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I was hyped to see this one after the fresh surprise that was WandaVision. But the negative reviews that WandaVision received should have told me that the world prefers beautiful crap more than it does unembellished gems. And that's what we got in the end in Loki - beautiful crap that is receiving great praise from fans who want blind entertainment and don't give a damn about storyline as long as the charm is there. I understand now why Hollywood is producing stupid movies like Fast and Furious more and more every year now. People are demanding it.

Loki.. is a beautiful piece of.. nothing. Okay.. something. But only something.. because when you get plot-holes the size of a planet, how can you have anything of substance in the storyline? There is no character consistency, no plot consistency, no imagination (everyone looks like humans, every single being on any other planet looks exactly like humans and have very human like cultures. The entire TVA is filled with humans and the only non-human characters turn out to be robots in the end and the real villain turns out to be.. well.. a human..) but yes, something is there; and that something is - charisma.

This is a show that is literally carried solely by Tom and his depiction of Loki. You take him out and replace him with anyone else and people would be giving it 3-5 stars at max because once again, apart from him, nothing of note is there. It's not like time travel can not be done in a well written manner; it has been done in hundreds of books and mangas and series and movies before but this one, nah. Since this series tries to merge time travel with multiverse, with supervillains, with gods, with friendship, with love, with humour, and with almost everything else sellable in the world, it forgets to focus and develop any one thing completely. And in the end, we get a mishmash of everything in small quantity and nothing in full. Great ride for those who like to drool over special effects and charisma, and a confused, nonsensical, unimaginative drivel for those who like to search for deeper congruence in their fiction. Full on entertainment with no logic behind it. This is Bollywood at its best. Ah.. I forgot.. it's Hollywood.. but it didn't feel like it.. except for the time when the special effects were used, it didn't feel like even once...

I think - to each her own.

I went to the theatre to watch this movie inspite of the poor to average critics reviews mainly because I loved Tumbbad and the trailer was really intriguing. I was the only one in the whole theatre. Yes, before the show began, the staff at the multiplex even joked that 'it's a special private screening for you, sir'. And I was wondering if I was going in for a really bad or a really good movie because its trailer had definitely garnered million of views on youtube, and yet, the theatre was empty, echoing the judgements of the so called critics. Fortunately or unfortunately it turned out to be the latter. Fortunately, because Laal Kaptaan is truly a cinematic experience. It's on par with the best of Hollywood movies for that matter - the acting is top notch, the story telling is outstanding, the direction is almost flawless and the cinematography and the imagination of the the 18th century India is simply extraordinary. It's not soft; It's brutal. But anyone who has taken any serious interest in our history would know that the whole 18th century was probably the most brutal period of India, so, yes, it is how it should always have been. Not rosy. Not happy. Not unity in diversity. Dark and murky and bloody and filled with selfish characters fighting and murdering for their own prosperity. Unfortunately, because this film definitely didn't deserve an empty theatre. It might not have deserved a full one because it might be a little too slow or dark for many people, but definitely not an empty theatre. If I compare it to a Hollywood movie, it would be right there with one of the Tarantino ones. If this movie were a straight Netflix release, people would be going crazy about it, and that shows the vast difference in taste the Indian movie goers have from that of those who subscribe to Netflix. People may say that the story is too simplistic but so was that of Kill Bill or Django Unchained or No Country for Old Men or Taxi Driver or many other Hollywood movies. Yes, the direction and the story telling is that good that I am taking the example of the best of the Hollywood movies to defend whatever little flaws the movie has. It made me think over every single sequence and most of the scenes I disagreed with at the time of watching seemed absolutely in line with the characters to me later. Every single action perfectly justified whether I liked it or not, I just couldn't imagine the character not doing that. That's some good writing there. I would gladly watch this one again in a theatre and will try to push my friends to go watch it as well. After all, why would movie makers invest in projects like this if they don't fare well at box office inspite of being sublimely executed.

Good show. Much better than the usual bollywood crap and way better than our low grade tv shows but still a little far from the great tv/online shows that hollywood produces. I think people are giving it 10 out of sentiments. It's no Breaking Bad or GoT or Westworld. And we, the viewers, should actually start comparing our shows and cinemas with the best of international cinema, because only then will we start getting the same quality in future. This show deserves 6 or 7 for the brilliant acting, direction and background score but writing and the pacing definitely felt a little off.

There was a time in the movie when I started laughing, and not like giggling or smiling, started laughing so damn loud that someone could have thought I was watching a comedy.

This movie is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who likes sci-fi. I don't understand why Jake and Ryan even signed this film. Take those two out of the movie and you do not get a single reason to watch it. The story is just too cliche but that's not even the main problem with the movie because the same stories can be retold in different manners. And in sci-fi genre it's quite a common phenomena to use common features from past works. But Life, no, no, no. This is an old story, told in an even more old way with just some new beautiful CGI.

My biggest gripe with most poorly written Sci-fi is that the writers, usually to avoid hard work, proper research, patience and use of imagination, make their characters ridiculously stupid. It makes their work easy. How do I keep the creature contained but then let him enter the ship? Well, let's have one of the brainiest people of earth break the security protocol. Why? Because security is not his department. And you know, astronauts don't give a damn about protocols other than of their own area. How about containing the creature again and then making him reenter the ship. Hey! Why can't another genius from earth do the exact same thing once again? And the biggest of it - let's break down the communications first so everything else in the movie can be easily turned into a complicated situation. And how do we that? Well, the alien who came back to life just a while back and broke free out of his cell an hour back is not only smart enough to understand the whole structure of a giant space ship and the technology behind it, but is also intelligent enough to break it. Check Mate. We are fighting god!! And guess what, an intelligent creature like it doesn't even have its own language, well, because it doesn't need to communicate, it only needs to kill.

For me, the movie died many times. And after a while, finally, instead of caring for any of the stupid scientists or fearing the most intelligent creature of this universe, I just started laughing. This is possibly the worst movie I have seen in a long time. And if not for Jake Gyllenhaal, I would have stopped watching it at least half an hour before its end. And the end! What an end!! The moment they started discussing it, I realised what was going to happen and no, I am not one of those people who can see twists coming from miles ahead. I am one of those who are usually left wondering right unto the last moment.

Well, this one was a huge wastage of time and definitely a movie that I didn't expect to see Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds in.

I avoided this one for quite some time because of how ridiculous the premise looked in theory. Giant sized brainless monsters eating humans alive, it sounded just another variation of some type of zombie apocalypse, but man was I wrong.

After hearing its name again and again, I finally decided to give it a try and it's amazing. The show is brilliant and extremely addictive and no, it's not just about giant brainless monsters eating humans, that's just the base premise of the show upon which a very intriguing and crafty knitted story is told in an even craftier way. One of the best shows I have watched without a doubt.

Couldn't give it 10 because sometimes the characters in this show come across as stupid or unbelievable (too much attempt to show them as beings with fallible or erroneous character) because of their actions but nonetheless, it is made up for by the storyline, the twists and turns, and the brilliant action sequences. It is worth many watches.

This review contains some things that might be considered minor spoilers.

OK. First thing first. It is not half as bad as people make it out to be. BvS was bad. Iron Man 2 and 3 were bad. Green Lantern was pathetic and so was fantastic 4. This movie is good.

Now to the review. I think people have made it a habit to beat the hell out of DC movies just for fun. I watched the movie and enjoyed watching it. Are there things that could have been better? Yes. But hell, if people can enjoy other superhero movies that are pure entertainment and very less in terms of storyline, why not this? Avengers was awesome but it had a very kiddish and predictable storyline too. Wonder Woman was wonderful but come on, it was no Unbreakable or Watchmen, and it wasn't supposed to be either because these movies are supposed to be fun. So, if you go there just to enjoy the movie, I think you would love it.

Good things about the movie - Action is good. Acting is good. Comedy is good too; they gave away all the good lines in the promos though which I think was a mistake. Batman felt like what he is - a man with no super powers but still a superhero due to his other characteristics. It felt nice because he was particularly shown to be a vulnerable character.

Bad things - I personally didn't like Flash and Batman's costumes much because their necks wouldn't move and it was a constant distraction. Steppenwolf's character could have been used in a better way. Sure, he was strong but also, shallow. Same thing stands for Aquaman too. Either something was really wrong with Henry Cavill's face or I had just forgotten how he looked. Will have to watch it again for that.

Really bad thing - I somehow don't want to see Jesse Eisenberg as Lex ever again. They should listen to the fans and just replace him. That one scene of him playing Luthor made me cringe.

Last, there should have been Darkseid. He should have been there, even if for just one scene. I was hoping to see him till the very last name rolled on the screen and was disappointed to see that he wasn't.

I don't come to write reviews here ever but had to write one for this garbage for sure. Now I, for one, liked the first part. Not because of its VFX, not at all, but because of the storytelling. The VFX of the first movie were definitely over-hyped and were maybe better than your typical bollywood crap but nowhere in the league of an average Hollywood movie. I think they were worse than that of Magadheera for that matter. But I still loved the movie because I felt there was a wonderful story waiting to be discovered in this entire series and it was being told in a very nice way, innovative for an Indian movie.

Coming to the second part now. It's utter nonsense. Here, I said it. VFX are a huge step down from the first movie and there are a lot of scenes, where you can tell that the set or the fight is absolutely fake. But as I said, I don't judge Indian movies purely on VFX ever because I know that our budget can not match that of Hollywood. The biggest disappointment for me was the storyline, or the lack of it, and the way it was told.

The first half had almost no story development. It was filled with the same old overused cheap gimmicks that have been done in like a hundred Indian movies. Hero is champ but he acts like a dumb person and ends up wooing heroine. Crap. Highly predictable. The director turned Katappa, one of the biggest shines of the first movie for me, into a joker just to appease the mass.

Now, I didn't have any great interest in why Katappa killed Bahubali. I think everyone had this clue that it had to have happened on the orders of Sivagami, and so it was also obvious that she must have been duped by her husband and son, still, the curiosity was to know how. And boy did that disappoint!! I don't know how anyone can take that thread of a storyline and fast as the wind of a story development, for an answer to the question that had become the centre of interest of millions of people in last two- three years. It was pure nonsense. In an era when we have Game of Thrones to understand the depth of politics that kings and warriors can connive, this thing felt like coming right out of an early 90s' Indian movie. And people are satisfied with it???

It just dampens my belief in our people's ability to think. We just accept any half-baked poorly conceived idea for a plot. And it is that because of which our writers don't take the pain to think deeply over the plot lines.

Deeply disappointed by the movie. I had high hopes but I should have known better. Unfortunately, the type of hype this movie has received is going to spoil Indian cinema's image everywhere. People all over the world won't come to know that we are also capable of making Drishyam; they would remember us with Bahubali 2.