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Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020)
Ultra Average Movie
Murli Sharma knocks it out of the park with his action. Allu Arjun was ok! Sachin and Jayaram also acted well. Every other character is pretty useless. The hooks of the characters to the story is not tied well.
Neither the story nor the scenes ask for a slow motion frame but lord o'lord, this happens every 2 minutes. There are several open threads which do not help the story in anyway and create total noise over the main scheme.
Trivikram really needs to shoot multiple movies and not release them. Like short movies or something and observe his faults ( like how athletes do with their games). AA's presence brought some money to the movie but the story line does have lot more potential!
Overall, the movie is not worth the time!
Chanakya (2019)
Horrible movie
The direction is terrible. When youtubers can brilliantly direct a short film I dont understand the carelessness with a movie. The herione is terrible btw! She is adoll. Zero acting talent! I miss Gopi's good movies. i really wish he lands with a good director!
Empire (2002)
Wonderful movie about a illegitimate life.
When I started this movie I had no idea this movie would be that good. And I got that impression because it was rated 5.9 at IMDb where as stupid movies like Long Kiss Goodnight and Time Machine are rated better.
The storyline is well built and depiction of how illegit people make and save money,how they fear the system of banks , police etc is wonderful. The narration is good and steady with the movie.
This movie also shows how a person can get blinded with thirst of money and the character "Carmen" is a very good example of a simple and perfect woman. A woman who is plain at heart, looks at the quality of people than superficial things. I think people should gather a lot from this character than some woman who dates million guys and still is worried about her shoes or a woman who tries to travel around the world to find herself and criticizes other cultures and places. Carmen also gives an example of how much woman would love when she sincerely loves someone and how she can forgive and forget.
The lead role, Victor is a perfect example of people involved in things that are really messed up. His state of confusion, narcissism and insensibility is amazingly screen played. The most touching scene is when he actually realizes the truth about life and especially about the kind of life he lives.
An amazing movie, director puts you glued up to our seat for the entire movie although as the story unfolds, it might get too easy to comprehend. A beautiful story and wonderful direction but to me it is too straight forward for movies like this and this is the only reason why I had to rate it 9 or else it would have been an 10.
Overall, worth watching it and kudos to everyone.
Casino (1995)
Spine Chilling. Blew me away
I just started Martin Scorsese's movies one by one. By far this is the best movie ever. After I saw this movie, I read about the goofs in this site and to be frank I observed only two of them and I watch movies very closely.This is one of the best examples where director actually glues your bum to the seat.
Absolutely no highs or lows in the movie, the tempo is carried from very first scene, continuing in every frame until the last one.
Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone gave amazing performance. I felt jealous and pitied at Sam, frightened at Nicky and hated Ginger. Amazing performers and superb action. I never ever felt that it was a movie and everything is screen-played.
With the naive experience in watching Marin's movies, I guess camera becomes a slave to Martin ( of course right after Coppola). Beautiful angles and wonderful screenplay.
And of course Nicholas Pileggi is genius to begin with and Martin Scorsese is another to go into Nicholas' head and produce the same.
A beautiful movie which actually defines an R rated film without any gross scenes.
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
A movie that is senseless even to the crazy
My idea of a crazy action movie was never that it should not make sense. And yes I enjoy James Bond running around with girls and jumping from a cliff to catch an airplane. Although I did enjoy those films, I always rated it 1 out of 10 because they did not make sense. The difference with this film is although it did not make sense it was not enjoyable either. I just read a review of this film which was talking about woman assertiveness, little child not giving up etc etc which is absolutely stupid, insensitive and naive.
This movie had a very good theme of a lady who went into amnesia, then coming back to her past. That was a wonderful catch and there were few screens where I was totally bought. Then when the violence began, I was all excited and was thrilled to see a woman playing such a daring role and it was very very very impressive. "Samantha" who came to her past had a trouble loving her child etc and movie was good only until this part.
Now starts the actual aura of stupidity. The director was unable to continue the strength of the movie so far he/she has build up. There is something in life called a full stop ( period). Come on, the violence goes on and on and the kid is dragged into this. And the kid is not shocked with all the violence and blood and during the last few minutes the kid is not even hurt, then she calls out for her mother etc etc.. is stupid. Actually entirely stupid. The portrayal of heroism has been dragged to an extent that the viewer at some point of time realizes that this is not making sense and what the hell he/she is watching. The blast at the very end, previous firings etc on Mitch and Sam do not end and they still survive, the kid is not horrified etc.. will actually open new doors to dumbness in every viewer.
Call from president is the ultimatum in dumbness and I wanted to take a decision that I would stop watching movies altogether but rather I would write a dumb script myself and make a movie out of it and rather be rich. 2.5 hrs of my time taught a precious thing today. Totally disappointed.
The Time Machine (2002)
Utter waste of Time
This movie was recommended to me by a very close friend a huge fan of Sci Fi just like me but this movie made no sense at all. I gave this movie a 1 out of 10 because when the protagonist first makes his time machine he realizes that his fiancé will die anyway. that was nice, I wish there was something of how complicated time machine concept it etc etc,. I haven't read the book though and I would have read for sure if I haven't seen this movie in the first place.
Much place to develop and hopefully much better ideas to improve the movie is definitely on the table . And at the end, the friend of the protagonist throws his hat away showing his happiness. And what is he happy about? He just lost his friend who suffered from a serious setback in his life. he said that he may have found a better place but this gesture does not show his concern he was depicting in the earlier part of movie. Total Disaster.