ChrisTreborn Reviews

Attack (2022)

A well produced Movie, totally a new Benchmark

[10/10 · 28 May 2022]

I am giving this movie a rare 10/10. Hats off to the makers to bring such SciFi subject in Hindi language without Bollywood cliches like"Filmy Dramas" "Dance Numbers" "Third rate Jokes". This is such a No Nonsense fictional movie that i wasn't expecting. Huge respect to John Abraham to pull it off in the Indian field. This movie is like watching a English Hollywood film, made by an A-list Hollywood Director. The cinematography, color grading, sound design, graphics are on high level. We are all waiting for the sequel.

The Matrix Resurrections (I) (2021)

Total Let down Spoof! WHY?

[2/10 · 22 December 2021]

Such a pathetic sequel to a great film. Why they even made for such an spoof take on a Masterpiece. This is totally a missed oppertunity. The story was so poorly written and the action sequence sucked. They even filmed the movie digitally, making video look throughout the film.

The Tomorrow War (2021)

2021's Benchmark Movie, Missing the Theatre Experience

[9/10 · 2 July 2021]

Just watched on it's OTT release, I must say, this is the only movie while I was watching made me to think the loss of theatrical relase experience.

The movie has it's downfall in the opening 20 min, but when it's on it's just a Wild Ride. I totally enjoyed every bit of it. It has action, but also great emotional elements to it. Yes the Time Travel, Sci-Fi reminds me of previous Hollywood movies, but this one put a signature stand on itself. Great loss if you miss this experience.

I would gave this movie 9/10!

Veronica (I) (2017)

Stupid boring Movie

[2/10 · 14 March 2019]

Don't watch it, stupid boring time consuming pathetic movie. The lead actress looked like a dude cosplaying a girl, no effects, very lagging movie

Skyscraper (2018)

Kinda Ok..Good movie, Just a little Over the top Action

[5/10 · 26 July 2018]

After seeing Rock's last "Rampage" outing, I was charged for this movie. And this movie delivered what I was expecting. But it delivered a little over the top.

The script had great idea, and the filmmakers executed perfectly, but they should have toned it down a little bit. It would have been a great movie if the action standards should have treated realistically.

But end of the day, it was entertaining, just like in the 80's, 90's disaster action movies.

Minus Points- -After getting realistic action scenes, the director treats Rock as a Superhero character with superhuman DC/Marvel strength (yes he's an action star, but this is not the 80's Stallone Arnold era). -Unrealistic plot holes.

Plus points- The Rock himself, I think this is his first time he portraying a handicapped character.

I (2015)

Don't wasted your money and time on she-male love triangle

[2/10 · 19 January 2015]

'I' the Most eagerly awaited movie sucked big time. This is Such a big bad movie, I don't know what to say, I've wasted my money, my time. I hate myself for watching this piece of stupidity. I know this is Indian movies, should not be taken as seriously, but even the dance numbers and music videos in this movie were below average. I don't know why the film-makers wanted to make a film in this pathetic level.

The movie plot deals on a Virus named "I" and how it affects a male Supermodel's life. If you can digest graphic nature of the subject, plus she-male love triangle, and mediocre song numbers, give it a try on Shankar's "I". Anything good was from the surprise villain Suresh Gopi and Upen Patel (with his dubbed voice).

Watch out for the abundance of product-placement. Unlike any other Shankar movies which has stunning VFX Sequences, this movie doesn't break in any new ground. Even the movie posters sucked.

Man of Steel (2013)

Total Let Down Movie - Supe In Disaster Porn

[1/10 · 14 June 2013]

Too much destruction, Too much CGI,Poor dialog,Uninteresting story and characters. Maybe the director & studio wanted to outdone the standard put by Micheal Bay's TRANSFORMERS Films. Even the new Superman theme sucked, Hans Zimmer provided a lame score compared to his iconic theme for BATMAN.

Anything good was from Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent. And also the FIRST HALF with stunning VFX scenery. This is totally 70's Superman with steroids. Not a Reboot, just VFX mockery.

Yeah I'm done with Superman. Batman got the best reboot in cinematic history, I don't think anything can compare.

I give this movie 1 out of 10.

Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012)

Again another dumb musical for Asians

[2/10 · 11 November 2012]

I don't know why Bollywood films are still producing soap opera based musicals in large scales. May be most of the population are poor, illiterate, religious and dumb or they don't have any access to international movies. Any way i happened to watch an advance screening of most hyped Bollywood movie 'JTHJ'. I must say one of the lame movies I watched in recent years. Not because it's 'boy meets girl' or 'pretty people fall in love' storyline, it was one of the craziest love triangle ever filmed in a Bollywood film. Story is simple, leading man stuck with his past, find it difficult to live in the present, reason his past, present relations, I can't reveal much more about the plot line in this spoiler free review. I must say this movie is for the ladies, or estrogen driven males, to enjoy this sort of enlarged melodramas. I have no problem with musicals, or recent twilight movies, but I don't think they deserve a good spot in realistic serious movies in worked cinema.

Anyway anything good in the movie was the visuals, camera works and some background scores. Also the actress and supporting girls tried their best to look surreal beautiful in every frames. And the leading man who looked so aged for the part, was so overacting, but wait it's a musical, and from Bollywood, so it's OK i think, good for a single watch.

I give this movie 2 out of 10.Sorry I am not a musical song dance number fan.

Spanglish (2004)

Great Film! Great Film! Simply the Greatest Film!

[10/10 · 11 November 2010]

I watched this movie with nothing in my Mind. I got my 2hrs of amazing movie experience by watching this film. THIS MOVIE REALLY IS AN Oscar MATERIAL. I really think this movie truly deserves an Oscar (for it's simplicity, sub themes).

All the cast members really worked in this MASTERPIECE. It's truly a GEM. I really respect Adam Sandler for showing his versatile acting side also the leading lady Paz Vega. Even the child artist were perfect in each role. This movie is drama/ comedy...or a little Black comedy. But the bottom-line is "This movie really made my day".

This movie deals with self identity, family values which is extremely hard to see in today's world.

Too bad it didn't get nominated for the Academy Awards that year (but the irony is bad mediocre pathetic movies like SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, went for Oscars).

This is Hollywood's best. Too bad if you miss this WELL SPIRITED ONE. ( and I am not a typical movie viewer, or an average reviewer, I am a professional Film Editor/VFX artist who got real taste in SERIOUS cinemas, and I am saying this "SPANGLISH is a MASTERPIECE").

I give this movie 10 out of 10!

Enthiran (2010)

Failed the Hype.

[5/10 · 27 September 2010]

I got the chance to watch the special screening of this movie. And I don't want to reveal major storyline. In all ways it's a typical Indian mix. It got good songs, over the top action scenes and really bad SCI-FI storyline. Also the actors in this movie done a terrible work. But I think the Indian audience will only look for it's entertainment value. It got all ingredients for a mainstream movie. I think it will satisfy family and young audience alike. But today most of the "main stream" audience move away from gimmicky movies, this film has to prove itself in it's value, and it's uniqueness. I have to give credit to the director. He done a great job for assembling major talents, technicians for this project. Any way give it a try. Good for a single viewing experience.

Kites (I) (2010)

This is GOLD, only watch the INTERNATIONAL English Version

[9/10 · 17 May 2010]

I am not into dumb Musical movies, especially Bollywood ones and when I got the Chance for Special screening of Kites, I simply turned down. But I decided to give a try for it's International Version crafted by the XMEN 3 LAST STAND director Brett Ratner.

I expected a mediocre typical Bollywood Stupid Musical Dance movie, but this one broke the mold. This movie will be remembered as the Trendsetter of Hindi films in the International Grounds.

It is a Rollar Coaster film, but with a Heart. I don't want to spoil all the story but it reminds me some of the movies like Stallone/Sharon Stone's Specialist, Mr & Mrs Smith, Bonnie & Clyde, even a Hindi film Daud, but all those stands down in-front of Kites.

I don't know how the Hindi version would look like, how the conservative audience react to Kites. With some Intense Physical scenes and unique narration which really required for the story material, I think this movie is going to be a "Love It or Hate It" category.

The thing I don't like in this movie is the Love story itself, because it's too aimed for Female "Twilight" Audience who worships Romance. Other than that it's a Total Adrenaline movie, with great cast and good locations. The main leading man Hrithik Roshan I think is a well trained actor, with great physique and fight/dance abilities. This could be his "Enter The Dragon" in Hollywood.

Also I have to give credit for Brett Ratner for his experimental Remixed version for the Movie. With no Reshoots, just with the Original and unused material he made the perfect Crossover Product for an Asian film. By hiring composer Graeme Revell the movie got a new dimension and a fresh soul. The action scores and emotional themes heard in the movie were so brilliant, it definitely going to be Graeme Revell's best work after Daredevil and Freddy vs. Jason.

My recommendation only watch the International Cut. It's more cooler, edgy and Real. It is much shorter than the Asian version I heard and much stylish. Also it got no Dumb Song dance numbers (except the last one, which was done brilliantly by lead actor Hrithik Roshan).

Anyway I give this movie 9 out of 10.

Kites = The Next Level

Star Trek (2009)

Best Film of 2009

[9/10 · 31 December 2009]

I have been waiting for this moment, the end of 2009 to write the review which film should be crowned as the Best of this year. And after waiting for Avatar to release, I must say J.J Abrams' STAR TREK deserve the title to be The Best Film Of 2009.

Based on a 1960s TV series, which got great fan-base and cult following, director J.J Abrams tells an original fresh tale with a different take. As the previous sequels failed in the box office the production company Paramount pictures originally intended for a Reboot, many talented well known directors decline to take over the project. But things really changed when Paramount decided to give the baby to the new blood of Hollywood.

Writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (who showed their reputation in dealing with preexisting materials, as in the movies Mission Impossible 3 and Transformers, which all got preexisting settings and their universe) created an important decision not to make a Reboot to the beloved 40 year old franchise. Their take was to make a sequel which really reinvents the beginning of Star Trek Franchise. And reuniting with director J.J Abrams we got both Visually as well as Story wise a great Cinematic experience.

Star Trek (2009) (*****)

Movie starts with a time traveled captain Nero(Eric Bana) who is looking for Ambassador Spock/Spock Prime(Leonard Nimoy), leading to the destruction of an entire star-ship. His quest for finding Spock was not only to hurt him, but to take revenge on all people who were responsible for the death of his beloved wife and their unborn child.

Things went wrong when a young outcast cadet James T. Kirk(Chris Pine) comes against Nero.

Based on the original characters created by Gene Roddenberry, director J.J Abrams with writers Roberto Orci,Alex Kurtzman tells the Eleventh chapter of STAR TREK saga. Frankly I am not a big TREKKIE fan, but I must say, I like this film for what it stands for. This film got lot of potential, even in story narration as well as in technical side.

I didn't get the chance to see it on theaters, (because of my studies) but while watching it on DVD it got the Big spirit to shake my eyes away. As a VFX student I must give credits to all CGI artist for bringing this Giant out. Especially J.J Abrams for his signature Jerky Hand Held Camera works, which was new to a Sci-Fi movie, really gave an impression of Reality. And his visual sense for using Lens Flare in almost for all major scenes made exploitation of reality into a whole new another level.

Also the editing done by Mary Jo Markey and Maryann Brandon for the camera works of Daniel Mindel made this captivating story into an action packed bonanza. And the cast assembled for this movie was so brilliant, that it fueled the proper tone for a canonical story. Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto nailed their parts, but it was Eric Bana who really shined in the picture. (I hated all his previous films starting with Hulk!) I think it was his performance as the revenging antagonist that really made the whole story worked. Also Zoe Saldana's best performance this year apart from Sucking Avatar! Anything bad in this movie was it's music done by J.J's usual collaborator Michael Giacchino. He done an average job in doing space craft action scores, but failed miserably dealing with emotional parts. Especially Spock loosing his mother, his whole planet, there was no affective moods to enrich the scene. Even the trailer music("Two Steps From Hell" done by composers Nick Phoenix and Thomas J. Bergersen)was well known for it's dramatic tone. Abrams really should work with a good composer like John Powell or Brian Tyler.

Anyway I really enjoyed this movie, it can capture both fan and no-fan audience alike. It's the Best Film of this year, I give this movie 10 out of 10 ! and I am waiting for the sequel in the Future.

Star Trek = Best film of 2009

Avatar (2009)

James Cameron's Mockery of WALT Disney Movies !

[3/10 · 29 December 2009]

First of all I am a great fan of James Cameron, and I went to see this movie with great expectation. But very sorry to say that, what I got was a total pathetic version of mediocre VFX-LOVE-DRAMA-STRUGGLE movie.

When I am writing this comment, all those great memories coming into my mind, that first Script Treatment for Avatar I read from the Internet years ago. All those images and there happenings in the script envisioned, went totally upside down when it was finally filmed.

Set in the future 2154 the story starts with a man named Jake Sully a paraplegic former marine, who lost his twin brother and arrives on planet/moon Pandora to replace his brother's assignment in the Avatar program. What is an Avatar? Basically the term taken from Hindu Religion which means incarnation of one of the Hindu Gods taking a flesh form. But in the movie it stands for injecting a human's intelligence into another remotely located biological body.

IE, On Pandora the superior life forms (much like humans) are called Na'vis very tall, lean, blue skinned, big eyed creatures with tails. Since humans cannot breathe Pandora's atmosphere, scientists have created human-na'vi hybrid bodies called Avatars. So they may easily interact with the na'vi and na'vi address them as Dream-walkers.Things went wrong when Jake took his Avatar form in a much more emotional level.

As a VFX student/artist myself, yes Cameron done a great work. It's the first time the Notorious "Uncanny Valley" effect (A viewer intelligence to find unrealistic human characteristics in a CGI Object)failed in the big Screen. The VFX characters never looked so realistic or more precisely looked "PEOPLE in BLUE RUBBER MASK". Total achievement in Visual Effects standard point, the Sound editing, Animation, perfect in all sense. Even tough, personally I think the main character design of Na'vi's looked pathetic, especially that blue color, but hey it's Cameron's favorite color tone.

But the problem in the Avatar is the whole story, JC worked so much in this project for years, but he lost in polishing it, mainly because he concentrated his energy on the VFX side and it can be seen in the whole picture. The major movements in the movie made me Deja Vu, especially that romantic pairs Forest scenes directly taken from Major Walt Disney Animated movies like TARZAN, SPIRIT STALLION OF THE CIMARRON and exactly from FERNGULLY THE LAST RAINFOREST.

And let face it, Cameron is not good at Sissy girly melodrama stuffs so we find mediocre weak dialog, awkward love scenes through out the movie, and I can understand that he's a SCIFI LEGEND not a Woody Allen! ( In Terminator he got help from his uncredited co-writer William Wisher for Sarah Conner's dialog.) If he had left off the romantic angle the movie could have been much better, or may be he just added to make it more DRAMATIC. But the whole story suffered a "WALT Disney Taste" because of that.

Also the music by James Horner was annoying especially in the humor scenes, it sounded stupid and lame. Cameron should choose some one with more integrity and soul like Hans Zimmmer or James Howard Newton. The war cue and the main theme is so forgettable, he should have given his dream project to his usual collaborator Brad Fiedel.

And the cast assembled for this movie was so bad especially the main lead actor Sam Worthington with his dumb voice accent and screen presence I wish to crush my 3D glass. Cameron should give chances to black actors. Anything came good was from Giovanni Ribisi as the aggressive corporate administrator with less screen time. And also Zoe Saldana was interesting with the "ACTOR DRIVEN PERFORMANCE", also must give credits to the animators and VFX crew.

But the most threatening shot I found in this VFX Glowed movie was Sam Worthington realistic poliomyelitis legs done in CGI/Prosthetic practical FX. The Less FX is Much enough, Cameron should know that Rule and should never go to the roots of George Lucas. And I must say the whole Three D experience was not good as I expected, I should have went for the normal theater, this one hurt my eyes and enjoyment.

All in all this is not the Avatar I anticipated, I imagined a far more a intriguing vision from the Terminator Director. What I got was a James Cameron's Mockery of Walt Disney movies. You will enjoy it if you are new to Hollywood Epics, but as an experienced movie watcher I give this movie 3 out of 10.

Only because 1) James Cameron directed THE ABYSS! 2) James Cameron directed TERMINATOR!! 3) James Cameron directed TITANIC!!!

Avatar = Walt Disney Movies on Steroids.

My Name Is Khan (2010)

Good Issue done in Mediocre Bollywood way

[3/10 · 23 December 2009]

Last week I got that chance to watch the special work print screening of this movie. I had no big expectation from a Bollywood movie , but this one came with a difference.

I don't want to spoil all the story, but I think we will enjoy the movie if we neglect all that usual Bollywood Melo-Dramas and musicals from a typical K.Johar film.

He should have stuck with his usual roots Bublly SONG Numbers. Bringing strong Sensitive issues is not his kind of Work. What we get from "M.N.I.K" is a messed out version of GOOD plot done by bad director.

Anyway I give this movie 3 out of 10.

By the way the director should have given the role to an International actor Much like DEV PATEL or So. The main leading man in this movie is so OVERACTING.

My Name Is Khan = Good for a Single Watch.

The Brothers Solomon (2007)

Best BUDDY FUNNY Movie EVER !

[9/10 · 15 December 2009]

First of all I had no idea about this movie, it's actors (most of them are unknown to me), director and writers. It aired one day on HBO and I watched it giving up that day's class. This movie is that cool and funny.

Story of two brothers (who are so close and not matured as a normal adult), teaming for good cause for making a Grandchild for their dying father. It's so cool and well written, we lost ourselves in each frames. I highly recommend this to any viewers (females are exception!) seeking for some decent jokes. It's not a rude awkward comedy we usually gets from Farrelly Brothers or Mediocre Spoof movies which usually stands for racial stereotypes homosexual humors and slap stick comedies.

This movie is a GEM!

I give this movie 10 out of 10!

Royal Pains (2009–2016)

A new breed of TV Serial

[10/10 · 9 December 2009]

Last month late night I happened to watch two hour special of this series. I thought it's a usual "Average Joe Underdog" Story, the opening got similarities to the Jon Favreau/Vince Vaughn's movie "Swingers". But it turned out to the best Pilot episode I watched recently.

Story of Hank Lawson(Mark Feuerstein) dumped by fiancée, forced to move on with the help of his best buddy/brother Evan Lawson (Paulo Costanzo). To get over the bad things Evan made him to party crash which was held by high class people and on that party Hank saves the life of a supermodel. The event led to another and he becomes the reluctant "Private Physician" to the rich and famous.

With a good cast and great locations, this serial really blends CSI with Glamor. As a great fan of Discovery channel "Medical Detectives" and AXN "CSI", this serial takes a new turn on Information integrated Entertainment. It got the lot of subplots Work, Family, Medicine, Glamor, Wealthy, Hot Girls, This SERIAL IS GOING TO STAY.

Of course, the success of the show depends on it's long run and I wish the writers will come up with Great Enriched Ideas. What the Wealthy celebrities are into, other medical outlooks. And I am total sure this serial is going to be a success and it wins where "Dr. House" failed.

I give this one 10/10.

Royal Pains = Guilty pleasure's another side.

Eagle Eye (2008)

SKYNET Fights Back

[3/10 · 5 December 2009]

Yes and this is not a TERMINATOR movie, what if all that Cybernetic Computers take over the world. A "Down to earth version" of that scenario is D.J. Caruso directed Eagle Eye.

Originally taken from the idea of Isaac Asimov's short story "All the Troubles of the World " DreamWorks brings Eagle Eye penned by writers John Glenn, Travis Wright, Hillary Seitz, and Dan McDermott.

It got good story, good execution, a little plot holes but all in all it's a GOOD Sci-Fi Realistic movie. But the problem is the terrible Female lead played by Michelle Monaghan. She ruined everything what the movie originally intended for. A good suspense film reduced to a "Single Mother/Working Woman's Heroic struggle" movie - with a young lad as a Sidekick.

A real bad casting for the movie. If she had remained away from the movie I would definitely give this movie 10 out of 10. But instead I go for a 3! Only because,

1)Shia LaBeouf - his brilliant take of an identical twin who lost the other half, out running the performance of Rachel Weisz in a similar situation from the movie Constantine .

2)D.J. Caruso - The 'Disturbia' Director for adding a different suspense tone to an ordinary SCI-FI Action movie. A subject which was vastly covered in the movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stealth, I Robot, Terminator 1-2 and so on.

3)Steven Spielberg - for NOT DIRECTING THIS MOVIE!

Eagle Eye = Good for a "SINGLE" Watch.

G-Force (2009)

Best FUN movie of 2009

[8/10 · 24 November 2009]

Hi, I watched this movie today and I actually write comments on movies which I hate or LOVE the most. This one belongs to the MOST LOVED category.

G-Force (2009)(********Spoliers*********)

Directed by Academy Award-winning VFX artist Hoyt Yeatman, making his directional debut, G-Force tells the strange story about a secret special US government organization of skilled trained animals. Funded by FBI, this special agent animals got advanced tools, including an high-tech earpiece that allows them to talk to humans. Things went wrong when FBI decided to shutdown the Unit, making G-Force members to crack down the classified case of Leonard Saber (Bill Nighy).

Written by Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley tells the amazing story of Guinea pigs, happens to be Secret Agents. Even tough the plot evolves with usual "Underdog-Pixar 3D story lines", it really makes a mark during the second half. They managed to created unique personalities to their characters, but at some parts I smelled Stereotypes.

The voice actors were brilliant, especially Penélope Cruz as Juarez the female Spanish Guinea pig, Tracy Morgan as Blaster and Steve Buscemi as Bucky the Hamster. The much surprise came from Nicolas Cage as Speckles the Star-Nosed Mole,and I don't know why he altered his great sound for this character, I found it difficult to recognizance the original voice. All in all it was Sam Rockwell who wind up the show with his Heroic character Darwin.

And the soul created for this movie by Trevor Rabin was stunning. The score really toned the action sequences, and the story development.

As a VFX student I enjoyed this movie from start to end, it's a great fun movie, I recommend it to everyone. In story wise and in technically wise it's eye-candy. I must say I never seen such a CGI execution in detail (not even in Transformers), such a brilliant work from director Hoyt Yeatman. He truly deserves some recognition. And also the legendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer teaming again with Walt Disney for his first 3D feature. By G-Force he really marked his position again.

I give this movie 10 out of 10. And I am waiting for the Sequel!

G-Force = Be the Force with YOU.

This Is It (2009)

Even WWE promos looked BETTER than THIS

[3/10 · 1 November 2009]

Oh hi, This is my first day of my November and all the good things happened in my life occurred in this month, I wanted to start and celebrate it by watching a BIG THING, thus I witnessed Micheal JACKSON'S (ie NOC-01-2009 01:00pm)THIS IS IT . And in a one-liner I'll say it's a RAW CUT version without any sweetener.

After a large fall the KING OF POP decided to make a GREAT COMEBACK with a concert named THIS IS IT, but due to faith or destiny he died without fulfilling it. This film shows the final days he spent on that concert with his rehearsals both on stage and behind the scenes.

Directed by Kenny Ortega who designed the original concert, failed to capture MJ's final performance for the screen. As the viewers expected we see MJ good dance numbers, the new assembled dance members, the new musicians (but miss to see an UNHEALTHY JACKSON, which strongly favors the argument that producers used BODYDOUBLES)and nothing more.

The problem with this film is, it just flat, no characters, no narrations, no developments. Just badly edited, badly photographed, and badly MANIPULATED. It just a Tele-play of some urban dancers and their warming up.

Even WWE promos looked better than this. I thought this film will milk the audience by Manipulating his memories with the actual unseen footage, but no, none of that happened, it just a flat cut.

The opening sequence shows sneak interviews with the dancers who auditioned for MJ's concert. (WOW, I though OK cool, they are going for ARNOLD'S PUMPING IRON DOCUMENTARY Take, by describing from DANCERS /PARTICIPANTS point of view, Showing how MJ planned the concert, how is executed and how he left off) BUT when the movie pickups from their it just reduced into mediocre DVD EXTRA feature which was done by a 10 year old. (even a 10 year old can do better!)

A bad setback to a TRUE FAN, or a NON-AVERAGE-FAN like me. Even at some point I doubt that the filmmakers used BODY DOUBLES for creating dramatic points for the movie. Especially opening sequence where MJ sat with director Kenny Ortega for selecting the dancers, and the much more elaborate dance sequence for THRILLER, which shows a different body-language MJ. Using Harsh Back ground Lights covering Jackson's face, edited with original Jackson footage I think the producers really want to polish his last performance, but the outcome was simply pathetic.

They should have at least seen the WWE produced homage videos, even with single photograph how they capture the emotions of their long lost WRESTLERS.I remember some of my friends tried to get off the cinemas because of the lagging coverage of the movies. Even the screen aspect ratio seemed so small that it's like watching some 70's PROJECTOR porn video. This documentary or Docu-DRAMA sucked a lot, because of it's bad quality and bad execution.

Anything good was , hmmm... no, there is nothing good in this movie except it's TRAILER, and the hype it made. This movie got all the awkward movements like MJ infamous PRIVATE AREA touching pose rehearsed by his fellow dancers, and we miss SLASH the guitarist, in-place it's a WHITE BLOND WOMAN (yeah like us, Jackson loved WHITE TRASH). Above all they forgot to add HIS Signature MOONWALK, sorry I don't know why the PRODUCERS left that in a hurry.

Yeah it's a documentary, but what I got was Kenny Ortega's RAW CUT version prepared in 8 hours with no essential score or subtitles cards. May be a DIE HARD fan should reedit this whole mess with new presentation and release it on YOUTUBE.

I gave this one 3 out of 10.

The Dark Knight Project (2008)

"Are U getting This" HELL NO

[1/10 · 26 October 2009]

This is the worst fan film I ever seen, dumber than those which usually pops up in Youtubes.

The Dark Knight Project (2008) supposed to be a a film set in the Chris Nolan universe and advertised as a Bridge between Batman Begins and it's sequel Dark Knight.

Using footage and sound scores from Original movies, plus incorporating camera footage of the original filming of the movie, this fan fiction set another record in fan films, in "HOW NOT TO DO FAN FILMS EVEN WITH GOOD MATERIALS"

Actually taken from a comics storyline, two young students searching for the truth behind the so called "urban myth Dark Knight". We got Heather and Mikey played by Allyssa O'Donnell and David Sanchez, who pathetically underplayed the characters as the curious teenagers.

We get irritated by hearing the girl's repeated catch phrase "are you getting this", and the dialogs are so badly written and dumbly delivered by all actors here. Yeah it's a fan film, but that doesn't mean we are watching some high school dramas.

Also the BRUCE WAYNE/DARK KNIGHT, doesn't look like a Bale version, and the actor who played him forgot to used the signature SILENT voice of the BATMAN. And I don't want to point out every bad thing in this Garbage.

Anything good was the Photography, the lighting, the color theme, the pattern which was striking similar to the ORIGINAL movie. Or is that copied from another fan film BATMAN DEADEND.

By comparing to the CULT CLASSIC BATMAN DEADEND, better miss this joke.

Blue (I) (2009)

BLUE a Theatrical Viewer's experience

[6/10 · 16 October 2009]

Oh hi, I am one of the people who happened to witness this movie in the opening first day MORNING show. (ie OCT-16-2009 11:30am) And in a one-liner I say it's an OKAY movie. Nothing much to expect, and nothing much to get.

So , going threw the good side of this movie, TECHNICAL wise it's eye candy, with Hollywood cameramen, Stunt artists, Second Unit directors, underwater photography. YEAH, that's it.

And let's go threw the down sides, the STORY, the total rip-off of Hollywood-MOVIE "Into the Blue (2005)". That movie deals with stylish underwater exploration and an hidden Treasure.

Here story gets BOLLYWOODY, adding family dramas, brother wife husband friend storyline, (with unnecessary song numbers) and an ancient treasure owned by the British.

Story starts with Sagar aka Sethji (Sanjay Dutt) a marine diver settled in the Bahamas. His friend Aarav (Akshay Kumar) is a playboy character, who only cares for big ambitions. But Sagar is a family man married to Mona(Lara Dutta) and have a younger brother Sam (Zayed Khan) who is an underground bike racer in Bangkok. Things went wrong when Sam meet with Nikki(Katrina Kaif) and Gulshan (Rahul Dev).

The MOST Ridiculous things in the movie are the snatched out story elements from well known English movies. Like the First Boxing fight for the character development blandly taken from John Woo's "Broken Arrow". Also the Kylie Minogue club scene inspired from Will Smith's "HITCH".

Not to mention action scenes, most of the stunt sequence taken from well known English movies like "SNATCH" , "FAST FURIOUS" , "Police story SUPER COP" , "TORQUE" , "BAD BOYS 2" and "Into the Blue (2005)" itself. From all that I like the Renny Harlin directed "Driven (2001)" homage, by showing a woman's skirt flew up during the race, huh. Hindi directors are very creative, now!

What were the filmmakers thinking, the audience are dumb. It got nothing new, nothing fresh, even the color correction done by PRIME FOCUS studio for transforming the SKY to look BLUE sucked. Anything stand up in this movie was the GOOD cinematography which captured Bahamas beautifully. And cute LARA DUTTA in stunning SWIM WEARS huh!Apart from that it's usual bollywood masala.

The great miss was Akshay's negative character turned out to be good at last and that sucked.

(Hmm it got Rahman's music? I don't think so! Hey wait it got Rasool Pukkutty the another Acadamy award winner! so what?) I gave this movie 6 out of 10.

Push (2009)

Not GOOD as I EXPECTED - OFF BEAT film Totally!

[2/10 · 21 June 2009]

Am a great fan of Sci-Fi, ACTION, COMIC BOOK and even ART film adaptations, I got lot of expectations from this movie, after all it was marketed as another SCIFi comic book flick. And it's a product of Summit Entertainment which stands for young blood interest movies.

But when I watched this, it turn out to be an off beat film with a stupid plot. The actors were good especially Leading man Chris Evans and the child actress Dakota. With limited action sequence, music, bad locations ,and a stupid story line; this so called "HEROES" adaption turn out to be the worst movie of 2009 after XO: Wolverine.

It's all because of the bad direction of Paul McGuigan. A CGI hater director,what he intended was a "Chris Nolan take for X-men" and what he made was a mediocre live action Anime movie, which is stupid by the way. I was expecting a good fight sequence of Chris on the street of Hong Kong, a good CGI X-men sequence but none was seen in the movie. Summit Entertainment please don't make a sequel if he's in charge again.

Anything good in this movie is the Camera works, which was done brilliantly and the interior art directions. Those color patterns and lightnings totally took the show. Also, did I mentioned Chris Evans' Black Shirt he wore in that climax, totally awesome, I would like to have one of those.

Better watch the trailers and posters, don't waste your precious 2 hours.

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Makes 'Casino Royale' Good

[3/10 · 8 November 2008]

I became a fan of the new rebooted franchise of Bond after watching the original Casino Royale in 2006(I even watched it in the first-day first-show). I think that movie really made Bond character a more human, compared to all that previous visual gimmicks garbage eggs. I liked the actor Daniel Craig's interpretation of 'Strong and Silent' brutal Bond which the original author Ian Fleming envisioned. When I heard EON production planning for a sequel I was greatly excited.

Fast forward, present day NOV-7-2008, all that excitement I gained after watching, surfing, downloading the news, trailers, articles of BOND 22 from preproduction to its early release, ended when I witness the sequel in the theatre.

Quantum of Solace. (***SPOLIERS***)

After the murder of Vesper, Bond became more aggressive to trace out the true killers responsible for her death. This time he happens to know that it is Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), and to get him Bond has to go threw a wide cycle of events with the help of a girl named Camille (Olga Kurylenko).

Picking up almost an hour after the ending events of Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace is the first true Bond sequel happened in the James Bond franchise. Based on an original idea by producer Michael G. Wilson, director Marc Forster tells the continuing story of the world's greatest secret agent.

But the problem for this rebooted sequel is, first of all it doesn't feel like a thrilling movie or even a sequel because of the lame storyline and lagging plot expansion. The art film director Marc Forster doesn't even come close to the average Martin Campbell with his lame narration techniques. Originally intended to show Bond as realistic as possible, this director portrayed the action scene with unrealistic camera movements for CGI fight doubles and even copied the outstanding free-running sequence from Casino Royale. Or was it because of the bad script written by screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis. Anyway it all sucked. No wonder why major directors like Roger Michell, Tony Scott, Alex Proyas, Jonathan Mostow declined to shoot this sequel with that draft. Even the opening credits looked pathetic.

Daniel Craig did his best as Bond even with a bad script; he showed he can hold on. His interpretation of Bond as a antihero more than a hero was prefect in this movie. Even without a good plot or great dialogues or a threatening villain, Daniel Craig proved he can play Bond as bold as ever. On the other hand antagonist Mathieu Amalric downplayed the character and appeared less alarming to Bond.

Second heroine Gemma Arterton was wasted all way long, so was Jeffrey white. Anything good was from Olga Kurylenko who captured the true essence of the Bond Girl. I became a fan after watching her outing with AGENT 47 in Hit-man, in this movie pairing with AGENT OO7 showed a new side of this talented actress. Plus, the stunt coordinator Gary Powell of Casino Royale and Dan Bradley the second unit director of Bourne film series, really deserves credits for bringing Bond realistic as possible. They showed their talents in creating the breath taking action sequences, especially the first car chasing and the rooftop fighting.

And also the soul given by David Arnold finally made an impact in this movie. I hated all his previous scores in bond films including Casino Royale, but this score heard in the movie really gave a true identity to the new serious Bond. Truly this is the Best Bond Score ever! All in all this is a movie which should have made better, but completely went wrong by hiring terrible director. EON producers better give importance to the preproduction, and please give Daniel a new long haircut in the coming sequel. I'm giving this movie 3 out of 10! (And it's only because of the Bond girl Olga Kurylenko and the eye candy M16 graphical user interface shown in the movie).

Quantum of Solace = Avoidable (Better try to watch its divx aXXo release and save your precious time and money).

Stealth (2005)

Visually Brilliant, Scriptly Sucking

[8/10 · 7 October 2005]

I didn't expect a lot from this movie when I found it was from the director of "xXx". But as soon as the movie developed it made a new hope in me that I am catching up a good movie, but at last it all muffed up, after all it's a Rob Cohen film.

Stealth (Spoilers******)

Movie revolves round in the current setting of U.S military force with some fictionalized fighter jet planes. Only three best pilots are picked for carrying out for the highly classified operations, they were Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx), Kara Wade (Jessica Biel) under the team head Lt. Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas). Things went wrong when they got a new assignment to collaborate another member in their team, a fighter jet plane called EDI, an Artificial Intelligent robotic jet which was set for its first classified terrorist operation.

Written by W.D. Richter tells the 'current/near futuristic' military thrilling story of U.S Army. The main plot was good; struggle between humans and machine which was taken into another level, setting up the military planes as backdrops. But what went wrong was the screenplay; the script failed to give a proper grip for the story, only because of incorporating various deformed plots. One time it turns out to be a fight between humanity and artificial intelligent and in other it deals with stupid American authorities and World politics.

If they had stand for the main plot itself, it would have turn into a thrilling story. Everything was well perfect for the proper treatment, Humans mainly of a white man, a black man and even a girl against the common enemy, a fighter Jet plane, was itself sounds good. But instead the writer/director/producers set up ridicules story segments which made the movie, mainly the second half a dreadful experience.

The soul of the movie provided by BT and Trevor Morris was not that much dreadful but a simple failing score. Plus the actors performances, they are all totally drain, Josh Lucas did the movie for money, Jamie Foxx was wasted, Jessica Biel lame performance and the sucking Richard Roxburgh has nothing to do with the movie. The major miss was from Joe Morton, the 'Miles Dyson' of T2: Judgment day, done a great job but the script didn't give him a respected part in the movie.

But in the other hand, look at the bright side, we got a great spectacular visual feast. The computer artists from Digital Domain, Pacific Title, Animal Logic done a great outstanding job which really altered the story telling. I am sure its going to be bold in the 2005 Oscar. I have never seen such breath taking visual effects with a great sound editing that will blow "Starwars EP6" and sucking "War of the Worlds" all away. Also the editing works of Stephen E. Rivkin and cinematography of Dean Semler really add a good tone in the movie.

Last but not the least, some noted remarks from the movie, Wentworth Miller as the voice of EDI was astonishing, he really worked hard to blend the different faces of good and evil of a machine threw voice. Also costume design of Lizzy Gardiner was not particularly good but that black tight pant of Jessica Biel really caught my eyes. Hmmm..

So, overall it's a great movie if you can bear up with stupid unnecessary story lines, it's truly a visual grasping experience. Better watch it in a great movie theater. " I gave this movie 8 out of 10. "

Stealth = Visually Healthy, Scriptly Sick.

Batman Begins (2005)

I expected the Crape, But not that much !!!!!

[1/10 · 29 August 2005]

First of all am of age 23, outside from the Hi-Tech Western world. I usually comment on movies which I liked or hated the most. But for this particular movie I had to wait around two months, not for judging its moral/creative content, but for forgiving myself for not using any harsh words.

I have seen all Batman adaptations up to 90's Batman Beyond cartoon series. I liked Tim Burton's Batman movie but don't fully agree with it, I liked it only because it paved the way to 'Batman Animated Series' the only artistic work that revised Bob Kane's original concept. I rather consider it as the only Bible for Bob Kane's great character Batman. But for commenting this movie, I am stepping out from the die-hard fan point of view and speaking from a normal viewer's mind.

Batman Begins (Spoilers******)

After "Batman and Robin" Warner Bros. was in a confused state whether to continue the vitiate franchise further or not. With new executives they tried to negotiate with the franchise with edged spin-offs, nothing went production wise. So they choose another path, restarting the whole franchise and now the problem is, the director. Warner Bros. early approached Clint Eastwood, Wolfgang Petersen, Darren Aronofsky and then to my favorite David Fincher. They even approached Wachowski Brothers, the hot Warner products at that time but nothing happened.

Finally after every noted Hollywood directors walked away from the picture Warner Bros. were forced to give the franchise to a foreign hand. It was the British art film director Christopher Nolan; who done his debut Hollywood movie few years back. The moment he touched the project, every thing went up side down. To make things even worse, writer David S. Goyer who worked as generator operator on Nolan's "Insomnia" teamed up with him to make a new milestone.

The movie begins with a young Bruce Wayne who discovers the fear of Bats for the first time. This fear made him to loose his beloved parents; and the guilty in him leads the adult Bruce (Christian Bale) to leave the country. In the path to salvation Bruce travels across the world as an ordinary man until he was jailed by the Himalayan guards. It was then he meets Ducard (Liam Neeson) who make him to be a member of 'League of Shadows', a secret dark organization owned by Ra's al Ghul (Ken Watanabe). But things went wrong when Bruce violated the rules of the Shadows and was forced to end his quest, making a decision to go back to his home town Gotham.

Only one problem arise; Will the new Bruce finally identify with the Gotham city he once left off, or can the Gotham city recognize the new Bruce Wayne.

Written by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan tells the reinventing story of Batman as well as the young Bruce Wayne. I can't believe it was written from the sucking David Goyer who done the Wesley Snipes' Blade franchise. But dialogue wise it sucks because of corny, misused, one sided character placement lines. The treatment was set to be well paced but the director's interpretation made it a dreadful one.

Nolan is the director, so I don't want to speak about the visualization of this movie, it's an art film, sucking camera works of Wally Pfister and inimical editing of Lee Smith was really from Nolan's idea. Nolan changed everything; Batman's appearance were changed, his Batmobile beefs up, Gotham city got elevated trains and above all, the new Batman is Bisexual. Who cast Christian Bale as Batman; He looked like a born Gay person, with his thin blade lips, vulgar smiles, all made Bruce Wayne, as well as Batman to a chicken level man. He remembered me of the first sucking Batman Adam West. He didn't succeed even in representing the two separate aspects of the same person, at least in the vocals (which was done brilliantly by the voice-over actor Kevin Conroy in Animated Series).

The rest of the cast sucked, anything good was from Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon; also Mark Boone Junior done a great performance as the frustrated officer Flass, when considering with original characters. Ken Watanabe failed to create a good impression because of his little screen time and ridicules makeup appearance which doesn't resembles to Ra's Al Ghul in the original titles.

O.K if these all things went wrong, there was one probability that would have saved this movie and that was its soul, the music. I was spellbound when I heard Hans Zimmer was going to score for the new franchise and also teaming for the first time, with versatile composer James Newton Howard. I really wanted to see how his version going to clash with classical Elfman's theme. All my expectation shattered when I heard the musical score from the movie, it really sucked, a terribly frustrating failure. Till now I can't figure it out, what was Batman's new theme score? Nolan would have stick with his usual collaborator David Julyan, at least for bringing a taint look in Wayne's duality.

All in all it's truly a dreadful experience to watch the entire movie. We can clearly see the failed attempt from an art film maker to bring an action film, with his own twisted visions. With the shades of Chinese Ninja movies blundered with classical James Bond movies, Nolan failed to deliver what the non/true-fans really waited for; Warner Bros would have given this movie at least to some kid from MTV for directing the most anticipated franchise. "I gave this movie 0 out of 100!"

Batman Begins = Batman Sucking