Movie Review (English)

Gone Girl

Does a movie do well because of a particular director only or also because the original novelist also wrote the screenplay? Gillian Flynn translated her book on to screen with love and imagination and thrill which was evident.
The twists in the story left me dazed. Ben Affleck as Nick and Rosamund Pike as Amy are really wonderful actors giving the right dose of chill on screen. When it began, which was the end actually, I was sure I had got the gist of the story. But every half hour I changed position and thought I had got the gist yet again. But when Amy returns, that was quite a master stroke. First she lets people think her husband murdered her. For this she prepared like a master artist, down to the last detail. Once out of the house, she prepares never to come back, preferring to watch her husband being hanged. But luck does not always favour the evil. So more twists follow and she returns. Poor hubby, he wanted a divorce long before, now he is caught in his suffocating marriage! The people will not let him leave her.

I enjoyed the movie. Highly recommended!!!.

Movie Reviews

Silver Linings Playbook – Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence… What a combination and how they set the screen on fire!! No wonder this movie is such a huge hit. 

Cooper (Pat) is a person with a bipolar disorder.  Returning home one day, he finds his wife, Nikki, in a compromising situation with another man. He goes berserk. He is committed to a mental institution.  His mother believes he is ready to handle real life and gets him out. But the next few days prove tough for the parents and the son. The father, De Niro, himself suffers from obsessive behavior. Pat badly wants to get back with Nikki, that is until he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who herself seems unhinged to him. 

Well, that was the story but how the characters bring in the authenticity is the key. Jennifer will surely go places. 

Argo – A movie that refuses to let you sit calmly in your seat. Gripping drama, tight editing and fabulous acting makes it the movie it is and one that you cannot afford to miss! Based on a true story of the escape of six Americans from the American Embassy in Iran in 1980, it is an unlikely coming together of Hollywood and the CIA. Argo is the name of a movie that is not being made, it has a fake script and a fake crew and there are fake documents. All this and the group has to escape out of Iran with the fake assistant producer’s (Ben Affleck) help though all the militia searching for the six escapees. What more would a potboiler want? Ben Affleck and Alan Arkin are amazing!!