Archive for June, 2006

Nacho Libre

This is a pretty hilarious movie. May not look very attractive as something you might wanna watch…but the movie is deceivingly funny.
Jack Black is a member of a monastry where he works as a cook for the orphan children. He has a liking to wrestling though, because he feels that thats where the fame and fortune lies. But being in the monastry he can’t do that openly. So he becomes Nacho Libre the wrestler; he finds a tag team member, this frail guy who would always steal the nacho chips meant for the orphans from Jack Black.

Together they take on other wrestlers and though they lose they are paid well for all the entertainment they provide the public. But Jack Black wants to be a winner and not paid because he lost.
He tries a lot of different things to try to be a winner. Does he succeed in the end though ?

To find out watch Nacho Libre.
My 3 and a half out of 5 stars for this one.

CARS


Cheesy love story ;-) . Nah…its not that bad. But its a love story never the less. So its about this rookie race car that wants to make it big. In the beginning this rookie is arogant and thinks he can win any race all by himself without a team.
But the experience that he has at a small town off the Interstate 40 along Route 66, changes the way he thinks and looks at life. Ofcourse he finds the love of his life there too.

But he still has to win the final race to win the cup; does he do it or does he fail ?

Watch CARS to see what happens.

The animation is too real to believe it. It is best I have seen so far.

My 4/5 stars for this amazing Pixar/Disney animation.

The DA VINCI code

I really liked this movie. I had heard a lot of criticism about the movie being made badly. But it didn’t seem that bad or slow as most critics said it was. Maybe because I haven’t read the book, and I never will :-) .
Tom Hanks as usual was wonderful. This is one of the few movies in which he hasn’t played a role which you would feel pity for. This was one of the few movies in which he has played a serious role. The other main character played by Audrey Tautou was good too…its surprising I haven’t seen her in any other movie. I have started noticing the French guy Jean Reno a lot lately. He was in Godzilla and Pink Panther. He is really good too.

The movie overall was a set of puzzles, riddles and anagrams. Its the battle between the TRUTH and FAITH. The movie is completely based in France and London. This is the movie for you if you love history and like the idea of solving puzzles and riddles.

My 4.5/5 stars for this one.

Aeon FLux

Typical Sci-Fi movie, another clones concept. Charlize Theron is brilliant. The story however is weak. The action is excellent. Story is about the future world where most of the world population has died due to a virus. A scientist finds the cure to this virus but the cure is not perfect. Its side effects are very bad; it causes impotency in women. So to keep the human race going, the scientist has made a closed environment for the humans to live and the human DNA is recycled so that the human race keeps going on. Finally the scientist, who has recycled his own DNA several times each time transferring his knowledge to his new clone, finds the perfect cure. However his evil brother doesn’t want this cure to go out since that would mean the end of cloning and hence his end.

Here begins the battle between the scientist and his brother. To see who wins in the end, watch AEON FLUX on DVD.
My 3/5 stars for this one.

X Men : The Last Stand

I liked the movie. Was like any other XMen movie. So if you liked the others you’ll like this one too. This one had some of the XMen dying, some coming back to life and others losing their powers :P ….too much drama I must admit :-) .
Story is about the same; people who are against the mutants V/S All Mutants and the good mutants against the bad Mutants. A pharmaceutical company has found a way to neutralize mutants powers so they become normal like other human beings and are accepted in the society without any fear. They call it the CURE…which makes some mutants angry because they don’t consider it a disease.

Watch this final battle between the good Mutants and bad Mutants and see what unfolds for the XMen in this supposedly Final Chapter to the movie series.

And by the way please do sit right till the end of the credits to catch an important scene which might get you thinking.

My 3.5 out of 5 stars for this one.

Munich

Based on a true story triggerd by events that occured in the 1972 Munich Olympics where 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by Arab terrorists. In response to this, MOSAD assigns a secret assignment to Avner (ERIC BANA) to find the terrorists and the planners of the 1972 massacre and assassinate them. Most of the movie is about ways and means that Avner uses to find the terrorists and kill them.

However towards the end he is in for a surprise. To find out what the surprise is you MUST watch MUNICH.

My 4 out of 5 stars to this one.