RA.One

Ji~~ i watched Bollywood film too. and this one seems to blow away some habitual conclusion that Bollywood films are only melodramatic lovey-dovey sapppy stories. yup, how the mighty India film makers have grown. and should it be made by Malaysians, wpuld have been deemed as 1-Malaysia themed, as its main characters were comprised of multi ethnic actors/actresses.

Trailer:


Plot:
a somewhat loser of a Dad, Shekhar (Shah Rukh Khan) had created a game that is catered to his Son's whims: a Villain that is too powerful for the Hero to beat. the advance in technology has made that the Villain, RA.One able to escape from the virtual world into our realm and go on rampage to kill the person who played the Hero, which is actually the Son, Prateek (Armaan Verma) with a moniker: Lucifer.

so RA.One escaped and killed numerous people (Akashi, Shekhar, Akashi's mom) to reach his ultimate victim: Lucifer. and Prateek in order to stop RA.One had freed G.One, the hero that resembles his Dad, only much cooler. Sonia (Kareena Kapoor), his mother and Shekhar's wife, decided that after Shekhar's death, they are better off at India. after eliminating RA.One (he'll be resurrected again, though - the Villain is unbeatable, you see..), G.One tagged along in order to protect Sonia and Prateek, whilst making a pass at Sonia along the way.

taking refuge at the family's home in mumbai, India, the pseudo family was later pursued by RA.One, this time assuming a decidedly delicious villain body of Arjun Rampal. Prateek was later kidnapped, Sonia was brainwashed and made to drive a speeding train full of people, and G.One had to save them all.

la-la-la happened that culminated to the scene where RA.One and G.One battled each other for survival. Prateek helped G.One to survive and together they eliminated RA.One once and for all. G.One then died too, leaving Prateek, his H.A.R.T., the essence of his being, so told.

6 months later, back in London, being a computer whiz that Prateek is, G.One was reincarnated again.. the End.


Petpeeves:

corny scene 1: shekhar's Hairdo!!!

corny scene 2: it made me cringed at the airport scene where a gay Police salivates mentally at a multi-pierced G.One. euwww.. how indeed the Bolly film has transversed!

corny scene 3: where Sonia has to shout "touch me" in order for G.One to save her. hello! just shout 'save me' je boleh tak?

corny scene 4: the one that had Chitti (Rajnikanth) appearing for the first time. enough said! (i am still mentally cringing!)

corny scene 5: the helplessly infectious corny song scene of Chammak Challo.. hahahah

corny scene 6: the train wreck that cost india's railway landmark building. serious. how can a part of a speeding train can cause that much damage? hello! also the scene where a Volkswagon 4 wheel drive smashed clean its way through a double decker bus was a bit too much. really. it made me think of having that car for its ability to stay undented even after a high speeding car chase.


Riviu:
i enjoyed this movie somewhat. the sci-fi effects were good, especially the first fight between RA.One and G.One in the real world. when cars are flying so magnificently, i'm salivating through and through!

yar, the movie is corny and cheesy, but entertaining and surely a cut above the usual Bollywood films that we always expected to be. but then, i haven't watch Enthiran yet, which i was told, was of the same genre as RA.One. Indian SFX movies, who would have imagined :grins:

but then, the plot is lacking, really. the relationship between G.One and Sonia was lukewarm though the script was telling us that G.One is amorous and keeps making a pass at Sonia. the story didn't at all include pihak berkuasa, even though the car driven by Sonia is wrecking everything here and there across London to escape RA.One in Akashi's form. agaknya polis semua bercuti ya? and the part that even though there were deaths at the wrecked lab where RA.One was made, the company still decided that there will be a launching, yes, in India for goodness sake! couldn't they put two and two together and see that the games are fatal?? plus, what multi million company would be satisfied that the ultimate game they are launching is only a 3-level game? no players would be satisfied to have the game ends so abruptly. so not commercially viable!

and yes, shouldn't there be a soft launching where kids are able to play it first so that the company will be ensured of the marketability of its product? is Prateek's enthuasism alone deemed enough? and what company would invest to build a game that follows one kid's whim?

hmmm.. yes, the plot got big holes... but was charming enough, for kids these days, i think.

the Switch

no, not the brilliant dancer Switch, but a movie called 'the switch'!

the Plot:
Wally (Jason Bateman), Kassie's BFF had accidentally spilled a sperm donor's 'speciment' and had to substitute it with his. As he was heavily drunk while doing it, he had no recollection of it whatsoever. until, after the son who was born away from him came back into town, nearly 6 years old and showcasing many traits so not unlike him. from thereon, Wally struggled to convey the truth to Kassie in order not to lose both Kassie and the son, Sebastian (Thomas Robinson).

the Trailer:

the Riviu:
yup, the clip summarised it nicely. i heard that it was a flop, not much favored as the movie came out almost at the same time as 'the Backup Plan', a very enjoyable movie by Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin. but o boy, i enjoyed the Switch at its own pace, and characters. both Wally and Sebastian are adorable, relatable and likeable. i think their eccentricities and bondings were the charms of the movie. of course the chemistry between KAssie and Wally was a bit stunted, with only Wally showing real feelings about it, but they are decent. i would have like it better if the movie ends with the family expanding their brood. perhaps that could give some dimension to the relationships..

all in all, i love the way the movie mellowed me into the story, and never let my attention to waver. do try it peeps, you might end up liking the movie too!

one of the most likeable father-daddy tag team :)

p/s: i wish i have a BFF as cool as Wally!

update: rating's been revised. i so love this movie that a rewatch is as much fun :)

intermission

i'm so slowpoke, eh?

but don't worry, we'll have a few movies review soon. any suggestion on any particular movie that you want me to review? pls drop in your suggestion, ya..

RED: Retired, Extremely Dangerous

i've watched this at cinema and fell in love instantly. and as i watched it again, in the comfort of my home, still, i find myself enjoying the movie immensely.

it is about the life lead by handfuls of ex CIA operatives when they retire. the main character, Frank Moses, one of the best agents in the fields, led his life alone and content himself only by monthly phone calls made to Sarah, a worker at the Pension Dept. he's smitten with her and when his house was ambushed one night by rampaging shooters, he just got to get Sarah before his attackers find, and kill her too.

En route to uncovering why he is on the hit list, he called for his friends' help, retired agents like him also. he is also pursued by the CIA agent, William Cooper who was sent to get him without any reason given.

along the trail and clues left by a murdered reporter, they pieced the clues together to point out that it was the Vice President of America's doing that put them on the hit list. So, Frank retaliated by capturing the VP for an exchange of Sarah who was captured during their mission to uncover the truth.

as Frank had passed some of the clues to Cooper, the younger agent began to doubt the rationality behind the order of his superior to kill Frank and his friends. during the shootout, the identity of the culprit ordering the hits was revealed. with Cooper's help, Frank cleared his name and escaped with his friends.

and Sarah finally reciprocated Frank's feeling and become his gf.

now, what i like most about this movie is the chemistry between all the characters. even JM is a delight in his eccentricities. Sarah's glee as she joined the mission to infiltrate CIA's headquarters. and Frank's bashful admission of romantic feelings for Sarah.

all in all, i really enjoyed this movie. both BW and KU were such a delight!

Date Night

i put off watching 'Date Night' for quite a time. and one boring night, decided to have a go at it.

a few plots seem too much inplausible.. for example, the polices are quick at identifying the Fosters as the culprits behind break and entering but somehow let them go at that without bringing them to justice. which is a wonder for me.

but to give the movie credit, i do dig the Fosters. they are just a normal couple, in love with each other but just find that the zing just left their love life. their ritual at having a customary date night is commendable. it shows that they do try to have a couple time. something that today's couples should have too.

and they have this comfortable way of sharing the same interest, that is, guessing at other people's conversation/relationship :grins: i mean that's cool!

the movie is enjoyable from start to finish. i laughed out loud for the scenes at the club. the one where the corrupt DA commanded that they dance, they did, only with each other! which is funny, given the situation, they are at pole dance club for goodness sake! and the one when the husband helps the wife to do the 360 degrees rotation by the pole, hilarious!

yup. i do enjoy the movie :D

Uncertainty: certainly will put you to sleep

ola!

thanks to unifi, i now have the privilege to watch indie films at the comforts of home. nice!

i've been wiki-ing on Joseph Gordon-Levitt's past works and this guy sure got a lot of indie movies under his belt. though masses do tend to identify him with Inception (smooth!), (500) days of summer (lovable!) and ten things i hate about you (dorky!), just to name a few, i believe that his other work also warrant some peeking into.

so i watched 'uncertainty'. some movie that focus on this couple, kate (Lynn Collins) and bobby (JGL) on the crossroads of making life-changing decisions on the eve of fourth of July. kate is an aspiring actress waiting for a break but somehow is 11 weeks pregnant. whilst bobby has a job of which i'm not sure what but he knows how to fix computers.

the movie explores the idea of the uncertainty principle which brings the movie to be split into 2 set of events moving in complete opposite direction but somehow, helping the couple to decide on what to do for their future. kate and bobby are at some bridge where they each choose opposing paths ahead of them. at the end of the bridge, kate got into a taxi that has bobby in it with a misplaced handphone wanted by mobs, whilst on the other end of the bridge, bobby runs off into a green van driven by Kate en route to her family's home.

kate's path is more eventful with the chasing by the mobs and yada-yada when bobby decided to pass the handphone for a price. as for bobby's path, it's much sombre and only punctuated by family dramas during the couple brief stay for kate's family dinner.

all in all, i think the movie is pointless. boring. no wonder wiki doesn't have much to say about it. but here's some explanation given by wiki regarding the uncertainty principle that this movie based on:

In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states a fundamental limit on the accuracy with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, such as position and momentum, cannot be simultaneously known. In other words, the more precisely one property is measured, the less precisely the other can be controlled, determined, or known