#SanAndreas #HollywoodEnglishFilmReview #JohnsonThomas #Rating: * * 1/2
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#Welcome2Karachi(Hindi)
Rating: * * Playing Dumb. This one dumbs
it down to the bottom of the pit and proves more tedious and boring than
entertaining. Quite a come down after all that promotional swagger. Two dumb
idiots set out to have fun and end up saving the world. Havn’t we seen that
many times over? There’s no humor here ..just a lot of stupidity that tries to
pass off as funny!Watch the trailer instead…
#RaindropSolutions
#JackyBhagnani #ArshadWarsi #DaleepThahil #LaurenGottlieb #VashuBhagnani
#Me(
English) Rating: * * Slow and stressful.
The ponderous narrative centered around justifying the film’s title is obvious
and off-putting. Aims for psychological edge-of-seat thrills but gets waylaid by verbosity and dull
performances. The mental illness at the core of this story deserved much better
elaboration than what’s done here. The entire set-up appears to be amateurish
and un-enlivening. #SammeerSatish #AdilAman #GurpreetKaur
#TheIllusionistsFilmCompany #DrSantoshSawane
#ChaarCutting(Hindi/Shorts) Rating: * *
* ½ The best bet this week. Four shorts by young unsung directors that will
floor you with their poignancy, techno smarts and depth. #ManilaRunning #Blouse
#Bawdi #SkinDeep #VikramadityaMotwane #JamuuraTalkies #AditiVasudev
#NaveenKasturia #PriyansuPainyuli #SonalJoshi #PreetiSharma #SumeetVyas
#ImranRashid #UdayChandra #OlivierBorten #HardikMehta #AnujGulati #VivekSoni
#VijetaKumar
#IshqeDariyaan(Hindi)
Rating: No Show. A romantic drama. #Evelyn #Mahaakshay
#PSePMTak
(Hindi) Rating: * *Of corruption and
‘Dirty Politics,’ all old hat as far as Hindi cinema is concerned. An
attempt at grotesque dark satire comes unstuck. There’s nothing new or
interesting on display here. Even the much hyped about #MeenakshiDixit who
doesn’t look anything like Madhuri Dixit, cuts a sorry figure. Director
#KundanShah doesn’t seem to have regained his touch of yore(#JaaneBhiDoYaaron).
#ParullGossain #KundanShah
#ILoveDesi(Hindi)
Rating: No Show A romantic comedy. #PankajBatra
#RockyDaswani #AkshayKumar #VedantBali #PriyankaShah.
#SanAndreas(English/3D)
Rating: * * ½ This big bombastic Hollywood disaster movie with more CGI
representations than real time shoots, promotes former pro wrestler turned
actor #DwayneJohnson as the rescuer par excellence who saves his own family and
two others while every one else struggles to find a foothold in this lop-sided
depiction of the greatest disaster ever. Seemed like everyone else was
expendable but the lead family. Life is just a side show in this one. Larger
takes the cake! #WarnerBros
#AnkitAgarwal #GeorgeJohn #VillageRoadshowPictures #TimeWarner #DwayneJohnson
#CarlaGugino #BradPeyton #KylieMinogue #ArchiePunjabi #IoanGruffud
#PaulGiamatti #AlexandraDaddario
#Maggie(English)
Rating: * * * A surprisingly engaging and totally involving zombie flick that’s
not quite the usual Hollywood pack rat. #AbigailBreslin does a challenging turn
as the teenager infected by a virus that will eventually turn her into a
zombie. And #ArnoldSchwarzenegger is
quite wonderful as the doting father pained by the unimaginable plight
of his lovely daughter. #HenryHobson #JohnScott3 #PVRPictures #AbigailBreslin
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#ChaarCutting(Hindi/Shorts) Rating: * *
* ½ The best bet this week. Four shorts by young unsung directors that will
floor you with their poignancy, techno smarts and depth. #ManilaRunning #Blouse
#Bawdi #SkinDeep #VikramadityaMotwane #JamuraTalkies #AditiVasudev
#NaveenKasturia #PriyansuPainyuli #SonalJoshi #PreetiSharma #SumeetVyas
#ImranRashid #UdayChandra #OlivierBorten #HardikMehta #AnujGulati #VivekSoni
#VijetaKumar #LoudspeakerMedia #MauliSingh
#Maggie(English)
Rating: * * * A surprisingly engaging and totally involving zombie flick that’s
not quite the usual Hollywood pack rat. #AbigailBreslin does a challenging turn
as the teenager infected by a virus that will eventually turn her into a
zombie. And #ArnoldSchwarzenegger is
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English Film review
Johnson Thomas
Big but not necessarily beautiful!
Film: San Andreas(3D) Warner Bros
Cast: Dwayne Johnson,
Carla Gugino, Archie Punjabi, Kylie Minogue, Alexandra Daddario, Art Parkinson
Director: Brad Peyton
Rating: * * ½
Runtime:
Synopsis:
Dwayne Johnson’s Ray
Gaines is a helicopter rescue dude, saving both his estranged wife and their
college bound daughter from the tectonic destruction. Think “Earthquake” meets
“Towering Inferno” meets “Die Hard,”
but a lot more streamlined.
Review:
This one’s a disaster in
the making. A disaster movie made in the Hollywood tradition of ‘bigger the
better’ doesn’t quite cut it emotionally. The effects are all huge. In terms of
disaster subjects you can’t get bigger than this - The San Andreas fault line
that shakes up a frenzy and puts several of the states’ property and lives at
risk.
Earthquakes have been
featured as disaster movie subjects before so there’s nothing new to this one
either. California gets bludgeoned much like what the former wrestling
professional Dwayne Johnson does to his rivals in the pro-wrestling arena. The
San Andreas fault-line is the culprit here. There are some scientific
explanations by seismologist played by Paul Giamatti and some fair bit of
predictions and warnings before the major disaster can take place. And to start
with a landslide and rescue establishes Search and rescue Chief Ray(Dwayne Johnson)’s
credentials. Thereafter it’s all FX mayhem with Ray donning the mantle of
super-hero ..albeit only for his family. His estranged wife (Carla Gugino) is
on the verge of moving in with a real estate and construction moghul. His
daughter is on a getting-to-know-your-stepfather trip with the guy when the
shakes happen. She gets trapped in a car and he runs away from the scene.
Super-hero Ray flies around in his helo first rescuing his wife, caught in a
slowly dismantling skyscraper and then going on to his daughter and her two
young friends. The rest of the victims were just background fillers I guess.
The script deserved many
more rewrites, definitely. Such a big disaster movie and only a handful of
people are at the centre of it all. Takes some imagining I guess. There’s no
audience involvement at all in spite of the gigantic effects treatment given to
the quaking scenarios. The crumbling of the Hoover Dam, snapping of the Golden
gate bridge, destruction of monumental and iconic towers – all look good but
there’s no affect. The handful of
characters at the centre of it all, while likeable, don’t seem all that worthy
of any empathy though.
San Andreas
is an earthquake disaster movie made in the Emmerich style but it’s by no means
memorable or affecting. Even the scale
is a little too wobbly. The film has beautifully fused CGI-cinematography that
allows for some shock and awe, albeit just for a few wondrous moments. The rest
is just passé!
Johnson Thomas
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