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Ram Setu (2022)
This looks like a money laundering scheme
Acting: extremely sub-par
Cinematography: looked like this is their first gig at using a camera to film
CGI: piss poor given the tech available and money involved. Woefully unnecessary at times
Social commentary: really bad at doing the one thing i thought this movie was attempting to do.
Akshay kumar should really stick to movies where he can be goofy. The actress playing Gabrielle had a presence equivalent to bone bits in a biryani.
If you are going to make a movie maybe learn how to construct one instead of throwing things together and hoping it'll stick.
The characters lacked life and the camera unfortunately highlighted that aspect even more with its rather amateur and awkward everything. It hovered too long on things that didn't require attention in the first place or failed to portray the gravity of any of the plethora of situations the films bombards you with.
Wire-work was also terrible and unnecessary. You'd think Indian cinema has come a long way make believable human movement.
Maybe, just maybe the next time you cast Akshay Kumar, make sure he is not the glue that sticks the movie together because he doesn't. His character lacks basic human traits and does such a bad job in crisis mode. I stress this point more because the movie wants you to believe he is Crisis Man and can un-crisis you from any and all crisis.
These are just a few points I thought were worth mentioning because talking about all of them would be an unnecessary waste of my time. And these were from the first half of the movie at that.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Good Idea Bad Execution
The idea that there are benevolent alien races that are not out to get us is honourable. Pair that with a mostly hollow script and an annoying baby and you get a meh at best.
Everything happens in America and that's a fact I've learned to accept because I'm not the one making the movie. The story could have been molded into a much better movie if only extra time wasn't wasted on portraying an annoying kid and a lot of unnecessary chatter devoid of any real bits of information to go with.
Yes, the movie shows how humans (the top minds at least) have taken the role of the lesser beings and the fear that comes with being powerless is showed...not so well. In the worst case scenario of an alien running around a 1st world country as the world dies, I'd expect a little more effort to stop or restrain said alien. And here you are sending a cop, a couple of helicopters and that's it. Whistleblowers are welcomed with more guns.
The movie doesn't give much answers and forced us to accept whatever we are shown. The alien boi will only speak in tangents and he has accessed the entire human race basing his final report on two humans.
Bornoporichoy: A Grammar of Death (2019)
Mainak Bhaumik ples no.
What was this movie? Bengali culture has really meticulous and convincing thriller writers. This movie can have its place as the black sheep in its genre.
The plot pretty much unfurls itself completely really early on in the movie. It doesn't take much time or big brain energy to understand what's going on and what's what. It was predictable. Movies in the Suspense/Crime/Thriller genre are known to be more ambiguous and tends to keep the viewer
The characters portrayed in this movie are willfully dumb. I mean, they really tried to hammer home the idea that almost all the characters have half the capabilities of an average human psyche.
Main guy can somehow unfold clues and reach from point A to B by saying synonyms of words provided as clues.
Senior Cop is a completely unnecessary character who makes it his duty to point out really obvious things.
Main Guy's wife left him while he was ailing from a heart attack and clinically depressed. Who does that? She proceeds to be a self-righteous b-word and never shows any kind of support whatsoever.
I don't want to point fingers at the dialogues because Bengali movies tend to keep things verbose and/or rhyming. It does get cheesy but meh I'll roll with it.
No issues with the acting or the songs. The star power could have been better utilised if the story was more compelling.
For a crime thriller the movie as many conspicuous flaws. It felt half-baked and lacked key flavours.