The Golden Door (2010) Movie Review | silentcritics.com

To begin with there is nothing new in “The Golden Door (2010)”. The story has been seen numerous times before in ordinary to extraordinary films and the actors who are supposedly in the lead roles have actually no scope whatsoever in the movie to display their acting skills. As a viewer there has always been nothing to rejoice in any mediocre flicks. The director should have thought about the story and the script that he had before him before rolling on with the project. In the end all one gets is an amateurish display of scripting and direction for a no-brainer story. Read More

Invictus Movie Review | silentcritics.com

“Invictus” meaning unconquered looks like a sports movie from the outside but when you sit through the 2 hours and 10 minutes movie you would realize that it is a feel good movie with a blend of politics and sports in the apartheid era of South Africa. The movie begins with Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) getting released after a period of over two decades in prison. He steps to the free world outside at a time when the country is reeling under severe poverty and the crime rate is at an all time high and not to mention the affluent whites still look down at the blacks with disrespect. Read More

All About Steve Movie Review | silentcritics.com

“All About Steve” is a movie that will interest if you have some free time to sit and relax a comedy over a popcorn and a snack at home. This movie has Sandra Bullock playing the female lead and at the same time she also happens to be the producer of it. The movie could be quoted as a perfect example of how a stalker will behave but nevertheless this stalker happens to be a harmless one and hence no major complications in it. Read More

3 Idiots Movie review | silentcritics.com

When Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra joined hands and made Munnabhai it was a refreshing change from the usual scripts which made it a tremendous success. After two installments of Munnabhai series and when they were close to taking the third part in the sequel, hindrance came in the form of Sanjay Dutt who could not commit or rather was not allowed to travel to USA for the movie by the indian government as there were few cases pending against his name. The director-producer duo waited for sometime to keep the Munnabhai series alive and when they knew it was going nowhere they immediately changed track and Rajkumar Hirani chanced upon Chetan Bhagat’s book “Five Point Someone” and the ideas in the book slowly transpired him to make it into a movie and which he did it with a flashy name as “3 Idiots”. Read More

Robodoc Movie Review | silentcritics.com

“Robodoc” the name itself reveals the plot behind the movie. The movie is all about a robot which is a doctor with a human finish on the outside. This movie is a satire on the doctors and the medicine field else what could be said of a movie that is so insane, has its share of vulgar acts and not to mention few semi-nude scenes. The movie begins with a sleazy lawyer Attorney Jake Gorman (Kenny Babel) whose only job and motive is to sue the medical fraternity and the doctors in particular. The main hospital affected by Jake’s actions is the North Mercy hospital where the doctors keep leaving after cases of negligence gets filed on them. Read More

Vertige Movie Review | silentcritics.com

What happens when a gorup of friends on a picnic tread into an unfamiliar territory? Well, the imminent answer is that they are into deep trouble. Vertige is one such movie that deals with the same scenario where five friends venture on a mountain trail in Croatia that is closed to the public. Fred (Nicolas Giraud) fully aware of the situation convinces the others to take an alternate route which ends up in disaster for the group. The group initially calculating that they can be back to the base before sunset take on the tread very enthusiastically. In one such event the connecting wooden bridge from one mountain to another snaps up and the team is forced to take a detour to reach the base. Read More

Vettaikaran Movie Review | silentcritics.com

Sun Pictures who had acquired the distribution rights of Vijay’s 49th film “Vettaikaran” (Hunter) had made sure that the promos are splashed at all possible intervals and it generates the much needed hype and expectations from the audience. Their plan seems to have worked at least in creating the much needed hype but on the contrary the movie ends up being a rotten tomato with a very thin story which has been seen numerous times in various flicks earlier. Read More

Avatar Movie Review | silentcritics.com

James Cameron had his previous directorial venture “Titanic” released in 1997. Exactly 12 years later he presents to the world a sci-fi epic called “Avatar” made at a whooping budget of US $500mn. If Titanic was all struggle for the passengers on board the ship to survive, it was no different for the film makers who had a tough time releasing it due to financial constraints. But, once the movie released it marched ahead smashing all records worldwide. “Avatar” thankfully did not have such financial constraints and James Cameron has experimented successfully with technology canning the entire movie in 3D format. Read More

Paa Movie Review | silentcritics.com

Amitabh Bachchan proves again and again why he is being called as the first citizen of bollywood. We have seen him don various roles for his previous movies but in this “Paa” his portrayal of the character “Auro” a 13 year old suffering from a rare ageing disorder called Pregoria is truly breathtaking. In this film the real life father and son play role reversal in reel life. The movie directed by Balki (Cheeni Kum fame) is a treat to the viewer in a different sense and this movie succeeds in bringing out the sufferings and human emotions in warranted proportions and in the end all can hope that Pregoria remains a distant history for mankind. Read More

Haunting of Winchester House Movie Review | silentcritics.com

Movies that belong to the horror genre tends to be of two types wherein the first one will be really spooky with some scary stuff and the second one will be such that the intended horror will neither terrify you nor jerk you out of your seat. Movies in the first category would be worth the money but the major spoiler would be the ones that fall in the second category and that is where this “Haunting of Winchester House” falls in. The movie from the beginning fails to scare the viewer and also the sequence of events are quite predictable. If the director Mark Atkins thought that the ending might be a surprise to the audience he has got it all wrong as such endings have been repeated in lot of horror movies before. Read More

Moon Movie Review | silentcritics.com

“Moon” directed by debutant Duncan Jones is a collection of imagination pertaining to the future where earth’s required energy source helium-3 is extracted from moon and sent across for humans to utilize it. This movie set in the genre of sci-fiction stands out from the crowd by virtue of sheer imagination and exemplary acting in the character of a lone man played by Sam Rockwell stationed in Moon to oversee the mining of helium-3. Director Duncan Jones has to be applauded for his spectacular effort in this “Moon”. Read More

500 Days of Summer Movie Review | silentcritics.com

“500 days of summer” is a movie which moves in a chronological order back and forth describing the romance between Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) a failed architect turned greeting card writer and Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) a new office associate at Tom’s office. Both Tom and Summer are different from each other but at the same time both get attracted after a few meetings. Tom is an average built person who has hardly any luck with love while Summer who does not believe in love but doesn’t mind being intimate with the person she likes. Read More

2012 Movie Review | silentcritics.com

Roland Emmerich has his unique way of story telling and he has been brilliantly handling subjects that needs lot of imagination and creativity. The man who gave the blockbuster “Independence Day” in the year 1996 followed it up with Godzilla (1998), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and the not so successful 10,000 BC (2008). The good thing about these movies are that they have been successful and at the same time it unleashed to the world the disasters that man had brought to mankind and also the pace at which these imaginative disasters could strike. Read More

This Is It Movie Review | silentcritics.com

On 25th June 2009 the entire world was shocked by the sudden demise of Pop legend Michael Jackson who was just 50 and that too at a time when his huge fan base were eagerly looking forward to his comeback concert in London. People world over couldn’t control their emotions when they came into terms with reality that their Iconic Michael Jackson can never be seen again. Read More

17 Again Movie Review | silentcritics.com

“17 Again” directed by Burr Steers is a fantasy tale which begins in the year 1989 when high school basketball sensation Mike O Donnell (Zac Erfon) who is about to play a match that could change his life forever with a scholarship that is waiting to be offered basis his performance in the match. Minutes before the start of the match Mike’s girl friend Scarlett (Allison Miller) meets him and informs that she is pregnant. Mike then decides that Scarlett is important does not play the match but decides to give up the lucrative scholarship to get married to Scarlett. Read More

A Thousand Splendid Suns Movie Review | silentcritics.com

‘There is a way to be good again’ wrote Khaled Hosseini, the resounding refrain that gently suggests redemption, in the Kite Runner. Redemption, he has no need of, as thousands of readers will agree, but he sure has lived up to that statement with his second novel ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’. Is it good? Yes. Is it splendid? Most definitely. It could’ve been a story about two struggling housewives during a war. And it is. But Hosseini has teased out the various layers that carefully make the housewives and their struggle so finely, that you cannot but feel that this is a story of valiant heroism, silent matyrdom and the infinite love the human spirit is capable of. Not that they require it, but the backdrop of the war only make them starker. Read More

Adhe Neram Adhe Idam Movie Review | silentcritics.com

Jai after a career enriching “Subramaniyapuram” and not so successful “Vaamanan” had to come up with something different and special to keep his career heading upwards and he chose this “Adhe Neram Adhe Idam” (Same Time Same Place) which has Vijayalakshmi of Anjathey fame for company. The movie from the promos tends to confuse you on whether this belongs to the thriller or romance genre and the confusion prevails almost for most part of the movie. Read More