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Dahaad (2023)
Incredible Thriller!
Vijay Varma is astonishing in his portrayal of an antagonist in Dahaad. This is his show. His acting, understanding of the character, expression and dialogue delivery in this show are exceptional.
Before watching this show, i never heard of it or watched the trailer. Amazon prime India recommended this. I read the plot, saw the cast and both looked decent and dived in. I am glad i gave it a shot.
Screenplay and cinematography are top notch. Direction is good. Cast is amazing. Story is nice for the most part if we ignore the few obvious plot holes like in any other show or movie.
This is the best Indian thriller from Amazon prime. For me, it's better than Mirzapur, Family man, breathe etc.
Wednesday (2022)
Amazing except for the last episode
This television series was one of my most awated series in 2022. It did live up to the expectations mostly.
As already said by many, Jenna was exceptional. Whoever casted her was spot on. Her expressions, dialogue delivery and understanding of the character were brilliant.
Most of the supporting cast were also good.
Wednesday and Enid chemistry was adorable.
Loved all the pet names Wednesday's father used to call her.
Music and song selection were phenomenal.
Visually it was shot well.
Now the most important part of the show - The Story. Well, story was decent most of the time but ending felt underwhelming. Last episode felt rushed with cheesy and near impossible things happening. Sadly, i didn't like the finale of the series.
1899 (2022)
Boring illogical shipwreck which will sink our precious time!
Well this was a promising show in the first few episodes. Premise was interesting. Visually show is fantastic. Background score is decent. Theme song was okayish.
But the show's story is an illogical shipwreck. Show has too many things unanswered till the end. This makes the ending a crowded mess like a rushed soup. Even the ending, which the viewers waited for so long, is underwhelming filled with potholes and viewer feels like being robbed of their precious time.
Show's pacing is very bad like a boring soap opera. Most characters were uninteresting and doesn't make you feel attached.
Acting was below par except for few.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Grand Return to the Middle Earth
First 2 episodes assures that the return to middle earth is visually spectacular and immersive. Cast did a great work. Cinematography is the best ever for a television series. Director did a good job. Music was top notch.
Even though a prequel in story, this is a true successor to Peter Jackson's legendary Lord of the Rings movies. We are in for hundreds of hours of middle earth treat spanning across multiple seasons.
Ignore the uncalled for rant of the self declared Tolkien putists and hop into the incredible ride into the middle earth. Certain things needed to be changed during cinema and television adaptations of any book which is the case here as well.
Hope rest of the series keeps up or even better the amazing kickstart first 2 episodes have propelled us into the middle earth.
Keep Breathing (2022)
Keep Sleeping!
This series is so bad that it can be used to treat insomnia. This abomination shouldn't even be called a survival genre as only a tenth of the series is about survival. 90% is about soap opera flashbacks of the heroine which is ridiculous for a survival series.
Even the miniscule survival parts are so illogical that I don't even want to waste writing about them in detail.
2 stars are one each for the lead actress who did act well and cinematography.
Prey (2022)
In the end Logic becomes the Prey!
This movie had many things going right like the setting of 1700, natives, cinematography, sound, action etc.
But only if the writers had put some sense into the actual story, this would have easily become the best predator movie after the original.
I don't mind female action oriented lead characters but only if they don't make them absurdly illogical like in this movie.
Predator is a lethal extraterrestrial being who can pretty easily kill even xenomorphs. Even in this movie, until the end, it kills everyone it meets very easily. Even the female lead comes close to nearly getting killed few times by the predator only to be saved by plot armor which is also acceptable.
But in the finale, she fights the lethal predator one on one as if it's a toy. This breaks the immersion and entire setting of the movie. Ridiculous.
I am being generous at giving a 7 as there were many good things going well for the movie. Sadly logic at the ending ruined it.
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
Episode - 6 is the Best episode ever in TV shows History!
I want to dedicate this review just for episode 6 which involves a marble game.
Episode 6 is the greatest piece of emotional rollercoaster i have ever watched. This episode is depressing, shocking, tender, furious, helpless, funny, intelligent and cunning. Unbelievably good and sick!
Just this episode alone deserves an award for the team.
Overall, it's a great series even though personally i didn't like the last 2 episodes.
Sherni (2021)
Not Sherni but Sloth
This movie is slow as a sloth with no meaningful things happening. Cringe characters with lifeless dialogues. Ending is absolute rubbish and it feels like mocking you for wasting 2hrs of your life.
Drishyam 2 (2021)
Movie is good except for the flawed Book logic
Overall acting is good. Movie is good except for the book logic which was not needed and doesn't make any sense. No court will buy the argument that police made up the case based on a fictional book as police have found a real human skeleton below their station after digging. It's a strong evidence against the book. Building up to this flawed book logic wasted nearly 30-45 mins of the movie.
Tenet (2020)
Extremely Bad
Long time Nolan fan here. This movie is an abomination. Bad script, direction and screenplay. Sound is horrible (has been said by almost all critical reviews). Many low budget movies have handled time travel better than this.
Expecting Nolan to come back with a bang on his next movie.
Mirzapur (2018)
Season 2 is bad. Season 1 is incredible.
Season 1 rating: 8
Season 2 rating: 1
This review is mainly about season 2. Script is very weak in season 2.
Pros:
Rasika's character story arc is fantastic in season 2.
Acting wise Pankaj and Divyendu stole the show.
Anjum Sharma was good.
As usual few dialogues were impactful and witty.
Cons:
Guddu's character was one dimensional and forgettable in season 2. Sad that he was one of the memorable character who carried season 1.
Season 2 finale is an abomination. It lacked depth in story, dialogues and action. Writing was unimaginative and bland when many iconic characters were interacting.
CMs office, the most powerful centre of the state is a joke in season 2.
La casa de papel (2017)
Money "Illogical" Heist
Let me start with the positives -
Good acting by Berlin, Raquel and Professor.
Cinematography was excellent.
Mask design was good.
Theme Song.
Few fantastic scenes like the Berlin and Professor singing etc
Now the negatives -
No logic in most of the scenarios.
Police who?
Too many unrealistic relationship between robbers and hostages.
Mastermind Professor falling in love with the Chief police may sound like a twist but it's actually stupid and guess what it was not in the plan.
Lastly Tokyo.
Watch it by putting your logical brain aside and you may enjoy as the positives i mentioned will hold you.
Sputnik (2020)
Sputnik nails the Atmosphere for the Sci-Fi Horror
This Russian sci-fi horror was surprisingly good. It captures the atmosphere of Russian military and alien amazingly. Yes, the relationship and motive between two main characters is debatable and feel unrealistic. But i am passing it as the rest of the movie was fantastic. Actors did a good job especially the military commander. It would have been 10/10 if they had tweaked the script a bit.
Joker (2019)
Incredible Acting, Screenplay and Cinematography!
Joaquin Phoenix take a bow. Astonishing for him to match Heath Ledger as Joker.
On the actual movie - Screenplay, Cinematography and Bgm are incredible. But the extremely depressing tone of the movie was a little off for "my taste".
The Family Man (2019)
Great Opportunity Lost
Pros:
Obviously Manoj Bajpai.
First 5 episodes.
Different take on Spy thriller.
Good Bgm.
Cons:
Last 2 episodes.
Direction lost track in 2nd half.
Glaring plotholes.
This series lives upto it's title for the first 5 episodes where protagonist had to juggle between family and as a spy agent. But later, family part gets sidelined and only terror gets limelight which is a turn off. This is where the directors missed the plot after a great initial setup. Also, few of the plot like an agent working for a division under NIA directly interacting with US intelligence in Pakistan and terror spearhead hiding in Pakistan going to terrace as he is not getting good signal feels exaggerated. Hoping for a much better 2nd season.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Worst Avengers Film. Infinity War was 14 million Times Better!
Well, was hyped to the max for this movie but in the end, Avengers Endgame was as bad as its name and was the worst Avengers movie. Story was disconnected and dialogues were cliche. Thanos and Avengers doing hand to hand combat was beyond ridiculous.
Utmost focus on Cap and Iron Man. Unimaginable nerfing of Thanos, Thor and Hulk. Time travel was handled extremely badly. Humor was overused and movie felt like Gotg-3. Power of Avengers and Thanos was not visualized properly and battle/fight scenes felt bland. I need to re-watch Infinity War to forget this abomination.
Sicario (2015)
Incredibly Directed movie
Sicario is a kind of movie that pull you into it by the pure brilliance of Acting, Direction, Cinematography and Sound. Story Is decent but other elements is top notch and you will be hooked till the end. Del Toro is incredible as emotionless hitman. A scene near the end which shows his Ruthlessness is unique.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
Sicario name doesn't deserve this movie
First Sicario was one of my favorite films. It was Raw and Ruthless. Del Taro character was incredible as emotionless hitman. But this movie has nothing of it. Meaningless plot which has nothing to do with hitman. Initially movie makes you to believe something of a plot is going on but when the credits roll you will be disappointed by the way they took the story with too many plotholes. Lastly, ending has a hint for another sequel and it was so bad that i hope writer/director get back their senses and not go in that direction. I rewatched the 1st Sicario to forget this abomination.
Black Panther (2018)
Black Void
This movie was over much hyped by critics due to reasons nothing to do with the actual film. This film is a trash. Story which is cheesy, cliche dialogues, poor casting and bland acting makes this movie an abomination. There is no panther in this but just a Black Void.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Sloth Runner 2049
Went to BR 2049 after critics put the movie on the throne of greatness in film making. But, after nearly 3hrs I felt this movie should have been named as "Sloth Runner 2049". Actually even sloths will yawn to this abomination.
The acting was one of the most expression less I have ever seen and can't believe the high ratings. But the box office did justice though. This movie is not art, it looks like a kid randomly painting few orange and pink hues that too being blindfolded and left the viewers to watch it dry. Save your time.
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Good Movie. Critics are too harsh on this.
I always loved x-men idea and powers. So was excited for this one. Did enjoy the 3 trailers (Except for the wolverine spoiler). Before watching the movie I did read the critic reviews and was thinking how bad the movie must be to get such a low rating.
Anyway, enter IMAX, and movie begins: First part where Apocalypse being buried and power transfer was really good (Background music was nice here). His awakening was also kind of good but not as great as the previous scene.
Magneto in Poland as a steel worker felt little meh. But the scene where his wife and daughter gets killed and he holding them was very emotional. Fassbender acting was great here.
Apocalypse recruiting horsemen felt little rushed without any depth. Angel getting metal wings was badass. Apocalypse disarming the world from nukes was neat.
Oscac issac/Apocalypse felt badass but script around his powers and intentions was very bad which makes us less attached. James mcavoy/professor was damn good as usual. JL/Mystique felt lame. Nightcrawler had his moments. Quicksilver was an extended version of DOFP which was cool. Cyclops/Havock were okay. Olivia munn had few good moments but overall was underused. I felt jean to be okaish tough I enjoyed the phoenix form.
Wolverine cameo was pretty good but involves gore.
Climax felt underwhelming considering the scale of destruction Apocalypse wanted to unleash. There was no explanation why apocalypse just disarms quicksilver/Cyclops when he could have killed them with a wave of his hand.Magneto switching sides in the middle of world destruction based on few emotional words from mystique felt lame.
Overall its a good movie don't believe the critics. It has nice wow moments. It does have bad stuffs but it's worth a watch in theatre.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
Forget Nostalgia - This is one of the worst movie of the year
Went to see this movie with lots of hype, but wow can't believe it was so bad and on top of it can't believe the high rating. Acting was bad with none of the actors look involved, setting was bad with the same old Death star stuff droid having the clue, Pacing was very slow as there was no surprises with lame dialogues and silly comedy in between and during climax we were forced to watch for 5mins the expected to occur - ren kill han, CGI and action were ordinary compared to current trend of action movies and script was the worst and its better to not talk about it. Finally JJA, please leave star wars. I feel that the main reason for such a high rating is just nostalgia of hardcore fans. Nostalgia is good but they can't make a movie just for that sake. Keep nostalgia aside and watch,it is a pure bad movie. I am done with Star wars. This is by far my worst movie of the year.
Inception (2010)
Nolan's Imagination defies both Reality and Dream!
Inception is the Best movie i have seen till date. It pushed LOTR trilogy to 2nd place in my Top movies list. After seeing the movie, more than anything else, i was amazed by the incredible imagination and direction of Nolan.
This is without doubt the most complex script i have ever seen. In-spite of its complexity, Nolan has directed and presented so brilliantly that it is understandable to the viewers.
In short, after July-16, Nolan has set a benchmark in imagination and direction through "Inception" in world cinema. Watch it to believe it and to go into the Dreamworld of Nolan!
Legion (2010)
Worst movie of my Life :( Please Don't Watch it.
I went to movie with my friend since he told trailers were promising.
But oh God....it was the most worthless direction i have ever seen....
crappiest story ever heard or seen...
and in a nutshell it was the worst movie of my life...
I want my money back...Please don't watch this movie.
It's a zombie movie...
But zombie's are made by Angels!!!! And one unborn baby of a remote roadway waitress is the only hope for humans against the Angels!!!!!!!!! Holy Crap...i can't explain any further...
I need a memory erasing pill to forget this movie....
Avatar (2009)
James Cameron Matches God in Creativity and Imagination!!!
I watched the trailer of "Avatar" just a week before and i was impressed but when i saw the movie in IMAX-3D...I was Speechless...i wish the movie had never ended...till yesterday "LOTR" and "King Kong(2005)" - both by "Peter Jackson" and his own "WETA" were my best Special Effects Movies...but from today its "Avatar"..."James Cameron" proved that he is one of the top 3 filmmakers of Hollywood along with "Peter Jackson" and "Spielberg"...
Watch Avatar not just because reviews are good, not just because it is directed by James Cameron, not just because it has amazing special effects, not just because its one of the most expensive movies.....Watch "AVATAR" because It's an Out Of The World Experience!!!...and Please if possible, watch it in IMAX-3D if you want to have the complete experience and to give justice to the Special Effects...
"Avatar" makes me feel Why Earth is so Dull????!!!!
"James Cameron", you Matched God in Creativity and Imagination!!!