Few movie reviews : Kites, The Karate Kid, Eclipse

Kites - Didnt soar beyond Troposphere

A one line story ( poor boy conning rich girl to make quick bucks ends up falling for her brother's mexican fiance (who in turn wants to make quick bucks by marrying a rich guy) and they elope and find love) except that the twisht here is this poor boy had already married the mexican fiance because she wanted a green card and he wanted money from her. Since this twisht can be added only if the story takes place in Las Vegas (well it could have been any damn American city..but to showcase a rich Dad..they wanted a Casino and no other place is fit enough other than Las Vegas.. so...) narayanaa.... indha kosu tholla thaanga mudiyala..

Indha simple storyku.. oru mexican (have to admit that she is very beautiful aanaa... namma ooru saayal adikudhu..), oru Las Vegas, oru Hrithik thevaiye illai.. endha kuppanum suppiyum indha kadhaila nadichiruka mudiyum. Why spend crores and waste everyone's time.. I can forgive all these if I had got to see more of Hrithik's dance... Just one dance.. can you imagine.. ore oru dance dhaan indha padathula Hrithik aadaaraaru.. enna kodumai sir idhu... Avaruku nalla varadhe andha dance dhaan.. adha poyi kaataamaa.. He must have thought.. that its high time he started learning to act seriously..but guess what.. his Dancing is much (read 100 times) better than his Acting.. And the worse part.. everyone dies at the end.... Oh my God.. Who was sadist among the crew , I am not sure.. Thank God it didnt click.. it would have shown the movie taste of our people in bad light...

Best part.. Got to hear beautiful Spanish from a beautiful Mexican :).. It was so pleasant to hear Barbara speak it.. All other biggies totally wasted.. especially Kangana and Kabir. They must have thought that just because they got hold of a foreigner, they have the liberty to include enough of 'englishized/americanized' romantic scenes in the story..dude..this is nothing new... even our GM included these in our Tamil movie(s)... you dont need a foreigner for that..

One thing is for sure.. Hrithik is one person who can make it to Hollywood from our Bollywood lot.... and that too just because of his looks and accent.. He can do very good Action movies and that is the only genre that suits him very well (Check out Dhoom2.. he was cool in that.. forget the story in that too..and in Jodhaa Akhbar he was OK.. not bad..) ..and he can include a little bit of romance in it as well.. But a full serious movie.. nah!!!


Eclipse - was 'total'   dud

God... just for the sake of liking the book what all I have to do.. The Eclipse book (the third part in the Twilight Series) was a slow moving and lightly boring one except for the excitement that gets created when Victoria comes to the picture...But the movie was worse than the book.. Cant they get some decent screenplay writer for these books.. Even a dumb story can be told in an interesting way if the screenplay is racy (e.g. Singam and Gilli etc). How to make a damn slow and sulky movie with a slow and boring story line .. watch Eclipse.. I seriously dont know what to say beyond this. neither Edward nor Jacob nor Bella was convincing or even remotely pleasant or entertaining.. I guess I will stop seeing the next one totally.. I hate to see when a series which I have liked is so badly translated on screen.. Please dont watch it, if you havent even liked the book. If you have liked the book for the sake of getting the story , even then dont watch it.. its not worth it..

The Karate Kid - old wine , new bottle , cute Jade

Man!! I am a fan of Jade Smith now... I am no fan of his Dad though... but this kid will defintely go a long way :).  I had liked him a lot in "In Pursuit of Happyness" and here it was a shock for me to see him grown so tall.. How old must he be ? and he was so comfortable like elders doing those romantic scenes (must have come from his father I guess) [which I feel wasnt necessary for his age ..] and even he looked too skinny and kutty for his age and beating up the stronger guys (like Dhanush ;) ) was little unrealistic. But I know that for a fact that the skinny and bony kids hit more fatally than the plumpy ones..their bones really causes too much pain.. Jackie was cool as his mentor.. no unnecessary masala gimmicks of his in this movie... a very serious role (I guess this is the first movie of his where I have seen him a little too serious .. I liked it.. it was fresh). Do kids really have grudges like these in schools ? I pray that they dont.. it becomes very difficult managing them at that age. A usual Kung Fu, Karate Chinese movie.. (like watching Kung Fu Panda with real life characters). Nothing special about the story..But the new face of Jade Smith made it bearable and enjoyable even.