Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

Director : Michael Davis.
Genere : Action / Thriller / Comedy.
Cast : Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci.
Rating : Must Watch

Well I can’t say this as a heartwarming movie or it carries you in its magical arms, but it does pumps up your adrenalin. At least I can say this is what one expects from a Hollywood flick of its kind. Like its name, it never stops shooting from the very beginning. But guess what; I was enjoying the music of guns and bullets. Shoot 'Em Up is a perfect trinity of action packed thriller-comedy, which doesn’t have even a single minute of boredom to let you take your eyes off.
In one line- it’s the story of a hero along with a beauty tries to save a baby from the villains by shooting them up. “My god! Do we really suck or this guy really that good?” I can’t say may be like our hero said “Eating carrots can magnificently improve one’s eye sight” Or maybe the others are shooting blanks, but I truly enjoyed it. Although I give full credits to the special effects team (both Audio and video), I must say the dialogs are perfectly written to go well with the spirit of the action that’s going on the screen. All Thumps-Up for Michael Davis. And the reason I didn’t categorize this mainly as a comedy is just because the hero doesn’t kills the baby himself at the end (probably for a better cause, like saving the world from a deadly virus the baby is carrying or something) and it doesn’t have Tom Cruise from Tropic Thunder as the main villain.

The Prestige (2006)

Director : Christopher Nolan.
Genere : Drama / Mystery.
Cast : Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson.
Rating : Must Watch
Magic tricks consists of three parts “The Pledge”, “The Turn” and “The Prestige”. This movie is about two rival magicians who try to become the greatest magicians. They try to sabotage each other’s “Prestige” to upstage the other. But when Borden comes up with his ultimate trick “The Transported Man”, Angiers was dumbfounded and becomes obsessed to find the secret behind the trick.

The trick is told when the trick is sold. The movie is a thrilling race between the two to expose the “Prestige” of each other’s ultimate trick. The movie explores through the world of magic and magicians. An ultimate sacrifice is necessary to perform the ultimate trick.

Christopher Nolans’s dramatic story telling itself makes Prestige more magical. A movie is much like a magic performance; both are meant to make belief. Like magic a movie can also be divided into three parts, The introduction, The cause and The climax. Magic can never be explained but to be experienced and so is the movie.

Mongol (2007)

Director : Sergei Bodrov.
Genere : Drama / History .
Cast : Tadanobu Asano, Khulan Chuluun, Tegen Ao.
Rating : Must Watch

Mongol is the director’s re-creation of young Temudjin’s journey to become one of the greatest conquerors the world ever saw. The movie concentrates on the early life of Temudjin before becoming the Great Genghis Khan. One of the greatest difficulties while making a movie based on historic legends is the clarity of actual events. There will be mysteries through out their lifetime and the film makers have to depend on fiction to fill up the gaps. This is not an exception for that although the film maker was bold enough to left out some blanks as such. Any thing can happen; even a divine intervention won’t be an exaggeration while telling a legendary story like this.

Temudjin was not born as a king. He was thrown to slavery after his father’s death. But destiny has a plan, life taught him every thing. He learned everything by experience. It all became clear when he finally realize that “There was no place for me to hide”
From then nothing could stand in his way from becoming the Great Genghis Khan.

Mongol beautifully portrays his family, a beautiful love and trust between Temudjin and his wife Borte, the culture and lifestyle of tribal Mongols. The Cinematography and Art department deserves special mention along with the director’s bold efforts to make this movie such wonderful.

Roger & Me (1989)

Director : Michael Moore.
Genere : Documentary.
Cast : -NA-
Rating : Must Watch


Roger and me is the directorial debut of the controversial film maker Michael Moore. It documents the Moors quest to meet G.M’s chairman Roger Smith and persuade him to spend a day in Flint, so that he could see the present wretched life of people who lost their job after the shutdown of G.M in Flint on his decision. Flint, Michigan is the home town for both General Motors and Moore. Flint enjoyed prosperity than any other sate in America. The shut down of General Motors made 30000 individuals jobless. Moor points the camera toward the horrors that followed the shut down.

Thirty thousand job less people and a city with no hope, Flint become one of the worst places in America to live. Crime rate increased, people and authorities tried their best to over come this. Moor captures all this with a great sense of humor. Through out the film he makes many desperate attempts to meet the chairman, but all his efforts turned to be futile. Michigan state authority tries many methods to keep the people occupied. They even build a new jail complex with double purpose, to keep the convicts and to give job to the jobless workers. They celebrate the opening by renting out the jail cells to wealthy couples.

Roger and me clearly casts the life of both wealthy and poor and the bridge between the two. It shows us vividly the greedy face of capitalism and about the importance of socialism and welfare system. Although many criticized about the wrong chronology and a little misdirection of Moor towards the G.M than to the Government, Roger and me is well said to impress