Language: English
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan
Director: Guy Ritchie
Music: Hans Zimmer
Reasons to watch: Racy entertainer that keeps your mind ticking.
Reasons not to watch: No particular reason as to why you shouldn’t watch this movie.
Storyline: The mystery involves a heinous and aristocratic Blackwood (Mark [...]
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On January - 21 - 2010
On January - 19 - 2010
Language: Tamil
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Cast: Prasanna, Sibiraj, S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Yasmin, Ramya Rai
Director: Shakti S. Rajan
Music: James Vasanthan
Reasons to watch: A new concept for the Tamil audience.
Reasons not to watch: Painfully slow and unsubstantial first half. Completely worthless songs.
Storyline: Ravi (Prasanna) is an honest and ambitious person whose dream is to set up his own business. He is [...]
On January - 4 - 2010
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Burton Perez, Alex Veadov
Director: James Gray
Reasons to watch: Have some time to kill? Then watch it.
Reasons not to watch: There are better movies of the same genre out there.
Storyline: Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is the outcast in his family and as 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 - 28 - 2009
The year 2009 was as usual a good mix of box-office disasters and blockbuster hits that sum up the Bollywood releases every year. But what definitely has improved in 2009, is the ‘quality’ of movies that have raised the standards in terms of story-telling and the whole concept of movie-making. The Movie Analyst presents to [...]
On August - 3 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Comic Adaptation, Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Superhero
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman
Reasons to Watch: The JOKER, Heath Ledger, Edge-of-the-seat action, brilliant screenplay and amazing mind games, the perfect superhero movie.
Reasons not to: If you are afraid of the dark..!
Director: Christopher Nolan
Music: James Newton Howard [...]
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 - 22 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime/Thriller
Cast: Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Bellucci, Thomas Jane.
Direction: Stephen Hopkins
Music: Nadine Renee, Enrique Iglesias, Michael Stuart
Reasons to watch: Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman, beautiful locales, a very gorgeous Monica Bellucci and an engaging storyline
Reasons not to: Shoddy acting by some supporting actors, the camera gets too artistic at times.
Storyline: Henry Hearst (Gene [...]
On June - 9 - 2008
Language: Silent movie
Genre: Comedy/Crime/Thriller
Cast: Kamal Hassan, Amala, Tinu Anand, Farida Jalal
Direction: Srinivasa Rao Singeetham
Music: The background score is enchanting and adds to the charm of the movie.
Reasons to watch: Amazing movie, simple and very humorous, brilliant acting and direction
Reasons not to: No song and dance show, no skin show, no car chases, in short – [...]
