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Inception (2010)
A Metaphysical heist!
Nolan's metaphysical fare has to be seen to be experienced!.As Fishburne puts it in The Matrix,'unfortunately no one can tell you what the matrix is..you have to see it for yourself!',this masterpiece has to be seen to be believed and deciphered fully.Nolan effortlessly weaves subplots within plots and dreams within dreams.The sublime canvas, as it is oozes with finesse and élan,Zimmer all the more adds to the kill with a monster of a music-score!.Di Caprio had long emerged from his chocolate boy image and graduated to doing films like The Aviator,Blood diamond,Body of lies and The Departed but Jack Dawson(titanic) was still somewhere alive in people's hearts (read women:p).This movie pretty much changes his image for good.This movie has precisely done what The matrix did to Kean's career.Like Neo,Dom Cobb will be remembered for a very long time to come.Inception is essentially an off-shoot of the Matrix, the only difference being the fact that we are not dealing with any machines or programs but human psyches.Dom Cobb steals ideas from people's dreams but this time he's entrusted with the job of implanting a new idea a.k.a. 'inception'.The multi-layered dreams were not only hard to penetrate for Cobb's squad but also for the unsuspecting audience that came waltzing in with popcorn to watch 'Batman director' directing Leonardo Di Caprio of 'Titanic fame' in a 'Matrix type' movie!;)
Chandni Chowk to China (2009)
Do I smell a Kung-Fu Panda here!?
Wow..How did warner brothers even consider making this crappy movie in the first place!. This is movie is nothing but a blatantly cheap rip-off the animated classic Kung Fu Panda!!.How low can anyone stoop as to copy an animated movie!.Po the Panda(who's adopted) works at his father's noodle shop and accidentally is mistaken for the dragon warrior.He's ultimately chosen to fight the tyrant 'tai lung' the snow leopard.Tai lung once wreaked havoc in the valley of peace.Master Oogway the turtle has a premonition that Tai Lung will return and once again disrupt the peace in the valley.Even though this is a clichéd concept done to death in a million Chinese martial-art movies you can't deny the similarities between the two movies.Nikhil Advani.. go get a script.get a life
The Ruins (2008)
A boo boo bloodbath minus the boo boo!
what an apt name for a film that ruins your Friday night!. senseless blood n gore.. stereotypical American 20 something backpacker kinds in search of adventure!. Wow! how novel. believe me i'm just scraping the surface.I thought 'Ghost of mars' was the worst thriller/horror movie ever but make no mistakes this one steals the limelight,it takes the cake like not the cake ....it takes the entire bakery!. people are pretty much done with mummies,pyramids,hostile Mexicans,lost n victimized American backpackers,carnivorous plants and the whole assortment!.I have to admit that my curiosity levels did shoot up when they were driven up the pyramid by those village people and the audience expected some kinda' mythical creature or deity to come into the picture liven the evening..but nothing of that sort happened.the director also didn't have a clue as to what to do with the German guy after he's rendered useless when he has a bad fall hence he got his legs amputated!.It still beats me as to why the plants are not active at all times killing everyone at one go and they take their own sweet time to kill them at a gradual pace.this strategy i believe is borrowed from 'the strangers'! which i think was one helluva movie............ cellphone/voices mimicking plants came as a shock but in no way a saving grace for a sunken ship the movie turned out to be in the end.