Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Michael Gambon, Ray Stevenson
Director: Albert Hughes & Allen Hughes
Music: Atticus Ross
Reasons to watch: Watch it for the climax and wonderful photography.
Reasons not to watch: Too many glitches that have ‘illogical’ written all over them.
Storyline: Denzel Washington (Eli) is a ‘walker’ on a mission. [...]
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On January - 27 - 2010
On January - 15 - 2010
Language: Tamil
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Cast: Karthik Sivakumar, Andrea, Reema Sen, Parthiban, Prathap K. Pothan
Director: K. Selvaraghavan
Music: G.V. Prakash Kumar
Reasons to watch: The pre – release hype and the efforts poured in by the technicians.
Reasons not to watch: Too long and amazingly CONFUSING!!!
Storyline: An archaeologist (Prathap K. Pothan) goes missing on a solitary mission to find the [...]
On January - 1 - 2010
Hopes rest high on 2010, just as it does for every following year. Every year, our expectations grow and so does the quality of movie-making driven by this fact. The following movies in the making are The Movie Analyst’s Top 20 flicks to watch out for in 2010.
1. The Book of Eli
Director: Allen Hughes, Albert [...]
On December - 30 - 2009
Monsters, robots, 3D imagery and what not; 2009 was full of it all. Now that this year is done and dusted, let us take a peek into the list of movies that made it to the The Movie Analyst’s Top 10 Hollywood flicks of 2009.
10 – Where the Wild Things Are
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Paul Dano, [...]
On December - 17 - 2009
Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez
Director: James Cameron
Music: James Horner
Reasons to watch: Amazing VFX and photorealistic 3D imagery.
Reasons not to watch: Weak storyline that bores you as it progresses.
Storyline: It is 2154 and the focus is on Pandora – a planet few light [...]
On December - 11 - 2009
Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-fi, Thriller
Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover
Director: Roland Emmerich
Music: Harald Kloser
Reasons to watch: Mind-blowing visuals and special effects.
Reasons not to watch: Lengthy run-time and horrible screenplay.
Storyline: The year is 2012 and the future of human civilization looks bleak. Looks like the Mayans were right after [...]
On July - 20 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Action, Adventure
Cast: Kurt Russel, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Alexis Cruz
Direction: Roland Emmerich
Music: David Arnold composes a great sci-fi soundtrack – rich and ominous
Reasons to watch: Vintage sci-fi, Jaye Davidson as Ra..! Excellent graphics considering a pre – CGI era movie.
Reasons not to: Poor characterization, the movie suffers from the [...]
On July - 1 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama/Crime/Thriller
Cast: Bruce Lee, Shih Kien, John Saxon, Jim Kelly
Direction: Robert Clouse
Reasons to watch: BRUCE LEE.! (His last completed movie, he died during post-production), mind boggling action sequences – the best ever
Reasons not to: Don’t miss it for anything, even if you hate martial art movies.!
Story: Lee (Bruce Lee) a master of the physical [...]
On June - 18 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family/Adventure/Wildlife
Cast: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers
Direction: James Hill
Music: John Barry, Frederic Talgorn & The Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This movie won 2 Oscars in 1967 for its music, Best Original Score and Best Original Song, for John Barry.
Reasons to watch: Pure family movie, beautiful landscapes and cute lion cubs, a heartwarming story line
Reasons not [...]
On June - 13 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy
Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Chris Wedge
Direction: Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha
Music: David Newman
Reasons to watch: Great CGI, believable characters, excellent voiceovers and one-liners, funny incidents with surprising character development
Reasons not to: No love stories or romantic angles involved(at least in this part)
Storyline: With the threat of the Ice Age looming [...]
