mohan_i

I was impressed with the initial half of the movie which shows the villain getting his comeuppance...I felt this part was done pretty nicely even though the CGI used was lousy...

However the latter part of the movie started out bad and it was all downhill thereafter...it was as if different people had worked on different parts of the script...or else as if the scriptwriters and director were suddenly in a hurry to bring the movie to an end and sacrificed logic (& everything else)...

I can understand that certain amount of suspension of belief is necessary while watching a movie which deals with occult, reincarnation, spirits etc...but when logic flies completely out of the window and you are left with a "what the hell" feeling, there is something seriously wrong with the movie...I have read the earlier reviews which heap praise on the movie and I realise that Indian movies have a long, long way to go before they can be compared to international standards...the backbone of any movie, the plot, is so shoddy here that it would have been torn to shreds by international movie critics...

On a more positive note, the acting was pretty good, some parts of the story was fascinating & interesting and had the writer / director not been in a hurry to wrap it up, it would have been a truly awesome film...

I went into this movie after reading the high ratings given by other reviewers and I have been wondering since then what the fuss was all about…this is a stupid and unimaginative piece of crap disguised as a movie and I can only imagine that the others who gave ratings of 9 & 10 must be Norweigans themselves…if that was true, I think they have set the bar really, really low… First of all the movie plot line feels as if it has been written by a teenager…too many holes and liberties taken throughout…sample this…a bunch of zombies surrounding a farm house and viciously attacking and killing the inhabitants from outside, then dozens of them being dispatched in a ridiculously easy manner by two dudes armed with a small hammer and a kitchen knife…said dudes killing numerous zombies with kitchen implements, in-spite of having a chainsaw and a shotgun…a local who warns the city kids about the dangers in those mountains himself camps out in the same mountains and gets promptly killed…the treasure chest left in the resort for decades, yet when the kids discover it, the zombies decide they want it back and attack them…a gorgeous chick in the group gets desperate to have sex with the fat guy, and wraps herself around him at the worst time possible; when he is taking a crap in the outhouse… This film is just a stupid excuse to show people getting slaughtered in the most brainless manner possible…the zombies in this movie can run, climb trees, locate people through binoculars and take orders from a zombie general…yet it is utterly easy to kill them, even with kitchen knives…if this was meant as a comedy, there was not a single humorous situation not even black humor in the entire movie… This really is a very unimaginative and silly movie…I cannot even classify this as a guilty pleasure…there are loads of other movies which are way better in all aspects…that is why I cannot understand other reviewers getting swept away and giving 9 and 10 ratings…when you give a movie 10 out of 10, it means that the movie is one of the best ever in that genre…which is not the case at all with this film…I would not give it more than a 4 or 5, yet to balance out the ridiculously generous ratings by other reviewers, I am giving it 2 (coz I wasted my time downloading and watching it on the strength of collective rating by others)… There is really nothing here that is not available elsewhere (in much better ways)… If you wanna see a really neat Norwegian movie with loads of black humor, go for The Trollhunter

Public opinion about this critically acclaimed movie seems rather divided…there are people writing rave reviews about it, calling it one of the best movies ever and giving it full marks…others call it a vastly overrated movie and rate it 1 or 2 out of 10…there are no in-betweens in this case…it is clearly a case of loved it or hated it… One could argue then that such a film is the product of a genius mind…those intelligent enough to understand it are completely blown away by it…and the others, the ones who fail to see the point ridicule it… Having seen it, I tend to side with the latter group of people who found this movie a pseudo-intellectual product lacking any coherent purpose…I felt the same about "No country for old men"…many other reviewers have also compared it to NCFOM for the same reasons… Okay I understand that whole movie is about the lifelong conflict between two equally ambitious and morally corrupt individuals…Daniel's character is one of the most reprehensible I have seen in movies…he swindles innocent people and even uses his small adopted son as a mask to disguise the utter contempt he has for other human beings…I normally am captivated by portrayals of such people, who are fascinating in their own right, but in this case, I did not engage with his character…I could not really feel the menace or evil emanating and the fault is with the script writer, not the actor… Most of the movie felt disjointed…as if vast portions were cut out and left on the editing floor…you fail to understand the motivations behind the actions of different characters…it is not even possible to fill in with our own interpretations as the characters themselves were not fully developed… For example, why does Paul Sunday go behind the backs of his own father and twin brother when he would have gained as much (or more) if he had not betrayed his own family? Though the character of Eli Sunday came across as quite irritating and self-serving from the start, it does not explain Daniel's intense hatred for him…and that physical assault on Eli by Daniel was very difficult to digest due to this reason…Eli does not seem to possess the natural charisma or business acumen exhibited by Daniel, so why does Daniel regard him as a lifelong threat and rival? Why does the impostor give himself away so readily after having gone through all that trouble, especially when he realizes how dangerous an individual Daniel is? Somehow all these things and many more did not gel in together when I watched the movie… On a more positive note, the acting by all the main players was excellent…Daniel Day-Lewis has a tremendous screen presence and he makes acting look ridiculously easy, he is that good! Most of the scenes were very well executed…the whole movie has been directed with the easy confidence that comes from a man who knows what he is good at…this is a very ambitious venture – powerfully acted and excellently directed…but somehow the whole product does not go down properly in the end…that's the reason I have mixed feelings about this movie