surjithbhaskar

I have read several reviews in movie sites and critics stating this is a movie is for people who think they are smart people. I am not a scientist and I am not coming from a English language country. But what I made out from the early review was that one must watch the film trying not to miss even a single frame. The first half as many critics pointed out is a bit slow, but I might add is not dull as many are commenting. Then from the second half the film gathers pace and go through breakneck speed with action and thrills in between. Most of the critics saying they do not like the film were not concentrating enough on the film to hate the film like they did. It is okay if people say that the film is not great, but it is definitely untruthful to say that the film is bad. I have not seen such an original concept in many years and seriously feel that we movie loving public should support films like this rather than superhero films. I am appalled at critics who rate Twilight higher than Inception, I must say they have no taste and this is what I would like to say to them "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."

I gave the above heading for a reason. It was given due to concrete reasons, not for a catchy headline. I do not understand the Korean language, but the subtitles helped me a great deal. But what made understanding the movie easy was the acting and direction, which was fabulous. Especially towards the end of the film the viewer just have the same emotions of the police detectives and understands their emotions as well as the suspect. Normally in Hollywood films, the hero would be the detective. So he might be shown as a very cool as a cucumber sort of guy. But here we can feel their desperation. This is not a fast paced lots of action kind of film, but after watching the entire film, I must say I was touched by it and Mr. Bong Joon-ho, I am a fan of yours.

For all you people who has been shedding tears about no good movie gets made nowadays, it is time for you to stop worrying, well for the time being at least, because this is a terrific movie. The acting by all the actors, especially Lal and Prithviraj was terrific without going over the top. The direction, screenplay and camera work is commendable as well. It takes guts to put your money on such projects and Lal after the endless masala flicks has come up trumps with this. It might be fictional, the story might be one sided. Like in one review I saw a reviewer asking where is the evil man's side of the story. So if one can be very harsh that is the minor blip if one can say it so. But overall in malayalam cinema for the last decade or so this is one of the very few gems that have come out. I never expected it from Madhupal!!! Well, I guess I was wrong. So in short all you people who like good cinema, please support this film by buying an original copy of the film from video centers...please...

I have heard many complaints about Avatar, one being it is too long. It is a bit lengthy, but after seeing the film I did not feel I can say I have seen a scene that should be cut. The other thing is about it is similar to some movies that were made before. I think there are not many subjects that movies have not touched upon. The real credit to this movie is that the superior visual effects and direction made people to forget any negative points that the film had. I am from a part of world where teenagers go to film just to shout and it is annoying to sit with people who just wont let others watch film peacefully. There were many people like that when I saw the movie as well, but what really happened was that their mouths were wide open by the brilliance of the movie that they forgot their usual behavior. The 3D experience placed them in Pandora and they were completely in that world. James Cameron just proved he is the king yet again. This is not the best film that the world has seen, but it is entertaining beyond compare. Everybody give it one shot at least please.

I am an ardent watcher of movies and never thought a producer will spent such amount of the limited theaters compared to other south Indian languages. I was pleasantly surprised to see Gokulam Gopalan made such an effort. I too believed that this was an over-hyped movie due to the budget. But having seen the movie I must say I am impressed with it. About the story part, everyone knows it, so it was the presentation that caught my attention. More than 3 hours, I thought there would have been boring minutes in-between. But there were none. Makers of Jodha Akbar please note this, you need not have a budget of Ten million to make a movie visually splendid and for almost a similar length movie, I must say I was bored for some part of Jodha Akbar. What makes the film click is the acting. Mammootty in a restrained manner and Sarathkumar wowed every one. Manoj K Jayan and Padmapriya also gave one of their best performances. I am an avid watcher of Hollywood films, so when I say action in this film is good it is not an exaggeration. Sure it has wired stunts but the action scenes are intense enough. Music was a let down, but sound design by Rasool Pookkutty was not. This man is surely going to go places. What made the action scenes seem fabulous was his hard work. MTV is a master story teller and he proved this once again. I stopped short from giving full marks because of the under par casting of foreign actors. They seemed out of place and not one of them convinced viewers by their acting that they are from that century while the rest of the cast was superb. Last but not the least, Hariharan, I never thought he would pull it off, hats off. Cinematography and editing is fabulous as well. Overall this is the most well made Malayalam film till now if you delete the foreign acting bit. Not even a single Malayalam movie fan should miss it.