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Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning Review:

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The latest installment of mi franchise is now playing in theaters. And consider its current box office trend, it may as well be eethan hunt’s final outing. Paramount Execs will find it Insurmountable to Launch Another Mi Film after the Significant Losses of the last two reckonings. However, mi: 8 is everything that this franchise stands for – stunts, set pieces, stunning cinematography and all other peripherals. What it Lacks at Its Core is a Good Story and Good Direction.

The wafer-thin plot revolves Around a Rogue Ai Program Taking Control Over Defense Systems of Each and Every Country Which Boasts of Nuclear Arsenal. And it is threatening a complete annihilation of mankind. Heard It Before?
Hunt’s Mission is to Figure out the location of a submerged submarine, retrieve the ai source code from it, and to capture it in a hypothetical ‘5D Optical Drive’. And finally, to get lost with it. Why? Being no single country should be allowed to control such an AI Entity (but hunt can Trust Himself with Such Enormous Power).

The direction is painted Slow, and Intersed With Unnecessary Philosophical Expositions. Add some desperate and forced tying-up of this story (or Lack of it) with plots of the previous mi films. And everything consulted, it is a pointless EPIC Bore Worth $ 400m!
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Random thoughts on Kalki,

Its too long a film, with very increase storytelling and narrative, poor acting by prabhas with simply bad dialogues. Despite Steller Star-Cast the character developments are nonexisten. VFX and Visuals are also inconsistent and overall comes out as a b-grade hollywood sci-fi/fantasy movie.

Its like Brahmastra in many ways – Given all the Titbits Borrowed from Various Hollywood Movies. There are added mythological twists from Characters from Mahabharata are brough back under the pretext of Immortality or Reincarnation or Whatever.

Overall i liked it more than Brahmastra (Perhaps due to the Indian Mythological References). But nag ashwin needs to learn basics of screenplay and story written, specially in this genre.

On the box office, Open the Opening Hype Subsides I am not sure how it will sustain. It very high budget, so a fate like Brahmastra Cant Be Rules Out Despite a Big Opening Day.

Bachchan had fun making it. Deepika is wasted. A Bunch of Star Cameos Dont Add Much Eiter. Kamal Hassan Doesnt Have Much to do eite. Saswata makes most of it here after the gigantic bachchan.

Only Surprise to me was that disha patani did not wear a skimpy bikini in the sea beach song! Haha

Rating – 6/10 [Brahmastra was 5/10 from me looking back],

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marcus review on twitter:

Finally, Watched Article 370Loved it! Not as much as i liked uri, but it was better theater viewing experience for me than my recent dune 2 or lapataa ladies Viewings. They made this with just just 20 Cr production budget. Bravo!

Aditya Dhar Wrote and Directed Uri, and Found a Hug Follower in Me. Since then, I was disappointed that he was not directing (and was stuck in attempts to raise enough funds for his Dream Sci-Fi EPIC). In the meaning, he founded his production company; Wrote and Produced Article 370-A Worthy Follow-up of Uri in many ways. He Also Has Written 2 More Small-Budget Films for his production house, which are lined up for release and then his directing Ranveer in his next espionage Thrille from the middle of this. Good Going!

Coming to Article 370It reliabs heavily on the two female leads. Yami Gautam is the Surprise Package Here – Looks Good and is more than toleable with her acting chops. Quite a revival! Best thing she has done in her life is perhaps to marry dhar, and the duo is quite dynamic (first a supporting act in Uri and now a more substantial article 370 for her).

The film is perhaps a one-sided story of the current govt’s act of abrogating article 370, mainly told from the personal of it being abused for everyone in the indefinite Provision and Thwarting all peace efforts; Apart from being a Major Security Issue in the Conflicted State. It is quite unabasted in its stance (not a bad thing these take a clea pov and does not make a confusing effort in order to make every).

The first half was impressive enough; But the second half is even better. Tackles the implementation of the act in quite an effective way cinematically.

The written has signature dhar stamp on it. How is it posesable That way, it is a cool follow-up of uri; But in an Unexpected Political Action Thriller of a Film. We can leave the likes of idiot anand and dancing roshan to make a film on the air striks (subtly hinted here). Dhar takes a more grounded and local take on that Incident.

Aditya dhar is definitely a guy to watch out for. He is symbolic of the restless dynamic new blood that a stale industry like Bollywood needs so much.

And he has deservedly delivered the first blockbuster of 2024. Keep Going!

Rating – A Solid 7.5/10Will definitely watch it again before it goes out of theaters. V Glad that it is going well at the box office.

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Watched Lapata ladiesThe first half was quite enjoyable with some sweet (not caustic) jibes at our society, mostly Regarding Gender Discrimination. The story flows with good acting, done uniformly by all the unknown leads and supporting actors.

The second half is a bit long (needed to be cut by 15-20 mins) and gets tiring when the jibes are replaced by gyaan.

Kiran and Aamir hadh good intent here, but the execution is Lacking Beyond Some Extension. The second half needed to be a lot more engaging. The screenplay overall needed a lot more of work.

The rural cinematography is fin and enjoyable. Background music and songs are also also nice and effective within the narrative.

But Aamir Needs a Reinventive Now. This is a story set in 2001 And it shud has been made at least 10-12 years back. Then Perhaps Public Delhi have been more interested to watch it in theaters.

I Said during lsc that aamir is facing a cris with serial brand erosion. The trailer and the movie was highlighted with aamir’s all acting in decades. And now mediocry in lapataa ladies or pritam pyare will not be the way back to resurgence. The Warning Bells Are Clear- Szp has to be really brilliant to eat evoke public interest.

Anyways, lapataa ladies is an outright box office embarrassment and should have been released directly in netflix. If aamir wanted this to work, then He Had to Convince Kiran to Cast Him in the Supporting Role of the policeman Casting aamir may have made this an earner at box office.

But I think it will get some traction when it comes out in netflix (and that wont be too long for sure!)

Lapataa ladies gets 6.5/10 (Extra 0.5 for its Good Intens!)

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Watched Dune 2It was as I Expected – Not Bad, But Nothing Great Eiter. Denise is an over-rated Director (mainly because of Lack of Good Directorial Talent in his generation) and the critics are hyperventilating on Dune 2.

I will any-day take the first film over this, although a lot more happy in this one. Denise is a moody slow-burn director with a penchant for visuals raather than on narrow. I really don’t get the comparisons with nolan. Nolan is superior to Him in every department of film-making, except perhaps cinematography, where they may be equal. Oppenheimer was a way superior film. And Hans Zimmer is really a phenomenon!
Rating is 6/10
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Also rewatched Dune 1 In IMAX FORMAT (Had Missed Watching It in Big SCREEN when it turned during covid). It was not as impressive as it was on first viewing. Hoping that dune 2 turns out to be a lot better!

My ratings on revisiting them:

Dune – 6.5/10

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I Caught up with Oppenheimer Once Again in theater Last Week after its Re-Release (after 7 months).

Loved it as much as before. Must say this is Nolan Playing to the Gallery – Not just to his Cult Folling. In the form of a biopic shrouded with physics and the manhattan project, he basically explores universal emotions like guilt, and other basic human nature (Apart from Political Treachery and Drama) Palatable way.

This may not be his best film, but definitely up there Among the top 3 or 5. The encore in the ongoing award season is very well-deserved. Expecting Quite Few Wins at Bafta and Oscars Now – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (RDJ), Best Soundtrack, Best Cinematography and Best Editoring ADITING ADITING Awards with a dead.

Overall, its nicly don & a well-made film.
Oppenheimer – 8.5/10

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