The Heat

The Heat Movie Review

The Heat, starring Sandra Bullock and Mellisa McCarthy seems to be a new age comedy. From the genre of Buddy-Cop movies, THE HEAT is for sure different in its treatment. Sandra Bullock has played a cop before but this time she plays a straight-faced workaholic cop.

Maybe, THE HEAT is kind of a mess, but it’s a funny mess. Bullock plays Ashburn. An FBI agent, competent but suffers from by-the-book syndrome. She gets competitive with her co-workers and precisely the reason she has not won any friends in the community. She is so obsessed with proving her intelligence that she even competes with a K9, from her unit and feels proud when she wins over it.

Come’s McCarthy who plays Mullins. A detective from the Boston PD. She unlike Ashburn is being feared from her fellow colleagues for her arrogance, Vulgarity and steadfast commitment towards her job. McCarthy’s style of slapstick humor and everything-is-funny does make her presence felt on the screen. I take the liberty to state that at times, she shadows Sandra bullock completely.

The duo of Ashburn and Mullins have been put on a case to arrest a brutal drug kingpin. The plot is not a Beverly hills cops or a Die Hard. But then it has its share of the cops and bad guys. Many a times in the movie the story takes a turn and becomes painful to bear. Trust me when I say, I had to pinch myself to bring myself back to senses.

The movie feels like different pieces of comic strip put together with some boring plots in the middle. You just wake up for the comic part. Rest you can sleep away to glory.

Paul Figg (director) knows his way around the actors. For sure Bullock, America’s sweetheart has been wasted big time. After winning an Oscar, I was expecting Bullock to be more sensible on the choice of the scripts. The only saving grace of the movie is McCarthy. She is one of the best comic I have come across in recent times. It’s like every word coming out of her mouth is for sure to tickle your funny bone. The McCarthy comedy is slapstick and in-your-face.

The Plot thickens only when Ashburn (bullock) and Mullins (McCarthy) are out to pin the drug lord so that they can save Mullins brother and Ashburn can win her long-awaited promotion.

So will they be able to sacrifice their personal ambitions and the love for their family in the line of duty, is what THE HEAT is all about.

Rating: 2.5/5

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Raanjhana Movie Review

Movie Review

Sad Sad Sad!! How come a movie which looks so beautiful before interval becomes so painful and irritating in its second half?

Yes, this is what you’ll feel when you watch Raanjhana. Started with the young character and most favorite kid Naman Jain (Jangiya of Chiller Party) has done a great job as always. When grown up, Dhanush (Kundan) takes over the role. He was in love with Sonam Kapoor (Zoya) since childhood.

In the first half, there’s a good mixture of comedy and love. Kundan does nothing but follows Zoya who studies in std. 9th. He follows her everywhere and gets slapped for 16 times just to know her name. 

Eventually she falls in love with him but her parents come to know about it and sends her out of the town for further studies. Here Dhanush keeps waiting for her to come back. When she’s back, she doesn’t remember kundan. Being a matured woman, she tells Kundan that their childhood love was just childish and nothing else.

Twist comes when Abhay Deol (Akram) enters. He plays a secure yet confident university student, socialist and a budding politician. Zoya falls in love with him while studying in Delhi and joins his party. This part will also give a hint of Delhi rape case and some political facts.

So the question is that how come a movie which was expected to be a love story suddenly takes a political turn? After Akram’s death due to a mistake by Kundan, Kundan feels guilty and joins his party. He steps into akram’s shoes and takes over completely but then India has politicians to run after you till death and that’s what happens at the end. And while he was dying, Zoya falls in love with him. What rubbish? I mean, he tried to get her attention in the whole movie and when he is dying that girl falls for him but “He doesn’t care about it anymore.”

I know it sound confusing and messed here too. But that’s what happened while watching it.

Movie Reviews Ahmedabad

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Monsters University Movie Review

Monsters University Movie Review 

 

Monsters University, like its 2001 predecessor, Monsters Inc. proves a solid comedy no matter what. It’s actually a college-comedy with smarts, heart and a lot of laughs.

Story of Mike and Sully the lovable “scarers” working at Monsters Inc. but how did they meet? Were they always scary? Were young Mike and Sulley always “besties”?

The prequel takes us back to college, where future “Monsters, Inc.” pals Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) and James “Sully” Sullivan (John Goodman) first meet. It’s hate at first sight for these two. The two argue constantly, a war that leaves them on the brink of expulsion. Eventually they lead a fraternity of geeky-clumsy monsters called Oozma Kappa in a series of competitions with other far-cooler fraternities. They must win in order to be able to stay in the scaring school.

The film is entertaining and hilariously funny at times. There is so much silly cuteness going on even in the background. It features all the entertainment and heart you’ve come to expect from Pixar.

Rating 3.5 star

 

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World War Z Movie Review

Not quite long back it was all about Vampires and the frenzy for the paranormal still hasn’t waned, it is indeed the dawn of the Zombie movies. So what do you expect out of a Zombie movie that stars Brad Pitt? Well something different right? Different it is, for sure; but not exactly in a good way.

Director Marc Forster of ‘Quantum of Solace’ fame manages to keep you hooked on, making sure you hold your breath for the ‘next’ but when the film ends, you wonder exactly what was so new about it? The saving grace of the film are the superb action sequences & visual effects. There are flashes (& fleshes) of surprises that will scare your pants off but you leave with a feeling that there is something missing.

The star cast is a mixed ensemble; of course lead by Brad Pitt. There are moments that highlight his acting skills but even the pseudo-impact one liners, the dialogue delivery, and a roster of supporting actors or the misplaced humor cannot eventually save the monotony of the film. There are some inferences form the Max brooks book of the same title but the movie lacks the multi-perspective take of the book. The movie is void of a heart figuratively and literally possibly because Zombies are dead people after all (pun intended)

The story, based on Max Brooks’s Novel follows United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) who has retired and now lives a peaceful life with his family. The world has been attacked by a ‘disease’ that will convert Earth into a world of the living-dead if not stopped. Nobody knows the origin of the disease or how to control it (yes, you have heard it before). Lane is called upon by the Government to help them investigate when he traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself. Can Brad save the world? Your guess is as good as mine.

If your expectations are clear – you want to watch a scary zombie movie with great action sequences, breath-taking visual effects and want to see dead people walking around the globe – World War Z will not disappoint you.

3 / 5 Stars overall.

Ahmedabad

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Superman Man Of Steel - Movie Review

Superman Man Of Steel

If you liked the last Superman movie, you will fall in love with this one. Of course Superman’s story has been told over & over again but ‘Man Of Steel’ has been narrated like never before. For what I thought would be a hardcore action movie turned out to be a brilliantly directed movie with visual-effects that will keep you glued to the screen for 149 minutes straight. Although Zack Snyder of ‘300’ fame directed man of steel, traces of now producer Nolan’s remarkable directorial style ( of The dark knight rises fame) can be seen throughout the film. Henry Cavill and Amy Adams have also done justice to their parts owing to the superb VFX and direction.

The new superman movie claims to have no relations to the previous series and the story line too is quite different. Krypton is dying while General Zod has declared a civil war against the planet. Superman’s father, Zor-El, ships the newborn Superman to earth, to save him & also to protect his species of Krypton’s civilization. Superman is brought up by a couple on Earth, teaching him how to cope with his powers without revealing them to the world. The secret of Superman finally gets revealed when Zor-El attacks Earth to capture Superman & to destroy Earth to make it their new home there. The story has a number of turning points that make it a must watch for superhero movie buffs!

Yes, you have seen Superhero movies in past, you have seen those brilliantly shot action sequences, superb one-liners, mind-blowing visual effects but wait till you have seen Man of Steel.

Although the film doesn’t call for a sequel, after watching Man of steel I am definitely waiting for one …!

Rating : 3.5 / 5

Edited By: Sagar Dave

Ahmedabad

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Ankur Arora Murder Case - Movie Review

 Ankur Arora Murder Case

Watch it for noble intentions of makers!!

Film is based on a real-life incident where a boy dies on the operation table due to medical negligence, Seeing the trailer of Ankur Arora Murder Case’s, you get a feeling that this is one important film. But what kills the experience is it’s long first half and uninteresting & slow second half. The film is very monotonous and there seems to be no evident effort to make Ankur Arora’s Murder Case interesting. Even the background music is flat. The Story is decent enough but has been badly directed. 

I’ll go with 2.0 stars and if you wish, you can save money by not watching it.

From: CityShor - Ahmedabad

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Fukrey Hindi Movie Review

Fukrey Hindi Movie

The trailer of Fukrey promises to be a fun-filled movie. Is it actually?

Produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani – guys behind Dil Chahata Hai, Zindagi na milegi dobara, Rock on… can they make it again?

Star cast – not so known… will you watch it? Guys, don’t miss it… yes, watch nothing but this. It’s probably the most surprised and promising package of 2013. Yes, you are reading it right. The movie in the first half is almost 4 stars. The quirky punches, comic timings especially Choocha’s (Varun Sharma) timing, expressions entertains you to the fullest, its storyline and the way they want to make big money in a short-cut way is very much different and all and all entertainer. When you start a movie, you don’t get to predict what is coming next as it keeps on entertaining you with their one-liners, not making you realize that they are actually building a story line.

Though there are many favorite scenes but my favorite is the way Choocha dreams about his friend and weird things which Hunny (his friend and lead actor) decodes to come up with a winning lottery number. I am kinda guaranteeing you that you will come back from the intermission very fast… as they leave you at ‘make or break moment’… and you don’t want to miss the outcome.

Honestly speaking they couldn’t keep the comedy consistent after intermission – though it doesn’t get bad but yes it brings down your tempo to a bit.

All and all… its one of the nicest movies in 2013 and you can’t miss it.

From: CityShor - Ahmedabad

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