Monday, 15th May 2006
Movie Review
Over the past week, i watched two really good, enjoyable movies. Here are some thoughts on them.
Mission Impossible IIIMission Impossible IIIis a movie filled with action and nothing more. There are the usual: Tom Cruise running and getting banged up, high degrees of improbability, explosions, gadgets, the whole shebang. Still, "MI 3" is a fast-paced thriller that manages to get hold of you for the 120-minute span of its running hour and never lets go.
Inside ManInside Man is a breezy, tongue-in-cheek heist movie. I felt it to be a little over-plotted, but that comes with the genre - the expected twists and turns are all here, thankfully mostly in non-expected ways. Contrivances abound, and we don't really learn the background of the heist (ie. how the robbers learned about their target) but the story and the overall atmosphere more than make up for this. There is a neat structural trickery in the use of flash-forward scenes, hinting toward the aftermath of the heist without giving away the real ending. It's used sparingly and cleverly. I can highly recommend this movie, it is never boring for a moment. The biggest suprise of the movie is that it opens and closes with the wonderful remixed Hindi song "chaiyya chaiyya".
Posted by Nikhil on Monday, 15th May 2006 in Life in General | Fun