KumarjitDey

The South Korean film industry has produced some of the world's favourite action-packed revenge dramas. The Vengeance trilogy is a personal favourite. Kim Jin-min's 'My Name' is no different.

'My Name' starts with a regular college-going girl, Yoon Ji-woo, who lives alone and is being closely monitored by the cops as she is the daughter of a most wanted criminal. Harassed in college, she gets into a fight with the bullies and decides to drop school. On her birthday night, she receives a call from her fugitive dad and lets him know that he means nothing to her anymore since he decided to leave her alone. Song Joon Su, the girl's father, having lived a discreet double life, establishes the base of the storyline after he gets killed in his own doorstep when he arrived to visit his daughter. Bereaved and filled with vengeance, Yoon Ji-woo goes to impenetrable heights, from joining a criminal organisation to police force, and will stop at nothing to avenge her father's death.

With violent, gory and well-acted hand-to-hand (baton-to-knife mostly) action sequences and unexpected twists and turns, 'My Name' is pretty fast-paced to keep you binge-watching without a single yawn. The dramatic parts are accompanied with a perfectly-fitting soft melancholic score composed by Swervy and Jeminn. The direction and camera work was out of my expectation; very well done. Although the show ends high on a "you need to be a monster to kill a monster" cliché, its worth a watch for the incredible performances and supreme action choreography.

'Night Teeth' is writer/director Adam Randall's second movie after 'I See You', which was strong on drama and elevated by academy award winner Helen Hunt and the rest of it's casts' fitting performances. 'Night Teeth', on the other hand, is an unsuccessful mix of genres, wherein none of the ingredients will fulfil your desired taste buds. With a few forgettable bites and barely any action pieces, this highly unoriginal movie hardly has any thrills in store for you.

The film follows a happy-go-lucky college student and part-time chauffeur, Benny, whose life turns upside down when he is taken hostage by two female vampires, disguised as party hoppers, who uses his service to stop at multiple locations in Los Angeles to kill all the vampire bosses in one night. The film could have been decent judging by its plot outline. Unfortunately though, the filmmakers focused more on use of colours and lighting than on the screenplay and editing.

Jorge Lendeborg Jr., who plays Benny, attempts to be a lovable character, as the director wants him to be, but fails to establish that connection. Debby Ryan is hot as Blaire. The rest of the cast is not worth mentioning. And if you have seen Megan Fox in the trailer, you have seen her in the movie - its that short of a cameo.

My final words. If you have no other movies in your watchlist and have run out of other ideas to escape from harsh reality, you could definitely give this a watch.

'A Shot in the Dark' stars Peter Sellers in the lead role of an Inspector with such self-proclaimed deduction skills that if he says he can solve a case of murder within "two seconds", it requires him to experiment with his profound investigative prowess in an entire feature-length film to solve it.

"Give me 10 men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world!" - this epic line uttered by Chief Inspector Dreyfus in a great deal of dismay outlines the wacky character of Inspector Jacques Clouseau played by Sellers.

'A Shot in the Dark' is the second installment of the 'Pink Panther' series, and the funniest of them all. The plot goes on like this. Inspector Clouseau is sent (mistakenly) to the Ballon residence to investigate the murder of Mr. Ballon's Spanish chauffeur Miguel. The Inspector instantly falls in love with the charming maid, Maria Gambrelli, towards whom all the evidences point a finger. But, Clouseau strongly contends that someone else is the murderer who framed her. He thinks she might know something about the murder though. So he releases her from jail and spies on her. Ill-fated circumstances prevent the Inspector from successfully spying her moves, and eventually more murders take place. Is she really the murderer? If not, who framed her? Why would anyone kill a chauffeur? Why are more murders taking place? And finally, the most important question, will Clouseau be able to solve the case?

All the actors performed brilliantly, but it is Sellers who stole the show by giving the performance of an inept detective fumbling and bumbling his way around solving murder mysteries, but mostly bumping into furnitures, snagging crucial areas of his clothes, falling out of windows, following Miss Gambrelli to a nudist camp and what not.

So in conclusion I would like to say, watch this film if you are in mood for some good slapstick humour.