts a sort of road movie with the 'killer' out to get Ms. Aniston
the bounty hunter turns saviour as the ex-couple sets out to find what the hell is happening
and in the process re-discover their love.
The film could have been funny and romantic and dramatic but it seems insipid
its like taking your girlfriend out and treating her to Maggi noodles
you expect so much but all you gets is something limp and soggy but not bad to taste
Gerard was way better in The Ugly Truth. He's one action hero who is comfortable in chick flicks as well
he's not camera shy and hence very comfortable on screen in whatever he's doing
unlike Aniston who seems too heavily decked up and restrained and beautiful and pleasant looking
clearly she looks like she is acting
not natural at all
she should try and be like what she was in Friends and stop producing the strange films she does with herself in them and herself in every frame (Management 2008 – a very dull film that makes Indian chick flicks look classic and super funny in comparison)
The one funny guy in the movie was Aniston's colleague who kissed her once and is under the impression that she is having an affair with her. If only he had more to do in this movie instead of just being a cut way from the lead couple
I'm sure in a few days from now I might not remember any scene or character from this film