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Billions: DMV (2023)
Becoming too random and boring
Story is just becoming too random DMV story is so ridiculous. Random celebrity appearance is getting a bit too cheesy. And Vanessa Selbst really as an expert in gambling? She is by far one of the worst professional poker players I have ever witnessed.
Slacker and Taylor have become completely irrelevant as characters. Wags keeps getting annoying by the minute with his over used elitist attitude and dialogues.
Storyline is simply just becoming too random.
Really looking forward to seeing what the outcome is with Axe making a comeback while they keep dragging the storyline with nonsensical randomness.
Jaane Jaan (2023)
Story is all over the place with no substance
Story is all over the place. Brilliant mathematician that is also a fan of martial arts. Cop who trains as MMA assigned to catch a former cop who is into some random illegal things. A woman running away with her daughter to escape and forget her shady past. Emotions were simply not evoked between the characters to develop any chemistry. Throw in random murder and coverup where genius mathematician somehow is also a brilliant observer and knows how to coverup a murder. Randomly killing a poor homeless man in order to save the woman who committed murder and for what and why? Nothing about the movie made any sense. The only positives I could find about the movie is the location. Other than that I feel talent of Jaideep and Vijay is completely wasted in this poorly written script.
Yellowstone (2018)
Overrated, sad and unrealistic
Show tries too hard to find balance in machoism, sexism and morality. But fails on every aspect with hypocrisy.
Can understand Duttons eagerness to continue it's legacy and tries to portray him as a leadership figure with morals but then he does something completely opposite without feeling any remorse or guilt.
Writers try to conveniently justify actions of characters lawlessness but then tries to chest thump American and cowboy code of living in a democratic free country with individual rights but none of it applies when it inconveniences them.
Beth is simply unrealistic and loyalty shown to John Dutton by others is cringing as if they do not have any thoughts or personality of their own beyond pleasing the master. They act more like slaves than loyalist and worthiness is proved by barbaric means at times as if this is the only symbolism for strength.
Rip Wheeler is shown as a mans man and as some macho character while the show tries to justify all the serial murders that he commits.
Often dialogues are cheesy and over exposure of cowboy way living while being critical of modern or foreign ways.
Location is beautiful though.
Theme of this show is somewhat similar to Succession when it comes to power and greed. But overall problem with this show for me is that it tries too hard to convince viewers the moral side of Duttons and everyone that works for Duttons while constantly committing crimes. Whereas in Succession characters are kept true to what it is like in a dysfunctional family when power and greed is centricity to the theme.
The Old Man (2022)
Superb
Fantastic locations. Pace is perfect. Good story. And can't go wrong with great casting of Lithgow & Bridges. Alia Shawkat plays her role flawlessly. I really hope they do season 2.
Billions: Rock of Eye (2022)
Redeemed itself
This episode redeemed it's lost glory. Lot of business dealing, trades and finally giving Taylor its relevance to the show. Earlier episodes were a bit cheesy but I think it is getting better.
Billions: No Direction Home (2021)
Superb
The transition of replacing the Bobby Axelrod character with Price was simply brilliant. Will definitely miss Axelrod character but looking forward to Prince taking over the reigns.
Boomika (2021)
Simply not a good movie.
Was unnecessarily long. Casting was poorly chosen and characters had absolutely no chemistry. Did quite injustice to the central theme of the movie with such poor storyline. Horror element was completely missing and mystery element was simply dragged. I gave 3 out of 10 for the beautiful location and attempt to make a movie with such unusual theme.
The Family Man: The Final Act (2021)
Entertaining but seriously flawed
Series is quite entertaining especially the acting of almost every cast members. But there is such a huge flaw in making it look realistic. For a trained agents to capture and thwart terrorist, their gun shooting skills looks amateur. Also, if intel is strong that Prime Ministers life in jeopardy then where is the highly trained commando or army to take out these terrorists?! It seemed at all times they lacked man-power and fire power compared to the terrorists. Lastly the scene where the bomb explodes mid-air is so unrealistic compared to the amount of C4 that was stuffed in the plane that can take out an entire block of a city.
Overall entertaining to watch but writers and director can fix to make it look more realistic.
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (2020)
This is what excellence looks like in film/tv industry
Great show, perfect pace and talented actors/actresses. Even if there might be some flaws with the series, the overall excellence trumps it completely. Bravo and thank you for giving us such entertaining series.
Raat Akeli Hai (2020)
A good murder mystery movie
Location, side actors, cinematography, story, pace, mild humour and Nawazuddin.....what is not to like about this movie. It is a perfect nighttime watch. Hopefully they make more of such movies.
Panchayat (2020)
More shows like this please
Humble setting, loveable characters, creative writing and great acting. What's not to love about this show?! Veteran Raghuvir Yadav deserves more recognition in the industry. Brings back memories of watching great shows as Malgudi days and mungerilal ke haseen sapne.
Asur: Welcome to Your Dark Side (2020)
Above average attempt for an Indian serial killer show
I have only given a 7 because of the effort put into creative writing. There are lot of holes in the story but overall I am glad Indian entertainment is moving out of the normal crap.
Mardaani 2 (2019)
Good message and great acting
More movies likes this needs to be made. Strong message and great acting. Especially by Sunny, he played the role very well.
The Witcher (2019)
Better than my expectations
Fantasy genre lovers will surely enjoy this one. I surely did. Locations were beautiful. Few more seasons please.
Madam Secretary: Proxy War (2019)
A bit of a cliche
Overall I like this show but I feel they use the same concept of America being diplomatic and are the only logical ones finding solutions to world problems while two rival countries are always ready to go to battle like Arnold from Commando. In real world I doubt other countries act like this and are not stupid to not realize the loss by engaging in a war without diplomacy and negotiations first. Just seems like a repetitive concept of a storyline that's already been presented in many other earlier episodes.